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common at Fleet ; hedgerows, by roadsides and the outskirts of woods, 

 are some of the many different habitats affected by this species 

 throughout the greater part of England and Ireland. Its range, how- 

 ever, is remarkable, for common as is the species locally as far north 

 as Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, in parts of Cumberland and York- 

 shire, it becomes exceedingly rare in Durham and Northumberland, 

 and the whole of the records from Scotland number fewer than half- 

 a-dozen single individuals, although Stainton notices the species from 

 as far north as Sutherland, a record, however, that has never since 

 been confirmed. 



Time of appearance. — May and June are the usual months in 

 which the imagines appear, although in early years emergences may 

 take place in April and in late ones in July, usually, however, this 

 species appears a little later than either Mimas tiliae or Amorpha populi. 

 Occasional second brood examples are recorded in August and 

 September. Fritsch gives dates for Austro-Hungary from April 30th to 

 July 1 2th, and notes 3 second-brood specimens from Biala, September 

 20th — 30th and another from Innsbruck, September 30th, whilst 

 Galvagni caught a J August nth, 1899, in the Brenner district. 

 The following data are interesting : April at Novorossiisk on the 

 Black Sea, April and May in the Loire-Inferieure, May 31st, 

 1900, at Pont de l'Arche (DupontJ, May in Brussa, Fiume, 

 Hermannstadt and Augsburg, May and June in most German 

 and Austrian localities, Belgium, &c, May 25th, 1898, at 

 Namur (Lambillion), May to July in Brunswick, Leipzig, and 

 the Baltic provinces, June 1st, 1897, at Lyngor (Strand), June in 

 Borshom, Lombardy, Mulhausen, Crefeld, Upper Austria, &c, 

 June 3rd, 1896, at Postlingberg (Himsl), June and July at 

 Schwerin, &c. The following suggest more or less partial double- 

 broodedness. April to August at Budapest, May to August at 

 Grumazesti (Caradja), May and August generally in France 

 (Berce), May and August in Alsace (Peyerimhoff), April, 

 June, and August -September, in Tuscany (Curb), May and 

 September in Seine-Inferieure (Viret) ; May-June and August 

 in the Haute-Garonne (Caradja), June and August at Bremen 

 (Rehberg), July, August at Aix-les- Bains (Agassiz), July to 

 September at Eutin (Dahl). The occasional British second-brooded 

 examples that have been recorded in our magazines, &c, will be 

 found among the following dates of capture, &c. : Imagines May 

 28th, 1847, at Brighton, and June 12th, 1849, at Holm Bush, 

 eggs at Cuckfield, July 31st, 1857, very probably those of 

 2nd brood, these hatched August 4th, on August 6th nearly full- 

 grown larvse also taken on sallow, these went down on August 12th, 

 on which date other large larvae were found (Merrifield) ; imagines 

 June 19th, 1855, at Chelsea, and July 1st — 10th, 1855, at Chertsey 

 (Clarke); six pairs bred August 12th, 1857, and following days 

 from eggs hatched 1st week in June, 1857, larvae from the 

 August imagines were fullfed by the end of September, 1857 

 (Allchin) ; June 1st, 1858, at Barnstaple (Mathew); June 1st — 

 nth, 1858, at Machynlleth (Alington)'; June 1st, 1859, at Stoke 

 Newington, July 2nd, 1859, at Thames Ditton, larvae obtained 

 September, i860, at Deal, produced imagines which emerged May 

 24th — June 27th, 1861, imagines captured or bred May 23rd, 1863, 



