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Sphinx convolvuli in London. — A very nice example of this species 

 was found at rest on a window-sill at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

 South Kensington, on Aug. 23rd last. The specimen will be added to 

 the National Collection of British Lepidoptera. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Hants, — I found a fine fresh female S. con- 

 volvuli on a paling at Totland Bay, at precisely the same spot where I 

 found a similar specimen ou Sept. lOtli, 1901. The date of the present 

 capture was Aug. 19th. — G. E. J. Crallan ; Bodorgan Manor, Bourne- 

 mouth, Aug, 25th, 1904. 



Notes feom New Zealand. — Some account of the season 1903-4 

 in New Zealand may be of interest. Beginning at the end of last 

 season, I went to Napier during April and May, and there obtained 

 one or two Vanessa ilea identical with specimens which I took at Free- 

 mantle, Western Australia ; Chri/sophanns boldenannn, a pretty little 

 " copper " delicately suffused with purple, was most abundant on the 

 beach, and also a few miles up country along the river beds. This 

 was much lighter than specimens which I have seen from the 

 South Island, some of which are nearly black. I did no night-work, 

 and the only moths I took were our old friend Heliothis armitjera, 

 and a new species which Mr. G. B. Hudson has kindly named for me 

 Orthnsia jmllida. I then returned to Wellington, where, winter having 

 fairly set in, there was nothing doing until the end of November. 

 About this time the two coppers, Chrtjaophanus salustius and C. enysii, 

 were abundant on the flowers of the water-cress. About the same 

 time I obtained one or two Hepialns virescena at light. On New-year's 

 Day I took a damaged example of the rare Forina enysii in the 

 Botanical Gardens. Vanessa gonerilla was early and abundant, my 

 first example being taken Dec. 6th, and another on the 7th ; this 

 insect was not out in the 1902-3 season until the end of January. 

 Owing to the weather being unfavourable when I visited the locality, 

 and also to the fact that a fire had destroyed a large portion of its old 

 haunts, I was unable to again obtain Dodonidea helmsi, only seeing one 

 or two. This fire is particularly unfortunate, as, once destroyed, the 

 New Zealand bush never re-grows. It will be of interest to English 

 collectors to know that Sphinx convolvuli was common throughout 

 hoth Islands ; this moth is usually confined to the extreme north of 

 the North Island. In addition to this, several examples of a fine 

 Chcerocampa, not previously recorded in New Zealand, were taken in 

 different parts of the Colony, probably immigrants from Australia. In 

 Coleoptera the only notes I have are : an example of the local Lasio- 

 rhynchas harbicornis, Jan. 4th, 1903 ; ^^mona hirta and M. simpli- 

 collis, Dec. 8th, 1903; TricJwstenius antarcticus, Jan. 24th, 1094; 

 Odontria xaiitrosticta, which is a curious little woolly beetle, was 

 common in March and April at light, and lying dead on gravel-paths 

 of a morning. The common ti-tree beetle, and the tiger Cicindella 

 tuherculata, were abundant throughout the summer. The summer was 

 very long and warm, which probably accounted for the immigrants. I 

 omitted to state that several examples of Beiopeia pulchelta were also 

 taken ; these latter, and two of the Chcerocampas, by Mr. O'Connor, 

 at Titahi Bay. — Hubert W. Simmonds. 



