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scarce, but found in Somerset, at Weston-super-Mare, Blean 

 Down, Clevedon, and Portisliead, though it has disappeared 

 from the immediate neighbourhood of Bristol. In Gloucester- 

 shire it is abundant at Wootton-under-Edge and in rough 

 waste land in the Stroud district, also at Dursley, Stapleton, 

 and Purdown. It has been found in multitudes in Mon- 

 mouthshire, was seen " in thousands " near Cardiff in 1858, 

 and about the same time was recorded from Kidwelly, Car- 

 marthenshire, apparently its most western limit ; found also 

 on the Malvern Hills, but not so plentifully, and formerly 

 in abundance at Barnwell and Ashton Wolds, Northampton- 

 shire, Cowbit near Peterborough, Monkswood, Worboys Wood, 

 Whittlesford,and other places in Huntingdon- and Cambridge- 

 shires, in some of whicli it is probably still to be found. It 

 still exists, I believe, plentifully at Bourn, and over the chalk 

 range of North Lincolnshire. In Norfolk it was recorded by 

 Curtis, and was still to be found a few years ago near Kirby 

 Cane ; and although extinct in some of its former localities, 

 it continues plentiful in many parts of Essex. On the whole 

 it may be considered to maintain itself fairly well in this 

 country, but there is no record of its occurrence in Scotland 

 or Ireland. 



Abroad its range is not very wide, but its preference for 

 chalk or limestone districts is maintained. This is the more 

 remarkable since it is by no means restricted, in taste, to any 

 grass found exclusively on such soils. It abounds in Central, 

 and most parts of Southei'n, Europe, but is said not to be found 

 in the Spanish Peninsula. 



Genus 2. EREBIA. 



Antennte slender with oval flattened club ; eyes naked ; 

 wings rounded ; fore wings with the sub-costal nervure dilated 

 near the base. 



Dark brown, usually with reddish spots or bands. 



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