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Deilephila livornica in Gloucestershire.—I sent a notice last year of livornica 
having been taken at Risington, in Gloucestershire—at least the remains were 
brought tome. On the 27th May, in this year, a perfect insect was taken one mile 
from this village, four miles from the place of the former capture. Whenit reached 
me it was much rubbed from being carried in the hand, but a strong large insect.— 
H. Hatzerr Topp, Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, June, 1870 
Deilephila tivornica near Kilkenny.—I beg to inform you of the capture, in the 
beginning of this month, of a fine specimen of Deilephila livornica ina green-house 
near the town of Kilkenny, Ireland. As I have not met with the insect before in 
Treland, I thought this information might be interesting. I have the specimen in 
my collection.—Ernest Bristow, Knockbridge Rectory, Belfast, 24th June, 1870. 
Deilephila galii at Exeter.—A beautiful larva was brought me last night by a 
labourer, who said he found it in a mangold-wurtzel field in this neighbourhood ; I 
gave it Galiwm sazatile, vine leaves, and Fuchsia, and it immediately attacked the 
last with great avidity. —J. Hutwins, Exeter, 12th July, 1870. 
Dianthecia irregularis (cesii) bred in England.—It may interest your readers 
to know that the Rey. A. H. Wratislaw, of Bury St. Edmunds, has bred two speci- 
mens of D. irregularis from larve collected last year on Silene otites (Spanish 
Catchfly). Mr. Wratislaw has therefore the credit not only of re-discovering the 
insect, but of determining the food of the larvz in this country. I may add, that 
Mr. T. Brown, of Cambridge, has also bred one specimen.—E. N. BLoomFIELp, 
Guestling Rectory, July 16th, 1870. 
Hepialus velleda near Maidenhead.—About half-past eight in the evening of the 
9th instant, I noticed eight or ten moths flying among some nettles which fringed 
a small plantation in the corn fields between Maidenhead and Cookham. As they 
seemed too large for lwpulinus, while their mode of flight was hardly that of the 
Noctue or Bombyces, I caught two, and found them to be H. velleda. One, the 
ordinary type,—the other, the well-known variety, carnus. Although Wood’s 
“*Tndex Hntomologicus” gives Darenth Wood as a locality, recent writers have 
apparently considered the insect as an exclusively northern species.—A. H. CLARKE, 
16, Furnival’s Inn, E.C., 17th June, 1870. 
[H. velleda is not the exclusively northern species that our correspondent would 
seem to consider, It is known to occur in several southern localities beside Darenth 
Wood, and the variety carnus has been met with at Haslemere ; see Ent. Mo. Mag., 
Vol. iii, p. 186.—Eps. | 
Smerinthus ocellatus in pwpa two years.—Do any of your readers remember an 
instance of this? I know that numbers of moths will remain in pupa over one 
season, but amongst hundreds of ocellatus bred and dug, I never had one till this 
year that passed a second winter in the pupa state.— HE. Hatierr Topp, Aldsworth, 
June, 1870. 
Lycena Alewis deceived.—I have this day seen this butterfly fly towards a very 
small bit of pale blue paper lying in the grass and stop within an inch or two from 
it, as if to settle. 
