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(Studd) ; June 4th and 15th, 1896, at light at Bath (Greer); June 

 2oth-July 10th, 1896, at Mansfield, May 29th-June 28th, 1897, at Paul 

 (Daws); larvae September 8th, 1896, imagines emerged May 23rd, 



1897, at Llanstephan (Newland); imago emerged from pupa May 

 19th, 1897, June 5th, 1897, at rest, June 14th, 1898, June 21st, 



1898, at light at Newtown (Tetley); June 6th, 1897, June 7th, 



1898, also bred May 6th-26th, 1898, at Carlisle (Wilkinson); June 

 17th, 1897, a $ at light at Sydenham (Swain) ; June, 1897, 

 at Aldershot (Bland) ; July 6th, 1897, in Norfolk Broads (Free- 

 man) ; August 25th, 1897, at Eccleston Mere, June 9th, 1900, at 

 Winster (Cotton); May 28th-June 10th, 1898, from larvae obtained 

 August, 1897, at Fleet, June 6th-ioth, 1898, from larvae obtained 

 September 2nd-4th, 1897, June 3rd, 1899, from larvae obtained Sep- 

 tember 4th, 1898, at Southend near Catford, June 8th and 17th, 



1899, from pupae obtained October 4th, 1898, at Fleet (Russell); June 

 2nd, 1898, at rest on a rhododendron leaf, others bred May 30th to 

 June 5th, 1898, at Enfield (Edelsten); June 4th-nth, 1898, at Brem- 

 hill (Eddrup) ; June 7th, 1898, at Leicester (Dixon) ; June 26th-3oth, 

 1898,011 sandhills between Waxham and Horsey (Cox); June 8th, 

 9th and 13th, 1899, at Dawlish (Rogers) ; June 9th, 1899, July 

 2nd, 1900, from Sudbury pupae, July 1st, 7th, 8th, 1900, from 

 York pupae (Hewett) ; June 21st, 1899, at Bournemouth (Cowl); 

 larvae at Norwich pupated July, 1899, an imago emerging x\ugust 

 19th, 1899 (Laddiman) ; larvae August, 1899, imagines June 8th, 



1900, in New Forest (Moberly); June 10th, 1900, from larva at 

 Brimsdown in 1898 (Lane); May 29th, 1900, from larva at Hythe 

 in 1898 (Hill) ; June 8th, 17th and 21st, 1900, at Chilwell (Pear- 

 son) ; May 22nd, 190 1, at Cranbrook (Marshall) ; June 3rd, 



1901, at High Cummersdale (Thwaytes) ; ova June 5th, 1901, 

 produced larvae that pupated July 12th, 1901, imagines (6 ? s) from 

 August 9th-2oth, 1 90 1, in the Dorking district (Oldaker) ; June 20th, 

 1901, at light at Haverstock Hill (Hopson); September 2nd, 1900, a £ 

 and ? at Sudbury from ova laid in spring, this 2 laid ova that hatched 

 September 19th, but larvae died for want of food (Ransom); September 

 2nd, 1 90 1, from larva that pupated July 23rd, 1901, at Henley-on- 

 Thames { Stearns). Of 200 (out of 384) larvae hatched on June 

 8th, 1898, the first went down on July 8th, 30 days after 

 hatching, and 8 days later pupation was completed ; the pupae, kept 

 in an unheated room, were placed on a bed of " heather " mould 

 and covered with moss ; the first imago emerged on May 27th, 

 1899, and the emergences were continuous for 15 days — 177 perfect 

 imagines and a score of cripples (Lambillion). 



LOCALITIES. — Widely distributed in Ireland, but usually scarce (Kane), 

 exceedingly rare in Scotland, and only occurring occasionally in odd specimens. 

 [Aberdeen : Fyvie (Sim), rare at Aberdeen (Traill).] Armagh : Armagh (Johnson). 

 Bedford: Bedford (Steuart). Berks: Reading (Butler), Burghfield, Bulmershe 

 Park, Midgham, nr. Newbury (Holland), Hurst ^Groome), Newbury (Beales). Brecon 

 (Tutt coll.). Bucks : High Wycombe (Peachell), Burnham Beeches (Williamson), 

 Halton, common, Wavendon, nr. Newport Pagnel (Stainton). Cambridge: common 

 throughout Fen dist. (Balding), Fulborne (Henderson), Wicken (Mitchell), Cambridge 

 (Waters), Wisbech (Glenny). Carmarthen : Llanstephan (Newland), Langharne 

 (Kaye). Carnarvon : near Deganwy (Gardner), Abersoch, common (Day). 

 Cheshire : common throughout (Ellis), Hoylake (G. O. Day), Chester, very common, 

 Delamere (Aikle), Wirrall, frequent (Gardner), Wallasey sandhills (Galliers), 

 Birkenhead (Stainton). Clare; Ennis (Brakey). Cork: Mallow (Newland), Timo- 



