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(Brown); on sallow on Strensall Common (Walker); on dwarf sallow 

 on the Instow sand-hills (Hellins) ; common on willows growing 

 by river at Nottingham (Whittaker) ; common on apple-trees at 

 Market Drayton in 1900 (Woodforde) ; on dwarf sallow in a bog 

 (Brown) ; larvae occasionally found in early morning crawling down 

 willow-trunks by the sea to pupate (James) ; in fair numbers on 

 the small sallow trees, Salix caprea, in the railway ballast holes and 

 edges of plantations, near the same, at Lincoln (Musham). Birks 

 notes (Ent. Wk. Int., vi., p. 187) that he observed a larva of S. ocellata 

 licking itself over every accessible part of its body, leaving its skin 

 glossy with a moisture which soon disappeared. The following 

 dates as to the capture of the larvae have accumulated : July to 

 September in Upper Austria (Himsl) ; larvae in June and July, and 

 again in August and September at Comanesti (Caradja) ; May 18th 

 — 24th, 1893, in New Forest (Richardson) ; August 12th, 1891, in New 

 Forest, on wild apple (Fitz-Gibbon) ; occurs sparingly on sallows at 

 Sulby every year, September 3rd several fullfed (Clarke) ; larvae July 

 28th — August nth, 1847, at Brighton (Merrifield) ; August 11th — 

 24th, 1856, larvae at Cambridge (Farren) ; June 13th and 14th, 

 1858, July 10th, 1858, on sallow, August 4th, 1868, on willow, 

 two larvae September 13th, one of which went to earth on 

 17th (Hellins) ; larvae exceedingly abundant on the sand-hills 

 at Deal in i860 (Harding alone took 26 dozen), June 12th — 

 August 25th, 1862, August 19th — 31st, 1863, August 1st, 1874, 

 August 20th, 1875, August 3rd — September 13th, 1885, August 

 nth — 29th, 1886, August nth — September 12th, 1887, August 

 24th — September 3rd, 1888, August 9th — 22nd, 1890, August 23rd 

 — September 15th, 1891, August 17th — September 10th, 1892, 

 August 1st and 2nd, 1895, all at Lee, July 22nd, 1874, at Eltham, 

 August 6th — 8th, 1870 and August 26th, 1874, at Deal (Fenn) ; July 

 22nd, 187 1, August 3rd, 1873, on apple, August 8th, 1874, on 

 crab, July 22nd, 1877, August 6th, larva fullfed on willow, all at Lee, 

 August 18th, 1890, larva on sallow at Eltham, July 27th, 1893, 

 on apple, August 23rd, 1894, fullfed on sallow, August 18th, 1895, 

 on apple, August 27th, 1896, larvae small on apple, August 3rd, 

 1899, larvae (seven) fullfed on sallow, August 3rd, 1900, two larvae 

 fullfed on apple at Lee (Bower) ; larvae on September 2nd, 187 1, 

 at Wanstead, July 27th, 1887, at Brentwood, August 29th, 1892, and 

 July 25th, 1893, at Rainham (Burrows) ; September 13th, 1879, 

 fullfed at Chat Moss (Auld) ; July 2nd, 1883, at Barnes (Sich) ; 

 August, 1884, at Romsey (Buckell) ; July 25th, 1885, on Tottenham 

 marshes (Sheldon) ; August and September, 1885, 1886, and 1887 

 in North London district (James) ; July 20th, 1886, at Caversham, July 

 31st, 1 888, at Hardwick, July 26th, 1889, at Burghheld, August 

 1st, 1889, at Bulmershe Park, August 28th, 1892, at Midgham, 

 near Newbury, July 27th, 1891, at Pamber Forest, August 5th, 

 1890, at Hartley Row (Holland) ; abundant near Newark, on wild 

 crab in 1886 (Hewett) ; larvae August 25th, 1890, at Brentwood, 

 August 8th, 1895, at East Barkwith, August 8th, 1896, at Panton, 

 August 25th, 1898, at Llazeleigh (Raynor) ; September 15th and 

 16th, 1890, at Lyndhurst on sallow (G. M. A. Hewett); July 19th — 

 31st, 1891, at Brockenhurst, July 15th — 24th, 1893, at Wicken 

 (Mitchell); larvae on sallow September 10th, 1891, September 12th, 



