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BRITISH LEPIDOPTERAt 



and western parts of the British Islands. The male flies rapidly in the 

 hot sunshine, usually high up (often too high to reach) over the trees and 

 underwood. Bower has, however, found it flying at " sunset," both at 

 Lyndhurst and Chattenden. The female is usually sluggish, and drops 

 like a small lump of clay to the ground from the trees or bushes in 

 which it hides, when one is beating, but Bower has seen the female 

 flying in the afternoon. Horton obtained the species by kicking 

 against the stems of young oaks, in a part free from underwood, and 

 watched the moths half falling and half flying as they were disturbed 

 from the tree-tops ; and James has beaten the imago from hazel. 

 Jones, Fenn, and others, have found the insects in cop. during the 

 day, on grass culms. Bloomfield has caught the species by " dusking," 

 and Burrows on sugared trees (not at the sugar) as late as 11 p.m. 

 Dillon also captured three specimens (2 2 and 1 $ ) flying at dusk, 

 at Clonbrock, and Lowe took specimens at Aigle, at light. Holland 

 has made satisfactory use of a beating-tray for their capture, as 

 many as seven specimens (of both sexes) having fallen victims on 

 June 21st, 1891, at Aldermaston, to this mode of capture. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. The imagines appear during June and 

 July, from larvae that feed up the preceding August-October, and lie 

 in their cocoons all winter and pupate in May. Burrows gives Sep- 

 tember 14th-0ctober 9th, 1897, for full-fed larvae at Ipswich ; Cross 

 notes September 9th, 13th, 20th, 1897, from oak, and October 8th, 

 1897, from beech, in the New Forest ; October 6th, 1860, from oak, at 

 Lower Wick (Horton), Sept. 4th, 1897, at Westerham (Turner), etc. 

 Imagines have been recorded as occurring on July 1st, 1857, at Faver- 

 sham (Stowell), July 7th, 1856, at Shooter's Hill Woods (Crewe), June 

 7th, 1857, at West Wickham(Healy), June 27th, 1858, August 5th 1860, 

 atDarenth, June 12th, 1865, atBlean Woods, and July 14th, 1878, at 

 Chattenden (A. H. Jones), June 26th, 1859, at Worcester (Edmunds), 

 June 23rd, 1860, June 16th, 22nd, 1862, June 7th, 1865, at 

 Darenth, June llth, 1865, at Blean Woods, June 21st, 1875, at 

 Sidcup, June 20th, 1885, June 30th, 1886, June 17th, 1893, at Chat- 

 tenden, and bred eight from June 13th-27th, 1893, from Chattenden 

 (Fenn), several beaten June, I860, at Darenth (Rye), July 5th, 1863, 

 in cop., at Lower Wick (Horton), June 10th, 1865, at West Wickham 

 (Cole), June 27th, 1863, July 12th, 1869, at Guestling, by dusking 

 (Bloomfield), 1st week of August, 1877, in New Forest (Porritt), 

 June 20th-July 4th, 1875, at Lyndhurst, June 18th, 1888, June 30th, 

 1893, at Chattenden (Bower), July 9th, 1876, at Trench Woods 

 (Blatch), June 9th, 1876, at Heckfield, June 21st, 1891, at Alder- 

 maston, June 20th, 1892, at Padworth, June 7th, 1893, in Pamber 

 Forest, June 18th, 1893, at Burghfield (Holland), July 9th, 1881, at 

 Chattenden, June 22nd, 1883, nr. Ipswich .(Mera), July 10th, 1891, 

 July 8th, 1892, at Eomsey (Kaye), June 12th 1891, at Abbott's 

 Wood (W. E. Nicholson), June 22nd, 1892, May 31st, 1893, at Ems- 

 worth (Christy), June 7th, 14th, 1894, at Hailsham, beaten from 

 hazel (James), June 14th, 1895, in cop., at Ipswich (Baylis), June 

 12th, 1894, at Abbott's Wood (Lowe), July lst-4th, 1895, several in 

 New Forest (Bayne), June 10th, 1895, June 10th, 1896, at Bentley 

 Woods, nr. Ipswich (Morley), June 27th, 1897, at Tilgate (Sheldon), 

 June 28th-July 16th, 1897, nr. Ipswich, two on sugared trees at 

 11 p.m. (Burrows), August 1st, 1897, at Hazeleigh Wood, worn, 



