400 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



districts (Lemann) ; May 19th, and July 20th, 1896, at Jerusalem 

 (Swinton); October 2nd, 1896, atLemnos, October 6th and 23rd, 1896, 

 at Salonica, June, 1897, at Canea and Suda Bay, August 4th and 12th, 

 1897, at Malta (Mathew) ; July 18th, 1897, at Wolfsberg (Lemann) ; 

 June 15th, 1898, at Beyrout (Mathew) ; July 9th, 1898, at Blagaj, 

 May 21st, 1899, in the valley of the Ister, June 12th-26th, 1899, in the 

 Eilska Valley, July 30th, 1899, at Kilo, April 30th, May 2nd, 1900, at 

 Brummana (Nicholl) ; May 18th, 1900, in Morea (Elwes) ; July 12th, 

 1900, at Herculesbad (Lang) ; July 27th, 1900, on the Brenner Pass 

 (Rowland-Brown) ; April 12th, 1901, at Malta, April 20th, 1901, at 

 Corfu (T. B. Fletcher) ; July 2nd, 1904, at Trient (Keynes) ; July 10th, 



1904, at Ain Zahalta, August 7th, 1904, at the mouth of the Dog River, 

 near Beyrout, May 11th, 1905, near Jaffa, May 18th, 1905, near 

 Damascus, May 28th-30th, 1905, in the Zebedani district, May 29th, 



1905, at Baalbek (Graves), etc. In Switzerland, Frey says that it 

 occurs from April- July, and August- September; Wheeler says that his 

 earliest specimen was taken at Veytaux, the first week in May, 1899. 

 Other notes are : August 13th, 1872, at Amsteg (Lang) ; July, 1885, 

 at Disentis (Lemann) ; June 1st, 1886, at Brunnen (Jones) ; August 

 1st, 1894, at Saas-Fee (Rowland-Brown) ; August 6th, 1897, August 

 1st, 1898, at Berisal (Wheeler); July 12th, 1898, at Fusio (Chapman); 

 July lst-13th, 1899, at St. Niklaus (Rosa) ; August 25th-September 

 7th, 1899, in the Lucerne district (Sanford); July 2nd, 1900, at Davos 

 (Sloper) ; July 5th-30th, 1902, at Villars (Moss)"; August 19th. 1902, 

 at Chamonix (Tutt) ; July 21st, 1903, at Berisal (A. H. Jones) ; 

 August 17th, 1903, at Chamonix (Tutt); July 15th, 1904, at 

 Bellinzona, July 23rd, 1904, at Roveredo (Wheeler) ; July 23rd, 

 1904, at Basle, August 5th-7th, 1904, in the Saasthal, August 

 25th, 1905, at La Batiaz (Tutt), etc. In the Channel Isles we have : 

 Early broods not abundant, fairly common in September, in Guernsey 

 (Lowe) ; August 21st-28th, 1886, in Jersey (Jordan); May 28th, 1887, 

 at Ferman Bay and Moulin Hoult Bay (F. A. Walker); June 14th, 

 1887, at St. Peter's, Guernsey (Hawes) ; April 24th, 1893, on the 

 " Gouffre," Guernsey (Hodges); April 18th, 1898, in Guernsey (Lowe) ; 

 one in May, another July 13th, and again August 10th. 1899, in Aldernev 

 (Luff). In the Baltic Provinces it is double-brooded, occurring from 

 early May into June, and then from early August into September 

 (Nolcken). In Scandinavia, at Saeterstoen, June 20th-July 2nd, 1898 

 (Chapman) ; June 18th-28th, July 9th, 1900, at Flodmark (Morton). 

 As to its time of appearance in Britain, Lewin made it triple-brood ed, 

 one brood appearing in late April (the produce, Lewin wrongly says, 

 of chrysalids that have survived the severity of winter), the latter end 

 of June sees the appearance of a second brood, and at the latter end 

 of August a third brood is flying. Curtis says, on the authority of 

 Dale, that there are three broods appearing in succession from the 

 beginning of April to November. Stephens, like Lewin, makes it 

 triple-brooded, the broods occurring respectively in April, June, and 

 August. Dale himself records the latest dates in his own and father's 

 diaries to be November 5th, 1803, and November 8th, 1876, and the 

 earliest April 2nd, 1833, and April 22nd, 1893 (Ent., 1900, p. 351). 

 Even as far north as Durham, Harrison notes it as triple-brooded, 

 occurring in June, September, and a partial brood in October and 

 November (Ent. llec, xvii., p. 254), whilst, in Essex, Eaynorsays that 



