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LycvEna minima (alsus) double-brooded. — With reference to Mr. L. 

 M. Seth- Smith's note {ante, 254) on the capture of a perfect specimen 

 of the above species on Aug. 5th, I found this little butterfly in some 

 numbers at a certain locality in Western Hertfordshire, on Aug. 3rd 

 last. All the specimens actually captured, nine in number, were in 

 perfect condition, and liad the appearance of having only recently 

 emerged. — Philip J. Barraud ; Bushey Heath, Herts. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOs IN Kent. — I havc had a single pupa of this 

 species given me at Deal, but it does not seem nearly so plentiful there 

 this year. — C. W. Colthrup ; 127, Barry Road, East Dulwich, Sept. 

 17th, 1901. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN NoRFOLK. — From the October issue of the 

 ' Entomologist,' 1900, I noticed that the larvae of the above species 

 had been very abundant in Norfolk last year. I write now, after but 

 a brief month's residence in Norwich, to report that it is undoubtedly 

 very common in the neighbourhood this year. From Aug. 20th to 

 Sept. 11th I have found nine airopos larva3, received three pupa3 from 

 potato-diggers, and traced twenty other specimens. Though I had to 

 snatch an hour or two when I could spare time, I have cycled out of 

 the city on three or four points of the compass, and almost in every 

 case found atropos in the very first patch of potatoes. For the 

 majority I was too late, but systematic searching soon revealed 

 denuded plants, with the frass lying in quantities below. The ninth 

 larva has entered the cocoa-nut fibre provided for it, to-day. — (Rev.) 

 Arthur Miles Moss; The Close, Norwich, Sept. 14th, 1901. 



Acheron TiA atropos ix Norfolk. — I beg to report the occurrence 

 here of three full-grown larvae of A. atropos. The last of the three I 

 obtained on Sept. 9th, one on Aug. 24th, whilst the first one was found on 

 July 28th, and went down into the soil on that date. I had a number 

 of Smerinthtis ocellatus larvffi ; these were all full-grown, and had gone 

 down into the earth before the end of July. Previously I had never 

 found full-grown larvae before the middle of August and during Septem- 

 ber. — J. W. WooLHousE ; Summer Hill, Fakenham, Norfolk, Sept. 

 17th, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Bromley, Kent, — I caught a very fine speci- 

 men of 8. convolvuli on Aug. 30th, in my garden here, at the blooms 

 of Nicotiana affinis. — L. F. Hill ; 2, Freelands Road, Bromley, Kent. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Thanet. — Two specimens of 8. convolvuli, 

 both males, in very fine condition, have been picked up at Margate, 

 Sept. 4th and 9th (I also received a third specimen from Bridport, 

 Dorset, taken Sept. 3rd ; the latter, a female, exactly 4^ in. across, 

 travelled alive in a tin cigarette-box without much damage). — J. P. 

 Barrett ; 3, St. John's Villas, Margate. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Norfolk. — I received a living specimen of 

 8. convolvuli on Aug. 20th. It was found here at rest under some 

 leaves. — J. W. Woolhouse ; Summer Hill, Fakenham, Norfolk. 



Sphinx convolvuli near Southampton. — On Aug. 13th I caught a 

 very large specimen of 8. convolvuli, flying over tobacco-flower in a 

 garden at Hythe, near Southampton. Two nights later another 



