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is said to have been destroyed. In 1875 and 1876 two 

 specimens were secured at a lighthouse at Cromer, Norfolk, 

 by Mr. R. Cumber, son of the lightkeeper, and sent unset 

 and unknown, with numerous other species, to Mr. W. H. 

 Thornthwaite, for whom the captor was collecting such 

 insects as came to the light. One of these Mr. Thornthwaite 

 most liberally placed in my collection. In the following 

 year another was recorded, taken flying at dusk over clover 

 at Weston-super-Mare ; and a year later Mr. W. H. Campbell 

 had the good fortune to secure one on August 19, flying in 

 the sunshine, at 3.30 p.m., over rough heathery boggy land on 

 a hillside near Buncrana, on the shores of Lough Swilly, in 

 the north of Ireland. In the collection of Dr. P. B. Mason, 

 at Burton-on-Trent, is a specimen labelled, " Captured by 

 A. Coburn, flying in the sunshine, 24th June, 1880, near 

 Attleborough." This is, therefore, a third Norfolk example. 

 In 1891 Mr. W. Eeid, of Pitcaple, recorded the capture, in 

 July 1878, of a specimen at Bay of Nigg, near Aberdeen, 

 Hying in bright sunshine over rough ground and stones. 

 This seems to complete our record, which therefore includes 

 Somerset, Norfolk, and Cumberland in England, Aberdeen in 

 Scotland, and Donegal, Ireland. Abroad the insect is common 

 throughout Central Europe, Southern France, Northern Italy, 

 Livonia, Northern Turkey, Southern Russia, Morocco and 

 other parts of Northern Africa, India, China, and the moun- 

 tainous regions of Central Asia. 



Genus 89. HELIODES. 



Antennas naked, dark brown ; palpi very small and 

 blunt, quite inconspicuous, whitish-brown ; eyes naked and 

 without lashes ; thorax small, almost round, shaggy, crested 

 at the back ; abdomen short and small, without crests ; 

 fore wings broad, short, and very blunt; hind wings 

 small, brightly coloured, cross-bar long, angulated, very 



