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The earlier writers refer to it merely as a rare species. 

 Haworth certainly knew of several British examples. 

 Mr. C. W. Dale has, in the collection made by his late 

 father, a specimen captured at Doveridge, Dorset, in the 

 year 1740. One was taken at Arundel, Sussex, in 1838, in 

 a bottle of beer and sugar intended for the capture of 

 wasps. In 1842 Mr. S. Stevens took one at sugar in his 

 garden at Hammersmith. Up to 1846 three had been 

 recorded in Lancashire ; in that year one was obtained at 

 Yarmouth, Norfolk ; one at Bath, Somerset, in 1850 ; one at 

 Hull, Yorkshire, in 1858 ; one in the Isle of Wight in 1866 ; 

 others at Ipswich and Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and in Cheshire, in 

 1868 ; at Eastbourne and Brighton, Sussex, in 1869 ; in 1870 

 one at rest upon an ash-tree in Regent's Park, London, in 

 the daytime, and another in 1872, in which year specimens 

 were taken at Shrewsbury, at Wisbech, Norfolk, at Bourn, 

 Lincolnshire, and three at Ipswich. For some time after 

 this year the species seems not to have been represented, but 

 in 1880 it was taken in Somerset; after another interval at 

 Winchelsea, Sussex, and in Kent in 1889; in North Devon 

 in 1895, in which year also specimens were obtained near 

 Hastings, Sussex, and at Folkestone, Kent ; at Scarborough, 

 Yorkshire, in 1896. Probably these only represent a portion 

 of the captures, since I see that there is one, without date, 

 at Burton-on-Trent, Leicestershire, and that ten in all are 

 recorded from Lancashire, four from Yorkshire, and four 

 from Cheshire. Of the older captures, two beautiful speci- 

 mens may be seen at Bethnal Green Museum in the collection 

 of the late Mr. H. Doubleday ; and three in the collection of 

 the late Mr. F. Bond, now in the possession of Mr. Sydney 

 Webb. On the borders of Scotland a specimen was taken in 

 September 1876 at sugar in the Vicarage garden at Berwick- 

 on-Tweed. Farther north, in September 1883, another at 

 sugar on an oak at Tulyallan Woods, Culross, Fife ; and in 

 1896 Mr. Arthur Home obtained a specimen at Aberdeen, 

 and saw another which had been taken in the same year in 



