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It is recorded by Gravenhorst from Netley in Shropshire and is not at 

 all uncommon througliout the Continent, where Brischke has bred it 

 from Tapinostola elymi in Prussia and Holmgren took it commonly on 

 umbelliferous flowers in Sweden ; the former says the cocoon is cylindri- 

 cal and dull red-brown. Buckler says it has been raised in Britain from 

 Trochilium ciiUciforme. 



In Britain it is very common throughout the months of July and 

 August, being first found in my experience on the second of July on the 

 late flowers of ChacrophyUum temiilum, later on Heracleum sphondvliuvi, in 

 August on those of Foeniciihim viilgare and finally on Angelica sylvestris ; 

 in September it is rare and I have but twice found it during that month, 

 the latest observation being on the 14th in the coast salt-marshes, where 

 its emergence may be supposed to be somewhat retarded by its situation. 

 It is, too, often taken by sweeping herbage, oats, bracken, water- weeds 

 and reeds ; and I once took the female at artificial light indoors at the 

 end of August ; the males have occurred to me at the roots of grass on 

 the sea-cliff's in the same month, though what it mainly preys upon in 

 Britain we do not yet know. All the local lists contain it and it has been 

 recorded from Essex and Hastings (Vict. Hist.) ; as very common in Nor- 

 folk (Bridgman) ; Bickleigh and O re ston Quarry (Bignell) ; Lands End 

 (JMarquand) ; and Holgate, in Yorks (Wilson). I have seen specimens 

 from Bulwell Forest, Notts. (Carr) ; Shotover, near Oxford (Hamm) ; 

 Edinburgh, Kirknewton and Comiston (Evans) ; Orton, near Carlisle 

 (Day) ; and Kings Lynn (Atmore). And possess others from Thornwick 

 Bay, near Flamborough (Elliott); Ravenscar (Bingham) ; Shere (Capron) ; 

 Rookley Wilderness, in Isle of Wight (INIorey) ; Giftnock (Dalglish) ; 

 Dover (Sladen) ; Greenings, in Surrey (W. Saunders) ; Feldon (Piffard) ; 

 Coulsdon (Bedwell) ; Norbury and Hunstanton (Brunetti) ; Brockenhurst 

 (Cross) ; Whitby and Cosham (Beaumont) ; Bewdley (W. Ellis) ; Ashby, 

 Lines. (Thornley) ; Bury, 'Postock and Bungay (Tuck) ; West Runton, 

 Norfolk (Wainwright) ; Dorking (Butler) ; and Lyndhurst (Adams). In 

 Suflblk, it has occurred to mc at Clopton, Ijjswich, I'uddenham Fen, 

 Barnby Broad, Reydon, Debenham, Dodnash, Soutliwold, Henley, Monks' 

 Soham, Henstead, Bramfc^rd, Dunwich. Foxhall, Juist Bridge, Brandon, 

 Marlesford, and l^arton .Mills. Elsewhere, I have found it at Gedney, in 

 Lines.; Hunstanton, Ringsfield, Docking and Cromer, in Norfolk; 

 Oxshott in Surrey; Huntingfield and Doddington, in Kent, and Lynd- 

 hurst, in Hants, 



