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Herse (Sphinx) convolvuli in Cambridgeshire. — Sphinx 



volvuli is somewhat abundant here this year. I have taken nine 

 specimens in good condition in my garden on nicotiana, from August 

 30th to September 6th, when I ceased taking them. They were all 

 but one taken between 8 and 11 o'clock at night. One was taken in 

 the twilight, but that was the only occasion on which I went out 

 before 8 o'clock. I was never out after 11 o'clock. I still see one or 

 more almost every night at various times between 8 and 11 o'clock. 

 Their apparent curiosity mentioned by Barrett in his British 

 Lepidoptera was very noticeable. Usually when the light was 

 thrown on them they became fidgety, and some left the flowers and 

 flew backwards and forwards a yard or two from me several times, 

 and then a few times at a rather greater distance, and then went off ; 

 but sometimes they returned at once to the same bed of flowers. A 

 white straw hat I sometimes wore seemed, on several occasions, to 

 be of great interest to them, and they flew round it and within a few 

 inches several times before going further away. They were all males 

 but one. I also took a rather worn male here last October at rest 

 on a curtain in the billiard-room. The specimen recorded as taken 

 here in June was also a male. This sex this year seems to pre- 

 dominate largely. The times above mentioned are times according 

 to the sun (Greenwich time), and not the statutory summer times. — 

 A. Harold Euston ; Aylesby House, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. 



Herse (Sphinx) convolvuli in Scotland. — I have just seen a 

 specimen of this species, rather small but in good condition, taken 

 by Mrs. Douglas Mackay in a garden at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, 

 on September 6th. — W. Bowater ; Highfield Boad, Edgbaston, 

 Birmingham. 



Herse (Sphinx) convolvuli in Ayrshire. — On September 5th, 

 1922, I found a specimen of this moth lying on its back on the 

 road, alive but headless. — Iain D. Jex Long; 46, Eglinton Boad, 

 Ardrossan, Ayrshire. 



Catocala fraxini in Bast Kent. — On Sunday, September 17th, 

 whilst visiting the "sugared" leaves of lime for Girrhia citrago, 1 

 was astonished to find Catocala fraxini on a leaf. The insect was 

 taken at Stowting, about six miles from Hythe, and, judging from its 

 perfect condition, seems to be a locally hatched specimen. — C. A. \Y. 

 Duffield ; Pickersdene, Brook, near Ashford, Kent. 



Sterrha sacraria in Devon.— A perfect male specimen of this 

 interesting migrant was taken on August 7th at Efford Port, 

 Plymouth, about 6.30 p.m. The insect was actually disturbed by my 

 son, Howell Peach (aged 9), who saw it fly into a feuft oi grass and 

 called my attention to it. The oblique bar is pink.— A. II. Pbaoh; 

 48, Whiteford Boad, Mannamead, Plymouth. 



[A similarly pink-banded male was taken by Dr. W. 1 >. Lang 

 this year on May 31st at Stonebarrow Cliff, Charmoufh, and pre- 

 sented to the Natural History Museum.— N. 1). R.] 



EUPITHECIA TRISIGNARIA IN DERBYSHIRE AND NOTES PROM X. 



Staffs. — I have much pleasure in recording the capture, on Ma\ 

 27th, of a female Eupithecia trisignaria in a wood near Ellestone, 



