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HITHERTO Sphinx convolvuli has been reckoned one of the rarer insects in Scotland. In the last fifty years I know of only two authentic records of its occurrence in Wigtownshire; but this autumn it is abundant. One came into my house on September 7; a correspondent in Perth, a well-known entomologist, tells me that he has examined eight specimens taken in that neighbourhood, and a lady in this county, also a trustworthy observer, counted seven of these fine insects hovering round tobacco plants in her garden and darting their long probosces into the flowers. It is difficult to imagine the cause of the appearance of these moths in such numbers after many years of absence.
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MAXWELL, H. The Convolvulus Hawk-moth. Nature 100, 66 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100066b0
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