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captured ID, all but three being females, some of which were very 

 large, and the hind-wings very strongly marked.^W. G. Hooker, 

 Claremont, Alington Road, Bournemouth. 



AcHERONTL\ ATROPOs IN GUERNSEY. — On November 8th a friend 

 sent me a full-grown larva of Acherontia atrapos, which had been 

 brought from his garden into the house by a cat. It seemed very 

 healthy, and was not injured in any way. Two days afterwards 

 it entered the ground. — \V. A. Luff, Mount Pleasant, Burnt Lane. 

 Guernsey. November 21st, 1898. 



Agrotids AT Tenby. — At Tenby during the first fortnight of July 

 I found only Ai/rotis rcstit/ialis really abundant at sugar, but of this 

 species I obtained half-a-dozen beautiful dark females. A. tritici and A. 

 ciirxoria were much rarer than usual, and of Actehia praecox I only 

 captured two. — (Rev.) E. C. Dobree Fox, M. A., Castle Moreton, Tewkes- 

 bury. 



Lepidoptera at Cheltenham, — I found insects very rare at Chel- 

 tenham after my return there in the middle of July last. With the excep- 

 tion of EuhoUa hipunctata, Taiiat/ra chaeropJn/llata, and Kubolia Umitata, 

 which were common, a few each of Gnophos obscurata, Acidalia 

 ornata, Anthrocera lonicerac, Triaena psi, Ennychia cuujulalis, Melanippe 

 i/aliata, and single specimens of Phibalapteri/x tersata and Eiipisteria 

 heparata, both new to the Cheltenham list, I captured nothing on 

 the hills of importance. At the electric lights in the streets, Zeuzcra 

 pyrina and Lcncoina salicif>, among other species, occurred. These 

 also were new to the local list. Larvas of Dianthoecia carpophaf/a and 

 Eupithecia venosata were common in seed-heads of Silene mfiata. 

 Between June 13th and July 8th I took nothing except several larv® 

 of Abraxas (/rossidariata and Malacnsoma neustria ; no aberrations of the 

 former were bred, but a fine dark, unicolorous, red male of 

 the latter. — -(Major) R. B. Robertson, The Holt, Berkeley Street, 

 Cheltenham. 



Aporl\ crat.egi, Polygonia o-album, and Sphinx convolvuli at 

 Dover. — I am glad to be able to record the capture of Aporia cratacyi 

 again this year, but regret that it is much scarcer — I took but a dozen 

 specimens. I have seen several Colias edusa, and a friend of mine 

 tells me that only last week he saw several in the Warren, close here. 

 This collector took a very good specimen of Poli/i/onia c-album at the 

 beginning of September, and saw another in the Warren. I do not 

 think this butterfly has been taken in this neighbourhood since the 

 one taken by Mr. Sydney Webb in October, 1894, and recorded in 

 The Entomologist, vol. xxviii., p. 321. I had a specimen of Sphinx 

 convolvuli brought to me last week, and have since seen other speci- 

 mens which have been taken from the electric light lamps here. A 

 few larvje of Acherontia atropos have turned up, but were unfortunately 

 killed by the finders because they had done irreparable damage ! — 

 H. Douglas Stockwell, 2, Albert Road, Dover. November 14th, 1898. 



Aporia crataegi and Polygonia c-album in Kent. — I am able to 

 record the capture of Aporia crataaji in Kent this year, having taken a 

 considerable number; also one specimen of Pohjijonia c-album. — J. 

 B.4JJKS, 19, Odo Road, Tower Hamlets, Dover, December 6th, 1898. 



Notes from the New Forest. — I found sugar to be of no use until 

 September, when a few insects came. Most of these showed that the 

 species were very late, but on September 12th I took a specimen of 



