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p. 63), 2 September 18th, 1900, at Yalding (Reid, Ent. Rec, ix., 

 p. 303; Ent., xxxiii., p. 305), September 24th, 1900, 2 taken at 

 Chickerell, by Mrs. New (Richardson, Ent. Rec, xii., p. 303 ; 

 E.M.M., xxxvi., p. 260), imago at Teignmouth *, October 23rd, 

 1900 (Evans, Ent., xxxiii., p. 352), end of September, 1900, at 

 Barrhead (Grant, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 52), September, 

 1900, in Bishopsgate Street (Sandford, Ent. Rec, xii., p. 347). 



LOCALITIES. — The following are the localities where examples have been 

 taken in Britain: Aberdeen: Aberdeen (Home). Berks: Ascot (Studd). 

 Derby : Burton-on-Trent (Mason). Devon : Stoke Fleming-, near Dartmouth 

 (Owen), Teignmouth (Evans), near Barnstaple ( Raddon teste Humphreys 

 & Westwood). Dorset : Chickerell, near Weymouth (Richardson), Parkstone 

 ^yfe Bankes) , Blandford (Jeffreys). Durham: Hartlepool, once (Gardner). Essex: 

 Poplar (Briggs). Hants: near Netley' (Ingram teste Curtis). Porchester (Russell 

 teste Pearce), Sandown (Bromfield). Herts : Hemel Hempstead (Piffard). 

 Kent : Dover ('Stephens), Yalding (Reid), Stowting (Upton). Lanark : 

 Glasgow (Wilson). Lancashire : Prestwich (Melvill). Middlesex : Totten- 

 ham (Pool). Norfolk : Yarmouth (Colville). Renfrewshire : Barrhead 

 (Grant). Suffolk: Aldeby, near Beccles /Winter). Sussex: Hastings (Tenner), 

 Brighton (Thorncroft), Eastbourne (Costick), St. Leonards (Wood), Lewes (Hill- 

 man). Warwick : Birmingham (Enock). Yorks : Sheffield (Hydes). 



DISTRIBUTION. — This is a tropical and subtropical species, distributed 

 throughout Africa and the southern parts of Asia, extending into Europe and 

 temperate Asia at irregular periods, imagines being picked up here and there 

 throughout Europe, whilst occasionally a ? lays her eggs and the larvae produce 

 a late brood of imagines ; the species appears, however, to be quite unable to 

 winter in any stage, except in the hotter parts of its range. Africa : the whole 

 of Africa (Boisduval), Western Africa. Grand Bassam (Harker), Sierra-Leone — 

 Freetown (coll. Oberthiir), Azores (Godman), the Canaries, Southern Nigeria, 

 Nyassaland (coll. Brit Mus.), Umtali (Marshall), Delagoa Bay (coll. Oberthiir), 

 Natal, rarely (Spiller), Durban (Leigh), Zululand (Slater), rather common at 

 Mozambique, Bourbon, Mauritius and Madagascar (Boisduval), Comoro Islands 

 (Humblot). Asia : Asia Minor— between Turbaldy and Smyrna (Staudinger), 

 Beyrout, fairly common (Lederer), Aden (coll. Brit. Mus.), India — Silhet (coll. 

 Boisduval), Saugor, very common (Chaumette), Coromandel Coast (Cramer), 

 Trichinopoly (Castets), Bengal (Boisduval), Madras, Old Calabar, Ceylon 

 (coll. Brit. Mus.), East Indies (Horstield), Java (Cramer). Europe : Austro- 

 Hungary : Tyrol, very rare — often not rare at Botzen, e.g., 16 taken in 

 1863 (Hinterwaldner), Innsbruck, Taufers Valley, only in hot summers, e.g., 

 1857, 1869 (Weiler), Bukovina, only in the lowlands (Hormuzaki), Pressburg, 

 in 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877 (Rozsay), Bohemia— Steinitz, one, Budweis and Elbogen 

 district, several larvae in 1846 (Nickerl), Augsburg, Pi ague, Asch, Vienna, 

 Linz, Aschach, Sirning, .Salzburg, once, (Jarniola, Buda (Speyer), Inns- 

 bruck, 8 larvae, September 13th- 15th, 1872 (Weiler), Hermannstadt, 

 larvae, 1866, Kronstadt, larvae, 1890, not indigenous (Czekelius), Eperies, 

 not since 1875 (Husz), Salzburg, some years ago (Nicked), Dalmatia, 

 Zara (coll. Oberthiir). Belgium : Brussels, Louvain, Namur (Donckier). 

 Bulgaria : Sofia (Bachmetjew). Finland : Ryska Karelen (Giinther). France : 

 common throughout the Mediterranean littoral, accidentally only in other parts 

 of France (Berce), near Caen, one (Fauvel), Douai, two only (Foucart), Berry 

 and Auvergne, accidentally (Sand), Eure-et-Loir, accidentally in certain years 

 (Guenee), Haute-Garonne— occasionally between 1859- 1865, larva? on oleander 

 in gardens (Caradja), Digne, Marseilles (Dardoin), Toulon (Speyer), Var (Cantener), 

 Gironde — Talence, Bordeaux (Trimoulet), Loire-Inferieure, one or two (Bonjour), 

 Sarthe (Desportes), Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo (Milliere), Hyeres (Meissouier), 

 Epernay, Montpellier (Paris), Pont Saint Esprit (Blanc), dept. Aisne (Kiinckel), 

 Chartres (Lesage), Abbeville (Fairmaire), Fourquex (Paris), Besancon (Bruand), 

 Amiens (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1886, p. 55], Nantes, Le Pau, Lignieres, Gourieux, 



* Lake notes {Ent., xxxiii., p. 352) an example taken about 50 years ago (i.e., 

 50 years before 1900) at Teignmouth. This was not so; a larva was taken there in 

 1832, but died (see Ent. Mag., ii., p. 1 16 ; Curt., Brit. Ent., fo. 626). 



