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others still pupae in April, 1892 (Blagg); March 3rd, 1891, and 

 following days, after being in pupal stage two years (Kimber) ; March 

 10th, 1891, 2 $ s and 1 2 emerged, March 15th, 1891, 1 ?, and on 

 October 6th, 1891, 1 ? in cold attic, on March 9th, 1892, 1 $ and 1 $ 

 appeared Irom the 1891 pupae, on March 7th, 1893, 2 2 s, on March 

 8th, 1893, 1 ? , and March 31st, 1893, 1 ^, also from 1891 pupae; April 

 4th, 1899, J 2 (Alderson) ; bred in cool conservatory at Winchester, 

 March 13th, 1891 (Hewett) ; April 23rd, 1891, a $ at Burghfield, 

 April 27th, 1891, a ? hanging to a birch bush ; on April nth, $ from 

 birch bush, April 21st, $ on heather twig by Mrs. Bazett, April 24th, 



1892, $ at rest on heath in afternoon; April 3rd, 4 $ s taken, April 

 4th, 3 $ s, April 5th, 1 ^ at rest at 10.20 a.m., sun not being well 

 out, April 9th, 1893, 3 3 s taken (Holland) ; earliest dates at 

 Reading, April 26th, 189 1, April nth, 1892, common ; April 3rd, 



1893, April 7th, 1894, April 10th, 1895 (two others April nth and 

 one on April 12th, 1895), April 6th, 1896, March 19th, 1897 (the last- 

 named bred from larva found when not more than ten days old, 

 on June 13th, 1896), April 8th, 1898, April 3rd, 1899 (Clarke) ; April, 

 1892, a male flying in Tilgate in sunshine (Sheldon) ; imagines bred 

 April 9th, 13th, 1892, March 5th — April 10th, 1893 (an ab- 

 normally hot spring), February 28th — April roth, 1894 (an 

 abnormally warm winter and spring) three already emerged, March 

 14th, 1895, all reared at Corfe Castle from Morayshire ova ; March 

 24th — April 10th, 1897, from Reading ova(Bankes); February 26th — 

 March 1st, 1893, by forcing (Tutt) ; 27 pupae obtained in the 

 autumn, 1893, I0 - gave imagines April, 1894, others put by, but 

 one emerged October nth, 1894, and seven others in the next eight 

 days (Frisch, Soc. Ent., vol. xi., pp. 19, 148); bred January 13th, 



1894, at Nottingham (Carlyon) ; March 6th, 1894 (Freer) ; April 10th, 



1895, at Reading, only 1 $ flying, 3 ? s taken on birch twigs, one of 

 which laid a large batch of eggs, the larvae from which were in their 

 third stadium by May 13th (Barnes) ; April 27th, 1895, a $ on a birch 

 at Grumazesti (Caradja) ; imagines commenced to appear March 27th, 



1896, from these, larvae were obtained on June 7th, 1896, which pupated 

 and gave imagines April 3rd, 1897, imagines April 21st, 1898, April 

 i6th-23rd, 1900, at Wyre Forest (Rea) ; April 6th, 1896, a fine $ and 

 two small batches of ova, March 20th, 1897, April 8th, 1898, April 

 3rd, 1899, April nth, 1900, April 17th, 1901, all at Reading (Butler); 

 April 1 8th, 1896, near Reading, g seen and $ captured (Nash); 

 larvae second half of July, 1896, at Rothiemurchus Forest, imagines 

 from these, first half of April, 1897, and others February i3th-26th, 

 1898, these latter somewhat forced (Morton) ; bred February 14th, 

 1897 (Garland); February 6th-i7th, 1900, 1 $ and 7 $s from to 

 cocoons (Jenvey). 



LOCALITIES. — Aberdeen : near Banchory and many other localities (Reicl), 

 Tarland, not rare (Home). Argyll (Reid). Berks : Reading (Clarke), Burghfield 

 (Holland). Elgin: Forres, Cuibin Sands, near Elgin (Reid), Altyre Wood (Norman). 

 Forfar (Reid). Gloucester: Bristol, Lower Guiting, on the Cotswolds (Stainton). 

 Hants: [Andover (see Ent., xviii.. p. 323)], Petersfield (Bond). Hereford: 

 Tarrington district (Wood), Leominster (Hutchinson). Inverness : Rothiemurchus 

 Forest ( Morton). Kent: Darenth (Neale), Ashford (Dowsett). Kincardine: Blackall 

 Wood (Home). [Merioneth : Festiniog (Hughes, Ent., xv.,p. 255).] Monmouth: 

 bank of the river, Monnow, at Monmouth (Parry), see also Ent. Rec, v., p. 207, where 

 Clark records three bred from Monmouthshire' ova. [? Nottingham : Nottingham 



