250 LEPIDOPTERA. 



of the blossoms of marjoram {Origanum vulffarc) when 

 fi'rowing on hedge-banks. Found also in open rough 

 pastures and waste places where bushes or masses of 

 bramble are plentiful, and in similar spots at the edges of 

 woods, but nowhere so abundantly as in lanes with well- 

 grown hedges. Occasionally a very wet July will defer its 

 appearance for weeks, and in such a season in South Wales 

 I have found it commonly on the wing in September. In 

 western districts it seems to be rather an August than July 

 insect. 



Rather a local species, as compared with the last, and 

 sometimes more plentiful in coast districts than far inland. 

 Extremely abundant in most parts of the south of England 

 and South Wales, and in the Eastern Counties, though not 

 so plentiful in Norfolk. Common in Worcestershire, Here- 

 fordshire and some parts of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, 

 but not common in Shropshire, and apparently very scarce or 

 excessively local, or in some cases absent, from Oxfordshire 

 and several of the Midland Counties. In Yorkshire and 

 Lancashire found in the maritime districts, but apparently 

 absent from the inland hilly and mountainous region, includ- 

 ing Cumberland and much of Westmoreland, yet said to be 

 fairly common in Northumberland. In Scotland it has been 

 found in plenty in Kirkcudbrightshire, and is recorded as 

 local and not common in various parts of the Southern 

 Counties, even into Fifeshire, and on the west to Argyle- 

 shire. In Ireland it is almost confined to the extreme south. 

 The Rev. John Bristowe told me last year, when at Belfast, 

 that he had seen it in plenty in the year 1852 at Queenstown, 

 but had not seen it in any other part of Ireland. It was 

 found, however, by the late Mr. E. Birchall in Wicklow, and 

 has been seen by other observers in various parts of the 

 County Cork ; the Hon. Emily Lawless found it in abund- 

 ance at Garinish Island, Kerry ; and the Rev. W. W. 

 Flemyng has met with a single specimen near Portlaw, 

 Waterford. 



