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body it had already deposited its ova ; three or four years ago I 

 planted a few plants of monkshood, but this is the first time we 

 captured P. moneta. The plants have been searched each season, 

 but without result until this year. On Wednesday, July 8th, we 

 made another search, and found one half-grown larva and one fresh 

 cocoon. Would you kindly tell me if there are any previous records 

 of P. moneta in Nottinghamshire, or is this the first for the county? — 

 William Daws ; 39, Wood Street, Mansfield, Notts, July 9th, 1914. 

 [P. moneta has been noted from most of the counties of England 

 up to Cheshire, but I do not recall any previous record of this 

 species from Nottinghamshire. — E. S.] 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN Kent. — Mr. Percy Kichards {antea, p. 

 205) recorded a specimen of A. atropos captured at Hythe on 

 June 15th last. In a communication dated July 8th he writes : — 

 " Another specimen was found at rest on a mulberry tree in Hythe. 

 It is a fine female, measuring 5 in. in expanse. I have no doubt, 

 judging from its condition, that it had only just emerged from pupa, 

 although the nearest potato patch is two hundred yards from the 

 mulberry tree." 



Papilio hospiton in CoRSiCA.^Mr. Gurney states on p. 176 of 

 the ' Entomologist ' that a French entomologist, resident at Ajaccio, 

 informed him that the food-plant of this species did not grow in the 

 Vizzavona district, and that examples taken there were chance 

 ones. This statement is an error, the food-plant of P. hospiton 

 does grow at Vizzavona, and the larva? are locally common on it 

 there. Towards the end of July, 1906, I found twenty-seven larvae 

 in two days, as recorded in the ' Entomologist,' xl. p. 77. — W. G. 

 Sheldon. 



Note on Ammophila campestris ? — On the intensely hot after- 

 noon of July 11th I was watching a sandy hillside, on West Knighton 

 Heath, for Aculeates. My attention was directed to an insect (almost 

 certainly Ammophila campestris, which is even commoner than A. 

 sahulosa here, but exact determination seemed of less importance 

 than leaving the creature undisturbed) which was carrying in its 

 mandibles a small, round white pebble. This it carefully deposited, 

 with others, at the mouth of its burrow. It then rapidly fussed 

 about until it had found another quite similar stone, being very 

 eclectic, and so intent on its task that I could bend closely over it. 

 After seeing several additions to the little heap, which at last obscured 

 the opening, I gently withdrew. Are these last touches of maternal 

 care protective against some parasite ? Is the habit general ? — 

 F. H. Haines, D.P.H., &c. ; Winfrith, Dorset, July 12th, 1914. 



Deilephila (Hyles) euphorbia in Cornwall. — While staying 

 at St. Gennys, North Cornwall, during August, 1910, I caught a 

 large moth, which remained unidentified in my collection until last 

 Friday, when a friend told me that, in his opinion, it was a Spurge 

 Hawk {Deilephila [Hyles) euphorhia). I took it up to the South 

 Kensington Museum yesterday, and they told me that my friend's 

 surmise was correct. I have a fair collection of butterflies, but know 



