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Capture of Sphinx convolvuU near Reigate. — On Friday morning my friend Mr. 

 Fielding again called my attention to a largo moth, taken by a little country girl at 

 the same place where Acherontia Atropos occurred, and proving to be Sphinx con- 

 volvuU. Considering the rustic manner of his capture, the illustrious stranger had 

 fared well. Shortly after being brought to mo, he indulged in a rigorous mid-day 

 flight, and was suffered to remain alive for some hours. 



Can any gentleman resident in Scotland tell us whether a parallel has occurred 

 this year to the extreme profusion of Deilephila galii (40 specimens) reported to 

 have occurred not many years since at Perth ? — J. B. Blackburn, Grassmeade, 

 Wandsworth, 12th September, 1868. 



Sphinx convolvuU taken at sea. — A fine specimen of this moth was taken on 

 board the "Lord Raglan" steamer on the 29th September last, when she was 

 about five miles off Tynemouth, and is now in the collection of Mr. J. Hamilton 

 Shieldfield, Newcastle. I have among my odds and ends a large individual of the 

 same species, which was captured as it fluttered round the binnacle light of a sailing 

 vessel, when she was making for the Tyne, and at a considerable distance from 

 land. — Thos. John Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, October 14th, 1868. 



Choerocampa porcelhis near Tynemouth. — Three specimens of the perfect insect 

 were taken on the sea banks, near St. Mary's Island, in the last week of July, and 

 towards the end of August its larvae was found feeding upon Oaliu7n venim, some- 

 what further to the south, near Whitby. — Id. 



Macroglossa stellatarum in the north of England. — This insect has been rather 

 common here this year, and a good many larvae collected ; these were very easy to 

 real , only requiring to be plentifully supplied with the plant on which they were 

 taken, Galium verum. — Id. 



Deilephila lineata in Scotland. — I learn from my friend Mr. Dalziol Pearson, 

 that he took a good specimen of the insect on August 10th at Dunbar ; and that 

 he *' has heard of two more specimens of it being captured in the neighbourhood." — 

 Eev. E. N. Bloompield, Guestling, November 2nd. 



Choerocampa Celerio at Birmingham. — I have just taken off the setting board a 

 very fine and perfect specimen of Choerocampa Celerio, which was caught October 

 2nd and brought to mo, alive, the next day ; a little boy had found it (as he de- 

 scribed, asleep) on a shutter of a butcher's shop in the Horse Fair, Bristol Street, 

 Birmingham, one of our busiest thoroughfares ; he said it did not seem at all in- 

 clined to fly away, so he had no diflBculty in putting it in a box, without injury. 

 I have no doubt but that the lighted windows had lured it into so busy a place, as 

 it was just getting dusk (6 p.m.) when he found it. — Frederic Enock, 75, Rylands 

 Road, Birmingham, October 18th, 1868. 



Choerocampa nerii at St. Leonards. — Through the kindness of Dr. Bowerbank, 

 we have received a specimen of Choerocampa nerii (the Oleander Hawk Moth) . It 

 was captured in the garden of Decimus Burton, Esq., by his gardener, a few weeks 



