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is a larva easy to feed in confinement, and those young 

 entomologists who have not had the pleasure of taking this 

 beautiful larva have a pleasure in store : they are very easy 

 to find on sandy ground by their droppings. — John Thorpe ; 

 Church Street, Middleton, near Ma tic h ester. 



Deilephila lineata at Birmingham and Bromsgrove. — 

 I am happy to inform you I have become possessed of a pair 

 of Deilephila lineata taken in this district; the first, a 

 splendid male, was taken by a bricklayer's lad, not a stone's 

 throw from this spot, on the 24th of May, at 5 p.m. ; the 

 second, a female, was caught at Bromsgrove, on the 31st of 

 May, by a labourer, who saw it while cutting cabbages : he 

 took it to Mr. Franklin, the taxidermist, who presented it to 

 me : this second specimen laid fifteen eggs, but they all 

 dried up, I presume from not being fertilized. — F. Enoch ; 

 Ifj, Ryland Road, Edghaston, Birmingham, June 22, 1870. 



Chcerocampa Nerii at Birmingham. — When Mr. Franklin 

 gave me the female Deilephila lineata which I have alluded 

 to above, he showed me a specimen of Chcerocampa Nerii 

 which a little girl had brought to him, and said her brother 

 had caught it in a garden at Birmingham : it is much injured, 

 has lost both its antennae, and has never been pimT^d : the 

 specimen is a male, and the body is much curved, as though 

 it had died of starvation. — Id. 



Fifty Saturnia Carpini attracted hy one Female in 

 Two Days. — Friday, April 22nd, I obtained two females 

 of S. Carpini, which had emerged that morning; but, as 

 a male had come out in the same box, 1 was uncertain 

 whether both or only one was a virgin, and therefore I 

 determined to take both on the following day to Tilgate 

 Forest. I arranged with a friend who had a virgin female 

 to start by the 8'55 train ; but circumstances prevented 

 our going. On Monday, April 25th, having occasion to 

 go to Eastbourne, 1 took the two females with me, and, 

 on the return journey, got out at Polegate and walked in the 

 direction of Hailsham. About 3 p.m., while crossing a stile 

 at the end of a wooded lane, a male fluttered round me for 

 a few seconds and then made off. A few minutes later, and 

 about a quarter of a mile distant, another came up and was 

 secured. A icw minutes later, while talking to a woodcutter 

 in a lately cleared coppice, another came up and was taken. 



