186 Rev. G. A. Crawshay on the 
CAPTURE AND DistriBpuTION.—In England 7. gabrieli 
has occurred as follows :— 
Near Bletchworth, Surrey, H. Saunders 1901 
Esher, Surrey, G. E. Bryant 1902 
Near Leicester, F. Bouskell 1903* 
King’s Lynn, EK. A. Atmore 1903 
Brockenhurst, M. A. Sharp 1903 
Leighton Buzzard, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1905+ 
Elsfield, Oxon., J. J. Walker 1905 
Sandy, Beds, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1905 
Brockenhurst, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1905 
Fenny Stratford, Bucks, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1905} 
Kings Langley, Herts, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1906 
Enfield, Surrey, C. T. C. Pool 1906 
Near Romsey, Hants, Rev. G. A. Crawshay 1906 
Reading District, Dr. Norman Joy 1906 
Mr. G. C. Champion has communicated specimens taken 
by himself in 1899, “Simplon, Switzerland”; and another 
labelled : “ Mendel Pass, Austr. Tyrol, R.W.L., 1896.” 
The insect will doubtless occur in older collections 
confused with 7. luridum. 
I first saw 7. gabrieli, var. b, at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, 
on May 25th, 1905, a single example crawling outside a timber-yard. 
On searching the yard on the following day I observed a second 
example on the wing. It settled on a log of ash and I secured it. I 
then traced these specimens to a log of Larix ewropea which had 
been felled in a neighbouring plantation the year before and now 
lay in the timber-yard. 
In the bark lay a considerable number of imagines and a few 
pup. No larve occurred, and subsequent search only revealed two 
backward ones in the whole log. I had all the bark stripped off 
and portions of it laid in boxes covered with perforated zine and 
partly also with glass, that I might observe the insects. 
A good number soon emerged, about 180 in all, including those I 
had taken in the timber-yard. They paired readily. On the chance 
of getting them to oviposit, and, in order to secure the breed, I had 
* The earliest occurrence, in England, of the species, type form, 
in the tree. 
+ The earliest occurrence, in England, of var. b in the tree. 
{ An abnormally large tree, from which I estimate some 6000 or 
7000 individuals must have been reared. 
