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LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OP LANCASHIRE 

 AND CHESHIRE. 



JOHN W. ELLIS, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.E., 



Liverpool; Honorary Secretary, Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



PAET II :-SPHIHGES. 



(Read before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, June 29th, 1885.) 



Since the list of Rhopalocera was published (Naturalist, February 

 and March 1885), Mr. Alfred O. AValker has contributed to the 

 Chester Society of Natural Science a list, with localities, of the 

 macro-lepidoptera of his district. From this paper, a copy of which 

 he has kindly sent me, I have extracted the localities to which his 

 initials are appended. 



SPHINGES. 



Fam. SPHINGIDsE. 

 ACHERONTIA, Hub.. 



Acherontia atropos, L. Of frequent occurrence in both counties. 

 I have records of its occurrence in the following localities : — 



Lane. — Blackpool, common in 1868 (J. Thorpe, Ent., v, 143); 

 Bootle (C.S.G.) ; Bolton, occasionally (W.J.); Formby, where 

 the late Thomas West of Liverpool procured the larvae in plenty 

 from the labourers in potato fields; Hale (S.J.C., C.S.G.) ; Leigh, 

 common (Intell., 1859, ii, 27); Elliott Street, Liverpool, in 

 October 1884 (B. Cooke, junr., Y.N., November 1884) ; Lytham, 

 common in 1865 (W. Gregson, Ent, ii, 313) ; North Lancashire, 

 generally distributed (J.B.H.); Seaforth, formerly common 

 (W. H. Weightman). 



Ches. — Bidston (C.S.G.) ; Hoylake, common (W.G.) ; Liscard 

 (N.C.); Deiamere, Saughall, Tattenhall, and Upton (A.O.W.); 

 Tranmere (E. D. Fish). 



In the collection of Mr. C. S. Gregson is an interesting aber- 

 ration of this species, in which the dark central band of the 

 hind wing is entirely wanting. The specimen was captured at 

 Blackpool. 



SPHINX, L. 



Sphinx convolvnli, L. Occurs occasionally over both counties. 



Lane. — Broad Green, near Liverpool (S.J.C.); Bury (R. Kay, 

 Ent., ix, 48, and September 1862, by T. Pollitt, Zool., xx, 8204) ; 

 Copley, near Staleybridge in October 1871 (M. Kershaw, Ent, 

 v, 443) ; Droylsden in August 1871 (J. S. White, Ent, v, 411); 

 Fleetwood (S.L.M.); Hale (C.S.G.); Manchester (F. Kenderdine, 



Naturalist, 



