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dition, hovering over Petunias, about 
dusk, and have seeu two more, but was 
unable to take them. I have also had 
several brought to me. — J. 0. Fison, 
Slolce Hill , Ipswich ; Sept. 3. 
Sphinx Co7ivolvuli. — I have to record 
the capture of a specimen, now in the 
collection of Mr. M. Young, who had it 
brought to him by a boy, who found it 
sitting on a window-sill near Paisley, on 
the 30th of August. — A. Somekville, 
328, Renfrew Street, Glusgoiv ; Sept. 5. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — A fine male spe- 
cimen of this insect was found by my 
little boy, at rest near a bed of Petunias 
in our garden yesterday. — J. North, 
Newsome, near Huddersfield, ; Sept. 5. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I have just taken 
a splendid male specimen of this insect 
hovering over Petunias in the garden. 
Several more have been seen. — Rev. 
H. Harpur Crewe, Breadsall Rectory, 
Derby ; Sept. 6. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I have just had a 
specimen of this insect brought to me, 
which was taken here to-day. — J. E. 
Robson, Hartlepool ; Sept. 8. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I have within the 
last three weeks obtained lour specimens 
of this insect ; one of them, a male, is as 
perfect as any one could wish it to be, 
but the other three are all more or less 
damaged. Three were found in some 
brick-fields, the other on the knocker of 
a door. — R. Eoon, The Fox Inn, Back 
Road, Kinysland ; Sept. 8. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — On Wednesday, 
the 7th inst., a little boy brought to my 
brother, Mr. Harold Smith, a very fine 
specimen of this insect, which he had 
taken on some damp linen that had re- 
mained out all night. — S. W. Smith, jun., 
Beaumont Villa, Northampton ; Sept. 9. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — Since my last 
communication two more specimens of 
this insect have been captured in the 
same garden and on the same plant, both 
in better condition than the first. One 
was taken on the 2nd and the other on 
the 5th of this month. — John C. Gabion, 
Den House, Teignmouth ; Sept. 9. 
Sphinx Convolvuli, SfC . — I captured 
last month about twenty specimens of 
Aculalia Ornala. I found, in Hamp- 
shire, a green larva, inside a bit of furze; 
it had just put out its head and legs to 
feed : it has since fastened its case to the 
top of my breeding-cage. About fifty or 
sixty pupae of Acherontia Atropos have 
been found about Cheltenham, as also 
have three or four of Sphinx Convolvuli, 
in the perfect state, found near lamp- 
posts. — R. E. Trye, Leckhampton Court ; 
Sept. 9. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I have, within 
the last few days, found two pups of this 
insect, and heard of three others being 
found in the neighbourhood. Perhaps 
some of your correspondents could give 
me information as to the best mode of 
treating pups of S. Convolvuli P whether 
the earth in which they are kept should 
be rather moist or covered with cool moss, 
whether they should be buried an inch 
beneath the surface or lying on the lop, 
&c. — John Fryer, jun., Manor House, 
Chatteris ; Sept. 10. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I had the pleasure 
of papturing two specimens of this insect, 
on the 10th inst., in the Museum Gardens. 
— F. J. Wade, 4, Coney Street, York ; 
Sept. 10. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I have just re- 
ceived from a friend a specimen of this 
insect, which was caught, and conse- 
quently rather damaged, by a cat, at Lee, 
in Kent. Pussy exhibited considerable 
instinct iu half-killing it, and then drop- 
ping it at the feet of one of the domestics. 
I think this is the second time a cat has 
turned entomologist. — W. C. Turner, 
33, Bermondsey Square, S.E.; Sept. 10. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — On Saturday I 
had the pleasure of capturing a good 
specimen of this insect, on the side of a 
window, I suppose attracted by the light. 
— C. A. Bird, Hammersmith ; Sept. 10. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — I took a large 
