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the grassy slopes, in very good condition. This insect is usually 

 plentiful here during the months of August and September, the 

 season of 1882 alone proving an exception, in which I did not 

 take one. The cliffs having a southern aspect are most favoured ; 

 but on account of their steepness a close pursuit is not always 

 practicable. — R. J. Anderson ; Portheuxno, Penzance, October 8. 



Polyommatus phl^eas bred. — I have succeeded in breeding 

 some very fine specimens of Polyommatus phlceas from ova deposited 

 by females captured on August 2nd. They emerged from Sep- 

 tember 19th to the 22nd. The larva? were fed on a growing 

 plant of sorrel ; and from the same batch of ova I have now some 

 very small larva? feeding, and others nearly full grown. — J. A. 

 Cooper; 1, Sussex Villas, Harrow Road, E., September 24, 1884. 



ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN THE CENTRE OF LIVERPOOL. — Oil 



the 2nd inst. a boy brought to me an Acherontia atropos, which he 

 had taken in a bacon shop in Elliot Street, where no vegetables or 

 potatoes are sold, in the centre of Liverpool. — B. Cooke, jun. ; 

 21, Renshaw Street, Liverpool, October 4, 1884. 



Chosrocampa celerio in Berkshire. — I yesterday received 

 from a lady residing at West Hannay, near Wantage, Berks, a 

 living specimen of Choerocampa celerio, which she found in her 

 greenhouse. It reached me alive and in fine condition. Hannay 

 is so entirely an inland place that it is evident the moth must 

 have been bred in England. — W. Slade ; 131, Elizabeth Street, 

 Cheetham, Manchester, October 2, 1884. 



Deilephila lineata at Brighton. — I had the pleasure last 

 autumn of receiving from a correspondent, Mr. Parsons, of 

 Cavendish Street, Brighton, a fine specimen of Deilephila lineata. 

 It was taken at Bevingdean by Master Rake, of Brighton 

 College, on July 10th, 1883. — J. A. Clark; The Broadway, 

 London Fields, September 11, 1884. 



Acronycta alnl— On August 31st I found a full-fed larva of 

 Acronycta alni crawling on a fence at Wildernesse Park, near 

 Sevenoaks. It has since eaten its way into the cork at the top 

 of a zinc collecting box, and changed to a pupa.— Lewis F. Hill ; 

 3, Edwardes Terrace, Kensington, W. 



Curious Habit in Larva of Acronycta psi. — A few days 

 since I placed in a breeding-cage a full-fed larva of Acronycta psi. 



