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Chuerocampa nerti at Eastbourne.— My brother, a friend, 

 and myself were walking along the sea front at Eastbourne, at 

 about half-past nine on the night of the 24th September, when 

 my attention was attracted by a large moth, which was flying 

 round one of the electric lights. It alighted on the post, and I 

 saw it was a magnificent specimen of C. nerii. I promptly 

 placed my hat over it, and sent my brother to the house where 

 we were staying, which was fortunately near at hand, for a net, 

 in which we enclosed the hat, and safely captured the moth. — 

 B. Alford ; 7, Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, London, W., 

 September, 25, 1884. 



Ch^erocampa nerii at Tottenham. — Mr. South states in 

 the ' Entomologist ' Synonymic List, that the appearance of 

 Chcerocampa nerii in this country is phenominal. It may interest 

 your readers to know that the phenomenon has turned up at 

 Tottenham. A fine but somewhat travel-worn specimen was 

 brought to me in a tumbler, on the 12th of September, by some 

 boys, who had found it settled on some' scarlet-runners in a 

 garden near the India Rubber Factory in this place ; the 

 specimen is now in my cabinet. — W. B. Pool ; L.R.C.P., 

 Tottenham, September, 21, 1884. 



Callimorpha hera in Devonshire. — This charming insect 

 appears to have fairly taken up its abode in Devonshire ; the 

 exact locality I would rather not name, for fear of its speedy 

 expulsion. In August, 1882, whilst returning from my morning's 

 collecting, in company with Mr. Willie Waring, a son of the late 

 S. L. Waring, Esq., whose collection was well known to all old 

 collectors, in a rather secluded part of a narrow lane, I observed 

 Callimorpha hera riving between our heads, then dashing into the 

 fence, much to our disappointment; but patience and perse- 

 verance soon made our new insect a prisoner. Six days after- 

 wards, while beating in a new locality, one was started and 

 secured, to our great sorrow a worn specimen. The following 

 year two were taken, one on a low myrtle bush, and the other 

 flying in the sun in the garden where the myrtle grew, a distance 

 of half a mile from where the first two were taken in 1882. A 

 third was found just over the garden fence, on the road, evidently 

 having been run over by some passing vehicle, being a mutilated 

 specimen ; this was not kept. This August, we were beating 



entom.— oct., 1884. 2h 



