THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
155 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
A list of Lepidoptera occurring in 
the neighbourhood of Plymouth. By 
J. S. Dell, Esq. 
Sphingina. 
The list of Sphingina, that occur 
in this district, stands pretty fairly, 
as regards numbers : still if the 
County had been included, it would 
have been further augmented by the 
names of T. Formicceformis, C. Nerii, 
and Celerio and D. Euphorbice ; but, as 
I have only to do with this district, 
they must, of necessity, be omitted ; 
as they do not, so far as I can ascer- 
tain, occur here. Our local list com- 
prises the following : — 
P. Statices. Not rare, taken at South- 
down in June. 
A. Trifolii. Rare, one on the bank of 
the East Cornwall Railway in 
July. 
A. Lonicerce. Not common, place 
and time same as above. 
A. Filipendulce. Yery common in 
July, hanging, as it were in 
bunches, from the stems of bur- 
net and narrow plaintain, on the 
high hedges near St. Germans. 
Took one orange instead of red. 
S. Ocellatus. Not rare, taken mostly 
at light. Larva on sallow in 
August. 
S. Him. Rare, the Larva, taken on 
Wych Elm in September. 
S. Populi. Commoner than the above. 
Larva on both the Aspen and 
Lombardy Poplar. 
A. Atropos. At times very common 
in the Larve state. They were 
so in ’59, amongst the potatoe 
stalks ; and also several Imagos, 
one in the shed of the Devonport 
Railway Station, and one on the 
sail of a river barge. I do not 
find the Larva easy to rear 
through the winter. 
S. Convolvuli. Not at all common. 
Two have been taken here in 
the same way as recorded in No. 
16 of the “Entomologist” viz — 
on clothes hung out to dry, and 
also flying to flowers of J asinine, 
Yerbena and Petunia. 
S. Ligustri. Yery common, more so 
in the larva state in 1858 and 9. 
The Lauristinus shrubs growing 
in the church-yard at Stoke, 
literally swarmed with them. 
They have been scarce since. 
I). Galii. The Larva frequently 
found on Galium. One imago 
taken in a Greenhouse at Mount- 
wise Mountwise. 
D. Livornica. Taken several times 
here, twice flying to the White 
Lily in a garden. 
C. Elpenor. Rather common, mostly 
in the Larva state, although I 
have many times seen them on 
the wing at different flowers. 
The Larva mostly feeds on Epil- 
obium and Galium Mollugo. I 
once took five Larvae, feeding 
on one small bush of Fuschia. 
