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localities in the south of luiuiancl, where perhaps it is 

 chiefl}' to be found. In Wales, Scotland, and Ireland it 

 does not appear to have been observed. Localities or 

 records that have come under my notice are : Hauip- 

 sliirc : Woolmer Forest and Hartley \Vintle\' (W. H. 

 Bath, in "Naturalists' Gazette," 1891). Berkshire: 

 Wellington College : J. E. Tarbat) ; Bulmershe Park, 

 near Reading (A. H. Hammi. Surrey: Esher Common, 

 near Byfleet, and Ockham Common (W. J. L.) ; Bookham 

 (C. A. Briggs). Essex: Epping district fH- Double- 

 day). In W. H. Bath's " Handbook " there is a long 

 list of localities, but he does not sa\- who is his authority 

 for them. They are : Epping Forest, Godalming, Wood- 

 ford in Essex, Hampstead, New Forest, Woolmer 

 Forest, Malvern, Starston and Costesse\' Woods in 

 Norfolk, Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, Windermere, 

 near Wisbeach, Pennington Common in Hants, Stafford- 

 shire, and Bishop's Auckland in Durham. It will be 

 noticed that some of these are in the north of England. 



15. Oxygastra curtisii. Dale. 



(Plate IX.) 

 Synonymy. 



Cordiilia eurtisii. Dale Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. 60 

 ('1834) ; Curt. Brit. Pint, xiii., t. 616 (1836) ; Steph. Illustr. 

 Brit. Ent. Mand. vi. 90 (1836); Selys Mon. Lib. Eur. 6^6 

 (1840); Evans Br. Lib. 24, pi. xv. f. 2-3 (1845); Selys 

 Rev. Odon. 77 (1850) ; Hag. Ent. Ann. 49 (1857) ; 

 McLach. Cat. Brit. Neur. 13 (1870) ; Oxygastra curtisii, 

 Selys Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xxxi. 306 (1871); Kirby Syn 



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