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this August from Eynshatn and Headingtoa, Oxon — Harold Thompson ; 

 31, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Aug. 31st, 1900. 



Suffolk. — While staying at Middleton, near Yoxford, in Suffolk, I had, 

 on Aug. 4th, a full-fed larva brought to me, and, on investigating a patch 

 of potatoes, I found two more ; and ray nephew writes that he added 

 another from the same garden, making four in all. — Henry A. King ; 25, 

 Harringay Park, Crouch End, N., Aug. 23rd, 1900. 



Surrey. — Two specimens of A. atropos were taken in a garden here the 

 other day. — Herbert Beadnkll; Fernside, Redhill, Surrey, Aug. 7th. 



On Aug. 31st I had a fine full-fed larva of A. atropos brought to me 

 from Church Lane, Lower Tooting, S.W. It burrowed in the earth of the 

 breeding-box immediately. It was of a decided yellow colour. I have had 

 the pupae before from that neighbourhood. —E. Sparke ; 1, Christchurch 

 Villas, Tooting Bee Road, Tooting, S.W. 



Sussex. — Several larvae of A. atropos have been obtained in potato- 

 fields at Hooe. — Lewis L. Turner ; East Dulwich, Sept. 20th, 1900. 



Worcestershire. — We have thirteen pupae of A. atropos, and know of 

 others ; the larvae were all taken within a quarter of a mile of this vicarage. 

 — (Rev.) Archibald Day; Malvern Link, Sept. 17th, 1900. 



Westmoreland. — On Aug. 30ch, hearing that a full-grown larva oi A. 

 atropos had been found crawling across a path in a small garden at Natland, 

 two miles south of Kendal, I at once prosecuted a search through the 

 potato-tops of the first field in that direction. I was rewarded by finding 

 two larvae almost full-fed. The next day I secured another in the same 

 field, which went down at once. On Sept. Ist, at Low Foulshaw, lying 

 south-west of Kendal, in the neighbourhood of the Witherslack mosses, I 

 found two more, and the frass of a third. The ground colour of one of these 

 larvae was of a vivid yellow, and stood out in strong contrast to the dead 

 brown potato-top to which it was clinging. They entered the soil to 

 undergo pupation on Sept. 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th respectively. As two 

 other larvae have been taken accidentally, there is ground for believing that 

 the species has been more than usually abundant in the district this year. 

 Imagines have from time to time turned up, but, though often searched for, 

 I have never till this year taken the larva. — (Rev.) A. M. Moss ; Kendal. 

 P.S. — Since writing the above another larva, about to pupate, has been found 

 in a small garden on Sept. 8th, and presented to me, bringing our total of 

 captures up to eight. 



Deilephila galii in Gloucestershire. — I am very pleased to record 

 the capture of D. galii. Towards the end of August my son, going round 

 the vicarage garden at dusk, on the look-out for S. convolvuli, saw a large 

 insect hovering over some phlox flowers, and promptly secured it. It 

 turned out to be a very fine specimen of D. galii, an insect I had never 

 seen alive before. — (Rev.) A. Nash ; Standish Vicarage, Stonehouse, 

 Gloucestershire. 



CHiEROCAMPA ELPENOR ON WiLD Balsam. — I wish to Confirm my 

 previous note of 1898 (Entom. xxxi. 243), in which I recorded Impatient 

 noli-me-tangere as a pabulum for C. elpenor. 1 have again, on Sept. 15th, 

 taken a full-grown larva on the identical patch of balsam. Several others 

 have this year, but earlier, been found feeding on the common Epilohium. — 

 (Rev.) A. M. Moss. 



NocTUA castanea in the New Forest. — It may be worth recording 



