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Its most southern known locality in England is Chartley 

 Park, Derbyshire, and it is common in all the " mosses " of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, — all the moors about Grange, and 

 in Chat Moss, Risley Moss, Rixton Moss, Simondswood, 

 Lindon I\Ioss and Carrington Moss, as well as at Delamere 

 Forest. In Yorkshire abundant in Thorne Waste, not scarce 

 in Wensleydale, and found on Cottingham Moor, Hatfield 

 Moors, and elsewhere. Northward it is found in all suitable 

 mosses and moors in Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumber- 

 land, but seems to have been exterminated in Northumber- 

 land. As far as I can ascertain, all these localities furnish 

 the redder varieties, but there seems no reason why the paler 

 should not be found on the mountain sides. In North Wales 

 it was found many years ago, in abundance, on the mountains 

 between Bala and Festiniog by the Rev. W. T. Bree ; and it 

 is said to have been found commonly in a moss near 

 Barmouth, having the " hind wings grey and shaggy." 

 These also appear to have been of the redder varieties, and 

 they continue to be found in plenty through the Solway 

 district of the south of Scotland, and in mosses between the 

 hills still further north. In Eoss-shire there is great varia- 

 tion, some of the forms being richly coloured and very fully 

 spotted ; but on the higher ground they become paler, and 

 in Perthshire, on the mountains, are very pale, with the spots 

 of the hind wings indistinct. Here and in Inverness-shire 

 the species ascends to a considerable elevation, being found 

 more than 2000 feet above the sea level. The pale colour, 

 which it has assumed on these mountains, characterises it at 

 lower levels as it is found further north, and in Sutherland- 

 shire, as well as in Orkney and Shetland, it is said to be 

 almost of a whitish yellow or pale ochreous. It is also found 

 in the Hebrides, and seems to frequent every suitable 

 situation in Scotland. In Ireland it is not so generally 

 distributed, and apparently does not assume any of the most 

 extreme variations of colour, but is abundant at Killarney 

 and in other parts of the County Kerry, also in Mayo, 



