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lat. (Loat) ; April 30th-May 2nd, 1900, at Brummana, about ten 

 miles east of Beyrout, also from April to June, 1900, from 2000ft.- 

 6000ft. in the Lebanon (Nicholl) ; May 10th, 1905, near Jaffa ; May 

 31st-June 8th, at 4000ft., at Ain Zahalta (Graves) ; May 13th in the 

 Wied Kratal, Malta; June 2nd, 1902, in the Wied il Handak ; 

 June 3rd, very worn at Suda Bay, Crete (Fletcher) ; June 2nd- 6th, 

 1896, at Jerusalem (Swinton) ; June 9th, 1878, at Port Baklar, 

 also June 11th, July 6th-7th, 17th-27th, August 3rd, 1878 (Walker); 

 June 26th, 1907, in the Ezbekiah Gardens (Graves)-, July 3rd, 

 1893, at Malta (Walker) ; July 9th, 1904, at Beyrout (Graves) ; 

 July 16th, 1899, at Trebinje (Rebel) ; July 23rd, 1902, a female at 

 Dubnica (Rebel) ; July 19th, 1901, on the Marsa, Malta (Fletcher) ; 

 August 24th, 1898, at Ilidze (Winneguth) ; in August and September 

 at Borjom, in Transcaucasia (Romanoff) ; fairly common throughout 

 August and September, 1903, at Broussa (Fountaine) ; September 

 23rd, 1875, at Civita Vecchia (Walker) ; September, 1863, in 

 Palestine (Tristram) ; September and October, 1901, at Nikosia 

 and Troodos, 3000ft., in Cyprus (Bate); October 5th, 1901, 

 fairly common at Lemnos (Fletcher) ; October 6th-23rd, 1896, at 

 Salonica (Mathew) ; September 16th-28th, at Besika Bay (Walker) ; 

 November 4th, 1903, in the Argotti Gardens, Malta (Fletcher) ; 

 December 21st, 1904, very common, but males worn, at Sawakin, 

 Sudan (Fletcher). In Nigeria, it is recorded from Jebba in November, 

 from Rabba, also in November, and at Boussa in December (Christy 

 teste Sharp, Ent., xxxv., p. 102). In equatorial Africa, it was dis- 

 covered from January to March, 1900, at Wadelai (Sykes, Ent., xxxvi., 

 p. 6). As another almost equatorial record, it may be observed that it 

 was noted on August 10th, 1905, at Port Louis in Mauritius, on 

 September 18th, October 31st and November 3rd, 1905, commonly, at 

 Mane, in the Seychelles (T. B. Fletcher) ; December 1906, at Lagos 

 (Gladstone). The western Mediterranean area also gives interesting 

 results. Kollmorgen notes that, in Corsica, imagines occur from June 

 to November, extending up the mountains to 800 metres; Mrs. Nicholl 

 writes : " In Spain there appears to be a succession of broods in the 

 hot plains, but only two or one according to elevation in the moun- 

 tains ; I have taken it in April and May at Granada, in June and 

 July, in Central Spain, in July at 6000ft. elevation on the Picos 

 d'Europa." It occurs throughout the greater part of the year in the 

 Barcelona district (Cuni y Martorell) ; Chapman took a worn specimen 

 February, 1896, and another worn one March 7th, 1897, at Cannes. 

 Rowland-Brown records a pair on April 3rd, 1898, at Hyeres, 

 yet Milliere states that it only occurs in the autumn in the Alpes- 

 Maritimes, being seen flying abundantly from the middle of August 

 to the end of October and he adds that he believes it has only 

 one time of appearance, viz., August to October, but that, during 

 this period, several generations follow each other without interrup- 

 tion, although Warburg writes (Ent., xxii., p. 258) that it flies at 

 Cannes on warm sunny days about the beginning of December, fresh 

 specimens again appearing in July. Walker observes that, in the 

 region of the Straits of Gibraltar, it is common almost all the year, 

 and that he has dates for the district extending from February 28th to 

 October 30th, and, as showing how it appears all the year round, notes 

 that he captured it on October 30th, 1886 (fresh), February 28th, 



