78 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



on the moorlands at Galashiels (Haggart) ; abundant on all the moors of Aberdeen- 

 shire ; scarce at Muchalls, on the Kincardine coast (Home) ; on all the moors 

 round Corsemalzie (Gordon), at Hoy prefers the heathery mosses from the sea- 

 shore to the base of the hills, rarely going far up the hills (Cheesman) ; swarming 

 at Hoy on the heather on the north part of the island, July, 1895 (Home) ; 

 abundant on the moors of Arran and Rannoch. but rare on the moors of 

 Lewis (McArthur) ; generally distributed over (and possibly the only form in) 

 Ireland, prefers the bogs and moors (Kane) ; abundant on the sides of the Tyrone 

 mountains that are covered with heath and fern (Greer) ; on railway embank- 

 ments and on boggy land at Galway ; on the bogs and mountains about Ennis- 

 killen (Allen) ; on the heaths at Perth, where Wylie asserts that quercus is as 

 common as var. callunae, a very doubtful assertion ; on the moors at Whitby 

 (Lockyer) ; moors about Harrogate (Ridley) ; on the broom, birch and heather 

 on the mountain sides of Crafnaut and Capel Curig (Pearson) ; on the heaths of 

 the Wye Valley (Vaughan) ; on the mosses around Carlisle (Day) ; abundant on 

 the mosses, heaths and sandhills of Lancashire and Cheshire (Ellis) ; on the 

 heaths at Ringwood (Fowler) ; on the heaths in the western part of Durham 

 on ling (Gardner) ; on the Northumbrian moors (Nicholson). Times OF APPEAR- 

 ANCE. — Middle of May to middle of July in Scotland (Reid), occasionally emerging 

 in August in English localities (see postea) ; larva, August, 1832. pupated in 

 autumn, imagines May 29th, 1833, at Lycksele, in Lapland (Zetterstedt) ; larvae 

 from Halifax, June 9th, i860, pupated in autumn, imagines emeiged from June 

 2 1st, 1861 ; also bred several from Aberdeen pupae from June 9th — 16th, 1890 

 (Fenn) ; larvae on Rannoch moors, August 9th, i860, and at Spaen Bridge, 

 August 12th, i860 (Keays) ; May 7th, 1861, bred from Scotch pupae (Huckett) ; 

 larvae on Whitby moors, August, 1866 (Lockyer) ; imagines, June 19th, 1867, 

 at Rannoch, June 8th, 1870, at Kirriemuir (White) ; imagines, June 13th, 1870, 

 at Braemar (Traill) ; larvae in hundreds on Rhombald's Moor, Bradford, on June 

 1st. 1 88 1 (Carter) ; imagines common at Rannoch in May, 1898 (G. O. Day) ; 

 larvae, July 5th, 1883, on Faraway Moss (Shuttleworth) ; imagines, July 15th, 1886, 

 at Tarbert; May 25th — 28th, 1893, June 5th — 8th, 1895, at Loch Riddon ; and 

 2 ? s, just emerged, taken, July nth, 1897, in Glen Mallon (Dalglish) ; imagines, 

 August 8th, 1886, June 25th, 1890, June 19th, 1894, J une 28th,* 1896; larvae, 

 June 26th, 1897, June 7th, 1898, June 14th — 15th, 1899, at Carlisle (Wilkinson); 

 imagines, June 14th, 1889, June 2nd, 1895, at Hayton Moss ; June 12th and July 

 1st, 1897, a female captured on each of last-named dates about 10 p.m. (Routledge) ; 

 bred June 18th — 22nd, 1890, from Aberdeen pupae (Daws) ; larvae, June 27th, 

 1890, at Rixton Moss (Collins) ; at Galway, larva, June 5th, 1892, pupated same 

 year, imago emerged June 18th, 1893 (Allen) ; bred June 6th, 1893 (<?), at Pen- 

 rith; larvae, April 16th — May 5th, 1894, at Penrith; others, May 31st— June 

 19th, at Aberdeen; emerged July 6th, 1894 (?), May 30th (<?), May 31st (?), 

 June 1st (4 ? s), June 2nd (?, 2 tfs), June 5th (j), June 6th (?), June 7th 

 (2 <?s), June 10th ( ? ), 1895; captured at Penrith, July 7th, 1894 (2 js); at 

 Aberdeen, June 5th (?), June 8th (2 s s, f ? ), 1895; at Penrith, June 26th 

 ( ? ), 1896 (Varty) ; fullfed larvae, July 29th, 1894, at Haverthwaite ; imagines, 

 July 24th, 1894, at Heysham Moss; July 25th, 1894, at Witherslack (Arkle) ; 

 larvae, fullfed, June, 1894, on ling at Keswick (Beadle) ; larvae, abundant, Sep- 

 tember loth, 1894, m southern Argyll (Christy) ; imagines, end of June, on 

 Skiddaw (Beadle) ; imagines during July, 1895, at Pwllheli (Nicholson) ; bred 

 from Aberdeen pupae, June 2nd — 12th, 1895 (Prout) ; through June, 1895, ln 

 Glen Lochay ; June 17th — 21st, 1898, at Rannoch, both imagines and larvae 

 (Morton); bred June 5th— 29th, 1895, several males and females; many males 

 assembled to virgin ?s on Rhombald's Moor on June 91I1 and 17th; others bred 

 May 31st — June 2nd, 1896; half-grown larva?, June 26th, and others nearly full- 

 grown, July 9th, 1896; many <? s and ?s bred from Rhombald's Moor, June 

 22nd — July 4th, 1897; many males assembled, June 27th and July 4th, almost 

 fullfed larva, 1 also taken on the moor on latter date ; fullfed larvae from the moor, 

 July 22nd, 1898 ; imagines, bred July 4U1. 1899 (Hewcttj ; June 9th, 1897, at 

 Winster; July 1st, 1897, at Rowdsey Moss (Cotton) ; May 16th — 19th, 1895, larvae 

 2 inches long on Quhillart moor, began to spin July 14th, emerged 1896; abundant 

 at Corsemalzie from June 27th — July nth, 1898; one male bred on September 

 4th from cocoon formed during the preceding July ; first seen on wing in 1899 on July 

 1 2th, and continued throughout the month (Gordon); ? taken on heather, and 

 larvae about I inch long collected, May 25th, 1896, at Great Ayton ; moths from 

 these emerged July 6th — 25th, 1897, one or two ?s being very dark; one 

 laid ova that hatched August 12th, 1897, the larvae went through winter 



