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1897, imagines emerged April 25th — May 6th, 1898, and May, 1900, 

 at Worcester (Rea) ; April 25th, 1898, May 25th — June 1st, 1899, 

 at Bournemouth (Cowl); April 25th, 1898, in Hants (Bartlett) ; 

 May 5th, 1898, in New Forest (B. W. Adkin) ; $ first seen in 



1898, on May 7th, flying freely' on May 23rd, 2 2 s emerged May 

 29th, and several June 9th; in 1899, first seen April 22nd, others 

 April 25th, May nth — r 6th, at Corsemalzie (Gordon); May 15th, 

 1898, at Galashiels (Haggart) ; imagines April 1st — May. 4th, 1899 

 (Burraud) ; April 24th, 1899, at Farnboro' (Alderson) ; earliest 

 appearance in 1899 was May 6th, at Kinloch Rannoch (W. Reid) ; 

 May 27th, 1899, at Burnley (Clutten) ; bred May 25th, 1899, from 

 Ingleby Greenhow (Elgee). 



LOCALITIES. — Probably in every English county, common throughout 

 Scotland and the Islands, abundant in Hoy, the most northerly point at which it 

 was met (Mc Arthur) ; generally distributed on west coast of Scotland (Duns- 

 more) ; common in the south of Ireland (McArthur) ; everywhere fairly abundant 

 on hills, plains, heaths, commons, and bogs, appears to be in every Irish list (Kane). 

 Aberdeen : throughout the county (Home), Braemar (Robinson), Stuartfield 

 district (Prout), Pitcaple (Reid). Antrim: generally distributed in mountains 

 (Greer), Slemish mountain (Kane). Argyll : common — Loch Riddon, 

 Lochgoilhead, &c. (Dalglish), Glen Massan (Ord), Kilberry (Cottingham). 

 Armagh : Armagh (Johnson). Ayr : Beith, Kilmarnock (Rose), Straiton, 

 Barr, &c. (Dalglish), Carrick Hill (Wilson). Berks : Reading (Clarke), 

 Newbury (Kimber), Burghclere district (Alderson), Burghfield, Padworth, Woking- 

 ham, Aldermaston, Bulmershe (Holland), Moulsford (Clarke). Bute: Bute — 

 Rothesay, the Cumbraes (Dalglish), Arran (Smith). Cambs : generally distributed 

 throughout the count}- — Cambridge (Farren), Milton (Moss), Horningsea, Swaffham 

 fens (Jenyns), Boxworth (Thornhill), Wicken (Tutt), Fulbourne (Freeman), Whittles- 

 ford, Soham, Burwell Fen (Balding). Carmarthen: Carmarthen (Robertson). Car- 

 narvon : common on coast (Johnson), Pwllheli, Abersoch (G. O. Day), Conway, 

 Trefriw (Bland), nr. Conway, Capel Curig (Gardner), Penmaenmawr (Porritt). 

 Cheshire : common on mosses and heaths (Fllis), Heswall (Freeman), Sandbach 

 (Heap), Delamere Forest (Arkle), Danes Moss, Macclesfield (South), West Kir by, 

 Barnton (Gardner), Wilmslow (Johnson), Bidston, nr. Birkenhead (Newstead), 

 Whitehall, Tarporley (Stock), Oxton Moor (Prince), Thurstaston, Wirrall, Rudheath, 

 nr. Knutsford (G. O. Day), Whitegate Heath (Collins). Cork : Mallow, Mill- 

 street (Newland), Timoleague, Glandore, &c, common (Donovan), Berehaven and 

 Glengarriff (Kane). CORNWALL : Penzance, nr. Sancreed Beacoa (Daws), 

 Newlyn (Burrows). Cumberland: Todhill Moss, nr. Carlisle (Armstrong). Castle 

 Carrock Fell (Warne), Hayton Moss (Routledge), Carlisle, Orion, Durdar, Todhills, 

 Salkeld, Kingmoor (Day), Bolton Fell (Thwaytes), Skiddaw, Keswick (Beadle), 

 Penrith (Varty). Denbigh : very common Minera district (Newstead), nr. Llan- 

 gollen (Gardner). Derby: Tatenhill (Brown), Little Eaton (Hill). Devon: 

 common (McArthur), Oxton, nr. Exeter, common (Studd), Lynmouth (Briggs), 

 Sidmouth (Wells), Stoke (Harvie). Donegal: Pettigo (Kane),' Donegal (Camp- 

 bell), summit of Slieve League (Walker). Dorset: throughput on heaths (Dale), 

 I. of Purbeck. Wareham, common (Bankes), Bloxworth, abundant (Cambridge), 

 Weymouth (Forsyth). Dublin : Dublin rats, and Howth (Kane). Dum- 

 barton : common- Arrochar, Ardlui, Glen Mallon, Craigmaddie, Milngavie, 

 Glen Falloch, Bonhill (Dalglish). DUMFRIES : Dumfries (Lennon). Durham : 

 common on the heaths and moors — West Hartlepool (Robson), nr. Durham 

 (Ornsby), Shull (Backhouse), High Force (Howse). moors near Wol- 

 singham (Hewett), Teesdale (Bower), Bishop Auckland (Greenwell). Edin- 

 burgh : Edinburgh (Evans). Essex : generally common — Tilbury (Image), 

 Brentwood, Wanstead, Rainham, &c. (Burrows). Henny, Brandon (Ransom), 

 Chelmsford (Miller), Plaistow Marshes (Cooper), Maldon (Raynor), Leigh, 

 Benfleet, Eastwood (Whittle), Thundersley (Bacot), Forest Gate (Phillips), 

 Colchester (Harwood). Ki.oin : Forres district — Altyre (Norman). Fer- 

 managh: Enniskillen, on Belmore mountain (Allen). Fife: Lomonds 

 (Evans). Flint: very common both sides of Nantyffrith valley (Newstead). 

 Forfar : Clova (Barclay), Montrose, Inglis Maldis (Gunning). Galway: 

 Galway (Allen), Clon brock, Leenane, Connemara, etc. (Kane). Glamorgan: 

 Swansea (Robertson), Barry Is., nr. Cardiff, Penarth (Birkenhead). Gloucester : 



