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1871, just hatched at Sheerness (Mathew) ; June 31st, 1878, at 

 Barmouth, May 29th, 1897, at Oundle (Sheldon) ; May 24th, 1883, at 

 Chiswick, May 21st, 1893, at Colwell Bay (Sich) ; June 20th, 1885, at 

 Abbott's Wood (Hawes); June 15th, 1889, at Herm (Luff); June 11th, 

 1890, at Romford, June 14th, 1890, at Woodham Ferris, June 6th, 

 1894, at Toft, June 6th, 1896, at Beeston (Raynor) ; May 14th, 1890, 

 June 4th, 1894, at Rainham (Burrows) ; June 1st, 1890, full-fed at 

 Reading (Butler) ; May 13th, 1891, May 26th, 1894, at Gloucester 

 (Lifton) ; June 17th, 1891, and on through month at Barmouth 

 (Arkle) ; June 18th, 1891, May 29th, 1895, at Weston-super-Mare 

 (Bartlett) ; May 14th, 1893, already singly, at Oxton (Studd) ; May 

 27th, 1893, at Enniskillen (Partridge) ; June 8th-17th, 1894, in New 

 Forest, June 5th-llth, 1898, at Rhmefields (Wells) ; June 3rd, 1894, 

 July 3rd-16th, 1896, at Bexley, June 1st, 1896, at Chattenden (Bower); 

 July I5th-24th, 1894, at Wicken (Mitchell) ; June 3rd, 1895, at 

 Aylesbury, July 2nd, 1897, full-fed, at Hoddesdon (Bayne); May 25th, 

 1896, in second instar, at "Oxbridge, June 4th, 1898, in second instar, 

 at Ealing, June 15th, 1898, in first instar, at Pevensey (Montgomery); 

 June 5th, 1896, at Waltham Cross (Image) ; May 16th, 1896, in 

 Epping Forest (Tremayne) ; June 8th, 1896, at Benfieet (Mera) ; June 

 8th-14th, 1897, at Epping, May 19th-22nd, 1898, in New Forest 

 (Prout) ; June 11th, 1898, at Norton Malreward (Griffiths). 



Localities. — The limited range of this insect in the British Islands is very 

 remarkable. Not known to occur in Ireland, north of Dublin (Kane), entirely 

 absent in Scotland, abundant in England, as far as the north midland 

 counties, and then suddenly ceases — so rare in Chester that only one was taken at 

 light in two years, yet it abounds in Denbigh and Carnarvon, practically absent in 

 Yorks, yet abundant in Lincolnshire, &c. Beds : Potton (Bond-Smith). 

 Bkkks : generally distributed (Clarke), Pangbourne, Bulmershe (Holland), Reading 

 (Butler). Brecon : Valley of Wye (Jefferys). Bucks : Aylesbury (Bayne), Eton (Studd), 

 Buckingham (Slade). Cajibs : everywhere in the Fen dist. (Balding), Wicken, common 

 (Tutt), Boxworth (Thornhill), "Wisbech (Mousley), Soham, Ely (Bloomfield), 

 Cambridge and district, common (Moss). Carmarthen : Llanstephan, com- 

 mon (Newland), Langharne, very abundant (Jefferys). Carnarvon: Carnarvon, 

 Abersoch, very common (Day), Llanrwst dist. (A. H. Jones). Cheshire : local 

 but tolerably common where it occurs (Ellis), Chester, rare (Newstead), Hoylakc 

 (Johnson), West Kirby (Gregson), Upton Valley (Brockholes). Clare : Ennis 

 (Brakey). Cor.ic : Skibbereen, once only (Wolfe), Glengariff (Kane). Cornwall : 

 west of county (Mera), Looe (Horton), New Quay (Biding), Penzance dist., abundant 

 (Daws). Cumberland : Keswick, rare (Beadle). Denbigh : Colwyn Bay, Bajillt 

 (G. 0. Day), Llanrwst dist. (A. H. Jones). Devon : Bickleigh Vale (Dell), 

 Barnstaple (Matbew), Paignton (Bowles), Tiverton, Exeter, Oxton, very abundant 

 (Studd), Morthoe (Sheldon), Braunton (Bartlett), Tor Cross (Fenn). Dorset : 

 generally distributed (Dale), Portland (Brown), Isle of Purbeck (Bankes), Swanage 

 (Bloomfield), Weymouth dist., abundant (Forsyth). Dublin : Clondalkin (Grier- 

 son). Durham : South Shields (Eales), one in a pond at the Lowe (Wasser- 

 niaii). Essex : generally common — Rainham, Mucking, &c. (Burrows), Haver- 

 ing (Tutt coll.), Tottenham marshes (Pickett), Hazeleigh, Brentwood, com- 

 mon, Woodham Ferris, Woodham Walter, Romford, Maldon, very abundant 

 (Raynor), Walton (Williams), Colchester (Harwood), Leyton (Meldola), Chingford 

 (Riches), Chelmsford (MiRer), Epping (Image), Peering (Reid), Fobbing, Leigh, Ben- 

 fleet, Great Wnkerin^, Koulhend (Whittle), Loughton (Garland), Hale End (Jackson). 

 Fermanagh : Enniskillen (Brown). Galway : not rare (Kane), Castle Taylor, 

 abundant (Nugent). Glamorgan: Oxwich Bay, Swansea (Robertson). Gloucester: 

 generally abundant (Merrin), Bristol dist., generally distributed, Gloucester, &c. 

 (Walking), Almondsburj (Griffiths), or. Cheltenham (Robertson), Stonehouse (Nash). 

 Hants: generally distributed (Clarke), Isle of Wight -Colwell Bay (Sich), 

 Shanklin (Ince), Freshwater (Tutt), Sandown (Prout), New Forest (Dixon), 

 Rhinetields (Wells), Ringwood (Studd), BrockenhursJ (Cowl). Binstead (Moberly), 



