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captured it from July lst-8th. Eversmann gives July and August 

 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 Dactylis, and a plant of 

 Carex. 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, 18G6, at Haslemere, and May, 1860, at 

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

 West Wiekham ; 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 middle 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 12th-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 (fleid). Berks : Calcot 

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

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

 (Richardson). Cheshire : Bromborough 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), Repton (Spilsbury). Devon: North 

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

 Durham : 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 Wiekham, 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 

 Cary (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): Calthella 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 Eatisbon (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). 



