278 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Sphina Convolvuli at Peckham.—I captured this morning 
on my way to school, in the Clayton Road, High Street, 
Peckham, a specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli. Having no box 
I was obliged to make a paper-bag to put it in, and it 
remained quiet for several hours.—Arthur A. Barrett; 
34, Radnor Street, Peckham, London, October 4, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli and Macaria alternata at Christ- 
church.—W ould it interest any of your readers to know that 
Sphinx Convolvuli occurs in this locality regularly every 
season during September? Ihave now on my setting-board 
two fine specimens, caught on the 14th and 15th September. 
Three years ago I captured in July several fine specimens of 
Macaria alternata; last year, two; this season, only one.— 
W. McRae; Christchurch School, Hants, Sept. 22, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli at Christchurch.—Between the 17th 
and 25th of September I had the good fortune to secure three | 
fine specimens of Sphinx Convolvuli. Do the females of this | 
species hybernate? If so, do they deposit their eggs before | 
or after hybernation? Having several times attempted to 
procure eggs from captive females, I have in each instance 
failed. I should be glad of any information relative to this 
species which you or any of your correspondents can com- 
municate.—W. McRae ; Christchurch School, Hants. 
Sphinx Convolvuli, Epunda nigra and Xylina petrificata 
at Newton Abbot.—On the 25th September last I captured two 
fine female specimens of Epunda nigra at sugar, and on the 
following night two more,—one at sugar and the other at 
light; they have never been caught here before; indeed, I 
had no idea that they came so far inland, they being generally 
caught by the sea-side in Devonshire, as, for instance, Teign- 
mouth, Torquay, &c. Ialso had the good fortune to catch 
another fine Convolvuli, this making the fourth capture here 
this year. Last night (October 7th) I captured, for the first 
time, four specimens of Xylina petrificata at sugar; I believe 
they are considered a very local species.—Charles G. Vicary ; 
Knowles, Newton Abbot, October 8, 1875. 
Sphinx Convolvuli, Glea erythrocephala, §c., at Wells 
or in Wales.—On showing my collection of Noctue 
the other day to the Rev. A. C. Hervey, he noticed a 
moth which I had placed near Cerastis spadicea, thinking 
it to be a variety of that species, as it was unknown 
