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THERE has been a letter or two in recent numbers of NATURE on the finding of rare moths in England. It may be of interest to the writers to know that in the middle of last September there was caught in the town of Sligo a specimen of the striped hawk-moth. It was captured in the printings office of the Sligo Independent, its great bulk first attracting attention and then its beautiful markings. I know but very little about insects, the honey bee excepted, but I carefully compared the living object with a description and coloured plate in a work on Lepidoptera, and have no doubt but that it was the very thing your correspondents are making so much ado about. It is now preserved in a little collection of Mr. Irvine (Ratcliffe Street), but the gorgeous colouring has all gone, and the striping is barely traceable. I have been told that another exactly similar moth was found last year a few miles from Sligo along the sea coast.
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MEEHAN, J. Striped Hawk-moths in Sligo. Nature 70, 628 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070628a0
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