262 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Rannoch (Harding); April 22nd, 1857, at Tilgate (Andrews); Standish 



notes pupae (Ent. Wk. Int., iv., p. 154) going over from 1857 until 1S59, 



the summer of 1858 very hot. March 29th, 1858, fine but cool, 



several seen and caught at Tilgate; March 14th — April 4th, 1859, 



about 40 imagines taken by Cooke at Tilgate; 17 on April 7th, 



i860, attracted by a 2 , observed 6 days earlier by Tester, but 



not abundant until the 6th; March 6th, 1861, males flying in 



sunshine, all at Tilgate; bred March 14th — April 4th, 1859,' 4 g s and 



many 2 s, the latter sex largely outnumbering the former, 4 of the same 



lot overwintered again, and emerged March 18th, 30th, April 3rd 



and 7th, i860, and a $ from pupae kept out of doors all winter emerged 



March 3rd, 1861 (Merrifield) ; April Sth, 1858, 118 cT s assembled 



to a bred 2 at Tilgate (Draper); ^s April 12th, 1858, at Tilgate 



(Tugwell); March 20th — 30th, i860, bred at Newark (Gascoyne) ; 



March 21st — 23rd, i860, from Tilgate (Machin) ; istweek in April, 1861, 



flew to light between 8 p.m. — 9 p.m. at Ashford, Kent (Dowsett, Ent. 



Wk. Int., x., p. 35) ; March 19th — 22nd, 1865, bredat Torquay (Greene) ; 



May 5th, 1867, near Petersfield (Bond); April 13th, 1869, a single 



$ attracted by a $ in Tilgate Forest by Tester (T. Briggs) ; April 



10th, 1870, at Altyre Woods (Norman); a fine 2 at Rannoch, 



May, 1874 (Carrington) ; April 13th, 1875, near Ipswich (Last), 40 



pupae in winter of 1879 gave only 20 moths, 17 <T s and 3 2 s, 



which emerged from the beginning of March till April 5th, 1879 



(Wailly) ; eggs commenced to hatch May 31st, 1880, the larvae 



from which pupated between July 9th — 18th, imagines bred March 



19th — 25th, 1883, and 1 $ January 13th, 1882 ; ova hatched, 6 en 



May 18th, 18 on May 19th, 1881, the larvae from which pupated 



from July 5th, no imagines bred; ova hatched April 10th, 1884, 



the larvae from which pupated June 2nd — 15th, imagines bred 



(1 $ and 8 2 s) April 19th — 25th, 1885, and from same batch 



12 ^s April 3rd — 20th, 1886; ova received May 8th, 1888, larvae 



hatched and all pupated by July 4th, imagines bred March 301b 



— April 4th, 1889 (2 c? s only), and March 22nd — April 16th, 1890 



(1 $ and 5 $ s) ; ova hatched May 17th, 1890, larvae pupated 



middle of July, imagines bred April 9th, 1892 (R. Adkin) ; eggs 



hatched May 24th, 1881, larvae fullfed second week in June, first 



moth bred March 6th, 1882 (Bower) ; 1 88 1 eggs gave larvae and pupae 



that produced 7 $ s and 1 2 in 1882 and another $ February 15th, 



1883 (in cage out of doors), 2 other $ s and 1 2 in February, 



and then a cessation till March 31st, 6 J s and 7 2 s appearing 



altogether by April 17th, 1883 (Tugwell); eggs April 1 Sth, 1882, 



the earliest imagines from these made their first appearance 



April 1st, 1883, and March 22nd, 1884 (Sladen) ; June 1st, 



larvae hatched, first moult June Sth, second June 19th — 20th, third 



June 29th, fourth July < th — nth, spun up July 22nd — August 5th, 



1883, S emerged March 10th, 1884, another March 22nd, 1884 (St. 



John); bred February 14th, 1884, from Rannoch eggs (Anderson); 



ova, 1884, from inbred Rannoch parents, on April 9th, 1885, and 



following days, 9' $ s emerged (no <y s), in April, 1886, 12 $ s 



appeared (Hill); bred February 25th, 1890, February iSth, 1891, 



and week following, from Scotch pupae, in the open at Kingstown 



(Kane) ; April 20th, 18 o, at Glenalmond (Wylie) ; pupae from 



1890 emerged partly in 189 1, but one on February 20th, 1892, 



