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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  1892, 
  at 
  Scarborough 
  (Farren) 
  ; 
  April 
  1st, 
  1898, 
  at 
  Panton 
  (Raynor) 
  ; 
  

   imagines 
  April 
  24th, 
  1893, 
  at 
  Seaton 
  (Still); 
  May 
  13th, 
  1893, 
  at 
  

   Giftnock, 
  July 
  13th, 
  1893, 
  at 
  Luss, 
  August 
  17th, 
  1893, 
  at 
  Crookston 
  

   (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  June 
  2nd 
  and 
  14th, 
  1893, 
  at 
  Southend 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  June 
  

   6th, 
  1893, 
  imagines 
  at 
  Mansfield 
  (Daws) 
  ; 
  June 
  15th, 
  1893, 
  imagines 
  

   common 
  at 
  Lee 
  (Bower) 
  ; 
  August, 
  1893, 
  common 
  at 
  Morecambe 
  

   (Porritt) 
  ; 
  May 
  8th, 
  1894, 
  at 
  Prittlewell 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  June, 
  1894, 
  at 
  

   North 
  Berwick, 
  July 
  17th, 
  1894, 
  at 
  Newpark, 
  July 
  31st, 
  1894, 
  at 
  

   Otterston, 
  July 
  4th, 
  1894, 
  at 
  Winton 
  (Evans); 
  June 
  8th, 
  1894, 
  in 
  Upper 
  

   Teesdale 
  (Bower) 
  ; 
  June 
  6th 
  and 
  11th, 
  1894, 
  at 
  Stockton 
  (Lofthouse); 
  

   June 
  13th, 
  1894, 
  at 
  Giffnock 
  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  imagines 
  July 
  9th, 
  1894, 
  in 
  

   Teesdale, 
  September 
  17th, 
  1894, 
  on 
  Greenwich 
  Marshes 
  (Bower); 
  May 
  

   22nd 
  and 
  September 
  8th, 
  1895, 
  at 
  Prittlewell 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  imagines 
  

   abundant 
  near 
  Bride, 
  August, 
  1895 
  (Ash) 
  ; 
  June 
  27th, 
  1896, 
  at 
  

   Bransford 
  (Edwards 
  and 
  Towndrow) 
  ; 
  June 
  6th, 
  1897, 
  at 
  Carlisle 
  

   (F. 
  H. 
  Day) 
  ; 
  June 
  17th, 
  1897, 
  at 
  Harrow 
  (Rothschild) 
  ; 
  June 
  17th, 
  

   1898, 
  imagines 
  common 
  at 
  Lee 
  (Bower) 
  ; 
  August 
  22nd, 
  October 
  29th, 
  

   1898, 
  at 
  Corsemalzie 
  (Gordon) 
  ; 
  early 
  June, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Carlisle 
  (Day) 
  ; 
  

   June 
  15th, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Bredon 
  (Edwards 
  and 
  Towndrow); 
  July 
  1st, 
  1899, 
  

   at 
  Hazeleigh 
  (Raynor) 
  ; 
  July 
  2nd, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Upper 
  Clapton 
  (Bacot) 
  ; 
  

   August 
  7th 
  -20th, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Shoeburyness 
  (Whittle); 
  August 
  19th, 
  1899, 
  at 
  

   Chiswick 
  (Sich) 
  ; 
  an 
  imago 
  bred 
  August 
  23rd, 
  1899, 
  at 
  Buckerell 
  

   (Riding) 
  ; 
  July 
  7th, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Dundonald 
  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  July 
  9th, 
  1900, 
  

   rare 
  at 
  Oxton 
  (Studd); 
  August 
  1st, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Dawlish 
  (Turner); 
  August 
  

   18th 
  and 
  September 
  11th, 
  1900, 
  at 
  Shoeburyness, 
  June 
  15th, 
  1901, 
  at 
  

   Prittlewell 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  July 
  10th, 
  1901, 
  at 
  Kirn 
  (Dalglish) 
  ; 
  end 
  of 
  

   August, 
  1901, 
  at 
  Bawdsey 
  (Pyett) 
  ; 
  June 
  15th, 
  1902, 
  at 
  Birtley 
  

   (Harrison) 
  ; 
  August 
  9th, 
  1902, 
  near 
  Ashford 
  (Edelsten) 
  ; 
  June 
  18th, 
  

   1903, 
  at 
  Skinningrove, 
  in 
  the 
  Cleveland 
  district 
  (Lofthouse) 
  ; 
  June 
  

   20tb, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Southchurch 
  ; 
  June 
  30th, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Shoeburyness; 
  

   August 
  30th, 
  1903, 
  near 
  Great 
  Wakering 
  (Whittle) 
  ; 
  September 
  3rd- 
  

   16th, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Birtley 
  Fell 
  (Harrison); 
  June 
  4th-6th, 
  1903, 
  May 
  25th- 
  

   26tb, 
  1904, 
  from 
  larvae 
  collected 
  April 
  30th, 
  1904, 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  

   Purbeck 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  May 
  15th, 
  1904, 
  and 
  throughout 
  the 
  month, 
  also 
  

   on 
  September 
  6th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Strood 
  (Ovenden) 
  ; 
  July 
  30th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  

   Burnley 
  (Clutten); 
  June 
  3rd, 
  1905, 
  at 
  Mucking 
  (Burrows) 
  ; 
  June 
  3rd, 
  

   1905, 
  abundant 
  at 
  North 
  wood 
  (Turner). 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  The 
  imagines 
  hide 
  during 
  the 
  day 
  either 
  on 
  the 
  coltsfoot 
  

   or 
  other 
  herbage 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood, 
  usually 
  sheltered 
  by 
  the 
  large 
  

   leaves, 
  and 
  are 
  not 
  easily 
  disturbed 
  at 
  this 
  time. 
  If 
  a 
  specimen 
  be 
  made 
  

   to 
  take 
  flight 
  it 
  only 
  moves 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  and 
  soon 
  hides 
  again 
  low 
  down 
  

   on 
  the 
  herbage 
  near 
  the 
  ground. 
  This 
  is 
  also 
  its 
  habit 
  abroad 
  as 
  we 
  

   found 
  in 
  the 
  Tyrol 
  on 
  the 
  TreCroci 
  pass 
  behind 
  Cortina, 
  and 
  Zeller 
  noted 
  

   when 
  collecting 
  in 
  the 
  Oberalbula, 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  own 
  district 
  at 
  Meseritz. 
  

   It 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  readily 
  disturbed 
  in 
  the 
  late 
  afternoon, 
  and 
  appears 
  

   sometimes 
  even 
  to 
  be 
  moving 
  about 
  quite 
  naturally 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  

   but 
  flies 
  freely 
  towards 
  dusk, 
  and 
  on 
  into 
  the 
  night. 
  Sich 
  says 
  that 
  

   the 
  imagines 
  commonly 
  rest 
  by 
  clinging 
  only 
  with 
  the 
  pro- 
  and 
  

   mesothoracic 
  legs, 
  the 
  former 
  spread 
  out 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  

   wings, 
  the 
  latter 
  spread 
  out 
  under 
  the 
  wings, 
  and 
  often 
  hidden 
  by 
  

   them. 
  The 
  metathoracic 
  legs 
  are 
  held 
  under 
  the 
  body, 
  crossed 
  at 
  the 
  

   tarsal 
  portions. 
  The 
  wings 
  are 
  horizontally 
  outspread, 
  the 
  forewings 
  

   covering 
  the 
  hindwings 
  except 
  the 
  dorsal 
  fringes. 
  The 
  body 
  hangs 
  

   down 
  at 
  right 
  angles 
  to 
  the 
  forewings 
  with 
  the 
  last 
  segments 
  curved 
  

  

  