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beaten out of a hedge, at Lewisham (Stainton) ; beginning of July at 

 Almondsbury (Hill) ; ten specimens on boles of oak and fir in July, 

 1856, at Bowdon, and bred some 30 examples at the end of June and 

 during early July, 1860 (Edleston) ; June 22nd, 1856, at Darenth 

 (Miller) ; June 27th, 1857, at Alkham (Beale) ; June 19th and 21st, 

 1897, at Bexley (Bower). Wood notes that the best catch he ever 

 made was in 1894, when he collected, between July 3rd and 19th, nine 

 cases from an open flight of palings and from these eight moths emerged 

 the following year, between the end of May and the first week of June. 

 He further states that he has only once captured the imago at large, 

 and that it was then on the wing, in the afternoon of June 27th, 1892 ; 

 a case on May 18th, 1868, imagines on July 2nd, 1872, and June 8th, 

 1877, at Witherslack (Hodgkinson) ; a larva on April 30th, 1878, at 

 "Witherslack, emerged on June 20th (Threlfall) . Larvae, found in 

 August, 1855, at Exeter (Parfitt) ; and in September, 1855, at Stockton 

 (Scott); July 13th, 1888, June 10th, 1893, July 4th, 1894, June 25th, 

 1897, in the Isle of Purbeck (Bankes) ; June 24th, 1892, in Purbeck 

 (Digby) ; June 8th, 1865, June 24th, 1870, June 22nd, 1875, at 

 Glanvilles Wootton (Dale) ; July 10th-27th, 1892, at Aldeburgh (Crutt- 

 well) ; bred June 22nd, 1899, larva from Sandown, I. of W. (Chapman) ; 

 imagines emerged June 7th, 13th, 14th, and 24th, 1897, from cases 

 sent by Salvage from Deny (Durrant). The imago flies in June in 

 the neighbourhood of Glogau, and cases may be found spun up the 

 preceding May on old walls and tree-trunks (Zeller) ; June 22nd, 1859, 

 at Gross Glogau, June 27th, 1875, at Bergiin (Zeller coll.). April 

 20fch, at St. Florent (Sand) ; a large case taken in the autumn, at 

 Hilversum, the imago emerged July 21st, (Snellen) ; June 27th, 1866, 

 July 4th, 1867, are mentioned as dates of capture at Pichtendahl, by 

 Nolcken. Sorhagen notes May for the larva, June and commencement 

 of July for the imago, at Brandenburg ; Peyerimhoff also gives June 

 to the end of July, in Alsace. Mann found the species at Brussa, in 

 May, 1851, and captured a single specimen at Amasia on May 3rd, 

 1860. Bang-Haas says that although the larvae are full-fed in July 

 the imagines do not emerge until the following June. Heylaerts bred 

 24 imagines between July llth-19th, 1890. 



Habits and Habitat. — Stainton has captured the imago flying 

 along hedges between 7-8 p.m., at Lewisham, and also beaten them 

 out of b edges at the same hour. Edleston found imagines at rest on 

 the boles of oak and fir, at Bowdon, and Hill notes them as flying in 

 the evening along hedgerows in dry pastures, at Almondsbury. 

 Bankes beat them out of a hedge composed of living and dead wood and 

 old gorse bushes, during the daytime, and others flying naturally, about 

 7.30p.m., in the Isle of Purbeck, whilst Bower captured the species flying 

 along a hedge-bottom in the morning sun, at Bexley, and another at 

 rest on a fence two days later. Two larvae were found by Fletcher on 

 a gatepost, on a bank parting the fields from the saltmarshes, at 

 commencement of July, 1898, at Hay ling, and were then full-fed ; 

 Sang found two larvae on a tree-trunk, at Baydale, near Darlington ; 

 and Gregson has taken them on old posts at Simonswood moss. 

 Digby says that the imago is readily recognised when captured by the 

 odd way it has of buzzing head downwards at the bottom of the net. 

 Hodgkinson netted two males flying softly under a shady nut-bush, at 

 Witherslack, in the early morning. Cruttwell observed the species 



