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ago, on an Oleander plant, at his residence, Maze Hill, St. Leouarda-on-tho-Sea 

 and presented to the British Museum by Mr. Wood, of North Lodge, St. Leonards. 

 I send a notice of this capture, in order that a correct list of the specimens taken 

 during this remai-kablo season may appear in the Ent. Monthly Mag. — FaEDEitiCK 

 Smith, British Museum, 6th Novcmher, 1868. 



Charocampa CeleHo near York. — A specimen of this rare species was taken by 

 a woman on the 2nd of October last. It was found sitting on the window blind 

 inside a cottage on Haworth Moor, near York, and was taken to Mr. Dosser, who 

 got it alive : it is a very fair specimen, and Mr. Dosser has since kindly added the 

 specimen to my collection. — W. Brest, York. 



Note on abwfidance of SpMngiduB in Japan during the past summer. — As I have 

 frequently noticed records of insects, generally more or less rare, being observed 

 simultaneously here and in England, I should like to note that the present season 

 has been most prolific in Sphingidce. Sphinx convolvuU has been exceedingly 

 abundant in the imago state, and I collected 50 larvas of the " Death's Head," in 

 ten minutes, from a small patch of Sesamum orientale. It was equally common 

 everywhere on this plant. The " Eyed Hawk," and another Smerinthus very 

 similar to it, but wanting the " eyes," have in the larval state stripped various trees 

 of their leaves. I cannot name others that I have found abundantly. A Japanese 

 artist has figured the larvae and pupae of 18 species ; and these, with two others, 

 which I have not met with in their earlier stages, complete a list of 20 Sphingidce 

 noticed this season in the immediate neighbourhood. All but three or four have 

 occurred in profusion. — G Lewis, Nagasaki, 10th Septerriber, 1868, 



Sesia myopceformis ? in Mountain-ash. — We have a Mountain-ash apparently 

 attacked by this clearwing. Next season I propose to make certain of the species 

 by enclosing the affected parts of the tree with network. — H. G. Kxaggs, Kentish 

 Town, N.W. 



Catocalafraxini near Manchester. — The records of 1868 certifying to several 

 examples of this sensational species, perhaps the following authentic anecdote of a 

 capture of a fine specimen may be new to many. Some five years back, a collector 

 near Manchester had an admirable example brought him, discovered by a little girl, 

 who, being afraid to touch it, captured it safely and conveyed it some distance 

 with — a pair of tongs ! The bold and beautiful thing, experiencing, probably, a 

 sense of intrusion, would seem to have fanned up its indolent wings at the moment 

 best suited to the fireside forceps. — Edw. Hopley, 14, South Bank, Regent's Park. 



Capture of Leuca^tvia alhipuncta, IT.F., a species new to BHtain. — I took one 

 specimen at Folkestone, at sugar, on August 15th, 1868- A second, very much 

 worn, example was taken at the same place, by my brother, on or about October 

 the 5th. A third, supposed to be seen by my brother and myself in the same place, 

 escaped.— T. H. Briggs, St. John's College, Oxford, November, 1868. 



[This insect is closely allied to lithargyria, and is more common than that 

 species in some continental locahties, — Eds.] 



