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bred July 24th — 31st, 1889, at Portland (Brown); one pupated 

 August 3rd, 1889, and emerged (a small 3 ) September 6th, at 

 Sheffield, another larva remained healthy till September 26th, 1889, 

 and then died, although full-grown (Hall) ; larvae, May 3rd, 1890, 

 gave imagines, July 13th, 1890; pupa, May 27th, 1891, produced 

 imago, July 25th, 1891, at Newnham (Lifton) ; July, 1890, at Lynd- 

 hurst, one g at light (Simes) ; bred July 23rd, 1890, from larvae ob- 

 tained May 28th ; bred July 21st, 189 1, from pupae obtained July 14th, 

 bred June 25th — July 2nd, 1893, June 21st — July 2nd, 1895; July 

 10th, 1896, June 29th — August 3rd, 1897, all from May larvae, bred 

 August 2nd, 1898, from June larvae, June 29th — August 3rd, 1900, 

 all collected in Southend district (Whittle); larvae, June nth, 



1890, June 1 6th, 1892, May 25th, 1896, at Bristol, May 

 24th — June 3rd, 1892, at Dursley, imagines, July 3rd — July 

 18th, 1892, at Bristol, July 23rd, 1892, at Portishead, June 28th, 

 1895, at Dursley, July 19th, 1897, at Bristol (Bartlett) ; bred, from 

 larvae taken in Leicester district on June 12th, 1891, and following days, 

 throughout August to August 24th, 1892, also larvae June 16th, 1898 

 (Dixon); July 6th, 1891, cocoons at Clacton, imagines commenced to 

 emerge July 9th, and following days, July 22nd — 26th, 1898, at 

 Wicken (James); bred July 7th, 1891, July nth, 1894, July 25th, 

 1899, captured August 5th, 1891, August 5th, 1892, July 17th, 

 1895, July 21st, 1896, July 21st, 1897, all at Sandown, bred June 

 20th, 1895, from Southend, bred June 21st, 1893, July 8th, 1894, 

 from Pett, bred July 23rd, 1898, from Stanford-le-Hope, captured 

 July 14th, 1900, at Chalfont Road (Prout) ; July 18th, 1891, many 

 at light at Wicken (Tutt) ; July 19th, 1891, at Arrochar, July nth, 

 1897, at Glen Mallon (Dalglish) ; July 30th, 1891, at East Grinstead, 

 July 21st, 1898, at Bacton (Mclntyre; ; imagines at light, August 1st, 



1891, at Kingsmill (Watkins) ; August 7th, 189 1, flying in meadow 

 at Ryde (Kaye) ; imagines, July 18th — August 18th, 1890 and 1891, 

 July 10th, 1892, July 22nd, 1895, J une ^th, 1897, July 19th — 22nd, 

 1897, August 5th, 1898, at Whitwell, July 1st, 1899, near Earlstown 

 (Freeman); July 22nd, 1892, at Bristol, S at light, July 22nd, 1896, 

 at Reigate, $ slowly flying along hedge at 8.50 p.m. (Prideaux) ; 

 August 9th, 1892, on moors of Argyll ; cocoon, May 26th, 

 I &93> gave imago June 16th, bred others July nth — August 

 4th, 1898, from Emsworth (Christy); June 13th, 1893, June 

 27th — July 1st, 1894, June nth, 1895, and July 7th — 15th, 1895, at 

 Carlisle (Day); larvae from Perivale produced imagines June 23rd, 



1893, imagines taken July 16th — 29th, 1894, June 2 3th — 29th, 1895, 

 and July 1st, 1898, a $ observed laying eggs on stems of grass on June 

 29th, 1896; larvae and pupae at Eastbourne, June 10th — 15th, 1898 

 (Montgomery); July 15th — 24th, 1893, at Wicken (Mitchell) ; at light, 

 imagines, July 14th and on through this month and August, at 

 Mansfield, imagines emerged July 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and all 

 dates up to August 18th, 1893, a late one emerged September 

 4th, 1899, at Mansfield, July 10th to end of August, con- 

 tinuously at Penzance (Daws); larvae in great abundance at 

 Connemara, March 28th, 1894 (Allen) ; imagines July 1st — 14th, 



1894, at Feering, July 1st — 7 th, 1894, at Wicken, August 5th — 

 10th, 1898, at Horning (P. Reid) ; July 10th, 1894, June 19th — 

 30th, 1896, at Wisbech (Glenny) ; July 6th, 1894, at Brighton (John- 



