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knapweed was plentiful in these glades, and upon it I saw the Butterfly settle 

 occasionally, but I could see nothing of Helianthemum vulgare at that time. Mr. 

 BaiTett has seen the two specimens I kept and thinks them pretty, but rather small 

 in size. He says he does not remember a locality so near the English border, and 

 thinks it worth recording. — A. Elliot, Caverton, Eoxburgh : Septemher IQth, 1887. 



Phytometra cenea and Emmelesia alhulata in Roxhurghshire. — I took several 

 specimens of Phytomelra cenea on June 16th, and on the 29th, Emmelesia alhulata, 

 both in the finest condition, this being the first time I have found them in Koxburgh- 

 shire. — Id. 



Sphinx convolviili in MoxhurghsMre. — I have just had given me a specimen of 

 Sphinx convolvuU taken in this locality by a boy, but sadly dilapidated in its 

 capture. — Id. 



Sphinx convolvuU at Armagh.— Mj neighbour, Mr. Thos. Smith, has just 

 brought over to me a specimen of this moth which was found by Mrs. Smith lying 

 dead outside her window this morning. This is the first time I have heard of its 

 occurrence in this neighbourhood. — W. E. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : 

 September 21st, 1887. 



Sphinx convolvuU at Swansea, and Deiopeia pulchella at Follcestone. — I am 

 able to chronicle two additional captures of Sphinx convolvuU, both in the course of 

 September last. One was taken in the town of Swansea, the other about two miles 

 out of that town, by Raymond Burr. On looking through the collection of the latter 

 I found one example of D. pulchella, taken by himself in August, 1886, at its old 

 habitat, Folkestone. The specimen is in very poor condition. — Lotell Keays, 

 27, Lowndes Square, S.W. : October 3rd, 1887. 



Concerning Deilephila euphorbia in Norfolk. — I think I can furnish a possible 

 explanation of Mr. Barrett's capture of Deifephila euphorbicB in September. They 

 are in some years very abundant-in the neighbourhood of the Bilbao River in the 

 north of Spain during the month of June, and are not rare in September, and as 

 twenty or thirty steamers pass the coast of Norfolk every week carrying iron ore to 

 the north of England from that river, it is not much of a stretch of imagination to 

 suppose that one liidden away in the folds of a sail, and disturbed in transit, when 

 near the coast, might land and be captured ; or eggs might be laid by a specimen of 

 a June importation, which, with the hot summer that we have experienced, might 

 be advanced to the imago state by September. 



It is a curious fact connected with D. celerio, and I believe also with D. 

 euphorbice, and probably with other Sphingidce, that their final transformation can 

 be so much accelerated by heat. 



In the autumn of 1885 I found a Yirginia creeper on my house in Spain swarm- 

 ing with the caterpillars of D. celerio of all sizes, from half-an-inch to full grown. 

 I collected and fed about six dozen of them, but the smallest did not assume the 

 pupa state until well on in November. The earliest pupae produced the imago 

 without artificial heat in September, but I thought there was no chance of the 

 later ones doing so until the following year ; I therefore took the advice of a friend 



