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ii) that and subsequent years at Llandaff, near Cardiff, and 

 in Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Cumberland, Northampton- 

 shire, and in Leicestershire round Burton-on-Trent. As re- 

 cently as 1862-3, several were met with at Dover; in 1864, 

 one at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and in 1868, Lieut. Mathew met 

 with two at Dartmouth, Devon. Casual specimens have also 

 been taken in Sussex, Hants, Wilts, and Norfolk. Mr. J. E. 

 Robson records that previous to 1865 it was so common near 

 Hartlepool, Durham, that half a dozen might be swept off the 

 flowers at one stroke of the net, but for twenty-five years has 

 scarcely been seen there. This district, including Castle 

 Eden, and perhaps Newcastle-on-Tyne, seems to have been its 

 northern limit in the east, and Cumberland in the west. The 

 statement that it formerly occurred in Scotland as far as Fife, 

 does not seem to find credence with Dr. White. In Ireland 

 one specimen was recorded at Powerscourt in 1871 by Mr. E. 

 Birchall. There were indications in that year of a dispersal, 

 or possibly a migratory attempt to re-establish itself in some 

 of its old localities, for the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield met with 

 one in his garden at Guestling, near Hastings, feeding on ripe 

 plums ; and Mr. Fitch found one at Maldon, Essex. Others 

 were recorded, singly, from Lancashire and Tilgate, Sussex. 

 So far as I can ascertain, it is now mainly restricted to the 

 sheltered western district of England and east of Wales: 

 Herefordshire ; Worcestershire ; Monmouthshire, where Mr. 

 Goss reports that it is still common ; probably Shropshire ; 

 and possibly Gloucestershire and Somerset ; indeed, Mr. A. H. 

 •Jones found it at Tintern in 1876. In 1882 it was met with 

 m. North Wales at Llandudno and Colwyn Bay, and may 

 probably still be there, and in many a sheltered Welsh valley ; 

 Mr. Porritt records it as still common in some parts of 

 Yorkshire, though extinct in others. Moreover, it still seems 

 at times to try to re-establish itself elsewhere. It was seen 

 at Dover in 1887, in its old and long-abandoned locality at 

 Wootton-under-Edge in 1888, and at Chippenham, Wilts, in 

 1889. 



