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in Carmarthenshire, Glamorganshire, and Pembrokeshire. 

 In Scotland Mr. Adam Elliot has found it in Eoxbnrghshire ; 

 and in the West it has extended as far as Troon, Ayrshire ; 

 in 1867 it was at Perth and Rannoch ; and on the East coast 

 it has been found in several localities, extending even to the 

 Shetland Isles. In Ireland even more generally distributed 

 — Dublin, Wicklow, Cork, Connemara, Mayo, Westmeath, 

 Louth, Galway, Armagh, and Derry. 



Abroad its range is immense ; Central, Southern, and 

 Western Europe; the Canaries; Madeira, abundant ; Noi'thern 

 Africa — Mr, J. J, Walker says that at Tangier and also at 

 Gibraltar it seems to be found almost throughout the year — 

 Asia Minor, Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, 

 Venezuela, Brazil, and Chili — but in these last under the 

 name of mmifiLSca. In the United States it is at times so 

 abundant as to become a serious pest to the farmers. Pro- 

 fessor Smith in his " Catalogue of the Noctuas of North 

 America " mentions it as occurring in April and May in 

 California, in Canada in July and August, in New York and 

 Illinois in August and September, and in the latter months 

 and October ic the district of Columbia. Doubtless he 

 refers to two generations at least. 



[A. fennica, Tausrhfr. — In the year 1850 the late Mr. 

 H. Doubleday recorded, in the Zoologist, the occurrence of an 

 example of this species in Derbyshire, but without mention- 

 ing the name of the captor. The insect had become the 

 property of the late Mr. T. H. AUis, of York. Some years 

 later this gentleman stated in the Entomologisf s Wecldy 

 Intellifjcnccr that he had no doubt that the specimen was 

 taken by John Beresford, of Chesterfield, but that the species 

 had never been properly looked for since. John Beresford 

 appears to have been a miner. No suspicion seems to 

 attach to him, and the only reasonable explanation of this 

 extraordinary occurrence is that of casual migration or 

 accidental introduction. There is no reason whatever to 



