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loving the flowers of rhododendrons in the large private parks of 

 the South of England, but also occurs in meadows by hedgesides, 

 and by railway-banks, and at Oxshott haunts the honeysuckle 

 growing amongst the heather on the heaths. It occurs everywhere 

 in the wood-meadows in Baden, at Andermatt it loves the mountain- 

 meadows, and at St. Michel-de-Maurienne haunts the lower zig-zags 

 on the way up to Valloire, whilst in the forest of Fontainebleau we 

 found it hovering over the masses of Echium vulgare by the sides 

 of the open rides, or growing by the roadsides on the outskirts of 

 the forest. It is abundant on the hot slopes of the Esterels and 

 is common in the corkwoods to the north of Hyeres, whilst 

 Lambillion records it as haunting the rocky ground of the Namur 

 district. Head finds it not an easy species to breed in confinement 

 owing to the difficulty of keeping the moths supplied with an 

 abundance of the right kind of flowers on which they may 

 feed ; they pair both in the morning and afternoon, and seem to 

 lay their eggs any time during the day. The imagines emerge 

 from noon until 2 p.m. (Kimber), and fly in the sun almost the 

 whole of the day, from early morning between 9 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. 

 (in the Esterels), until 4 p.m., at which time they were seen 

 feeding busily at the bugloss flowers (in Fontainebleau Forest). 

 They dearly love certain flowers, about 1.50 specimens being 

 taken whilst flying at the blossoms of rhododendrons in the 

 New Forest in 1869, the insects appearing always to prefer the 

 light crimson varieties to the other colours (Cox), at flowers of rhodo- 

 dendrons in the Bristol district (Hudd), and at Newark (Leivers), 

 plentiful at blossoms of honeysuckle in Rhinefields, June 5th, 1891, 

 the rhododendrons not then being out (James), common at flowers 

 of bugle and honeysuckle in the Kent woods (Carrington), common 

 at flowers of bugle and rhododendrons in the bright sunshine in 

 the New Forest (Carr), at flowers of Ajuga reptans in the Long 

 Meadow at Abbott's Wood (Porritt), hovering over the flowers 

 of Ajuga reptans during sunshine in the damp ridings of a large 

 wood near Wragby (Raynor), at flowers of Ajuga repta?is in Wigmore 

 Wood (Chaney), at flowers of Lychnis floscuculi and Ajuga reptans 

 near Rugby (Longstaff), common on a patch of ground covered 

 with Lychnis jloscuculi in blossom at Kettering (Sturgess), at 

 flowers of Glechoma hederacea at Thurning, and at flowers of Lychnis 

 jloscuculi in Tilgate Forest (Briggs), hovering over a patch of 

 Nepeta glechoma in a wood near Guildford (Grover), at Melampyrum 

 flowers at Hailsham (Carr), over Stachys sylvatica at Groombridge 

 (Blaber), very abundant in 1893, feeding at flowers of bluebells, 

 violets and primroses (Fowler), flying over Lychnis at Clonbrock 

 (Dillon), at lilac flowers at St. Petersburg (Menshootkin), whilst 30 or 

 more can be taken easily at rhododendron blooms from 10 a.m.- 

 11 a.m. on a sunny morning, as well as odd ones at flowers of Ajuga 

 reptans in the wood-drives near Lincoln (Musham), Krieghoff notes the 

 imagines as attracted to flowers of Syringa, Pulmonaria, and Ajuga in 

 Thuringia, and Garbowski that Salvia officinalis is favoured in 

 Galicia, where, in some years, it is much more abundant than in 

 others ; Bartel notes thistles, rhododendrons, Syringa, Pulmonaria, 

 Echium, Lavandula, Salvia pratensis and Ajuga as being the most 



