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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  July, 
  possibly 
  after 
  hybernation, 
  and 
  apparently, 
  as 
  another 
  generation, 
  

   in 
  August 
  and 
  throughout 
  the 
  autumn, 
  even 
  emerging 
  in 
  October 
  and 
  

   November, 
  but 
  whether 
  as 
  a 
  third 
  generation, 
  or 
  only 
  a 
  second, 
  or 
  even 
  

   a 
  deferred 
  emergence, 
  is 
  not 
  clearly 
  ascertained." 
  Bankes 
  notes: 
  

   " 
  Imagines, 
  that 
  presumably 
  have 
  hybernated, 
  are 
  occasionally 
  met 
  

   with 
  from 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  May 
  till 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  July, 
  and 
  during 
  

   the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  July, 
  at 
  any 
  rate, 
  in 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  England, 
  young 
  

   larvae 
  may 
  generally 
  be 
  found 
  already 
  feeding 
  on 
  flower- 
  spikes 
  of 
  

   Stachys 
  sylvatica, 
  etc. 
  There 
  must 
  be 
  at 
  least 
  two 
  broods 
  in 
  the 
  south, 
  

   for, 
  throughout 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  August 
  and 
  September, 
  and 
  the 
  earlier 
  part 
  

   of 
  October, 
  larva? 
  can 
  be 
  collected, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  therefore 
  obtainable, 
  

   without 
  any 
  intermission, 
  over 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  nearly 
  three 
  months, 
  during 
  

   the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  time 
  pupae 
  are 
  also 
  procurable 
  on 
  the 
  flower- 
  

   or 
  seed-spikes 
  of 
  the 
  foodplants. 
  The 
  moths 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  brood 
  begin 
  to 
  

   emerge 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  August." 
  Eeid 
  notes 
  it 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  

   August 
  in 
  Aberdeenshire, 
  and 
  Henderson 
  observes 
  that 
  newly-emerged 
  

   specimens 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  July, 
  whilst 
  hybernated 
  examples 
  

   are 
  not 
  infrequent 
  in 
  May 
  and 
  early 
  June, 
  at 
  Garelochhead, 
  in 
  Dumbar- 
  

   tonshire. 
  Porritt 
  notes 
  hybernated 
  examples 
  occurring^in 
  Yorkshire 
  in 
  

   June, 
  newly-emerged 
  ones 
  in 
  August. 
  Although 
  such 
  a 
  well-known 
  

   species, 
  continental 
  lepidopterists 
  give 
  but 
  little 
  detailed 
  account 
  of 
  it, 
  

   and 
  the 
  exact 
  records 
  of 
  its 
  appearance 
  abroad 
  are 
  comparatively 
  few. 
  

   We 
  have 
  collected 
  the 
  following 
  :— 
  Continental 
  records. 
  — 
  May 
  23rd, 
  

   1846, 
  at 
  Syracuse, 
  June 
  28th, 
  1846, 
  in 
  Catania 
  (Zeller) 
  ; 
  May 
  17th, 
  

   1862, 
  near 
  Pichtendahl 
  (Nolcken) 
  ; 
  April 
  22nd, 
  1870, 
  at 
  Marshen, 
  in 
  

   northwest 
  Morocco 
  (Blackmore) 
  ; 
  May 
  8th, 
  1880, 
  on 
  the 
  hill, 
  south- 
  

   west 
  of 
  Almodovar 
  (Ragonot) 
  ; 
  May 
  17th, 
  1892, 
  at 
  Hvaloerne 
  ; 
  July 
  

   12th-17th, 
  1892, 
  at 
  Sireosen 
  (Strand) 
  ; 
  August 
  12th, 
  1896, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Combe 
  de 
  Malaval, 
  about 
  3 
  miles 
  below 
  La 
  Grave; 
  July 
  27th-31st, 
  1898, 
  

   at 
  Bourg 
  St. 
  Maurice 
  ; 
  August 
  9th-18th, 
  1901, 
  at 
  Bobbie 
  (Tutt) 
  ; 
  July 
  

   21st, 
  1901, 
  at 
  Nasenica, 
  in 
  Bosnia 
  (Rebel) 
  ; 
  July 
  10th, 
  1903, 
  at 
  Etivaz 
  

   (Blachier). 
  British 
  records. 
  — 
  Emerged 
  October 
  14th- 
  16th, 
  1863, 
  from 
  

   pupae 
  found 
  on 
  geranium 
  at 
  Wandsworth 
  (Tuely); 
  September 
  22nd, 
  1865, 
  

   at 
  Teignmouth 
  (Jordan) 
  ; 
  bred 
  October 
  1st, 
  1865, 
  from 
  pupae 
  found 
  

   attached 
  by 
  tail-end 
  to 
  flower-stalks 
  of 
  a 
  garden 
  geranium, 
  at 
  Alphington 
  

   (D'Orville) 
  ; 
  June 
  9th, 
  1867, 
  at 
  Guestling 
  (Bloomfield) 
  ; 
  end 
  of 
  August, 
  

   1867, 
  at 
  Heme 
  Bay 
  (Buckmaster) 
  ; 
  July, 
  1868, 
  in 
  Rossshire 
  (White) 
  ; 
  

   July 
  16th-17th, 
  1869, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (Gregson) 
  ; 
  July 
  7th-8th, 
  1870, 
  on 
  

   the 
  Bolt 
  Head 
  (Mathew) 
  ; 
  bred 
  throughout 
  October, 
  1871, 
  from 
  larvae 
  

   collected 
  in 
  September, 
  in 
  the 
  Gravesend 
  district 
  (Button) 
  ; 
  July, 
  1879, 
  

   at 
  Dutton 
  (Hodgkinson) 
  ; 
  August 
  5th, 
  1879, 
  at 
  Folkestone 
  (Sang) 
  ; 
  

   abundant 
  at 
  Croydon, 
  in 
  August, 
  1879 
  (Gill); 
  September 
  3rd, 
  1879, 
  near 
  

   Witham 
  (Cansdale) 
  ; 
  July 
  7th-9th, 
  1883, 
  common 
  at 
  Dover 
  (Coverdale); 
  

   August, 
  1883, 
  at 
  Sandwich 
  (Shepherd) 
  ; 
  August 
  17th-19th, 
  1884, 
  

   imagines 
  bred 
  from 
  larvae 
  taken 
  by 
  Bankes 
  at 
  Corfe 
  Castle 
  (Porritt) 
  ; 
  

   October, 
  1884, 
  at 
  Aberayron 
  (Richardson); 
  imagines 
  bred 
  August 
  30th- 
  

   September 
  21st, 
  1886, 
  from 
  larvae 
  collected 
  in 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck, 
  

   August 
  5th-25th, 
  1886 
  (Bankes) 
  ; 
  imagines 
  bred 
  September 
  21st, 
  

   1886, 
  and 
  following 
  days, 
  from 
  larvae 
  collected 
  by 
  W. 
  H. 
  B. 
  Fletcher, 
  

   September 
  7th, 
  1886, 
  at 
  Worthing 
  (Porritt) 
  ; 
  bred 
  October 
  7th, 
  1886, 
  

   from 
  Sanderstead 
  larvae 
  (Sheldon) 
  ; 
  July 
  10th, 
  1887, 
  at 
  Ham 
  

   Ponds, 
  August 
  8th, 
  1888, 
  at 
  Kingsdown 
  (Tutt) 
  ; 
  June 
  6th, 
  1888, 
  at 
  

   Chickerell 
  ; 
  ? 
  , 
  probably 
  hybernated, 
  captured 
  June 
  17th, 
  1888, 
  at 
  

   Llangennech, 
  in 
  Cardiganshire, 
  eggs 
  laid 
  same 
  day, 
  produced,, 
  in 
  

  

  