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few deaths. Finlay states that in October, 1894, the larvae were 

 plentiful on the moors about Morpeth; he collected about 200, 

 put them in two large boxes out of doors, each box with five or 

 six inches of Sphagnum moss for the larvae to hybernate in ; in 

 one box the moss got very wet, and the larvae died ; the other 

 remained dry, and some 120 imagines were bred from the larvae, so that 

 excessive wet and not cold is evidently most injurious. The following 

 notes as to dates, &c, on which larvae have been found have been col- 

 lected : Swarms during August to November in many places, then 

 hybernates, and appears again in March and April ■ abundant 

 in September at Ischl (Hormuzaki); August 6th — 19th, i860, 

 in hundreds at Rannoch on the moors (Keays) ; September 

 nth — 12th, i860, at Deal, common, August 13th, 1874, at Rannoch, 

 September 3rd, 1884, at Deal, September 3rd, 1890, at Leigh, 

 abundant, September 24th, 1894, at Deal and Folkestone, abundant 

 (Fenn) ; April 7th — 15th, 1861, larvae and pupae on Chat Moss 

 (Chappell) ; swarming on heaths in Jersey, in September, i860 

 (Johnson); April 15th, 1870, at Southport (Porritt) ; Novem- 

 ber 8th, 1 87 1, October 3rd, 1886, collected 47 larvae — 2 

 on blackberry, 2 on wild rose, 3 on willow, and 40 on oak — 

 at Brentwood, August 13th, 1890, at Newlyn, September 

 3rd, 1897, at Brentwood (Burrows) ; miffed larvae March 30th, 

 1866, at Bensham (Watson); larvae spinning up at Wallasey, April 

 8th, 1872 (Daltry) ; September 29th, 1872, in great numbers at 

 Danbury, August 29th, 1890, abundant at Caterham, October 2nd, 

 1894, in Epping Forest, October 26th, 1898, at Shoreham, Kent (Bower); 

 at Chattenden, September 20th, 1876, at Folkestone, August nth, 1892 

 (Adkin) ; common at Folkestone, August 29th, 1873, at Rannoch, 

 August 2 1 st, 1874 (A, H. Jones); larvae on move, February 12th, 

 1882, at W T allasey (Cooke); September 17th — 19th, 1885, at the 

 Lizard (Riding); October nth, 1886, and seen most years since 

 in October, at Wareham (Bankes) ; October 8th, 1887, nr. Ipswich, 

 abundant, September 12th, 1892, at Aylsham, September 22nd — 

 30th, 1895 — 1897, at Wallasey (Freeman); small larvae, June 17th, 

 1868, on Painswick Hill, eggs, June 12th, 1874, at Painswick, larvae, 

 1st moult, July nth, large but still feeding on August 18th, Septem- 

 ber 21st, 1 89 1, larvae about 1 in. long, July nth, 1895, half-grown, 

 August 31st, 1898, on Edge Hill, fullfed larvae disappear about 

 October 18th (Watkins) ; July 14th — 20th, 1890, at Tan y 

 Bwlch, October 3rd — 17th, 1896, in Delamere Forest (Arkle) ; 

 September 30th, 1890, at Portland, September 27th, 1898, 

 at Oxted (Sheldon); July 19th — 31st, 1891, at Brockenhurst 

 (Mitchell); September 10th — October 17th, 1891, July 26th, 1893, 

 small, on Strensall common (Hewett) ; fullgrown larvae, March 

 30th, 1891, at Yatton, August 14th, 1891, at Dartmouth, October 

 4th — 12th, 1894, at Warminster (Bartlett); August 9th, 1892, at Mony- 

 musk (Mutch); August 1st, 1892, at Portelet, August 12th, 1895, at 

 Minehead (Kaye) ; July 15th — 24th, 1893, in Wicken Fen (Mitchell); 

 swarming on July 29th, 1893, about Hartlepool (Robson) ; July 1st — 

 21st, 1894, July 10th — 24th, 1897, at Barmouth (Kenward) ; very 

 abundant, September 24th, 1894, near Meldon (Finlay); September 

 30th, 1894, in numbers on the moors 4 miles north of Hexham, 

 also abundant, August 26th, 1898, at Gilsland, 38 miles west of 



