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weather is bright and suuny, flying all day about the opeu 

 spaces and broad paths of the woods in which the wood- 

 spurge is common. If the sun becomes clouded over, it at 

 once hides itself, and, except in very hot, close weather, 

 cannot be then induced to tly. There appears to be no 

 reason to suppose that it moves about at all at dusk, or in 

 the night, or in cool, dull days. Found only in woods, 

 where it frecpients the more open portions, and in their 

 immediate vicinity, but in such suitable places plentiful in 

 Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Berks, and Wilts ; 

 formerly to be found in the immediate outskirts of London, 

 from which it has now disappeared ; still in Somerset, 

 Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Buckingham- 

 shire, Oxfordshire, and rarely in Suffolk. In Wales Mr. 

 Vivian has found it in Glamorganshire, and it has occurred 

 rarely in South Pembrokeshire, but I know of no other 

 record in the Principality, nor in any other part of the United 

 Kingdom. Abroad it is found in many parts of Central 

 Europe, the northern half of Italy, Corsica, Sicily, Dalmatia, 

 the Ural mountain district, Armenia, the mountuiuous regions 

 of Central Asia, and even in Japan. 



[Lythria purpuraria, L. — This species was intro- 

 duced to the Bi'itish Fauna by Uaworth in his Lcpiiluptcra 

 Britannic", along with Feiloiiia ribiccrii/, solely upon the 

 authority of a work called Elnnmts of Nattirnl Jlisfori/, but 

 without any actual knowledge of the existence of either 

 species, indeed his remarks lead to a doubt as to whether 

 Hyria avronn'in was not actually the species referred to. 

 Afterwards it was included by Stephens and Westwood, and 

 figured by Wood, on the ground of the existence, in the 

 collection of Mr. Swainson,of specimens of which the locality 

 was not known. Consequently ilr. Henry Doubleday placed 

 it under the head of rqnitvd British species. The first 

 actual record of a capture in these Islands was in 18(Jl, 

 when Mr. \. K. Perkins stated that two specimens had been 



