84 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



August at Liineburg (Machleidt), June and August-September at 

 Crefeld (Rothke), May-June and August at Leipzig (teste Bartel), 

 May-June and August, common, in Baden (Reutti), May and August 

 at Wiesbaden (Rossler), May-June, but more abundantly July- 

 August at Dessau (Rossler), May-June, but occasional single 

 specimens under favourable conditions in autumn at Ratisbon 

 (Schmid), May-June in Inn Valleys, but imago again July 20th, 

 1896, at Riesenhof (Himsl), May-June, and again in August, at 

 Epiries (Husz), May-June and August- September in Budapest 

 (teste Bartel), Fritsch gives dates for Austro-Hungary from April 

 18th (at Pressburg) and May 1st up to July 10th, with two doubtfully 

 second-brood records on July 13th and August 3rd, and two evident 

 second-brood ones, August 26th and September 12th, all from 

 Salzburg. Double-brooded in Roumania, end of May and August- 

 September, very common from August 25th to September 19th, at 

 Valeni (Caradja), May-June, and very rarely in August in the 

 Haute-Garonne (Caradja), May-June, and again in August, at 

 Mantes (teste Speyer), common from May 15th to September 30th, 

 but especially in July in the Indre dept. (Martin), June-July and 

 again in September at Florence (Fiori), May and again in 

 July, double-brooded, in the Roman Campagna (Calberla), May 

 and July-August at Aix-les-Bains (Agassiz), &c. Single broods 

 only have been recorded from the following — May in the Kuldja 

 district (Alphe'raky), June in Wetterau, also in southwest Siberia 

 (teste Bartel), May-June at Kaschau, Raab, Draga, near Fiume, &c. 

 (Fritsch), May-June at Biedenkopf (Riihl), Eutin, Brunswick, Werni- 

 gerode, Halle, Thuringia, Augsburg, Schwerin, Bremen, Cassel, &c. 

 (teste Bartel), May-June at Sarepta (Eversmann), May-June in 

 Switzerland (Frey), at light from June 14th, 1893, at Berne (Hiltbold), 

 May-June in all the provinces of the Netherlands (Snellen), May- 

 July in the Baltic provinces (Nolcken), May-July at Carlsruhe 

 (Reutti), &c. The following records show little as to whether 

 there are two broods or not in the respective districts — 

 May 8th, 1899, at Chifu (Fletcher), June- July, very common 

 in Lombardy (teste Bartel), May-July in Sicily (Mina-Palumbo), 

 July 16th, 1897, at Solka, in Bukowina (Hormuzaki), July 25th, 

 1879, at Wiesbaden (Sich), July 3rd and 4th, 189S, at Aigle (Lowe). 

 The time of its appearance may vary locally in Britain, e.g^ 

 Woodforde notes it as appearing later at Market Drayton than in 

 North Wales (June 2nd-July 15th at Market Drayton). The following- 

 are the actual dates of appearance that have accumulated: June ist- 

 15th, 1858, at dusk near Gloucester (Guise), June 21st, 1858, 

 June 3rd, 1 86 1, emerged May 28th, 1865, at Worcester (Edmunds). 

 June 22nd, 1858, seven at one time at a. rhododendron at Tinahely 

 (Bristow), June 7 tli, 1859, and following days at Oundle (Whall), 

 June 9th-22nd, 1861, June 2nd-5th, 1889, May 2.4th. 1803, all bred 

 from larvae from Deal (Fenn), July 8th, 1866, at Chertsey (A. H. 

 Clarke), June 12th, 1868, at Northleach (Todd), June 20th, 1868, 

 at Cirencester (Harman), June 22nd, [868, at Gravesend (Button), 

 bred 111111- nth, 1870. from larva found at ECingsmill, August 26th, 

 1S69 (Watkins), bred June 1st, 1871, June uth-2oth, 1876, June 

 7th-Slh, 1900, at Oxton (Studd), June 6th, 1870. at Goring, June 

 Ilth, 1S77, netted in a willow-bed at Burghlield, June 16th, 1881, 



