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galii, found by him near Stanley (seven miles from Perth). It is eleven years 
since the larvz of this hawk-moth have been found in Perthshire. In 1859 nearly 
two dozen caterpillars were captured within a few miles of Perth.—F. BUCHANAN 
Waits, Perth, September 10th, 1870. 
Deilephila galii near Kilmarnock.—One specimen of D. galii was caught, and two 
or three more seen, by my friend, Miss Stewart, near Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, about 
the 18th of August.—W. Douetas Rosrnson, Dalbeattie, N.B., September, 1870. 
Occurrence of Catocala frawini in the Regent's park.—My friend Mr. John Hodge 
took a specimen of C. frawini at rest on an ash-tree, in the Regent’s park, on the 
9th inst.—JosEpH Portrer, 9, Peckwater Street, Kentish Town, 12th Sept., 1870. 
Leucania albipuncta, §c.,at Folkestone.—On the 18th of August, the same evening 
that my friend Mr. Vaughan was so fortunate (p. 87), though not in the same spot, 
I took a beautiful specimen of this rare Noctua. It was in such good condition 
that it was evidently fresh from the pupa. Among a whole host of specimens of 
C. Cytherea, A. tragopogonis, A. suffusa, and the ubiquitous L. pallens and N. 
wxanthographa, I caught sight of my white-spotted friend deeply engaged in discuss- 
ing the merits of my mixture. It did not take long, it may be imagined, to box 
it. There can be no possibility of confounding it with its plebeian relative lithar- 
gyria when thus fresh: in the latter, besides the great difference in size, the tint 
is altogether unlike that of albipuncta, which is very dark red, with the spot most 
conspicuous. The row of black spots on the fore-wings of lithargyria. can with 
difficulty be traced on those of albipuncta, while there is on the latter, in addition, a 
faint row of short light dashes. 
On the 23rd of August, I captured two more, and one again a few days later ; 
these specimens were more or less worn, and two of them are so light in tint that 
they would probably at first be passed by as lithargyria,—though not by the ento- 
mologist who was acquainted with both. It is very curious that this Noctua should 
not have turned up in larger numbers before; and I cannot help thinking that 
specimens may exist in some cabinets, the owners of which are not aware of the 
rarity they possess. 
Agrotis suffusa has been very plentiful, and saucia not rare. Fine specimens 
of A. pyramidea and C. nwpta, and a few of T. jimbria, have also turned out to sugar. 
Among the strange visitors to my posts, I noticed a field cricket, and a large 
green grasshopper particularly engaged with the thick body of a Noctua; and from 
one post a tiny harvest mouse beat a quick retreat. I believe it is a general 
opinion that the grasshoppers are not carnivorous. But this is an error, at any 
rate with Locusta viridissima, which is not a true grasshopper, but one of the 
Locustide ; I have kept this species in captivity, and fed it with flies and small 
grasshoppers, which it devoured with great relish, catching them alive as it saw 
them move.— Henry Uxtyert, Folkestone, August, 1870. 
Lemiodes pulveralis and other Lepidoptera at Ranworth.—On July 27th last, in 
company with the Rey. E. N. Bloomfield, and a friend of his, an ardent botanist, 
