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of L. avfjiolus in this vicarage garden on Aug. 22nd last, as it was 

 flying around some ivy, of which there is a quantity in the garden ; 

 one Pier is napi and a few Vmiessa urtic(B also seen here. There is 

 nothing like a garden nearer here than Southwark Park, which is a 

 good mile away.— H. W. Sweeting ; Holy Trinity Vicarage, TRother- 

 hithe, S.E., Oct. 17th, 1902. 



DicYCLA 00, &c. IN Middlesex. — On July 27th I took D. oo at rest 

 on the trunk of an oak at Palmer's Green. I should like to know if 

 this insect has been taken in Middlesex before. I also took, on Sept. 

 3rd, Cahjmnia diffinis and Noctua c-niijrum, in the same locality, at 

 sugar, and a friend of mine took Pararge megam at Potter's Bar on 

 Sept. 7th. — Laukence S. Hodson ; 8, The Villas, Palmer's Green, 

 Sept 11th, 1902. 



DicYCLA 00 IN Kent. — I was very pleased to read of Mr. Browne's 

 capture of this species near Chislehurst, as recorded in the last 

 number {ante, p. 267). It occurred very plentifully at Bromley (adjacent 

 to Chislehurst) in 1888, when the late Mr. Collins, of that town, took 

 a great number at sugar, a portion of my own series being some of 

 them ; but, strange to say, in spite of much annual sugaring near the 

 " old" ground (now built over), it has never been seen since, to my 

 knowledge, so that Mr. Browne's record proves without a doubt that 

 it still occurs near its old locality. — A. J. Lawrance ; 76, Samos 

 Koad, Anerley, S.E. (late of Ladywell). 



Deilephila livornica in South Devon. — On July 22nd last, just 

 as I was leaving home- for Devonshire, I received from Starcross a full- 

 grown Sphingid larva, found by a boy as it was crawling in a lane. 

 At first sight this appeared to me closely to resemble the dark form of 

 Deilephila galii. On arriving at my destination I supplied it with 

 Galium veruin and G. mollugo, but it had ceased feeding, and made at 

 once preparation for pupating. It then occurred to me that the time 

 was too early for D. galii, and later on, when referring to my books, I 

 found that the description of D. livurnica taUied with my larva. On 

 Sept. 27tli, however, all my existing doubts were dispelled, as on that 

 day a perfect imago of D. livornica emerged. During a recent visit to 

 Starcross I ascertained the locality, which is a lane where G. mollugo 

 grows in profusion, on which the larva had probably been feeding. I 

 am told that there is no record of this rare moth having been 

 previously found in the larval state in Britain. — J. Jager ; 65, Saint 

 Quintin's Avenue, North Kensington, Oct. 4th, 1902. 



Chcerocampa celerio in Hampshire. — On Sept. 27th I had a living 

 specimen of C. celerio brought to me to name, by Miss Stevenson, of 

 Reading (a young collector), who informed me it was sent to her, by 

 post, by some friends who know nothing about entomology, and was 

 taken on Lady Munday's estate, Emsworth, Hants, two days pre- 

 viously. — W. E. Butler; Hayling House, Oxford Road, Reading, 

 Oct. 5th, 1902. 



Late Emergence of Cucullia asteris. — This species generally 

 emerges in June, July, and the early part of August, the larvae in the 

 Essex marshes being found on Aster tripolium until quite late in 

 September. This year the imago has continued to emerge during 



