276 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
females of Acherontia Atropos is smaller, but still very con- 
siderable; it has not been ascertained with any degree of 
accuracy. Well, then, how is the race continued? Do the 
few fertile females deposit their eggs in the autumn during 
the great festival of honey-sucking? or after honeysuckle, 
marvel of Peru, petunias, verbenas and geraniums have been 
laid under contribution, and the pregnant female nourished 
with an abundant supply of sweets? According to the con- 
current testimony of continental entomologists the eggs are 
laid and the larve are hatched in the autumn, the latter 
feeding up quickly, and retiring beneath the ground before 
the winter has deprived them of the means of sustenance: it 
will be found that there is abundant time for this state of 
maturity to be attained. A few moths may remain unde- 
veloped until spring; but I take it a vast majority emerge at 
the end of August or during September of the following year. 
—Edward Newman. | 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Maldon.—Sphinx Convolvuli has 
been found about here tolerably plentiful, my pupils having 
secured about a dozen specimens. Also Colias Hyale has 
been about here in the lucerne-fields.—[Rev.] J. W. Mills ; 
St. Lawrence Rectory, Maldon, Essex, October 11, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Winehmore Hill.—On the 18th of 
September one of the national school-boys here brought me 
a perfect specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli.i—D. G@. Lathom 
Browne; Uplands, Winchmore Hill, October 1, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli in the West of Scotland.—The West of 
Scotland must be included among the numerous lists of 
localities which have this year been visited by Sphinx 
Convolvuli. J have just received one, which was caught in 
a greenhouse at Row, near Helensburgh.—J. H. Pearson ; 
208, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Oclober 2, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Hazeleigh, Essex.—I picked up a 
mutilated specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli on a public road 
near Hazeleigh Rectory, on September 18th. I hear that the 
species has also been captured at Maldon this autumn.— 
Gilbert H. Raynor; St. John’s College, Cambridge, October 
14, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Hastings.—While playing croquet 
about the end of September last I was surprised by seeing a 
fine specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli hovering over a bed of 
