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May 24th, 1890, at Brentwood (Burrows), June 7th, 1888, June 6th, 

 1890, May 9th, 1896, May 4th, 1900, at Pamber Forest (Butler), June 

 30th, 1888, near Emsworth, May 26th, 1892, May 5th, 1894, May 

 22nd, 1897, June 27th, 1899, in the New Forest (Christy), extremely 

 abundant in June, in 1888, in New Forest, a generally late and bad 

 season for lepidoptera (Adye), July 9th, 1888, at Groombridge 

 (Blaber), May 19th, 1890, at Wicken (Freeman), May 20th, 1890, in 

 Brighton district (McArthur), May 3ist-June 7th, 1890, at Brockenhurst 

 in tolerable abundance (Ogden), June 5th, 1891, May 26th -June 

 2nd, 1894, at Rhinefields (James), June 13th, 189 1, at Abbott's 

 Wood, May 28th, 1895, near East Hoathly (Nicholson), May 26th, 



1892, in a wood near Wragby (Raynor), common June 2nd- 

 12th, 1892, in the Long Meadow at Abbott's Wood (Tugwell), 

 June 8th, 1892, in a wood near Guildford (Grover), April 24th, 



1893, at Colchester (Harwood), May 13th, 1893, in Brandon Wood, 

 June 1 7th, 1899, at Moreton (Peachell), April 26th, 1893, at 

 Abbott's Wood, a very early year all over the country for 

 lepidoptera (Esam), May 16th, 1893, in New Forest (Sich), 

 May nth, 1893, at Oxshott, May 26th, 1896, June 4th, 1897, in 

 New Forest (Kaye), May 21st -24th, 1893, in New Forest 

 (Richardson), May 14th, 1894, June 5th-7th, 1896, at Lyndhurst 

 (Tremayne), May 15th, 1894, in New Forest (Robson), June 

 8th- 17th, 1894, flying at rhododendrons, June 5th -nth, 1898, at 

 azaleas, at Rhinefields (Wells), April and May, 1895, at Rhine- 

 fields (Nash), May, 1895, near Newark (Leivers), June 1st, 1895, 

 at Lincoln (Pearson), June 16th, 1895, in Eastcote Woods, May 

 23rd, 1886, in New Forest (Smith), ova found in New Forest 

 end of July, the larvae fullfed August 23rd, 1895, later examples fullfed 

 September 23rd, imagines from which emerged June 5th, 1896, and 

 following days, plentiful at Wishanger, May 28th, 1899, and after 

 (Bingham-Newland), May 16th, 1896, common at Ringwood (Fowler), 

 June 15th, 1897, at Seal Chart (Watts), May 25th, 1898, at Hayling 

 Island (May), May 30th, 1898, in New Forest (Adkin), June 3rd, 

 1898, at Leicester (Dixon), June 29th, 1899, at Langford Moor (Carr), 

 May, i9th-27th, 1900, in New. Forest, Southampton and Isle of 

 Wig'ht (Moberly), at flowers of " honesty," Lunaria biennis, in bright 

 sunshine at 8.50 a.m., on June 4th, 1900 ; at flowers of Lychnis 

 diur?ia in bright sunshine about 4 p.m., on June 10th, 1901, at Corfe 

 Castle (Bankes), June 2nd, 1901, at Reigate (Prideaux), June 8th- 

 9th, 1 90 1, in some abundance, on side of road in Worth Forest 

 (Beadnell), June 10th, 1901, in Dorking district (Oldaker). 



LOCALITIES. — The species is locally abundant as far north as Yorkshire, beyond 

 which its range is very doubtful. Exceedingly rare (if not entirely absent) in Scot- 

 land* and Ireland, and all Scotch and Irish records want confirmation very badly. 

 [Ayrshire (Duncan, see Ent. Rec, xiv., p. 162}.] Berks : not scarce (Barrett), 

 Reading (Butler), Newbury (Kimber), Bagley Wood near Oxford (T. Briggs), Bul- 

 mershe Park, Sulham, Aldermaston, Tilehurst (Holland). Bucks ; Halton (Stainton). 

 Cambridge : rare (Barrett), Wicken (Freeman), near Cambridge (Layard). 

 [Cheshire : Bidston, scarce (Brockholes .] Devon : rather common (Barrett), Stoke 

 (Harvie), Exeter (Stainton), Buckerell district, not abundant (Riding). Dorset: 

 not common (Barrett), Wimborne (Fowler), Blandford (Smith), Moreton (Peachell), 

 Bloxworth (Cambridge), Corfe Castle (Bankes), West Bournemouth (Robertson). 

 [Dumfries: Castledykes (Lennon) (see Ent. Rec, xiv., p. 162).] Essex: 

 generally distributed in suitable localities (Harwood), Epping Forest (Donovan), 



* Meyrick says f Handbook, Sec, p. 294) : " Britain to Sutherland, rather 

 common." This is quite misleading (see Ent. Rec, xiv., pp. 112, 162). 



