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Reported Occurrence of Lyccena Acts in Epping Forest. — I am happy to inform 

 you that I captured a specimen of Lycaena Acis last Friday, August 31, in Epping 

 Forest. Although slightly damaged it is in other respects a very fair specimen. As 

 Mr. Newman, in his excellent "Butterfly Number of Young England," says the 

 species is not now obtained, this announcement may be interesting to some of my 

 young friends. — W. Banks; 5, Georges Terrace, Copenhagen Street, Islington^ 

 September 3, I860.—' Young England.' 



[Will Mr. Banks oblige me by bringing the specimen to this office to have this 

 interesting statement verified? — Edward Newman.'] 



PiipcB of Sphinx Convolvuli. — A considerable number of the pupae of Sphinx Con- 

 volvuli have again been dug up in the potato fields in the South of England; and 

 I am indebted to Mr. Bond for a very fine specimen for the cabinet of the Entomo- 

 logical Club. Entomologists finding these pupae in potato fields are earnestly 

 requested to observe whether the Convolvulus arvensis or any other plant is growing 

 among the potatoes. — Edward Newman. 



Capture of Chcerocampa Celerio at Darlington. — I have a fine specimen of this 

 insect, which was taken here on Sunday last, off a window-ledge, by a friend of mine, 

 and was given to me. — W. Beadnell ; Nor/hgate, Darlington. — ' Intelligencer.' 



Capture of Chcerocampa Celerio at Matlock. — A fine specimen of this insect was 

 taken at Matlock, on the 20th ult., by a gentleman, at whose house I saw it last week. 

 It was fluttering in the long grass and herbage beneath a clump of fir trees, about 

 six o'clock in the evening, having evidently just emerged from the pupa state. My 

 friend put his hat over it, but having no net or box at hand he was obliged to 

 grasp it rather roughly with his fingers, nip it beneath the wings, and pin it with a 

 lady's common shawl-pin. — F. Tearle ; Grammar School, Kettering, October 5, 1860. 

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Capture of Chcerocampa Celerio at Nottingham. — On Saturday evening last a party 

 of workmen brought a large moth to the Museum of the Natural History Society for 

 identification. Their capture was eagerly compared with the occupants of the case, 

 and, to the evident delight of its owners, found to tally exactly with Chcerocampa 

 Celerio, with the exception that it had " no horns." It had been taken in a factory 

 in the town, into which, from the partiality of its species for light, it had no doubt 

 been attracted by the glare of what the Lancashire operatives term "the manu- 

 facturer's sun," too close contact with which had probably deprived it of its antennae. 

 — September 24, I860.— Jd. 



Capture of Chcerocampa Celerio at Wakefield. — At the meeting of our Naturalists' 

 Society on Thursday last, a splendid living specimen of Chcerocampa Celerio, as if 

 just emerged from the pupa,, was exhibited by Mr. Talbot. It was in excellent 

 condition, and did not appear to have made use of its wings. — H. S. Roxby ; Wake- 

 field, October I, I860.— /f/. 



Capture of Sphinx Celerio at Beccles. — I law a beautiful specimen of Sphinx 

 Celerio in the shop of Mr. Steel, chemist, of Beccles : it entered the shop, attracted 

 by the light, and settled on a door.— FT. Winter; Aldeby, October 15, I860.— 7<i. 



Occurrence of Sesia Spheciformis in Sussex. — A friend of mine having taken an 



extremely fine female of Sesia Spheciformis in Sussex, was kind enough to conduct 



me to the locality, where I had the good fortune to secure a second specimen, also a 



female, as it was flying lazily over the fern : the date was the middle of July, probably 



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