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geranium at St. Weonard's (Bond), at Buckhurst Hill (Tudor), and 

 at Branscote (Watkins) ; at phlox at Stonehouse (Nash), at red 

 valerian about 9.15 p.m., at Leckhampton (Trye), at carnations 

 at Hackney (Wright), and over Delphi?iium formosum at 9.15 p.m. 

 at Harrogate (Thompson). Mitchell notes the capture at Wol- 

 singham, of a 2 at 7.30 p.m., a $ at 8 p.m., a 2 also at 

 8 p.m., and another 2 at 10.30 p.m., while flying over a flower- 

 bed, consisting of phlox, geranium, Dianthus, asters, Lilium and 

 petunias. In 1843, at Sudbury, a specimen is recorded as having 

 been caught by the tongue by a flower of CEnothera spinosa. Bang- 

 Haas notes that it sometimes flies by day in Denmark in such 

 years as it occurs there. Leech records it as hovering over flowers 

 by the side of a mountain in the neighbourhood of Tsuruga, and, in 

 Belgium, Lambillion says that it flies on sunny days over flowers like 

 Sesia stdlatarwn, and Mengelbir notes the imago as revelling in the 

 bright sunshine at St. Moritz. Doubleday captured one in the early 

 morning, at Epping, hovering over flowers of Argemo7ie grandiflora ; 

 and it was also noticed, at Oxton, flying at geraniums in the daytime 

 (Studd), flying in the hot sunshine at Deal (Harding), flying in the hot 

 sunshine about 2 p.m., and hovering round a woodland pool at Riving- 

 ton, near Bolton (Calderbank), whilst a fine specimen was seen at 1 p.m. 

 over petunias at Cambridge (Cumming), and another hovering over 

 rest-harrow at 1 1 a.m., in bright sunshine, at St. Anne's-on-Sea (Baxter). 

 This species is not very frequently recorded at light. Tetley, however, 

 notes that imagines occurred at Taunton, in 1888, in some numbers, 

 at electric light, nearly all being much damaged as they had got 

 inside the large globes of the lamps ; Farrant captured four thus 

 (Ent., xxiii., p. 100). Bloomfield heard of one taken at electric light 

 at Hastings, in 1892 ; Burrows took one on a lamp at Snaresbrook 

 station ; Sheldon had one fly into his room at Kingsdown in 

 1888, as did Stainton at Lewisham, whilst Murray records one 

 as flying into a forge at Lancaster. Examples have also been 

 recorded as resting on an ash trunk in the Hawick district (Guthrie), 

 on an apple-tree at Witham (Cansdale), on a poplar at Plymouth 

 (Rowe), on a creeper at Birmingham (Landon), on the quay, at 

 Hartlepool (Gardner), and in a greenhouse at Plumstead (Barns). 

 The female moths, as we have already noted, live for a long time in 

 confinement, three to four weeks if well fed, and they continue to 

 develop eggs all the time, laying from 300 — 400 apiece, but if they 

 are badly fed, or the weather is very hot, they lay from 40 — 50 eggs 

 and die in about a week (Head). 



Forcing pupa:. — In confinement very few British-reared pupae 

 go over the winter satisfactorily, and produce their imagines the 

 following summer, as is usual with Continental-reared examples. 

 The following have been recorded — July 6th, 1856, another a few 

 days later, and a third August 6th, 1856, from larvae obtained August, 

 1855, at Deal; another bred July, i860, from larva found August, 

 1859, at Deal (Harding) ; May 25th, 1857, from larva found 

 September, 1856, at Brighton (Griffiths), five bred in i860 from 

 larvae found in 1859, near Perth (White), four bred in i860 from 

 larvae obtained in the autumn of 1859, at Cockermouth (Robinson), 

 July 8th, i860, from larva obtained August 16th, 1859, at Rottingdean 



