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July in Bucovina ; middle of July in Transsylvania ; July and 

 August in Alsace, and at Aix-les-Bains, &c. The following suggest 

 double broods ; middle of April to commencement of June, and 

 again in July and August at Budapest (teste Bartel), May and Sep- 

 tember in Tuscany (teste Bartel), April and May and sometimes 

 in July in the Haute-Garonne (Caradja\ May-June and again 

 in July-August in Baden, May-June and August-September at 

 Constance, May and July at Fiinfkirchen (Reutti), June and 

 August in the Gironde (Trimoulet), mid-May to July at Waldeck, 

 sometimes again in September (Speyer), only singly in June, 

 1892, at the electric lights, but much commoner in August, 1892, at 

 Berne (Benteli), throughout the summer, from April i2th-August 

 15th, 1S93, at Berne (Hiltbold), Fritsch gives dates for Austro- 

 Hungary from May I2th-July 15th, also from Salzburg on July 17th, 

 29th, August 10th and September 12th. In the Channel Islands 

 we have: July 9th, i860, July 9th, 1887, April to June, 1897, in 

 Alderney (Walker), July 29th, i860, in Jersey (Johnson). The 

 following actual dates of captures have accumulated : May 28th, 

 1743, several in Osterly Wood, near Brentford (Wilkes), imagines 

 July 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 1846, at Brighton (The Level) 

 (Merrifield), June 18th, 1856, June 14th, 1859, at Hollingbury 

 Coombe, June 23rd, 1898, on Putney Heath (Image\ common 

 July, 1856, at Haynes Park (Int., i., p. 198), June nth-i5th, 

 1858, at Worcester, June i5th-25th, i860, June 7th, 1865, at Worcester, 

 ? just emerged, 135 oval green eggs taken from her, all fully mature 

 (Edmunds), June 10th, 1859, and following days, at Oundle (Whall), 

 June 15th, 1859, July i3th-i 5th on Wimbledon Common, June, 1890, 

 at Folkestone, June 26th-July 1st, 1899, at Lynmouth (T. Briggs), 

 June 29th, 1859, and following days, common at Perth (White), 

 July ist-7th, 1859, at Leckhampton (Trye), June, i860, at 

 Galway (Ellis), bred from larvae found at Deal, June 18th, 1861, 

 also June 25th, 1875, at Dartford (Fenn), June ist-9th, 1864, at 

 Windrush Burford, June 16th, 1866, at Northleach (Todd), June 

 6th~9th, 1864, at Chertsey (A. H. Clarke), imagines bred from pupae 

 June 16th, 1867, July ist-7th, 1886, at Emsworth (Hellins), 

 May 26th, 1868, at Guestling (Bloomfield), June i2th-i7th, 



1868, common at Howth (Birchall), June 13th, 1868, at Ashford 

 (Jeffrey), 3 imagines last week in July, 1868, near Tynemouth 

 (Bold), June 5th-26th, 1869, in New Forest (Capper), June 29th, 



1869, at Leyton (Meldola), unusually common at Folkestone, 

 July, 1869 (Standish), July, 1869, at Wallasey (Melvill), June 

 13th, 1870, June 1 2th, 1890, and following days at sugar at 

 Witherslack, June I2th-i6th, 187 1, at Sherwood Wood, near Exeter 

 (Porritt), June, 1870, worn, at Douglas (Robinson), July 6th, 187 1, 

 two near Ballinasloe (Lawless), June 23rd-July 21st, 1873, in New 

 Forest (Tugwell), unusually abundant in May, 1882, at Culleenamore 

 (Russ), June 28th, 1884, at Luffness Links (Evans), June, 1885, pretty 

 abundant at St. Ives (Norris), June 10th, 1885, at Brentwood, June 30th, 

 1894, at Rainham and June 7th-2oth, 1901, at Mucking (Burrows), 

 June nth, 1885, at Brentwood, June 20th, 1895, at Legsby, June 17th, 

 1898, at Galley Wood (Raynor), July 1st, r 886, June 27th-July 12th, 

 1887, J une i9th-July 12th, 1888, June 17th, 1889, June 22nd, 1891, 

 June 8th-20th, 1892, June 15th, 1894, June 26th, 1895, June 5th, 



