Itateal Si;st0riJ 
A Few Notes on Local Lepidoptera. 
W E find but few additional local records of the capture 
of Lepidoptera, rare or new to the district, since the 
publication of Mr. George Harding’s Additions and Cor- 
rections to Mr. Hudd’s Local List,” which appeared in the 
Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society (vol. viii., 
part i.), bringing down our list to the end of 1895. 
Amongst the Butterflies, several specimens of Vanessa c. 
album were observed by Mr. A. E. Hudd in his garden at 
Clifton in 1901, whilst it seems worthy of mention that 
Vanessa io has been more abundant in the neighbourhood 
during the present unfavourable season (1902) than in many 
recent years. Lyccena argiolus has occurred in fair numbers 
each year amongst holly trees in Clifton. 
Sphinx convolvuli occurred in the neighbourhood of 
Bristol in some numbers in 1901, and a pupa of this species 
was found in a potato field at Kingsweston, and passed 
into the possession of Mr. W. N. Cooper, of Westbury-on- 
Trym, who, however, failed to rear the moth. The larva 
had no doubt fed up upon ground-convolvulus growing in 
the field. 
Sphinx ligustri larvae have been more than usually 
abundant in Clifton during 1902, though, like most other 
. 69 
