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with light brown hairs. After this moult it refused to eat, 

 and I found it dead next day. With the aid of a lens 1 had 

 examined the withered ihynie-leaves on which the eggs had 

 been deposited, and found two empty egg-shells, but never 

 saw more than a single larva at one time, but, seeing it in 

 such different parts of the thyme, thought there were more. 

 What became of the larva which was hatched from the 

 second egg I cannot tell. Mr. Buckler had eggs hatch, but 

 could not detect a single larva ; whilst most of Mr. Hellins' 

 seem to have died exactly as mine did, directly after the first 

 moult. Mr. Hellins suggests that, the thyme-flowers withering 

 at this time, possibly the larvae require some other kind of 

 food at this stage of their existence, or it may be the time 

 when they begin to hybernate. — G. T. Porritt. 



Deilephila Galii at Leominster. — On the 7th of this 

 month I had the good fortune to take a splendid Galii flying 

 over a bed of Petunias. I have since seen another that was 

 caught by Mr. Neild, of Clifton, a gentleman now staying in 

 Leominster. — T. Hutchinson ; Leominster, August 13. 



Deilephila Galii in Gloucestershire . — I took a specimen 

 of this rarity on the evening of August 10th, at 6.30 : it flew 

 into an open window in which were some Petunias. — [Rev.) 

 E. Hallett Todd. 



Deilephila Galii at Chepstow. — I took a specimen of 

 D- Galii yesterday at Petunia-blossoms, at Caerwood, near 

 Chepstow ; and saw another on the wing. — (Rev.) E. Sellon ; 

 Caerwood, near Chepstow, August 6, 1870. 



Deilephila Galii at Birmingham. — On the 2nd of August, 

 when I reached the Institute where our Natural -History 

 meetings are held, one of the members showed me a fine male 

 specimen of Deilephila Galii, which a lad had given him that 

 afternoon : it was caught in a busy street in the town. On the 

 3rd of August I had the pleasure of setting another male 

 Galii which a lady caught at Haletowen (about seven miles 

 from Birmingham), whilst it was hovering over the honey- 

 suckle ; and last night I was informed of a third specimen 

 (a female) being caught a short distance from Birmingham. 

 — F. Enock; 75, Ryland Road, Edgbaston, August 10, 1870. 



Deilephila Galii near Derby. — 1 took a male specimen of 

 D. Galii at honeysuckle in my garden about 840 p.m. on the 

 1st of August ; and almost at the same moment my little 



