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liphon-LocaLities). " There are bogholes filled with water as in 

 the Welsh local ity, and the végétation is the same; heather, beaked 

 rush, cotton grass, and an occasional stunted birch; while the 

 surface, in patches, is additionally carpeted with cranberries. " 



Of the existence of fhiioxenus in the eastern Macclesfield area 

 of Cheshire, Air. Richard South, writing in the Entomologist 

 (Vol. XXVIII, p. 26/, October 1895), says " there seems to be 

 little doubt that Cœnonympha tiphon (davjis) did exist on Danes' 

 Moss, but I am not sure that it occurs there still, although I got 

 a glimpse of a butterfiy last year which I fancied at the trnie was 

 this species. It is also reported to occur on the " Cat-and-FiddIe " 

 moor, but I hâve not seen it there. " 



In North Shropshire, where the species attains its south-western 

 hmit, we hâve the same more tifhon-XooVvix^ upper side, with the 

 characteristic well-ocellated under sides of true fhiloxenjis. I 

 hâve a short séries of " Salopians " (the county is Salop by ordi- 

 nary usage, = Salopia; this for the benefit of my Continental 

 colleagues); they corne from Whixall Moss, midway between 

 Whitchurch and Ellesmere, and were taken there by the Rev. 

 C. F. Thornewill; and Mr. Johnson also describes phïloxenus 

 {in lit t.) as very abundant near Ellesmere. But at this point, 

 apparently it does not cross the border into Wales, nor can I find 

 record of a similar extension along the Welsh northern counties 

 of Flint, Denbigh, and Carnarvon save for the single mention 

 of Minera Mountain, Denbighshire, in Mr. A. O. Walker's 

 " Macrolepidoptera of the Chester District. " 



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D) and E) Cœnonympha tiphon in Wales and Ireland. 



D) Wales. 



My impression is that until I sounded my correspondents 

 Mr. Arkie. and Mr. W. J. Kerr of Maesmor, Corwen, North Wales, 



