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captured it from July lst-8th. Evcrsmann gives July and Angus! 

 for the Ural district (a record that Zeller considers to be erroneous). 

 In the southern counties of England, it is usually out in early May 

 Stainton bred a specimen on April 13th, 1855, in a tin in which were 

 only a piece of decayed wood, a plant of Dactijlia, and a plant of 

 Carcx. Actual dates of the occurrence of the species are as follows : 

 May 22nd, 1890. at Calcot (Robertson) ; May 19th. 1888 and April 29th. 1893. 

 at Chattenden (Tutt) ; May 18th-31st, 18(56, at Haslemere. and May, 1800, at 

 Powerscourt (Barrett) ; May 21st. 1893. nr. Southend (Whittle) ; June 2nd, 1887, at 

 West Wickham ; June 4th, 1887, at Eltham ; May 28th, 1890. at High Force ; June 

 1st, 1891, May 17th, 1892, at Bexley ; June 5th, 1891. at Greenhithe ; July 2'Jth, 

 1892, at Sanderstead (Bower). The time of appearance varies according to the 

 season from the middle of May to middla of June in Yorkshire, taken May 4th, 

 1890; June 12th, 1891 ; May 19th, 1893. at Wheatley Wood, and May 20th, 1897, 

 at Cusworth (Corbett) ; May 12th-15th, 1881 ; May 13th-18th. 1882 ; May 10th- 

 16th, 1883 ; May 6th-21st, 1884 ; May 10th-16th, 1885 ; May 12th-16th, 1886 ; 

 May 9th-20th, 1887 ; May 14th-20th, 1888 ; May 13th-23rd, 1889 ; May 12th-18th, 

 1890; May 16th-26th, 1891; May 15th-24th, 1892; May 12th-23rd. 1893; May 

 13th-26th, 1894; May 14th-26th, 1895; May l'2th-24th, 1896; May 16th-18th, 

 1897, at King's Lynn (E. A. Atmore) : May 5th, 1890. at Bloxworth (Cambridge) ; 

 June 27th, 1895, at Corstorphine Hill ; and July 5th, 1895, at Ormiston, E. Lothian 

 (Evans) ; May 16th, 1876, at Preston and June 16th, 1877, at Windermere 

 (Threlfall) ; May 22nd, 1888, May 12th, 1890, June 2nd, 1891, at Merton (Durrant). 

 LOCALITIES. ABERDEEN : near Ben-na-chie (Reid). BERKS : Calcot 

 (Robertson), Reading (Hamm), Tilehurst and Pangbourne (Holland). CAMBRIDGE : 

 Cambridge (Stainton), Wicken Fen (Farren). CARMARTHEN : Llangennech 



! Richardson). CHESHIRE : Brom borough Wood (Ellis), Dunham Park and Knutsford 

 Chappell), Patrick Wood, near Bromborough and New Brighton (Gregson). 

 CUMBERLAND : Lake District {Stainton), Carlisle (Wilkinson), Hayton Moss 

 (Routledge). DERBY : Burton-on-Trent (Harris), llepton (Spilsbury). DEVON : North 

 Devon (South). DORSET : Purbeck, Portland (Richardson). Bloxworth (Cambridge). 

 DORHAM : Darlington (Stainton), High Force (Bower), Hesleden Dene (Gardner). 

 EDINBURGH : Corstorphine Hill (Evans). ESSEX : near Southend (Whittle). 

 GLOUCESTER: near Bristol (Mason). HADDINGTON: Ormiston (Evans). HANTS: 

 Pamber Forest (Holland), northern part of county included in Reading district 

 (Hamm). HEREFORD: Tarrington (Wood), Leominster (Hutchinson), Hereford 

 (Chapman). KENT: Alkham and Tenterden (Stainton), Cuxton and Chattenden 

 (Tutt), West Wickham, Eltham,Bexley and Greenhithe (Bower), Pembury (Stainton). 

 LANCASHIRE : Manchester (Chappell), Childwall (Gregson), Grange and Preston 

 (Threlfall), Otterspool, near Liverpool (Ellis), Withington (Chappell), Warrington 

 ( Cooke). LEICESTER; Market Harboro' (Matthews). MIDDLESEX; Kingsbury (Stain- 

 ton). NORFOLK : King's Lynn, Merton and Norwich (Atmore). NORTHUMBERLAND: 

 Newcastle (Stainton), Morpeth and Old Park, Netherwitton (Finlay). OXON : Part of 

 county within Reading district (Hamm), Warren (Holland). SOMERSET: Castle 

 Ciiry (Macmillan), Portishead (Mason). SUFFOLK; Blaxhall (Harker). SURREY: 

 Haslemere (Barrett), Sanderstead (Bower). SUSSEX: Lewes (Stainton), Worthing 

 (Fletcher), Hastings and St. Leonards (Bloomfield), Abbotts Wood, Chailey and 

 Tilgate Forest (Vine). WESTMORLAND : Windermere (Threlfall). WICKLOW : 

 Powerscourt (Barrett), Wicklow Mountains (Birchall). YORKSHIRE : Scarborough 

 (Stainton), Doncaster (Warren), Huddersfield (Inchbald), Mickley, near Ripon 

 (Porritt), Richmond (Sang), Wheatley Wood and Cusworth (Corbett). Bingley 

 (Butterfield). ORKNEY ISLANDS : (McArthur). 



DISTRIBUTION'. Linne gives Sweden. Zeller says (Linn. Ent., 

 v., p. 324) : Caltltella occurs everywhere in Europe in Italy and 

 Sicily, at Syracuse (var. b) ; in Tuscany, near Pisa (Mann) ; in France 

 (Duponchel) ; in England (Stainton) ; Sweden, as far as Lapland 

 (Zetterstedt) ; in Finland (Tengstrom) ; in Volga District, Kasan (Evers- 

 mann) ; Silesia, at Ratisbon (Zeller) ; Higher Swiss Alps (Frey). 

 Staudinger and Wocke give : Central and Northern Europe (except 

 Polar regions) ; Dalmatia ; Central and Northern Italy ; Sicily and 

 Corsica. Meyrick writes : Britain, extending to Sutherland ; North 

 and East Ireland (very common) ; Europe (except the south-west). 



