3i8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



places in the Isle of Wight it has been taken by Mr. A. J . 

 Hodges in abundance, but apparently only by venturing at 

 night into such situations as are hardly to be called safe or 

 easy in the daytime. Also rather common at Portland, and 

 found in less numbers at other places on the Dorset coast. 

 In Devon at Torquay, Seaton, and Bolthead not uncommonly, 

 on the rocky portions of the Cornish coast, and even abun- 

 dantly in the Scilly Isles. In South Wales near Swansea, 

 near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, at Caldy Island near 

 Tenby, and elsewhere on the limestone sea-cliffs of Pem- 

 brokeshire ; and in North Wales at Aberdowy, near 

 Barmouth. In all probability it only needs to be looked for 

 in other rocky portions of the coast of the South of England 

 and Wales. In Ireland it is found at the Hill of Howth, 

 near Dublin, at Castle Bellingham, and on the coasts of 

 Cork and Kerry. In Scotland, in the Edinburgh district 

 and on the coast of Moray. So far as is known, these are 

 its limits in these islands, and, indeed, in the whole world, 

 unless a report of its occurrence in the North of France be 

 correct. How it can fail to occur there in plenty is almost 

 beyond comprehension, its best English localities being so 

 directly opposite. An opinion has been hazarded that it is 

 merely a local form of A. trux^ a species common in mountain 

 districts of France, Italy, and Spain ; but upon what grounds 

 such a suggestion has been made, it is difficult to judge. 

 Putting the far greater size of A. trux out of the question 

 as unimportant, the two forms hardly appear to have any 

 characters in common in either sex. Herrich-Schiiffer, when 

 suggesting the possible identity, actually pointed out the 

 excellent specific distinctions. 



[A. spinifera, Hub. — The capture by himself of a speci- 

 men, flying in the sunshine one afternoon in August 18G9, 

 in the Isle of Man, was announced by Mr. C. S. Gregson in 

 th.e Entomologist^ 1872. This specimen, which is now in the 

 collection of Mr. Sydney Webb at Dover, is of a clear pale 



