SEPTEMBER. 

 SELECT CALENDAR OF BRITISH INSECTS. 



Acherontia Atropos (Death's-head Hawk- 

 moth.) This large and splendid lepidopterous 

 insect appears to be spread throughout the 

 country ; in some parts sparingly, in others 

 abundantly. It has several times occurred 

 near Nottingham, and, I understand, is of. fre- 

 quent occurrence near Dronfield, Derbyshire. 



On the Continent, where the Death's-head 

 Hawk-moth abounds, it has been regarded by 

 the superstitious with dread, not only on ac- 

 count of the figure of a death's-head, which is 

 marked on its thorax, but also from the plain- 



