Ift03.] 5 



Bedfordshire. — Taken by the Rev. Dr. Abbott in the Mouse's Pasture, near 

 Bedford, in 1798, and by J. C. Dale in 1819. 



Huntingdonshire.— One taken in Monk's Wood by J. C. Dale, July 3rd, 1833, 



Cambridgeshire. — Chatteris, Stainton (Ent. Trans., 1858 — 1861, p. 234). 



Rutlandshire. — Rington, same reference as above. 



Buckinghamshire.— Cliefden, Lewin, 1795. 



Kent. — " Has been taken on the Dover Cliffs," Lewin, 1795. " It has been 

 caught near the signal house on the cliffs at Dover, and several were taken the past 

 season in the vicinity of Deal " (Stephens' Illustrations, 1828). 



Hampshire. — Taken on the hills near Winchester by Mr. Griesbach, when a 

 boy at school there ; some of the specimens were in Mr. Curtis' collection. 



Wiltshire. — Marlborough Downs, Lewin, 1795 ; Savernake Forest, T. A. 

 Preston (Newman's Butterflies, 1871). 



Dorsetshire. — Charmouth, one specimen, Beverley Morris (F. O. Morris 

 British Butterflies, 1853). 



Somersetshire. — Hills near Bath, Lewin, 1795. " In plenty on the hills near 

 Langport, by Messrs. J. C. Dale, Quekett, and Paul, in 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836. 

 I took about forty specimens on June 15th, 1833, in a situation abounding with 

 long grass and brambles, at Langport ; and on the same day in 1834 I took about 

 twenty, and Mr. Dale ten," John Quekett (Newman's Butterflies). 



Herefordshire. — "Taken near the aqueduct, Hereford, but rare," F. E. 

 Harman (Newman's Butterflies, 1871). 



Q-lanvilles Wootton, Dorset : 

 1902. 



AN ALPINE FORM {HOLOTOXA, Metr.) OF CIFOEEUTIS 

 MYLLERANA, Fabr. 



BY E. METRICK, B.A., F.Z.S. 



I took a fresh ? of this insect in the middle of August near 

 the Karer-See, S. Tyrol, at about 7,500 feet ; it differs in some par- 

 ticulars from every specimen I have seen, and probably represents a 

 peculiar local form. The differences are as follows : abdomen more 

 irregularly mixed with whitish ; fore-wings with dorsal half of median 

 area much more densely irrorated with whitish, upper of the two 

 white discal dots obsolete, silvery markings united to form an entire 

 curved line from beyond middle of costa to tornus, white costal spot 

 beyond this considerably enlarged ; under-surface of hind-wings with 

 disc irregularly mixed with white, with an entire curved postmedian 

 white transverse line. In normal specimens the silvery line men- 

 tioned in the fore-wings is always interrupted in disc, and the 

 under-surface of hind-wings has only two white discal dots, whilst its 



