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caught a specimen of Manduca atropos a few weeks previously. 

 The moth had been taken at rest in the daytime. — J. A. Brown ; 

 " Keston," Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, Middlesex. 



[Two full-grown larvae of this species were received by the 

 Entomological Department of the British Museum on August 23rd 

 for identification. They had been found by Mr. D. Jones on jasmine 

 at Stony Stratford.— N.' D. B.] 



Hyloicus pinastri in Suffolk. — Between August 1st and August 

 16th I took sixteen specimens of Hyloicus pinastri in the Sax- 

 mundham district, Suffolk. I found them all by searching pine 

 trunks, on which they show up quite clearly, even when seen from 

 some way off. The greatest height at which I noticed the insect 

 was rather less than five feet up a trunk ; the average height was 

 between two and three feet ; in several cases the moths were almost 

 on the ground. They could, without exception, have been seen by 

 viewing the trees from the south-east ; sun and wind do not seem to 

 affect them ; the north side failed to produce even a single specimen. 

 It is unnecessary to search the trunks closely, for pinastri can be 

 seen at a glance (if there is one to be seen). Its occurrence appears 

 to be very " patchy " ; where one is detected it is probable there will 

 be others. — M. Mactaggart ; Moorcroft, Gravel Hill, Bexley Heath, 

 Kent. 



Herse (Sphinx) convolvuli at Eastbourne. — On the evening 

 of August 26th, at dusk, it being almost calm and fairly warm at the 

 time, I noticed a large Sphingid hovering at a poppy flower that was 

 growing in proximity to a patch of tobacco blossoms in my garden ; 

 I had no doubt as to it being II. convolvuli, but by the time I had 

 obtained a net it had gone. On the 29th another eluded me. On 

 September 1st I captured two which proved to be, as I expected, 

 this species ; on the 2nd three were seen and two of them taken, one 

 of them at the time of capture feeding at blossoms of sweet pea, but 

 all the others seen were at the tobacco blossoms. On the 3rd the 

 moon was very bright and a light northerly breeze was blowing, and 

 the only two or three seen dashed wildly about the blossoms without 

 attempting to feed. The evenings of the 1th and 5th were overcast, 

 and on each of them a capture was made ; the 6th was bright moon- 

 light and the wind well in the east, and the only moth seen flew 

 wildly, and this was the last seen of the species. The patches of 

 tobacco blossom worked were scattered over a considerable area, and, 

 as a moth seldom stays very long at any one lot of blossoms, it is 

 probable that the species has been really more common in this 

 neighbourhood than the half dozen captures would suggest. — 

 Eobert Adkin ; Eastbourne, September 16th, 1922. 



Herse convolvuli in London. — On September 7th I had an 

 urgent request for a killing-bottle from my friend, Mr. Holmes, of 

 32, Felday Eoad, Lewisham. The previous evening his mother had 

 knocked something off a statue in their garden which seemed to be 

 alive, and, seeing it was a large moth, put it in a glass jar. It turns 

 out to be a fine female specimen of H. convolvuli.— J. H. Vickers ; 

 16, Talgarhh Mansions, Barons' Court, London, W. 



