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MIGRATIONS OF PAPILIONACEOUS 
INSECTS. 
In addition to what we have said on this subject 
at page 100, volume I., we subjoin the following 
remarks :—That the extent to which insects mi- 
grate,” says Mr Blyth, “ or rather wander, seems 
neyer to have sufficiently engaged the attention of 
entomologists. Most persons must have remarked, 
on perusing an account of the localities of our rarer 
strong-winged insects (such as the Sphingide, many 
of the butterflies, &¢.,) how very many of them 
have been principally taken on the eastern and 
southern coasts of the kingdom. My friend, to 
whom I am indebted for the above information on 
birds, mentions haying seen several small moths 
flying out at sea, when about ten miles distant from 
the Suffolk coast ; one only of which was captured, 
which I find to be the Lampetia defoliaria. My 
Stephens, also, records an instance of the Death’s- 
head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos) being cap- 
tured four miles at sea ; and I have myself observed 
numberless instances of diuwmal moths and butter- 
flies, flying at a considerable distance from land. 
I have repeatedly seen the Humming-bird Hawk- 
