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"Mitford Hall, not micomuion." J. Finlay. '' Stocktou-on- 

 Tees." S. Sibson. The late W. Backhouse took it at Darling- 

 ton, which is one of the " Manual" localities. At Hartlepool a 

 year seldom passes without one or more being brought to me. It 

 occasionally rests on clothes hung up to dry and left out all 

 night. It also flies to light. It has been taken in fishing boats 

 at sea at night, and at brightly -lighted windows. One brought 

 to me last year was found in a draper's shop. It had parted with 

 all its eggs, as have most of the females I have seen. Indeed, 

 with the exception named above, those met with here have been 

 more or less in a wasted condition. 



5. S. Ligustrij Linn. Peivet Hawk-Moth. 

 Sphinx Ligustri. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 90. 



,, ,, ITewm. Brit. Moths, p. 7. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 31. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk., Brit. Lep., p. 298. 



Larva. Buck., vol. ii., pi. xxii., fig. 3 ; O.Wils., pi. vi., fig. 3. 



The only claim this species has to be included in our list is 

 that Mr. Gardner picked up a specimen in Union Street, Hartle- 

 pool, which had so recently emerged from pupa, that its wings 

 were unexpanded. It was impossible it could have bred there 

 naturally, and must have come there by some accident. The 

 species has only once occurred in Lancashire, and is very rare 

 in Yorkshire, though eight widely-spread localities are given 

 for it in Porritt's Yorkshire List. The food plant, Ligiistrum 

 vulgar e (Privet), is very abundant in Hesleden Dene, three or 

 four miles from Hartlepool. I include the species here because 

 there is no mistake as to the occurrence in Hartlepool. 



DEILEPHILA, Och. 



6. Deilepliila Galii, (W. Y.). Bedsteaw Hawk-Moth. 

 Deilephila Galii, Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 94. 



,, ,, JS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 8. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 42. 



' n n Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 297. 



La:^wa. Buck., vol. ii., pi. xxiv. ; 0. Wils., pi. viii., fig. 1. 



