420 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



1900, at Worcester (Rea) ; May 5th, 1895, at Worcester Park, Surrey 

 (Kaye) ; June 1895, June 6th, 1896, at Bath (Greer) ; May 19th, 



1896, May 31st, 1897, at Chelmsford (Miller); June 7th, 1896, 4 c? s 

 assembled to 5 between 8.50 p.m. and 9.45 p.m. at Clapton (Bacot) ; 

 April 22nd — 30th, 1897, at Cheltenham (Winterbotham) ; May 7th, 



1897, May nth, 1898, at Reading (Butler) ; May 14th — 17th, 



1897, from pupae taken at Fleet in September, 1896, May 16th — 21st, 



1898, from pupae taken at Otford on October 22nd, 1897; May 23rd, 

 1899 from pupae taken at Fleet on October 1st, 1898, imagines May 

 15th — June 1st, 1899, from pupae taken at Faversham on December 

 23rd, 1898 (Russell); June 24th, 1897, freshly emerged on a beech 

 trunk (wych elm near) at Chalfont Road, May 29th, 1899, at Dalston 

 (Prout) ; January, 1898, 1 indoors at Gloucester (Merrin); January 

 31st, March 9th, 12th, 13th, April 1st, 6th, 1898, at Cambridge (Thorn- 

 hill) ; June 6th, 1898, bred at Corsemalzie from southern pupae 

 (Gordon); May 6th, 1899, from West Drayton, May 27th, 1899, 

 from Hampstead, June 15th, 1901, on Hampstead Heath (Phillips); 

 May 10th, 1899, emerged from Cheltenham pupae (Robertson) ; 

 May 29th, 1899, at Iver, February 28th, 1901, from pupa dug at 

 High Wycombe on June nth, 1900 (Peachell) ; $ June 3rd, $ June 

 15th, 1899 at Sydenham, <j> June 6th at Forest Hill, July 8th 



$ at Dulwich, the latter had laid 39 eggs on the side of some 

 stone steps which were quite 5 yards from a lime-tree (Swain) ; 2 



,Js emerged May 29th, also 1 $, 1 $ June 1st, 1901, all from 

 pupae obtained from Northampton (Hewett) ; imagines, May 29th, 

 1 901, larvae June 4th — 29th, pupae July 7th — 27th in the Dorking 

 district (Oldaker) ; June 25th, 1901, at Sudbury (Ransom). 



LOCALITIES. — The northern limits of this species in Great Britain are hardly 

 known with certainty. It is exceedingly rare in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Lincoln- 

 shire. Records in these counties and north of them appear to be of single specimens 

 only. Ayr : Kilmarnock (Dunlop). Bedford: Bedford (Steuart). Berks: Reading 

 (Butler), Tilehurst (Holland). Brecon (Tutt coll.). Buckingham : Hanbury 

 Park (Wynn), Iver, High Wycombe, Hughenden (Peachell), Chalfont Road 

 (Prout), Halton, Wavendon (Stainton). Cambridge: common throughout Fen 

 district (Balding), Cambridge (Hunter), Wisbech (Glenny), Wicken Fen (Studd). 

 Cheshire : very rare (G. O. Day), Sandbach (Heap), Chester (Quinton). CUM- 

 BERLAND : Keswick, rare (Beadle). Derby: Cubley, Burton district (Brown). 

 Devon : Starcross (Mitchell), Teignmouth (Stainton), Exeter (Hellins), Oxton. common 

 (Studd), Sidmouth (Majendie), Plymouth (Basden-Smith), Buckerell, abundant (Rid- 

 ing-). Dorset: common throughout (Dale), Blandford, Dorchester (Stainton). Essex: 

 generally common (Harwood), Epping, common (Stainton), Chingford (James), Wan- 

 stead, Brentwood, Rainham (Burrows), Witham, Hazeleigh (Raynor), Ilford (Adams), 

 Chelmsford (Miller), Eastwood, Southend (Whittle), Colchester (Harwood), Forest 

 Gate (Mera), Hale End (Prout), Feering Bury (Reid). Flint : Erbistock (Perkins). 

 Galway : Clonbrock. common (Dillon). GLOUCESTER : fairly common (Griffiths), 

 Northleach (Todd), Gloucester (Merrin). Tewkesbury district, common (Fox), Bristol 

 district, rather common (Bartlett), Forest of Dean (Searancke), Prestbury, Cheltenham, 

 common (Robertson), Cirencester (Harman), Painswick (Watkins), Clifton (Prideaux), 

 Lower Guiting (Stainton). Hants : Isle of Wight, Long Benton (Ingram), Basing- 

 stoke (Holdaway), Gosport, scarce (Pearce), Ringwood (Fowler , Fareham (King), 

 Emsworth (Buckler), Odiham, Grey well, Hartley Row (Holland). Portsmouth (Jon 

 Hartley Whitney (Claxton), Winchester, Southampton (Moberly), Fleet (Russell), 

 New Forest, Boscombe, Bournemouth ( Robertson). Hereford: Leominster (1 lutchin- 

 son), Tarrington (Wood). Hertford: Hertford (Stephens), Hit chin, Knebworth 

 (Griffith). HUNTS : St. Eves (Norris). Kent : Rochester and Chatham 

 districts, not uncommon (Chancy). Greenwich, Strood, common (Tutt), Rosher- 

 ville (Andrews) Ramsgate (Willson), Wye district, common (Theobald), Otford, 

 Faversham, Ashfcrd (Russell), Elthara (Jones), Greenwich Park (West), Lee 

 (Bower), Sydenham (Image), Halstead (Tutt coll.), Shorncliffe, Hythe (Brown), 



