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A. E. GIBBS—LEPIDOPTEEA OF ST. ALBANS. 
in return for the nectar it derives from the blossom performs the 
all-important function of conveying pollen from flower to flower 
to set the seed. If a moth taken feeding in this way he examined 
it will most probably be found to wear a collar of white or golden 
yellow pollen, some of which it would have left upon the 
stigma of the next flower it visited. The honeysuckle is said 
to be specially attractive to the swift-moving humming-bird hawk- 
moth (Macroglossa stellatarum), whose long tongue can reach the 
nectar at the bottom of the deep corolla tube, but my experience 
is that this insect will by preference visit other blossoms in the 
garden border, such as the wallflower, hovering for a moment over 
the blossom to extract the sweet juices and then darting away 
suddenly to some other plant. I should like to know what the 
experience of other collectors is with regard to this. In 1887 the 
convolvulus hawk-moth (Sphinx convolvuli) was rather abundant in 
the neighbourhood of St. Albans, and in 1888 I had a more than 
usual number of lime hawks (S. tilice) brought to me. 
Nocturni. 
Smerinthus 
ocellatus 
tilise 
populi 
Sphinx 
convolvuli 
Chaerocampa 
elpenor (larva) 
Macroglossa 
stellatarum 
Zeuzera 
sesculi 
Hepialus 
velleda 
hectus 
humuli 
lupulinus 
Cerura 
vincula 
Zygsena 
tilipendulse 
Chelonia 
caja 
Arctia 
menthastri 
Trichiura 
cratsegi 
Bombyx 
quercus 
Odonestris 
potatoria 
Geometrina. 
Eumia 
cratsegata 
Yenilia 
maculata 
Eurymene 
dolobraria 
Selenia 
illunaria 
Crocallis 
Odontopera 
bidentata 
Himera 
pennaria 
Ennomos 
fuscantaria 
Pliigalia 
pilosaria 
Amphidasis 
prodromaria 
betularia 
Boarmia 
repandata 
rhomboidaria 
Hemeropbila 
abruptaria 
Astbena 
luteata 
can didata 
Acidalia 
remutata 
Cabera 
pusaria 
Abraxas 
grossulariata 
Lomaspilis 
marginata 
Hybernia 
rupicapraria 
Anisopteryx 
sescularia 
Cbeimatobia 
brumata 
Oporabia 
dilutata 
Larentia 
multistrigaria 
Eupitbecia 
castigata 
venosata 
rectangulata 
absyntbiata 
vulgata 
Melantbia 
albicillata 
Thera 
variata 
Melanippe 
rivata 
montanata 
fluctuata 
Anticlea 
badiata 
derivata 
Coremia 
ferrugata 
Camptogramma 
bilineata 
Eucosmia 
cirtata 
Cidaria 
xniata 
corylata 
suft'umata 
Eubolia 
cervinata 
Anaitis 
Pseudo - Bombyces. 
Cilix 
spinula 
