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in the course of some experiments on the House-fly in relation to 

 the farm manure-heap {^Journ. Agric. Soc, 191 6, vii., p. 452). A 

 heap was made on 24th August of horse-manure from a stud stable, 

 and on 30th August this was completely enclosed with a tent-like 

 cover of cheese-cloth. By loth September thirty-seven specimens of 

 Z. humilis and twelve House-flies {Musca domesticd) had appeared 

 from the heap." In autumn 1921 the swarms of L. hutnilis in the 

 bedrooms here were the despair of the housemaid, who often cleared 

 them all away in the morning only to find them equally numerous 

 in the afternoon. Those which appeared on 3rd April were much 

 more easily got rid of. Since the one incursion recorded above no 

 more have been seen. — Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn 

 V. Baxter. 



Immigration of Convolvulus Hawk Moth {Sphinx 

 convolvuH). — Many records of the presence of this fine visitor to 

 Britain have recently appeared in' various English periodicals, and 

 from these as well as from the records received by The Scottish 

 Naturalist it is clear that the area visited was a very wide one 

 and extended at least as far north as Ross. 



Ross-shire. — A specimen was forwarded by Mr W. Eraser to the 

 Royal Scottish Museum on 26th August 1922, from Muir of Ord, 

 Ross-shire, where it had been found resting on some pine planks a 

 few days before. 



North Sea, off Aberdeen. — At a meeting of the Aberdeen Working 

 Men's Natural History Society on the 2nd September 1922, Miss 

 Bowman, the Secretary, showed a specimen of Sphinx convolvuH 

 captured by the crew of a boat at sea off Aberdeen. — Alex. 

 Macdonald, Aberdeen. 



Fife. — A specimen was found on 3rd September 1922, hovering 

 over tobacco plants in a garden at Bow of Eife. — Robert 

 Middleton, Springfield. 



Midlothian. — An individual caught in Edinburgh was brought to 

 the Royal Scottish Museum for identification on 2nd September. 



Dumbartonshire. — An example of Sphifix convolvuH, taken at 

 the gardens Ardardran, Cardross, on 7th September 1922, and sent 

 by the gardener, Mr A. Sharp, to the Evening Times Office, 

 Glasgow, was shown to me. Judging from the published records, 

 this Hawk Moth is of rare occurrence in the Clyde area. — John 

 Robertson, Glasgow. 



Berzvickshire. — A specimen, in very fine condition, was captured 

 on 29th September 1922, on the grass in front of Maines House, 

 near Chirnside, and was sent to us by Andrew H. Glegg, Esq., 

 Bonaly Tower. — C. Ethel Evans, Edinburgh. 



