418 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sutton, Surrey, flying around a captive 2 • Battley observes that 

 an imago emerged at 10 a.m. on March 13th, the wings not 

 expanding until the afternoon of March 14th (Ent. Rec, ii., p. 



54)- 



Habitat. — Generally distributed in our southern counties in 



a variety of situations — trees growing in parks, gardens, hedges, 

 and even in streets, are usually chosen by the moth on which 

 to lay its eggs. It occurs on the lime-trees that frequently line 

 the streets in various parts of London, or grow in the small gardens 

 in front of suburban houses. We have not observed it in dense 

 woods, but suspect that it occurs even there. 



Time of appearance. — In Britain, from April to early June, 

 largely dependent on the season, also occasionally late specimens 

 that are not from eggs of the year, e.g., Hellins notes a larva found 

 September 22nd, 1858, that disclosed an imago August 8th, 1859. 

 Occasionally one gets a second-brooded individual developed, e.g., 

 an emergence on November 22nd, 1894 (Bellamy, Ent. Rec, ii., 

 p. 302). Fritsch gives dates for Austria from May 4th — July 20th, 

 but not many in July, also as early as March 20th at Neusohl, 

 and April 24th at Pressburg ; middle of April in the Roman 

 Campagna ; April and May at Budapest ; April to July at Fiinf- 

 kirchen ; May in Bremen, Cassel, Wiesbaden, Augsburg, Istria and 

 Transylvania; May 10th — 25th at Namur ; May and June in the 

 Inn Valleys, Mecklenburg, Eutin, Crefeld, Upper Lusatia, Thuringia, 

 Baden, Epiries and Sarepta ; May to July in Brunswick and Leipzig; 

 June in Lombardy, mid-June in Kissingen ; commencement of June 

 to mid-June at Mulhausen ; June and July in Roumania (Caradja) ; 

 July 2nd at Groesen in the Baltic Provinces (Nolcken) ; July in 

 Loire-Inferieure, Mehadia, St. Petersburg and Transcaucasia; July 3rd 

 and 4th, 1898, at Aigle ; end of July and commencement of August 

 in the Visp Valley ; July and August at Aix-les-Bains. Possibly 

 some of these last-named records indicate a second brood ; the fol- 

 lowing certainly do so — spring and summer in Tuscany (teste Bartel); 

 May -June and again from August -October, usually in two, 

 often in three, broods a year in the Haute-Garonne (Caradja) ; 

 June and again in September in the Eure-et-Loir dept. (Gue'nee) ; 

 May -June and occasionally in August in Silesia (Assmann). 

 The following plates indicate the vagaries of its appearance in 

 Britain; April 15th, 1719, from a larva obtained July 17th, 

 1 7 18, and that pupated July 22nd, 17 18 (Albin). May 5th, 1857, 

 and following days at Faversham (Stowell) , May 27th, 1857, at 

 Wandsworth, fullfed larvas common from August nth the same 

 year (Blackmore) ; June 15th, 1857, at Carshalton (Jenner) ; July 

 20th, 1858, July 25th, 1867, at Emsworth (Buckler); May 5th-June 

 9th, i860, larva? September 24th, from Benson, produced imagines May 

 25th and 26th, 1 86 1, imagines taken May 3rd — 16th, 1862, May 

 19th, 1866, May nth — 22nd, 1876, June 4th, 1SS5, at light, 

 May 8th— 18th, 1886, June 12th— July nth, 1887, May 18th— 27th, 

 1888 (two years in pupa), June 2nd, 1891, June 17th, 1892, 

 June 1 2th, 1893, June 27th, 1894, June 12th, 1895, April 28th — June 

 23rd, 1896, all at Lee (Fenn); June 15th, i860, at Mansfield (Brameld), 

 April 30th, 1861, May 1st, 1865, at Worcester (Edmunds); April 

 30th, 1861, at Colchester (Harwood)-; June 14th, 1862,011 Wands- 



