'274 THE entomologist's record. 



insects captured by Mr. Le Messurier, I was delighted to see two speci- 

 mens of Polysphaenis sericiiia. This fine Noctuid is figured in Tlie 

 Entomolof/ist, for April, 1876. — Ibid. 



Deilephila livoenica in Somerset. — On May 9th last I caught a 

 specimen of Deilephila livornica in my surgery. Unfortunately it had 

 flown into the gas and damaged the right upper wing badly. — 

 Mark R. Taylor, The Cottage, South Petherton, Somerset. August 

 2jdrd, 1900. [Another is recorded as captured, June 22ud, 1900, at 

 flowers of red valerian, near Croydon (Gower). — Ed.] 



Cyaniris argiolus at Harrow Weald. — This butterfly has appeared 

 in some profusion in our district, but although isolated specimens 

 have occurred from time to time, I do not think until this year it has 

 been generally abundant, and I never remember to have seen it in our 

 garden before. The first example put in an appearance on May 19th, 

 and there were several males a few days after flying about the ilex 

 trees. Stragglers of the second brood also turned up in August, 

 curiously enough all females, bat both sexes were in profusion the 

 first week in August, after five consecutive wet days, on the road between 

 Harefield and Chalfont St. Giles (Bucks). C argiolm is not common 

 as a rule in this corner of Middlesex, but it has been observed in 

 Cassiobury Park, near at hand, at Harrow Weald in the rector}'- 

 gardens, and I have found it in Burnham Beeches. — H. Eowland 

 Brown, M.A., F.E.S., Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald. Septeuiher Itlt, 

 1900. 



Autumnal emergence of Macroglossa stellatarum. — When at 

 Folkestone, from August 15th-27th, I took many larvae of Macroglossa 

 stellatarum. I was much surprised to find two imagines had emerged in 

 the breeding-cage on September 16th. The pupal period appears 

 to have been very short, only a month from the the larval to the 

 imaginal stage. I have since bred fourteen examples, and several 

 more look as if about to emerge. — C. P. Pickett, .52, The Ravenscrofts, 

 Columbia Road, Hackney Road, London, N.E. September 2,-i.tli, 1900. 



Lepidoptera at Tottenham. — I was collecting on September 13th 

 in the neighbourhood of Tottenham, and took three Catocala nupta 

 from the trunks of willows. Pj/rameis atalanta was very common, 

 both in the larval, pupal and imaginal stages ; many of the larvffi were 

 only about one-half grown. — Ibid. 



PoETHEsiA CHRYSORRHOEA AT Chichester. — After having entirely 

 disappeared in this locality since 1877, when the larvffi were abundant 

 on a whitethorn — Crataegus oxgacantha — hedge by the canal, a male 

 Porthcsia chri/sorrhoea was taken on a lamp here on July 21st. This 

 is the only specimen, however, of which I have heard. — Ibid. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Chichester. — Hitherto I know of only one 

 Sjihinx convolvuli taken here this season. It was captured by a lady 

 on her bed one day last week. — Ibid. 



Papilio machaon larv.e in Kent. — On July 17th I found a beautiful 

 larva in my garden on carrot, and shortly afterwards another not quite 

 so largo. Both were spotted and striped Avith green, black and white, 

 the segments near the head being much thicker than the others. Two 

 days later I found another larva dead, but although I examined the 

 carrots growing in all the allotments around I had no further success. 

 I put them down at once for Papilio machaon, although I was quite 

 unacquainted with the larva, and saw no trace of the protective 



