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Another locality for it has, I believe, been found on the south 

 coast of Ireland, but has not been divulged ; but it surely 

 must inhabit many of the rocky and precipitous portions of 

 the coast of that country. The only specimen known to have 

 occurred in England is that already referred to ; it was taken 

 on the north coast of Devon at Ilfracombe by Mr, W. C. 

 Boyd in July 1879, by lamplight, as it was flying over 

 flowers of Silene maritima. As already stated a single 

 specimen was obtained by Mr. Blandford, now Hon. Secretary 

 of the Entomological Society of London, from a larva found 

 in 1884 near Tenby. This is the only specimen known to 

 have been obtained in the Principality. I know of no 

 captures elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Abroad 

 B. luteago, in its more typical form, is known to inhabit 

 Central and Southern France, Germany, Switzerland, 

 Northern Italy, Corsica, Southern Kussia and the great 

 mountain regions of Central and Western Asia. 



While this sheet is going to press further information 

 comes to hand modifying in some degree the above state- 

 ments. A second Welsh specimen has been captured this 

 month (June 1897) by Mr. F. C. Woodforde, in Carnarvon- 

 shire, North Wales. It is a female in fine condition, darker 

 in colour than any of those described, and its general tone 

 grey-brown rather than purple-brown, but extremely dark. 

 The shape of its fore wings is rather more acute than in 

 them, and it seems to indicate another local variation, though 

 nearer to the Irish than to the South Wales form. 



At the same time Major A. Ficklin, in the course of a trip 

 to the Land's End, Cornwall, has had the good fortune to 

 secure four specimens of this species, all at flowers of Silene 

 maritima. Two of these, male and female, are in magnificent 

 condition, and the latter rather unusually large ; their colour 

 presents another new phase, all the pale cloudings of the fore 

 wings, over the basal and hinder areas, being extended and 

 having a distinctly hoary or glaucous tint, whfle the central 

 oblique pale band is scarcely so distinct as usual ; moreover 



