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will allow of its being detected, hand-picking is the 

 best method to pursue for obtaining so delicate an 

 insect. As the set specimen dries the fine green 

 colour changes to a dull brown, but if the body is 

 eviscerated, the contents being replaced by a small 

 amount of cotton-wool, colouring alters but little, and 

 the preserved insect gives a good idea of its appear- 

 ance in the living state. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -Central and south-eastern Europe- 

 Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Britain, France, 



Switzerland, Northern Italv, Austria, and Germany 



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also in Palestine. 



BRITISH LOCALITIES. 



Most of the records of L. pum-tni ixxima in these islands 

 are from England and those chieHy from the south and east. 

 There are besides single ones from Wales and Scotland, and 

 two from Ireland. 



ENGLAND. Berks : Bagley Wood, and the neighbourhood 

 of Radley College (Burr). Cambridgeshire: Wicken (Porritt); 

 Cambridge (Btiteson). Cornwall: \Videmouth Bay near 

 Bude, and Snltash (Bracken). Devon ; East Lynn ,-md 

 Lynmonth (Briggs) Cann and Bickleigh Woods (Bignell) ; 

 Barnstaple, Nyinet Rowland, and Churston (Porritt) ; Coombe 

 Martin (Shaic) ; Tot nes (Sicintoii) Plympton near Plymouth, 

 Woolacombe, Shaug'h Bridge, and Torquay (Bracken). 

 Dorset : Glanvilles Wootton (C. W. Dale) ; Dorchester (Sopp) ; 

 Essex: Colchester (Haru-ood). Gloucestershire: (Edwards). 

 Hants : New Forest (Lucas) ; Hayling Island (Guermonprez) ; 

 Lord Wood Southampton, and Aldershot (Sopp). Hereford- 

 shire : Lord's Wood (Tomlin). Hertfordshire,: near Hertford 

 (Stephens)- Hemel Hempstead (Gibbs). I. of M'ight : Yar- 

 mouth (Morley) Freshwater, Freshwater Bay, Compton, 

 Blackgang Chine, Underchff, and Parkhurst Forest (Burr). 

 Kent : Folkestone Warren (Moore) ; Chittenden Woods near 

 Strood (Milton) New Eltham (Kemp) ; Darenth and Birch 

 Woods (Stephens) ; Huntingfield, Walmer, and Deal (Chitty) ; 

 Dart-ford (McLachlan) near Maidstone (Fremlin) ; Blear 

 Wood near Herne Bay (Guermonprez) ; Eastry, Sibertswold, 

 MIR! the Warren (Burr). Lincolnshire : Near Lincoln (Mas- 

 hum) ; Skellingthorpe Wood near Lincoln, and Gate Burton 

 (Shaw)-, Little By tham (Stow). Middlesex: Hanwell (Webb); 



