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Gibraltar (Walker), occurs all the year round at Gibraltar (Parry), 

 common throughout the whole year in gardens, hills, and extending 

 into the mountains in Italy (Cannaviello) ; throughout the year 

 in the whole island of Sicily (Mina-Palumbo), flies throughout 

 the year except for a few weeks at end of July and early August 

 in Roumania (Caradja), very common everywhere in Bulgaria, in 

 May, July - August, September - October (Bachmetjew), reported 

 as being very abundant from November-February at Kandahar ; 

 common throughout the whole ol the warm season at Wei-hai-Wei 

 and Chifu (Fletcher), common February-early April at Tangier 

 in 1868 (Blackmore), and from March-May, in 1866, at Rome 

 (White), observed February 12th, 1901, at Gembloux (Poskin), 

 in June-July and August-September at Namur (Derenne), also 

 in October-November at Namur (Lambillion), October 2nd-8th, 1898, 

 at Namur (Colignon), abundant from January-May in most years, 

 in the Riviera, seen, in copula, on March 18th, 1899, at Le Trayas 

 (Chapman), observed also October 12th, 1892, at Nice (Bromilow), 

 May, August and early spring in Baden, an imago found December 

 31st, 1884, flying in street at Carlsruhe (Reutti), observed April 

 nth, 1898, at Chifu, and from May to November, 1898, very 

 abundantly on Leu-kung^-tao, also abundant April 22nd-25th, 1899, 

 on mainland (Fletcher), April to June, 1897, at Alderney (Wells), 

 imagines, eggs and larvae all abundant on May 24th, 1878, at 

 Gallipoli ; seen every day, in August, 1883, at sea between Malta 

 and Gibraltar, also August 25th at sea, two days before arriving 

 at Plymouth, also common in June, 1898, at Canea and Suda 

 Bay, several specimens netted on board ship August nth-i6th, 

 1898, between Gibraltar and Leghorn (Mathew), May-June and 

 August -September, in Upper Austria (Himsl), May -June, also 

 in August-September at Konigsberg (Riesen). Odd dates have 

 been noted as follows : June i8th-26th, 1897, at Fontainebleau 

 (Tutt), June i9th-23rd, 1890, at Tancarville (Leech), June 22nd, 

 1887, at St. Ouens Bay (Walker), June 22nd, 1886, at Engelstein 

 (Baker), average date, June 27th at Bergiin (Zeller), swarmed in 

 July, 1875, at Argeles (Distant), July, 1892, at Scheveningen 

 (Walker), in myriads in August and September, 1877, at Tresco 

 in the Scilly Isles (Crewe), September 10th, 1897, at Lyngor (Strand). 

 British dates have been recorded as follows : August and early Sep- 

 tember around Nottingham (Leivers), abundant to September at 

 Boscombe (Robertson), June, September and October at Chelmsford 

 (Miller), seen flying in December and January at Gravesend 

 (Clifford 1 , abundant in 18 18 and 18 19, at Dover (Stephens), imagines 

 September 8th-ioth, 1846, July iotfi-24th, 1847, August 3ist-Sep- 

 tember 9th, 1847, common, larvae on August 5th, 1847, pupated 

 August 30th, commenced to emerge October 28th, 1847, August 

 4th, 1849; imagines began to emerge September 30th, 1857, and on 

 the same date many were seen hovering over the geraniums in the 

 college gardens, others emerged October 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 

 13th, then every day from i5th-2ist, 29th, November 3rd, 4th, 

 7th, 8th, 1 2th, 1857, the last lor the year, at Brighton; August 3rd, 

 1857, at Cuckfield (Merrifield), July 31st, 1856, imago at Brighton 

 (Image), August ist-8th, 1856, at Shanklin, July 17th, 1857, on 

 the slope near Headley Lane (Trimen), August 30th, 1856, off 



