Wood, Hants ; the Rev. G. H. Raynor, one at Cherrv-Hinton, 

 Cambs., in 1875 ; and in 1885 a few more were recorded as having 

 been taken on hawthorn, in Warwickshire. Mr. J. F. Green 

 records that on the night of August 3rd, 1899, a male flew to light 

 in a bed-room in a house that he had at Sandgate ; and Mr. S. G. 

 Hills, that he reared a fine male from a larva inadvertantly brought 

 in on some hawthorn gathered in the Warren at Folkestone, in the 

 same year. Mr. B. W. Adkin has a series received from a corres- 

 pondent at Malvern, Worcestershire, who says he bred them from 

 wild larva? taken on the hedges of the neighbourhood in 1907, but 

 that he has not come across any larvn? since then. 



But the most interesting and circumstantial account of any recent 

 captures is that given me by Mr. H. A. Leeds, who informs me that 

 one evening early in August, 1907, when collecting in Huntingdon- 

 shire, he noticed, while it was still daylight, a female (h disjiar 

 clinging to a twig of a blackthorn hedge. The moth was boxed 

 and on the box being examined on the following morning it was 

 found that a number of ova had been deposited, from which a 

 small brood was ultimately reared. He further informs me that 

 in previous years he had taken some three or four male imagines in 

 the same locality. The lane where these moths wore taken is some 

 four miles or so from the celebrated " Monk's Wood," and is 

 bordered on the one hand by old timbered wood-lands and on the 

 other by hedges dividing it from rough fields and pasture lands, and 

 although the district cannot be said to be in the fens it is only about 

 a mile from them and on a somewhat higher level, but it is not 

 infrequently under water, especially in winter. The older records 

 of the species pretty generally give fen-country as its habitat, and 

 from the description of Mr. Leed's locality one would imagine that 

 it might be a likely one to find it in, but unfortunately he has only 

 once since 1907 been able to make a further and then unsuccessful 

 search. 



Then there is the female that I found at rest on the trunk of an 

 elm tree at Eastbourne, on the 30th August, 1909. It w^as an 

 unusually large specimen, and although in fairly good condition 

 externally and apparently full of eggs, it seemed to be so utterly 

 worn out that my most careful attentions for several days failed to 

 induce it to part with them. 



On the continent of Europe (K dispar is pretty generally 

 distributed and is, as a rule, a common species. In America, where 

 it was accidently introduced, it has become disastrously abundant 

 in many districts ; in fact its geographical range extends over 

 practically the whole of the Pahearctic region, and the species appears 

 to have the power of becoming locally very abundant, tor, it ixiay be, 

 a short or more extended period without, so far as we know, any 

 particular reason, but no doubt in response to some special conditions 

 that are beyond our present knowledge. So far as concerns 

 Britain, the question whether this or that particular specimen or 



