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May 28th — June 3rd, 1900, at Hackney (Pickett), July 3rd, 1900, at 

 Brockenhurst (Alderson), July 22nd, 1900, at Lichfield (Redmayne). 

 The following suggest second or partial second broods : On poplar 

 two autumnal examples at York (Wilson), a second-brooded $ came 

 out at the end of August, and a $ at beginning of September, 1844, at 

 Brighton (Merrifield), $ and $ taken May 25th, 1858, eggs hatched 

 June 9th, first emergence of imagines from these August 13th, several 

 following ; the pupae were kept quite naturally (Foster), pair found 

 June 4th, 1859, at Huddersfield, eggs laid, which hatched June 15th, 

 larvae went down end of July, and beginning of August, imagines 

 appeared from these on August 1 5th and following days, pairings and eggs 

 being obtained (Tindall), August 23rd, 1866, $ drying wings, no doubt 

 belonging to a 2nd brood at Worcester (Edmunds), pair bred middle of 

 June, 1859, produced eggs which hatched, the larvae pupating August 

 2nd and following days, and the imagines appearing August 16th on; 

 other imagines appeared same time from wild larvae taken in the 

 summer which were fed out of doors at Barnstaple (Mathew), July 

 17th, 1861, captured at dusk, bred July 18th — 25th, 1862, July 14th, 

 1863, at light, July 24th, 1864, took two in cop. on palings, July 12th, 

 19th, 1885, at light, July 7th, August 3rd, 1886, August 13th, 1887, 

 all at Lee (Fenn), larva June, 1868, pupated first week in July, imago 

 August 3rd, at Folkestone (Taylor), freshly emerged 1st week in August, 

 1868, at Oxford (Matthew), imago emerged December, 1870, from Sep- 

 tember 1870 pupa at Bristol (Hudd), pair/ft cop. taken April 27th, 1872, 

 — eggs obtained and larvae from which went down June 1 7th — 24th, 2 

 imagines on July 8th, and from then to July 15th 30 more (Craik), 

 an imago found at root of a poplar, wings quite limp, at Hertford, 

 January 20th, 1873 (Simmons, Ent, v., 317), on August 6th, 1873, 

 a ? emerged from pupa bred from a caterpillar that only went to 

 earth July 16th at Beckenham (Browne), eggs May, 1883, pupated 

 July, 10 imagines bred beginning of August (Mitchell), larva fullfed 

 July 14th, 1883, pupated July 19th, imago August 17th at Waltham- 

 stow (Jobson), larva pupated June, 1884, imago August 2nd, 1884, 

 at Norbury (Hail), eggs June 18th, 1887, from Canterbury, larvae 

 fed up and 6 pupated from which two imagines, one on August 

 1 8th and the other August 20th, emerged the same year, the others 

 emerged next year, May 13th — June 1 ith (T. H. Briggs), ova laid (bred 

 parents) April 23rd, 1887, hatched May 26th, larvae commenced to 

 bury June 26th, $ emerged July 26th, remainder normally next year ; 

 pairing from bred specimens, unforced, on May 20th, 1892, 1 $ emerged 

 (unforced) August 31st, 1892, remainder normally next year (James), 

 several imagines in August, 1889, from ova laid three months before 

 (Adye), fullfed larvae pupated July 14th, 1889, imagines emerged 

 August 14th at Southsea (Pearce), about 40 larvae pupated end of 

 June, 1892, 6 of which produced imagines in August of the same year, 

 also assembled a wild newly-emerged $■ in August to one of 

 these bred ? s, others emerged from May 3rd, 1893, at Clapton (Bacot), 

 from 1893 larvae one $ was bred July 28th, 1893, rest emerged June 

 and July, 1894 at Guildford (Grover), larva June 28th, 1896, pupa 

 June 30th, imago August 15th, 1896, at Ealing (Bell-Marley), from 

 pupae taken at Fleet in September, 1896, an imago emerged November 

 20th, the rest going over to next year (Russell), August 5th, 1898, at 

 Hazeleigh (Raynor), imago August 6th, 1898, at Lee, larvae at 



