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in spring and autumn somewhat commonly. In the British Museum 

 coll. are two examples from South Africa, one taken in June, 

 1896, another in December at Umtali, at 3700ft., by Marshall. 

 The following dates may be of some service : Imagines emerged 

 from September 2nd to end of October, in Prussia (Schmidt), 

 emerged July 2ist-26th, 1898, at Jerusalem (Swinton), August, 

 1885, in the Riviera (Milliere), September i4th-22nd, 1896, from 

 Malfi (Krooss), larva pupated mid-August, imago appeared end 

 of September at Sofia (Bachmetjew). Seebold notes (An. Soc. Esp. 

 Hist. Nat., xxvii., p. 119) that, in August, 1885, he took 5 larvae in his 

 garden at Bilbao, and that these pupated and produced very large 

 imagines at end of October of the same year. The British records 

 to date appear to be as follows : one at Dover about September 

 6th, 1833, by Miss Herney (Stephens, Ent. Mag., i., p. 525), a 

 9 latter end of September, 1834, near Dover pier (Leplastrier teste 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent., fo. 626), probably in August or September, 

 1832, near Netley (Ingram teste Curtis, loc. cit.J, at Sandown in 

 1833 (Bromfield, Zool., p. 804), near Barnstaple, date unrecorded 

 (Raddon, teste Humphreys & Westwood, British Moths), [Prestwich, 

 1847 (Crozier coll., Ent., xxiv., p. 195;,] September nth, 1852, at 

 Brighton (Zoo/., p. 3624), August 16th, 1857, at Brighton (Thorncroft, 

 Ent. IVk. Int., ii., p. 172 ; Tidy, Zool., p. 5961), J October 

 26th, 1858, at Aldeby, Beccles (Winter, Ent. Wk. Int., v., p. 42), 

 line 2 at Hastings, August 2nd, 1862 (Kent, Zool., p. 8172), September 

 14th, 1867, at Sheffield (Hydes, Enlo/n., hi., 364), October 12th, 1868, 

 at St. Leonards (Smith, E.M.M., v., p. 172), another (Wood, Ent., iv., 

 162), [two October, 1868, in Hastings district (Coverdale teste Tutt 

 coll.),] 3 autumn 1869, at Birmingham (Enock, E.M.M., vii., p. 41 ; 

 Ent., v., p. 144), [August, 1872, at Yarmouth (Colville)], June, 1873, on 

 x\scot racecourse (Studd, Field, June 28th, 1873 ; Ent., xxv., p. 123), 

 [July, 1873, at Strathearn, Crieff (Raynor, Ent., xiii., p. 162), is 

 in errore for D. hypothous, Cram.], September 3rd, 1874, at Lewes 

 (Hillman, Ent., vii., p. 290), October 13th, 1876, $ caught at Hemel 

 Hempstead (Piffard, E.M.M., xiii., p. 138), September 12th, 1884, 

 at Tottenham (Pool, Ent., xvii., p. 233), September 24th, 1884, at 

 Eastbourne (Alford, Ent., xvii., p. 233), November, 1884, at 

 Blandford (Jeffreys, Ent., xvii., p. 273), July 23rd, 1885, at 

 Hartlepool (Gardner, E.M.M., xxii., p. 89; Ent., xviii., p. 218), 

 larva obtained August, 1885, at Porchester, reared and an imago 

 obtained by Russell (Pearce, Ent., xxiv., p. 92), [Prestwich, 1886 

 (Melvill, Ent., xxiv., p. 195),] September 7th, 1886, in Kensington 

 Gardens, Brighton .^Langley, Ent., xix., p. 250), September 10th, 1886, 

 in Glasgow (Wilson, Young Nat., vii., pp. 212, 230), September 

 20th, 1888, at Poplar (Briggs, Ent., xxi., pp. 258, 265), [October, 

 1888, on London Bridge (Hollis, Ent, xxii., p. 1 20),] [one exhibited 

 by Mason, taken at Burton-on-Trent, at a meeting of Ent. Soc. lond., 

 Oct. 3rd, 1888 ( E.M.M., xxv., p. 143),] September 26th, 1890, 

 at Stoke Fleming* (Owen, E.M.M., xxvi., p. 328; Ent. Rec., i., 

 p. 238), end of July 1896, at Stowting (Upton, Ent., xxix., p. 

 316), September 19th, 1896, near Aberdeen (Home, Ent. Rec., ix., 



* Morres has again recorded {Ent., xxviii., p. 332 ; Ent. Rec, viii., p. 273J, 

 this specimen as coming- from Stoke Henning instead of Stoke Fleming (see Barrett, 

 Ent. Rec, ix., p. 41 ). 



