4O | July, 
Cecidomyia floricola, Winnertz. 
Winnertz, ut supra, 1853, p. 289, 78. 
—(ee. , Inchbald, ut supra, 1860, p. 164, ceconomy. 
The larve inhabit the flower tufts of Achillea ptarmica, which they transform 
into woolly galls.—Ip. 
Deilephila livornica at Folkestone.—Whilst rambling in the Warren yesterday 
afternoon, a working geologist named Griffiths brought me an example of this 
rarity, which he had just then picked up on the shore. The creature (a g) was 
imprisoned in a capacious basket, and being rather lively, I had some difficulty in 
securing it, but eventually managed to get it into a large chip box, and to stifle 
it with tobacco smoke before much damage was done. Griffiths informs me that 
when he first saw the insect it was out at sea, flying straight towards him, and 
that as soon as it reached land it dropped, as if ‘dead beat.”—H. G. Knaces, 
Folkestone, May 27th, 1870. 
Deilephila livornica in South Wales.—Perhaps it may be interesting to some of 
your readers to know that a magnificent specimen of Deilephila livornica was given 
to me on Sunday morning last (May 22nd). It was taken at rest on a bank a few 
yards from our own garden.— Ernest Kayr, Langharne, Carmarthenshire, S. Wales, 
May 28rd, 1870. 
Deilephila ivornica in Dorsetshire.—In a letter received from the Rev. O. P. 
Cambridge, of Bloxworth, he remarks that he had lately seen three specimens of 
this insect. On two occasions he had no net with him; on the other he had, but 
missed the insect. Two of them were sucking at the blossoms of the Lousewort. 
—F. Bonn, 203, Adelaide Road, N.W., June, 1870. 
Deilephila livornica at Waltham Abbey.—A specimen of this insect has occurred 
in the above locality, concerning which Mr. Davis gives the following particulars. 
It was captured by Mrs. G. Blount on the 26th April, at rest on a shed at the back 
of the house at Paradise Row, and is now ir the possession of Mr. Blount.—W. C. 
Boyrp, Cheshunt, 16th June, 1870. 
Deilephila livornica at Teignmouth.—Mr. Brooks, surgeon, of Shaldon (about 
a mile from this place), shewed me yesterday a specimen of D. livornica which had 
been brought to him by a boy, who said he had found it at Shaldon about a week 
since. It was alive when the boy brought it, and the wings were set out with pins 
when I saw it. It seemed to have been injured in capturing, but otherwise was 
not a worn specimen, though it must have hybernated.—W. R. Hann Jorpan, 
Teignmouth, 25th May, 1870. 
Deilephila livornica at Birmingham.—An example of this insect was caught by 
a boy, at 5 p.m., on the 24th May. He found it on a vine leaf, the branches of 
which overhang a wall; and, knowing a friend of his who is a collector, took it to 
him. I had the pleasure of seeing it alive the same evening; it is a splendid fe- 
male, and had only just emerged from the pupa.* On the 30th May another female 
was captured at Bromsgrove, about ten miles from here, by a man who was cutting 
cabbages ; this one has laid a few eggs.—F rep. Enock, 75, Ryland Road, Edgbaston, 
Birmingham, 1st June, 1870. 
* We believe all the specimens of livornica captured in spring haye hybernated —Eps, 
