156 Nocturnal Macro-Lepidoptera. 



cania Albipuncta, L. L. Album, Aporophyla Australis, Agrotis 

 Lunigera, Heliothis Peltigera, H. Arniigera, and Catocala 

 Fraxini. There are many others which are reckoned very good 

 species. 



I have been careful to note the island in which each species 

 has been taken, by its initial letter, as some insects occur 

 commonly in one island, and are entirely wanting in others. 



For some of the notices I am indebted to Mrs. Boley, who 

 has devoted much time and skill to the rearing of our local 

 species. The Eev. F. E. Lowe has also kindly given me a list 

 of those recently captured by himself in Guernsey. 



Other species, no doubt, remain to be discovered, and will 

 reward the diligent collector : and I hope that this paper, by 

 showing what can be done in so small an area, will induce 

 others to collect these beautiful objects, and communicate the 

 result to this Society. 



SPHINGES. 



1. Acherontia Atropos (Death's Head Moth), G., A., and 

 S. Common, in some seasons, rare in others. The larvse were 

 particularly abundant on the potato plants in 1868. 



2. Sphinx Convolvuli (Convolvulus Hawk Moth), G., A., 

 and S. Very common in some seasons, in others scarcely one 

 to be seen. In 1868 and 1875 they were particularly abundant. 

 A larva of this species taken in Alderney was forwarded by me 

 to the late E. Newman who described it in the Entomologist 

 for November 1874, page 272. 



3. Sphinx Ligustri (Privet Hawk Moth), G. and S. ' Not 

 common. 



4. Deilephila Euphorbise (Spurge Hawk), G. and A. The 

 wSplendid larvse of this species were formerly to be found in 

 plenty on the sea spurge growing near l'Ancresse Bay ; but 

 greedy collectors have long since exterminated them. " One 

 solitary wing found on a common in Alderney, July 

 9th, 1860." Eev. F. A. Walker, in the Entomologist, Vol 



