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(Mason), and in the lanes of Cornwall, the second-brood haunting the 

 bramble-blossom with Bryan paphia (Bowles). In the New Forest the 

 species is generally distributed, but particularly abundant about the 

 holly-thickets in the spring, and more distributed by the hedgesides and 

 in the gardens on the outskirts of the forest, in the autumn (Fowler). 

 It is also very abundant along the undercliff at ISiton, etc., in the Isle 

 of Wight, in spring (Goss), and equally abundant both in the wooded 

 portion of the undercliff and in the woodlands in the late summer 

 (Prideaux), and, whilst it abounds throughout the large old gardens, as 

 well as the hedges and woodlands of Devon, it also occurs on the open 

 heaths on Dartmoor, at considerable distances from hedge or woodland 

 (Prideaux). In Bucks it is particularly partial to the beech woods 

 (Clarke), whilst in Sussex the species was most abundant at a spot 

 called " Chuck Hatch," where holly plantations are numerous, the 

 hollies in some cases growing to a great height ; the immediate 

 surroundings are wild and barren, there being nothing but moorland 

 for miles around, with a solitary wild-crab or a yew-tree dotted here 

 and there (Blaber). It occurs throughout Surrey and Kent, being 

 generally distributed even throughout all the suburban gardens around 

 London. In the Guildford district it appeared to be most abundant 

 about a thick hedge which runs along the top of the chalk ridge east 

 of Guildford ; in July, 1896, and, when the imagines were not sipping 

 nectar at the flowers of bramble, they appeared to choose the bushes 

 of Bhamnus catharticus on which to rest (G rover), but at Reigate, 

 Dorking, etc., it is also very generally distributed. In Kent, as 

 already noted, it occurs almost everywhere, in the spring— in parks, 

 gardens, the outskirts of shrubberies, woods, and by hedgesides, and, 

 in the autumn, on old ivied walls. In the Epping district it is so far 

 localised that, whilst not uncommon about the holly in some woods, it 

 appears to be entirely absent on other clumps of holly at no great 

 distance (Stockley); it is reported also that the second brood here is 

 very rare; in the Colchester district it is confined to head-quarters in the 

 holly-districts in seasons when the climatic or other conditions are 

 adverse, being then rarely seen elsewhere, but, in favourable seasons, it 

 is continually extending its range, being met with in gardens and lanes 

 throughout the district, and even in the streets of the town, whilst it is 

 periodically abundant about the ivy that grows upon Colchester Castle 

 (Harwood). In Cambridgeshire it is noted as being abundant in the chalk- 

 pits of the Gogmagog Hills near Cambridge (Lee). In Gloucestershire 

 it is erratic in appearance, both broods occurring abundantly, however, 

 in favourable years in woods and gardens (Watkins). On the continent 

 of Europe its localities appear to be very similar. It occurs throughout 

 France in localities similar to those of Britain, abounding in the French 

 and Italian Riviera in gardens, by hedges, copses, etc. ; swarming 

 sometimes over the broom-covered slopes of the mountains of the 

 Basses-Alpes and the Alpes-Maritimes, and in the gardens at Hyeres ; 

 abundant on the bush-covered slopes of Hyeres and Carqueiranne, the 

 dells of the Esterel, the coppices of the Siagne, the gardens of 

 Draguignan, the thyme-clad slopes on the outskirts of the woods 

 abound Alassio, etc. It is equally abundant among the partly- wood 

 partly- garden slopes behind Locarno, etc., and Rowland-Brown 

 notes it as particularly abundant by a lovely fountain in the 

 chestnut-wood of the Tavignano Valley. In the late summer 



