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or sixteen years since in a garden at Norwich, and were kept 

 until they changed to pupae ; but unfortunately, in that state 

 their metamorphosis ended. One of these pupiii I have in my 

 collection. Of late, however, the perfect insect has occurred 

 more than once, and in totally different parts of the country. 

 Three specimens, as I am informed by the Rev. F. W. Hope, 

 were taken near Oxford several years ago. In August, 1826, 

 an injured one was found resting on a wall near Birmingham ; 

 and last summer a second was secured not far distant from the 

 same locality ; the latter I have in my possession. Again, 

 Mr. Marshall informed me in March last, that, on his way to 

 Manchester, he met with an individual who possessed upwards 

 of a dozen living pupit, which were procured from larva: found 

 in that neighbourhood during last season." 



Humphrey and Westwood mention a specimen taken in 

 Ih-ighton in 1834, and in 1846 eight moths were obtained. 

 Something like one hundred and twenty-five specimens of this 

 species have been recorded between the year last quoted and 

 the present time. Of these only one occurred in Ireland. This 

 was a specimen taken at light on September 17, 1881, at 

 Mullaghmore, County Sligo. Several were captured in Scotland, 

 and one in Wales ; but the bulk were obtained at various places 

 in England, not in the south only but in the north also. The 

 majority were met with in the autumn, but a specimen was 

 reported as taken in May, 1848, at Harlestone, another in 

 March, 1862, at Tooting, and a third in the Isle of Anglesea, 

 July, 1865. In the last-named year nine specimens were captured 

 in the autumn. Doubleday recorded a caterpillar found in a 

 garden at Epping (October, 1867), and other caterpillars have 

 been reported from Newmarket and Sussex. 



At least one example of the moth has been recorded almost 

 annually since 1846, but captures seem to have been more 

 numerous in 1861, 1866, 1870, 1879, 1881, and especially so in 

 1885. The caterpillar (figured on Plate i) varies in ground 



