346 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
ACHERONTIA aTROPOS AT BrxutEy.—I had a larva of A. atropos, 
brought me on October 19th, which appears to me to be a very late 
date. It was found in a potato field, but all the potato-haulm was 
dead ; I was able to get sufficient, however, from my garden for it, and 
it went down to-day.—lL. W. Newman, Bexley, Kent. October 30th, 
1900. 
ACHERONTIA ATROPos in GuerrNnsEY.—A fine female Acherontia 
atropos was brought to me to-day to set for a lad.—(Rev.) F. E. Lowe, 
M.A., F'.E.8., St. Stephen’s Vicarage, Guernsey. October 25th, 1900. 
AcHEront1a arropos at Hampsrrap.—On August 8th a full-fed larva 
of A. atropos was brought to me; on the 10th I found two more on a 
small potato patch. I also heard of several others being found in the 
neighbourhood. On the 26th a young friend picked up a freshly 
emerged @. One of the larve buried on the 21st, next day it re- 
appeared on the surface of the mould in a shrunken condition, and so 
it remained for fourteen days before casting its skin. The pupa was 
at first of a pale yellow colour, but within three days it had assumed 
its normal tint.—M. F. Hopson. November 2nd, 1900. 
AcHERONTIA aTRopos 1n Eissex.—I have some three dozen pupe of 
Acherontia atropos this year; the first emergence took place October 
12th.—(Rev.) C. R. N. Burrows, Mucking Vicarage, Stanford-le- 
Hope. October 15th, 1900. 
AcHERONTIA aTROPos aT Ponv-pe-L’ArcHE (Kure) iy 1900.—I had 
a larva brought to me in September last which pupated satisfactorily 
and emerged in October; a second larva, being disturbed during the 
time it was changing to a pupa, dried up without completing the 
change. Seven imagines were obtained, one each on September 16th 
and 80th, and five others between October Ist and 20th. The species 
is found every year in this district, but generally I obtain only one or 
two examples (usually brought by peasants or children). The pupa 
is generally found in September, when the potatoes are being lifted. 
At St.-Jean-de-Luz, in the Basses-Pyrenees, I took an imago flying at 
night in a room on August 29th, 1899, that is, a month earlier than 
the usual time in Normandy.—L. Luront, 3, Rue de l’Orangerie, Le 
Havre. November 22nd, 1900. 
CaRADRINA AMBIGUA IN Nortu Devon.—I captured a specimen of 
Caradrina ambiyua on a heath flower at Saunton, north Devon, during 
the first week of September.—C. Barrnerr, 18, Henleaze Avenue, 
Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. 
Ennomos autumnarta aT RamscatE.—On September 19th I took 
a male and female of Hnnomos autwnnaria on hawthorn at Ramsgate, 
both very much worn, but the female has since laid a batch of eggs.— 
C. W. Cotrurup, 127, Barry Road, East Dulwich, S.E. September 
22nd, 1900. 
Unusual VISITORS aT suGAR.—On September 8th, I had a card 
from a friend asking me whether I had ever taken Dianthoecia cucubali 
at sugar, aS he had been surprised to find a specimen at sugar the 
previous evening. I had never done so, but, by a curious coincidence, 
that very evening one specimen of this (to me) most uncommon insect 
paid a visit to my sugar, and paid heavily, too, for he got captured. 
Plusia gamma is constantly attracted by my bait, but 1t was not until 
September 22nd last, that I took DPlusia chrysitis mm this way. 
Stenopteryx hybridalis, which one is more accustomed to associate with 
