406 BRITISH LEPIDOPTEKA, 



(W. E. Nicholson), June 6th, 1892, at Dursley (Griffiths), June 8th, 

 1892, May 23rd, 1893, June 12th, 1894, June 3rd, 1896, at Monsal 

 Dale, June 26th, 1897, at Miller's Dale (Fuller), May 24th-June 

 6th, 1892, May 9th-22nd, 1893, June 3rd, 1895, May 26th, 1896, 

 June 8th, 1897, at Dursley (Bartlett), July 2nd, 1893, July 7th, 1894, 

 abundant and fine, at Horden Dene (Brady), June 8th, 1895, nr. 

 Winchester (Brooine), May 28th, 1896, at Witherslack, end of May, 

 1896, at Hamps Fell (Crabtree), June 1st, 1896, at Wansford (Slater), 

 June 4th, 1897, on the Cotswolds (Todd), June 22nd, 1897, at Sledmere 

 (Walker). 



LOCALITIES. BERKS: Sandhurst (Bacon). BUCKS: Aylesbury (Bayne), 

 Tring (Rothschild). CUMBERLAND : Kes'wick (Barclay). DERBY : Lathkill Dale 

 (Sheldon), Longstone Edge, Monsal Dale, Cressbrook Dale and Miller's Dale 

 (Fuller), Middleton Dale (Alderson), Bakewell (Thornewill). DURHAM : Castle 

 Eden coast (Maddison), Durham (Knaggs), Blackballs (Merryweather), Horden 

 Dene (Brady), Hartlepool (Eobson). GLOUCESTER: Bristol and Dursley (Griffiths), 

 Stroud (Wainwright), nr. Tewkesbury (Fox), Harefield (Lifton), Broadway Beacon, 

 nr. Cheltenham (D'Orville), Cotswolds, nr. Gloucester (Marsden), Stad Valley, Edge 

 Hill and Painswick (Wat-kins), Stonehouse (Nash), Gloucester (Merrin). HANTS: 

 Winchester (G. M. A. Hewett). HEREFORDSHIRE: Hereford (Blathwayt). HERTS : 

 Pegsdon Hills, nr. Hitchin (Durrant). KENT: Folkestone (Vaughan, Ullyett 

 queries the species), Canterbury (Knaggs), Shorncliffe (Vaughan). LANCASHIRE: 

 ? Manchester (Knaggs), Hamps Fell (Crabtree), Grange (Hodgkinson), Silverdale 

 (Melville). MERIONETH: Barmouth (Gossj. NORTHAMPTON: Wansford (Slater). 

 OXFORD: Chinnor (Spiller). SOMESET : Bath (Greer), Clevedon (Mason). STAFFS: 

 Dovedale (Bostock). SUSSEX: Lewes (Weir), the Coombe and Cliffe Hill (Nichol- 

 son), Hollingbury (Jenner), Brighton (Knaggs). WESTMORLAND: Witherslack 

 (Crabtree). WILTS: Marlborough (Maddock). WORCESTERSHIRE: Malvern (Todd), 

 Lower Wick (Horton), Malvern Hills, nr. Worcester (Edmunds). YORKS : Beverley, 

 Muker, Eichmond, Sheffield, Thorne, York and Sledmere (Porritt). 



DISTRIBUTION. Asia Minor: Brussa (Lederer). Syria (Speyer). 

 Turkestan (Meyrick). Central Asia : Naubid (Fedchenko). Austria : 

 Galicia (Garbowski), Vienna (Doubleday), chalk-hills between Mddling 

 and Baden (Speyer), Heiligenblut, from 5,500-8,000 ft. (Staudinger), 

 Salzburg Alps, from 6-7,000 ft. (Herrich-Schaffer), Hungary (Constant, 

 coll.). France: Autun, St. Martin Lantosque, Burgundy (Constant), 

 Pyrenees (Guenee), Mont Dore (Sand), Dauphiny Alps, Le Lautaret 

 (Tutt). Germany: south-east Germany, Silesia (Lederer), Gotha, 

 Laucha Wood (Knapp), Lennig, in Rhine Valley (Fuchs), Nassau, 

 Ueberlingen, Waldshut, Kaiserstuhl,Weinheim (Reutti). Greece : Corfu 

 (Erber). Italy : Alps (Curo), Lauson, Cogne Valley, Courmayeur (Tutt). 

 Roumania : Grumazesti (Caradja), Tultscha (Mann). Scandinavia: 

 Lillehammer (Champion), Blekinge (Wallengren). Spain: Pyrenees 

 (Staudinger), Province of Teruel (Zapater and Korb). Switzerland : 

 Visp Valley (Jordan), Andermatt, at 4,500 ft., Miirren, from 5,000- 

 5,500 ft. (Speyer), Engadine (Nicholson), Grisons, Ober-Albula (Zeller), 

 nr. Simplon (Jordis), Zermatt, 8,000 ft. and over (Frey). 



Genus : RHAGADES, Wallengren. 



SYNONYMY. Genus : Ehagadea, Wallgrn., " Scand. Het.-Fjar.," p. 110 (1863) ; 

 Auriv., " Nord. Fjar.," p. 51 (1888). Sphinx, Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," p. 76 (? 1805). 

 Atychia, Ochs., " Schmett. Eur.," ii., p. 10 (1808). Proem, Auct. Jno, Auct. 



The diagnosis of this genus by Wallengren reads (Scand. Het. 

 ., p. 110), as follows : 



Rkagades, n. gen. Antennas fusiformes, maris usque in apicem pectinate, 

 feminsa serrate, apice tenui, acuto. Palpi brevissimi, gracillimi, obtusi. Lingua 

 mollis, brevis, pectore multo brevior. Oculi uudi. Calcaria pedum posticorum 2, 



