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Notes on some of the Rarer Lepidoptera, tvith several 

 additions to the Fauna of the District. By George 

 BoLAM, F.Z.S., Berwick. 



Deilephila galii. Schiff. 

 I have a specimen, which was caught in a garden in Berwick, aboufc 

 the end of summer 1888. Another " Hawk," probably of the same 

 species, was taken about the same time, and broup^ht to the museum ; 

 but it was not preserved, and 1 did not see it. 



Deilephila lineata. Fb. 



There is a single example in the museum, which was taken by 

 the late Dr Maclagan, in a garden in Castle Terrace, about the year 

 1871, and presented by him to the museum some years afterwards. 

 I do not know of any other record for the district ; but Wailes, in 

 1857, refers to one taken at Sunderland "many years ago." 



Choerocainpa procellus. L. 



On the evening of 16th July 1887, I netted two specimens of this 

 moth, hovering together over Valerian flowers in the garden at 

 Scremerston Sea House. 



Another example in my collection, kindly presented to me by Mr 

 William B. Boyd in 1883, was taken by him, along with six or eight 

 others, at Cherrytrees, a good many years previous to that date. 



Sesia beuibeciforinis. HId. 

 The sallow and willow bushes in the neighbourhood are everywhere 

 bored by the larvas of this fine moth, but the perfect insect is rarely 

 taken. I have several times dug out the caterpillars, but have never 

 been successful with them, probably from lack of sufficient care. I 

 have, however, identified one or two specimens, which had been 

 bred by some of our young entomologists, from pupse obtained near 

 Berwick. 



Hepialics hectiis. L. 



The Gold Swift is much the rarest of the Hepialida? with us. I 

 found one, drowned in a pond at Ancroft North Farm, on 24th June 

 1886, and have a pair, which I took in cop., at Kyloe Wood on 5th 

 July 1896. 



JVola conf lis alls. H. S chaff. 

 I have a specimen, one of several, taken near Ancroft in 18S9, 

 and in Fenwick Wood, on IGtli Jane 1895, found three examples at 

 rest on old oak trunks. 

 MM 



