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The Convolvulus Hawk-moth

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I REGRET that I must ask leave to correct a statement in my letter on this moth in NATURE of September 27. I find that it was not in the present year, but in 1902, that the lady counted seven convolvulus hawk-moths, flying about the tobacco plants in her garden.

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MAXWELL, H. The Convolvulus Hawk-moth. Nature 100, 85 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100085c0

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