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fair condition at latter elate in Monk's Wood (Peed); July 12th, 1898, in 

 Hazeleigh Wood (Raynor); July 16th, 1898, first appearance for the 

 year in the Leicester district (Dixon); July 16th-27th, 1898, in the 

 New Forest (Carr); July 20th-30th, 1898, at Sidmouth (Wells); August 

 18th, 1898, between Woodhall Spa and Lumby (Musham) ; August 

 25th, 1898, at Aber, in North Wales (Barraud); early June, 1899, on 

 Dartmoor (Gummer); July 11th, 1899, in Chattenden Wood (Jones); 

 July 27th-28th, 1899, at Shipley (J. F. Bird) ; August 6th, 

 1899, common, in the Hailsham district (Carr) ; August 6th, 



1899, in Nottinghamshire (Leivers) ; July 20th-30tb, 1900, in 

 myriads, in the New Forest (Alderson) ; bred July 21st, 1900, from 

 larvae found in a wood, near Lincoln (Pearson) ; July 24th, 1900, at 

 Wareham ; August 13th, 1900, at Dartmouth (Bankes) ; July 26th, 



1900, and following days, at Burgess Hill (Dollman); July 28th, 1900, 

 at Stoke Wood (Pickett) ; July 28th to August 11th, 1900, in the New 

 Forest (J. E. Gardner) ; imagines, common in Abbott's Wood, in 

 August, 1900 (Edelsten) ; August 8th-10th, 1900, at Oxton ; August 

 30th, 1900, at Bexley (Bower) : August 13th-20th, 1900, at Newbury 

 (Hopson) ; bred indoors, June 28th to July 3rd, 1901 (Studd) ; July 

 12th, 1901, at Broxbourne (J. E. Gardner) ; July 13th to August 13th, 



1901, near Brendon (Prout) ; July 16th-25th, 1901, at Cowfold 

 (J. F. Bird) ; July 23rd, 1901, in Bentley Wood (Pyett) ; July 24th,, 

 1901, at Oxshott ; July 29th, 1901, at Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 August 7th, 1901, in the Isle of Purbeck (Bankes) ; August 9th-19th, 

 1901, in the Porlock district (Carr); August 18th, 1901, at Burgess Hill 

 (Dollman) ; bred June 28th, 1902, from larvae taken at Ranmore, and 

 that pupated June 4th (Oldaker) ; July, 1902, in Carlisle (Malcolm) ; 

 imago (male) bred July 19th, 1902, from larva taken June 13th, at 

 Stroud (Davis) ; July 26th, 1902, at Lyndhurst (Rowland-Brown) ; 

 July 27th, 1902, at Cowfold (J. F. Bird); August lst-llth, 1902, at 

 Bank, in the New Forest, abundant (Carr); August lst-20th, 1902, at 

 Burgess Hill (Dollman) ; August 4th, 1902, on Thundersley Common 

 (Whittle) ; August 25th, 1902, in the Llyfnant Valley (Tetley) ; up to- 

 September 3rd, 1902, near Harlech (Graves) ; July 2nd, 1903, at 

 Combe Martin (Peed) ; July 12-th, 1903, in the New Forest (Hopson) ; 

 July 18th to August 21st, 1903, near Brendon (Prout) ; August 6th- 

 13th, 1903, at Bentley (Burrows) : August 1904, common, in Blean 

 Woods (Battley) ; August 2nd-24th, 1904, at Tintern and Llandogo 

 (J. F. Bird) ; August 3rd-17th 1904, at Brockenhurst (Oldaker) ; bred 

 July 14th-17th 1905, from larvae pupated June 29th 1905, at Ashford 

 (Wood) ; July 15th -20th, 1905, at the Fairy Steps, Arnside (Clutten) ; 

 July 15th, 1905, at Mucking (Barrows) ; July 22nd-27th, 1905, at 

 Tintern and Llandogo (J. F. Bird) ; imago emerged July 7th ; 

 imagines caught July 28th, 1906, at Hazeleigh ; August 17th, 1906, 

 at Stoke Dry (Raynor) ; first noticed July 20th, and still to be 

 met w 7 ith on September 2nd, 1906, at Tintern and Llandogo 

 (J. F. Bird); July 25th, 1906, near Ashford (Wood) ; August 6th, 

 1906, at Market Rasen (Lewington). 



Habits. — Glaser observes that, in 1853, he reared a considerable 

 number of imagines, in Hesse, that the pupal stage lasted about twelve 

 days, that at first only females emerged, and that the last of all the emer- 

 gences were males. Raynor notes (in litt.) that an imago emerged on July 

 7th, 1906, at 8.30 a.m. The "purple hairstreak" loves to gambol about 



