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Lauson and Grauson Valleys (Tutt). Elwes found this species on the 

 pass between Kurai in the upper Tchuja valley, and a tributary of the 

 Bashkaus river, above the tree limit, at a height of 7,000 feet, on 

 July 25th, 1898. 



LOCALITIES. ABERDEENSHIRE : Braemar, the hill-tops, at an elevation of 

 from 2,000-3,000ft. (White, etc.). ? ARGYLESHIRE : mountains in Glencoe district [on 

 July 8th, 1898, flying in sun at 3 p.m., about 1,000 ft. above sea-level, a single very 

 worn specimen of this species, or one not hitherto recorded as British (Sheldon)]. 



DISTRIBUTION. Asia (central) : Tarbagatai mts. (Haberhauer), 

 Altai rats. (Elwes). Austria : Glockner (Hohenwarth), Austrian 

 Tyrol Falzarego Pass, most of the high mts. around Cortina (Tutt), 

 Styrian Alps (Boisduval), Carinthian Alps (Hiibner), Salzburg, Heili- 

 genblut (Staudinger), Oetzthal, Riffelsee, Breitlehnerjoch, very common 

 (Escherich), Paschterkofel, nr. Innsbruck, at 6,000 ft., Sth. Tyrol, at 

 7,000ft. (Speyer), Bohemia Burglitz (Heinemann). France: Savoy 

 Alps (Lucas), Mont Cenis Pass, Dauphine Alps Le Lautaret, La Grave, 

 Col du Galibier, etc. (Tutt), Pyrenees Valle"e d'Eyna, sommet du 

 Nethou, leMonne, au-dessus de Cauterets (Oberthiir), Hautes-Pyrenees 

 (Boisduval), Dept. of Doubs, Mont d'Or, at 1,360 metres (Bruand), nr. 

 Allos (Donzel), Faille-feu, 2,000m. (Bellier), Lozere (Duponchel), 

 Plateau du Cantal (Sand), Basses-Alpes, Larche, Barcelonnette (Berce). 

 Italy : Cogne, Val Grauson, Val Lauzon, Petit St. Bernard, etc. (Tutt), 

 Alps of Valtellina (Curo), Great St. Bernard (Jordan) . Russia : Finland 

 (Renter), Tundra dist. from White Sea to Ural (Erschoff). Scandi- 

 navia : everywhere abundant in the mountains (Aurivillius), Nor- 

 wegian Lapland, Finmark, Gamstenstind, Lyngen, Bossekop, Skaad- 

 avaara (Zetterstedt), between Lake Kilpisjaur and Tromso (Frigelius), 

 on the highest summits of the Dovre mts., Drivstuen, Kongswald, 

 Fogstuen, Tofte, Jettefjellet, etc. (Boheman), Muonioniska (Kol- 

 strom), Tornean Lapland (Dalman), more typical forms in Dale- 

 carlia (about 61 N. lat.) and in the mountains of southern Norway, 

 the var. ranadis, in the mountains of northern Sweden and Norway 

 to the coasts of the Polar Sea (Reuter), Dovrefjeld and Arctic Nor- 

 way, Saltdalen (Sahlberg), Porsanger, Elvenaes (Sandberg), Hammer- 

 fest, Rolfso, North Cape (Schneider), " Sandholm " Fjords (Schoyen), 

 Bodo, Alten, (Staudinger), Domaas, Jerkin in the Dovrefjeld, Snae- 

 hatten (one in snow) (Champion). Switzerland: from the western 

 boundary of Valais to beyond the eastern boundary of the Grisons, from 

 5,000 ft.-8,000 ft., the Stelvio, most abundant (Frey), Oberalp, Ander- 

 matt (Chapman), Schwarze See, nr. Zermatt (Buckler), Tosa Falls 

 Valley (Bateson),Glarus, Kandersteg, Schwarenbach, 6,200 ft.-6,400 ft. 

 (Speyer), Oberhaslisthal, 8,000ft., Grindel Alps, the Gemmi (Freyer), 

 Heuthal and nr. the Bernina glacier (Mengelbir), on the Tschita, 

 Ober-Albula nr. Hospice (Zeller), Mattmark See (Jones), Val de Fain, 

 7,000 ft. (Stain ton). 



ANTHROCERA (THERMOPHILA) VICI^E, Schrank. 



SYNONYMY. Species : Viciae, Schrank, "Fuessly's Neues Mag.," ii., p. 208 

 (1785) ; " Fn. Boica," ii.. p. 238 (1801) ; Bork., " Khein. Mag.," i., p. 638 (1793) ; 

 111., "Mag.," ii., p. 40 (1802); Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," text. p. 80 (? 1805); 

 "Verz.,"p. 117 (71822) ; Werneburg, "Beitrage," etc., i., p. 501 (1864); Kirby, 

 "Cat. Lep. Het.," p. 67 (1892); "Handbook," etc., p. 93 (1897); nee ? Bork., 

 " Sys. Besch.," ii., p. 162 (1789) ; nee Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," fig. 11 (? 1805). 

 Melilothi, Esp., "Die Schmett.," ii., pt. 2, p. 10. pi. xxxix., figs. 1-8 (1789). 

 Meliloti, Ochs., " Die Schmett. Eur.." ii., p. 43 (1808); Bdv., "Mon. des Zyg.," 



