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light, or eagerly searches out flowers of Silene inflata and 

 Onohrychis sativa. Usually confined to the sandhills, denes, 

 dunes, or marrams, as they are variously called, which so 

 broadly border the flatter parts of the sea-coast, more 

 especially those of the East and West of England. Per- 

 haps most plentiful, in such spots, in Lancashire, Cheshire, 

 and near Barmouth, North Wales, sometimes very rare in 

 Pembrokeshire but occasionally abundant ; also common near 

 Lauo-harne, Carmarthenshire. Said to be scarce in Corn- 

 wall, Devon, and Dorset, and in Somerset found only near 

 Weston-super-Mare. On the Eastern coast found at South- 

 wold, Sufiblk ; Yarmouth, and elsewhere in Norfolk ; doubt- 

 less in Lincolnshire ; and commonly at Spuru, Yorkshire. 

 Also still fairly common in the district of the later post- 

 glacial sea-sands, now far removed from the present coast, 

 and known as the Breck Sands, at Brandon, Thetford, 

 Wickham Market, Tuddenham, and elsewhere in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, The only other inland locality of which I 

 have a record is of a specimen at light at Taplow, near 

 Reading, by Mr. A. H. Clarke ; but, as he very justly jDointed 

 out this specimen was taken close to Taplow Station, where 

 the Plymouth and Weymouth trains stopped on their way 

 up, and the creature may have been brought from the coast 

 by this means. In Scotland, Dr. F. B. AVhite recorded it in 

 the districts of the Tweed, Tay, Dee, and Clyde. Doubtless 

 the Solway may be added. In Ireland it formerly occurred, 

 though in small numbers, on the Dublin coast, but is stated 

 by Mr. Kane now to have disappeared from that district ; 

 still found on the coast of Derry, and near Castle Bellingham. 

 Abroad it has a wide range, and apparently is not, as with 

 us, especially attached to the seaside, since it is found in 

 many parts of Central Europe, in Northern Italy, Sweden, 

 South Finland, Southern Russia, and even in the mountain 

 regions of Central Asia. 



2. M. brassicse, Z. — Expanse 1| to 2 inches. Fore wings 



