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Choreutes vibrana in the Isle of Purbech. — On the evening of September 14th 

 last, I had the good fortune to net a nice specimen of the very rare C. vibrana as it 

 flew past me over a field of mixed herbage just at dusk. There was no Inula — 

 which is given as its food-plant in the " Manual " — close to the spot, but Sorhagen, 

 in his " Kleinschmetterlinge der Mark Brandenburg," mentions that it also feeds on 

 Inula salicina, I. Selenium, Eryngium spina-alba, Carlina acaulis, and Carduus 

 crispus ; and the last-named plant was certainly growing there. This insect has only 

 once previously occurred in Dorsetshire : a single specimen having been taken at 

 Glanville's Wootton by the late Mr. J. C. Dale, on August 26th, 1846.— Id. 



Sphinx convohuli at West Lulworth. — During the first week of September, I 

 received two specimens of this fine hawk-moth, both of which had been taken at 

 West Lulworth. Unfortunately, they were both much rubbed and damaged by the 

 time they reached my hands. — Id. 



Sphinx convolvuli at King's Lynn. — Two years ago, the record of a single con- 

 volvuli seemed almost a joke, the species was so common, but in 1888, not a single 

 specimen was seen, though the White Tobacco blossomed abundantly. This season, 

 however, one specimen of convolvuli made its appearance on several successive 

 evenings. Being alone, it was very shy, but at last one of the lads brought it in. 

 It was a female, in good condition, and was, I think, the only one seen in the neigh- 

 bourhood. — C. GL Babbett, King's Lynn, Norfolk : November Uth, 1889. 



A destroyer of larvce of Zeuzera cesculi. — About three weeks ago, a greater- 

 spotted woodpecker {Pious major) was shot in the outskirts of Lynn, and was 

 brought to my friend Dr. Plowright. He had the curiosity to dissect out its 

 stomach, and finding the contents interesting, brought them to me. The stomach 

 was very small, and was nearly filled by two half-grown larvae of the Wood Leopard 

 Moth {Zeuzera cesculi), each of which the bird must have extracted with much 

 difficulty from one of the smaller branches of some tree. The Wood Leopard is a 

 rare moth at Lynn- — as in many other country places — though rather common in 

 London, and it seems highly probable that this scarcity may be in part due to the 

 evident penchant of this woodpecker for its larvae, and its greater abundance in 

 London parks and squares to the absence of the bird. — Id. 



Larvce of Boarmia rhomboidaria on Scotch fir. — In the springs of this and last 

 year, I took single larva? of what turned out to be this species, feeding on Scotch fir. 

 They were reared on the same food, and emerged as dwarfed specimens of the var. 

 perfumaria. From the strange food-plant, and divergence of the imagines from the 

 type, I failed to identify them, and therefore sent them to Mr. Chas. Gr. Barrett, who 

 kindly named them for me. — C. J. Wainweight, Hull Eoad, Handsworth, Bir- 

 mingham : November, 1888. 



[The two specimens submitted to me were curious varieties — both very smoky, 

 the larger about two-thirds of the ordinary size, the other not more than one-third. 

 In the larger the markings of rhomboidaria were visible, particularly the convergence 

 of the two transverse lines towards the dorsal margin, but in the smaller specimen 

 no markings were distinctly visible. — C. Gh B.] 



