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attractive flowers, generally, on the continent ; Nolcken gives 

 Ajuga ftyramidalis, Echhim vulgare and Lychnis viscaria for the Baltic 

 provinces. 



Time of appearance. — The moth emerges in May and June 

 in Britain — May i5th-June 15th are good average dates for 

 Wigmore Wood in Kent. It is, however, well out in the Esterel from 

 early April, where it possibly produces a second brood (Tutt), and 

 was common until May 3rd, 1899, in the corkwoods to the north 

 of Hyeres (A. H. Jones), it occurs in May, and again in July-August 

 in the Haute-Garonne (Caradja), has a 1st brood about May 10th 

 and a 2nd brood in July at St. Quentin (Dubus), May and again in 

 August at Eure-et-Loir (Guenee), August ist-3rd at St. Michel- 

 de-Maurienne, possibly a second brood (Tutt), in May-June and 

 August in Alsace (Peyerimhoff), June 20th at Grumazesti, July 

 13th at Kloster Neamtz (Caradja), at the end of May (May 24th, 

 1896) at Namur (Lambillion), in August at Liege (Donckier- 

 Huart), May-June and again in August in Upper Austria (Himsl), 

 in May and June, and more rarely again in August at Baden 

 (Reutti), May 13th, 1902, at Briinnen (Chapman), double-brooded 

 in the Swiss lowlands, occurring in May and end of July, but 

 only single-brooded in the mountains (Frey), imago occasionally 

 emerges in autumn of the same year that the larva pupates at 

 Munich (Rossler), in June at Hraszt (Mann), common in the 

 meadows at Andermatt up to 5000ft., middle of June, 1886 (Jones), 

 at flowers of Lonicera, May 26th, 1875, at Tuors Pensch (Zeller), 

 commencement of June at flowers of Orobus at Upsala (Dalman), 

 June 28th-July 1st, 1897, at Fountainebleau (Tutt), Fritsch gives 

 dates for Austro-Hungary from May 5th to June 9th, also April 

 7th at Cilli, and April 24th at Vienna. There appear to be no 

 records of second-brooded examples in Britain, at least the following 

 show none : June 18th, 1856, hovering round Betonica officinalis 

 at Box Hill (Watney), May 17th, 1857, May 3oth-June 6th, 185S, 

 May 27th, i860, at West Wickham (Healy), first week in June, 1857, 

 at Fakenham Wood (Tillett), May 25th, 1858, in New Forest (Bryant), 

 June 19th, 1858, common at Kettering (Sturgess], May 31st, 1859, at 

 Stone Woods, Greenhithe, June 25th, 1863, at Lyndhurst, May 29th, 

 1865, not scarce, also May 29th, 1866, and June 16th, 1874, at 

 Darenth, May 29th, 1866, at Blean Woods (Fenn), May 2ist-23rd, 

 1859, at Darenth Wood (Harding), June 4th, 1859, at West Wickham 

 Woods (Tibbs), June i4th-28th, i860, at Balcombe <Merrifield), May 

 i5th-2ist, 1864, June 2nd-5th, 1869, at Thurning, May 25th, 1866, at 

 Bagley Wood, June 20th, 1867, at Tilgate Forest, bred June 4th-7th, 

 1889, eggs laid by ? captured near Peterborough, June 7th, 1888, larvae 

 from which pupated August 19th, &c. (T. Briggs), May 23rd, 1865, at 

 Loughton (Cole), June 9th- 14th, 1866, at Coombe, near Brandon 

 (Longstaff), June, 1866, at flowers of common bugJe and cowwheat 

 at Ipswich (Last), June 2nd, 1866, in Blean Woods (A. H. Jones), 

 June 22nd 23rd, 1867, bred at Emsworth (Buckler), June 5th-26th, 

 1869, in New Forest (Capper), June nth, 1870, at Lewes (Jenner), 

 latter half of July, 1879, in good condition in New Forest (Graham), 

 May 29th, 1884, at Bulmershe Park, June 3rd, 1887, at Sulham, 

 June 1st, 1890, at Butterwood, May 29th, 1894, at Bagley Wood 

 (Holland), bred June 2nd-i3th, 1885, caught June nth, 18S7, 



