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same time (Carr), August ioth, 1898, on Norfolk Broads (Freeman), 

 at Dorking, ova June 4th, larvae fullfed July 4th, 1901, imagines 

 July 25th, and following days (both sexes), eggs obtained July 

 30th, hatched August 6th, larvae fed slowly, and only 7 had 

 pupated by September 3rd, 19O1 (Oldaker), May 25th, 1898, eggs 

 June 9th, several imagines August 13th and following days at 

 Hayling Island (Forster), bred a $ September 16th, 1898, from 

 an egg laid in June, 1898, at Penzance (Daws), five imagines 

 emerged August, 1899, from pupae of the year at Brighton 

 (Cardinall), partial second-brood, three years in succession, at 

 Larkfield, one larva pupated, among others, on July 26th, 1899, an ^ 

 the imago emerged August 28th, 1899 (Saxby). Carrington 

 observes that by feeding the larvae liberally in a warm greenhouse, 

 three broods may be reared in a year, and Rossler states that 

 in Nassau, in warm summers, three broods have sometimes been 

 noted in nature, whilst West records that in April, 1893, ne 

 obtained eggs which had resulted in imagines in July, 1893, 

 from these he obtained eggs, resulting in pupae in August, some 

 of which disclosed imagines September, 1893, the rest going over 

 till the spring of 1894 (Proc. Sth. Loud. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 44). 



LOCALITIES. — Abundant throughout Ireland from MalinHead to Cork (Kane), 

 also generally distributed in Scotland to Ross and Sutherland. Aberdeen 1 : com- 

 mon throughout (Reid), Aberdeen (Prout). Anglesea : common throughout (Day). 

 Antrim : Glenarm, near Lame (Brunton). Argyll: Kilberry (Cottingham), Dun- 

 oon (Chapman). Armagh : Armagh (Johnson). Ayr : frequent Ballantrae 

 (Dalglish), Kilmarnock (G. Rose), Ayr (Fergusson), Cloncaird Castle (Anderson). 

 Bedford: Bedford (Steuart). Berks: Hurst (Broome), Reading dist., common 

 (Henderson), Bulmershe Park, Burghfield, Tilehurst (Holland). Bucks : 

 Buckingham, common (Slade), High Wycombe (Peachell), Taplow (Clarke), 

 Halton, very common, Wavendon (Stainton). Bute : Arran (Arbuthnott). 

 Cambridge : common throughout Fen district (Balding), Ely (Stephens), Quy, 

 Cherryhinton (Peachell), Wicken Fen (Tuttj, Cambridge (Waters), Box- 

 worth (Thornhill), Wisbech (Glenny). Carnarvon : common throughout 

 (Day), Conwav, Trefriw (Bland). Carmarthen : Llanstephan (Bingham- 

 Newland), Ll'anelly (Baker), Langharne (Kaye). Chp:shire : common 



throughout (Ellis), Sandbach (Heap), Chester, abundant (Arkle), Macclesfield 

 (South), Birkenhead, common (Stainton). Cork: Mallow (Bingham-Newland), 

 Timoleague, rather common, Glandore (Donovan). Cumberland : tolerably 

 abundant throughout — Orton, Salkeld, Cummersdale, &c. (F. H. Day), Carlisle 

 district, common (Wilkinson), Lake district, common (Stainton), Cockermouth (Rob- 

 inson), Keswick, not uncommon (Beadle), Wear, Hayton, Castle Carrock (Rout- 

 ledge). Cornwall : Paul, near Penzance, common (Daws), Truro, common 

 (Stainton). Denbigh : common throughout (Day), Ruthin (Ward). Derby : 

 common everywhere (Payne), Derby (Sheldon), Burton dist., common throughout 

 (Brown), Burton-on-Trent, very common (Stainton). Devon : Oxton, common 

 (Studd), Braunton (Bartlett), Barnstaple (Mathew), Sidmouth (Wells), Stoke 

 (Harvie), Dartmoor (Still), Plymouth (Bignell), Exeter, common, Teignmouth 

 (Stainton), Morthoe (LongstafT), Ilfracombe (Henderson), Honiton district, common 

 (Riding). Donegal : Deny district (Campbell). Dorset : common throughout 

 (Dale), Weymouth (Peachell), West Bournemouth (Robertson), Blandford 

 (Stainton). ' Dublin : Howth (Pitzgibbon), Palmerston Park, near Dublin 

 (Flemyng), Blackrock (Greer). Dumfries : Moffat (Somerville), Dumfries 

 (Lennon). 'Dumbakton : Garelochhead, common (Henderson), Milngavie 

 (Dalglish), Bonhill (J, S. R. M.). Durham : generally distributed, Hartlepool, 

 Monk-Hesleden (Robson), Bishop Auckland (Ross), Durham, fairly common 

 (Maddison), Valley of Derwent and south banks of Tyne (Hedworth), Middleton- 

 in-Teesdale (Lees), Darlington (Backhouse), Stockton (Sibson), Teesdale 

 district (Dower). EDINBURGH: Edinburgh district, common (Evans). Elgin: 

 common throughout (Home), Forres, abundant (Norman). Essex: generally 

 common throughout— Colchester, &c. (Harwood), Wanstead, Brentwood, Rain- 

 ham, Mucking (Burrows), Eastwood, Southend (Whittle), Peering Bury, 



