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earliest date of capture, spread over many years, May 25th, 1896, and 

 the latest July 15th, igoo, in Reading district ; eggs hatched July 14th, 

 1897, larvae and pupae forced in kitchen, and emerged at Christmas. of 

 the same year; eggs hatched August 1st, 1899, fed up by October, 

 then hybernated, pupated March 27th, 1900, and emerged May 

 14th, 1900, and following days (Barnes); May 25th, 1896, June 

 10th, 1900, at Great Ayton, June 7th, 1897, at Middleton, June 

 3rd, 1900, at Strensall (Lofthouse); May i6th,> 1896, in Epping 

 Forest, June 6th, 1897, on Denny Bog (Tremayne) ; June 13th, 

 1897, at Arrochar (Dalglish) ; June 7th, 1896, June 9th, 1898, 

 at Worcester (Rea) ; June 29th— July 8th, 1896, in New Forest 

 (Nash); larvae and pupae, April 18th, 1897, on Penmaenmawr, 

 imagines bred June 1st — 8th, May 28th, 1898, at Rannoch 

 (G. O. Day); earliest imago in 1897, on J une 9th at Corsemalzie, 

 others on the 17th caught in the evening at Loch Chesnay, 

 occurred from June 8th — July 1st, 1898, at Corsemalzie (Gordon); 

 May 31st, 1897, on mountains at Windermere (Freeman); June 

 1 8th — 25th, 1897, on the Norfolk Broads, generally distributed 

 (Bacot); June 14th, 1897, at Abbott's Wood, May 31st, 1897, at Harles- 

 den (Montgomery); June 6th, 1897, and following days, flying in swarms 

 over the heath, also June 7th, 1898, in hundreds at Oxton, imagines 

 emerged naturally in frame out of doors, June 1st — 3rd, (899, &c. 

 (Studd) ; May 28th, 1898, males and a 2 on Beaulieu Heath, 

 May 23rd, 1899, at Folkestone (Lane); May 30th, 1898, in the 

 New Forest (B. Adkin) ; June 8th — 1 6th, 1898, at Tyrone (Greer); 

 June nth, 1898, at Reigate (Turner); June 8th — 14th, 1898, in 

 New Forest (Edelsten); June 5th — nth, 1898, at Rhinefields (Wells); 

 June 7th, 1898, June nth — 19th, 1899, abundant at Galashiels 

 (Haggart) ; June nth, 1899, at Shoreham, June 18th, 1899, at 

 Wicken 1 Carr) ; June 6th, 1901, at Bournemouth (Butler); May 

 27th, 1901, at Strensall (S. Walker) ; June 1st — 20th, 1901, common 

 from Douglas to Santon, &c. (Clarke). 



LOCALITIES. — Universally distributed in Ireland from Innishowen to 

 Donegal, to Westmeath and southwards to Killarney, and from Howth to co. 

 Galway in the west (Kane) ; common all over the north of Scotland except 

 in the Shetland? (Reid) ; abundant on all hillsides and moors in the 

 south-west of Scotland (Dalglish) ; also very abundant in the east of 

 Scotland. Aberdeen : Pitcaple, Aberdeen (Reich), Monymusk (Mutch),. Braemar 

 (Tugwell), Castleton (Traill). Anglesea : general (Arkle). Antrim: Glenarm, 

 near Lame (Greer). ARGYLL: all hillsides and moors (Dalglish*, Loch Riddon 

 (Christy). Kilberry (Cottingham), Kilmartin (Vaughan), Duntroon (Briggs), 

 Ballachulish, Spaen Bridge (Kcays), Glen Lean (Long). Ayr : all hillsides and 

 moors (Dalglish), Ayr, &c. (Fergusson). Berks: Reading, Streatley, Burghfield, 

 Bulmershe, Woldngham (Holland), Finchhampstead (Barnes). Bucks: Aylesbury 

 (Bayne). BUTESHIRE: all hillsides and moors (Dalglish), I. of Arran (Watson), 

 J. of Bute (Dalglish), Lamlash (.McKay). CAMBS : generally distributed and 

 common (Balding), Wicken (TuM), Cambridge (Clark 1, Burwel) Fen (Farren), 

 Reach (Burrows). Carmarthen: Langharne (Jefferys). Carnarvon: Conway 

 valley, Trefrin, Carnarvon (Bland), Penmaenmawr (G. O. Day), Criccieth, 

 Snowdon district (Perkins^. Cheshire: abundant on heaths, mosses and 

 waste lands (Ellis), coast sandhills (Porritt), Delamere Fores! Arlde), Wallasey 

 (Cooke), Broxton (G. O. Lay). CORK: Mallow, very abundant (Newland), 

 Skibbereen, not common (Wolfe), G-landore, Ummera Woods, Timoleague (Donovan). 

 Cornwall: Trevalga, the Lizard (Riding), Portscatho (Fenn), Whitsand Bay 

 (Briggs), Newlyn, Penzance, Land's End (Burrows), Porthcurho, very abundant 

 (Daws), Scilly Isles (Crewe). Cumberland: Carlisle, abundant, Houghton Moss 

 (Cartmel), Kirkbride (Miller), Keswick (Buckton), Gelt, Brampton, Faugh Moss, 

 Hayton Moss (Routledge), Rockcliffe Moss (Stephens), Keswick, Watendlath 



