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grass, but this must have occurred in exceptional weather. 

 It certainly will come occasional!}^ to a strong light at night 

 in the feus. It frecjuents fens, wet bogs, and mosses, and in 

 them is very local, never apparently flying far from the very 

 limited, favourite spot. In such places it has been found 

 near Deal and elsewhere in Kent; in Tilgate Forest, Sussex; 

 m .Surrey, very rarely near P>rookwood, and formerly near 

 Croydon ; still fouud in some plenty in certain spots in the 

 New Forest, Hants; at Blox worth, and formerly at Great 

 Horton, J3orset ; rarely in Somerset and Gloucestershire, and 

 at Ross, Herefordshire ; in Wicken Fen, Cambs. ; formerly at 

 Whittlesea Mere and Yaxley Fen, and in Holme, Burwell, and 

 Bottisham Fens ; still at Tuddenham, Suffolk ; plentifully 

 at Ranworth, Horning, and in many other spots in the fens of 

 Norfolk ; and commonly in the extensive " mosses " of 

 Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cum- 

 berland. So far as I can discover, it has not been noticed 

 in Wales or Scotland. In Ireland the late Mr. E. Birchall 

 found it on boggy heaths in the South-west of Ireland, but it 

 does not seem to have been noticed there since his time. 

 Abroad it is found throughout Central Europe, Middle and 

 Northern Italy, Corsica, Finland, Dalmatia, Tartaiy, and. in 

 the more purple-crimson form, in Japan. 



