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EXPLANATION OF PLATE III. 



APATANIA WALLENGRENI. 



1, apex of abdomen from above ; 2, ditto from beneath ; 3, internal apparatus 

 from beneath. 



APATANIA STIGMATELLA. 



4, apex of abdomen from above ; 5, ditto from beneath ; 6, internal apparatus 



from beneath. 



Apatania muliebris. 



7, apex of abdomen from above ; 8, ditto from beneath ; 9, internal apparatus 

 from beneath. 



Apatania fimbriata. 



10, apex of abdomen from above ; 11, ditto from beneath ; 12, internal appara- 

 tus from beneath. 



Apatania arctica. 



13, apex of abdomen from above (Spitsbergen) ; 14, ditto from above, more 

 exserted (Kaafjord) ; 15, ditto from beneath (Spitsbergen) ; 16, ditto from beneath, 

 in part, more exserted (Kaafjord) ; 17, ditto from beneath, in part, much exserted 

 Kaafjord) ; 18, internal apparatus from beneath (Spitsbergen) ; 19, base of foot- 

 shaped piece (Kaafjord, Nordreisen, Bruendhaugen,' &c). 



13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh : 

 March, 1902. 



HISTORICAL NOTES ON APORIA CRATMQI IX BRITAIN. 

 BY C. W. DALE, P.E.S 



The only part of Britain where this species still exists is in the 

 county of Kent. Accounts of its occurrence there are given in the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vols, xxiii and xxiv ; Entomologist, 1890, p. 332 ; and 

 Ent. Eecord. 1901, p. 300. It formerly existed in the following 

 counties : — 



Surrey. —J. F. Stephens wrote in the Zoologist, vol. v, p. 16 1 fi, "The first 

 visit I paid to Coombe Wood, on May 24th, 1810, I met with several specimens of 

 cratrpgi ;" and in his Illustrations, " In June, 1810, I saw it in plenty at Coombe 

 Wood, and in the following year I captured several on Muswell Hill ; since which 

 I have not seen any at large." 



Middlesex. — In a footnote to p. 1616 of the Zoologist, vol. v, Mr. Stephens 

 also wrote: "The late Mr. Haworth told me that he found this insect at Little 

 Chelsea for nearly thirty successive years ; but about 1818 it disappeared from that 

 neighbourhood." 



Sussex.— See Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 217. 



Isle of Wigiit. — Rare, Quarr Copse, Alfred Owen (Newman's Butterflies, 1871). 



Hampshire. — Near Petersfield, Rev. H. Harpur Crewe; Bishop's Waltham, 

 Southsea, H. Monereaff ; Farnham, common in 1847, Kmsworth, W. H. Draper 

 (Newman's Butterflies). An interesting history is given of its occurrence in the 

 New ForeBt by Mr. Gross in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 218. 



