480 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



(Berce), Cevennes (Bellier), nr. Paris, Larche, Cauterets, very common 

 (Oberthiir), nr. Gavarnie, Digne (Pierret), Depts. Meuse, Moselle, 

 Puy-de-D6me (Speyer), Nohanfc, Sologne, Bourges, Gueret, plaines 

 de la Limagne (Sand), Aix-les-Bains, Dauphine Alps, La Grave, 

 Aube, St. Michel de Maurienne (Tutt), Forest of Senart, Depts. of 

 Doubs, Saone-et-Loire, Auvergne, Normandy (Berce), nr. Eheims, 

 common, Billy, Germaine, Gueux, Courcy (Demaison), nr. St. 

 Quentin, Calvados (Dubus), Dept. du Nord (Dupont), Loire Inferieure 

 (Bonjour). Germany: generally distributed (Heinemann), Julow, nr. 

 Stettin (Hering), Soultzmatt, Kastenwald, Trois-Epis, Nonnenbruch, 

 Hardt, Basle, Dorneck (Peyerimhoff), Silesia (Assmann), Glogau 

 (Zeller), Siebenbiirgen (Speyer), Pfalz, Wiirtemberg, Nassau (Reutti), 

 Gotha, etc. (Knapp), Leubusch' (Prittwitz). Greece : Parnassus, 

 Veluchi (Kriiper texte Staudinger). Italy : not rare in north, central and 

 southern Italy (Curo), Naples (Costa), Courmayeur (Tutt). Roumania : 

 Kloster Neamtz, Grumazesti, Pleschburg, Slanic, Azuga, etc. (Caradja), 

 Tultscha (Mann), Turn Severin (Haberhauer). Russia: Kokenhusen, 

 Riga, Schleck, Mitau, Pichtendahl, Lechts, Tois (Nolcken), Finland to 

 62 N. lat. (Reuter), St. Petersburg,- Livonia, Volga dist. (Speyer), 

 Kasan, Orenburg, nr. Sergievsk, Busuluc (Eversmann), north 

 Russia from the White Sea to the Urals, Moscow dist., Poland, 

 from mouths of Danube to Dnieper, Transcaucasia (Erschoff). 

 Scandinavia : common everywhere up to 60 80' (Aurivillius), 

 Wermdon (Meves), Christiania, Dovre, Sunddal (Siebke), Blekinge, 

 Gothland (Dahlbom), West Gothland (Gadamer), East Gothland 

 Smaland (Boheman). Spain: Granada (Rosenhauer). Switzerland: 

 Generally distributed (Frey), Grisons, Pensch, Bergiin (Zeller), 

 Simplon (Ratzer), Engadine Valleys (Mengelbir), Schafl'hausen 

 (Trapp), nr. Winterthiir (Biedermann), rr. Zurich (Frey), Rigi 

 (Huguenin), Bremgarten (Boll), Lenzburg and Jura slopes, Lucerne, 

 Waggis, nr. Thun, Chexbres, Vevey (Wullschlegel), Bechburg, Valais 

 (Riggenbach), Bern (Meisner), Gadmenthale (Ratzer), Schiipfen 

 (Rothenbach), Tessin, Chiasso (Knecht). 



ANTHROCERA TRIFOLII, Esp., and A. PALUSTRIS, Oberth. 



There are two forms or subspecies occurring in Britain under the 

 name of A. trifolii, one, a comparatively small insect, measuring from 

 23-33 mm. in wing-expanse, appearing usually in late May and June, 

 the other, a much larger insect, averaging 29-38 mm. in expanse, ap- 

 pearing generally in July and early August, although these dates are, 

 of course, subject to considerable variation according to the season. 

 Briggs first separated these forms, calling them the " early " and 

 " late " trifolii respectively. The former is, in Britain, especially 

 partial to pastures and meadows, the latter to marshy ground (often 

 near the sea). Each shows an exactly similar range of variation in the 

 spotting, extending from individuals with five separate spots, through 

 every intermediate condition, until the whole of the spots form a 

 strongly-defined longitudinal streak, occupying the greater portion of 

 the wing. These races we have recently separated (Entom. liecord, 

 ix., p. 88) as trifolii- minor and trifolii-major respectively, but there is 

 no doubt that Oberthiir's palustriK is the prior name for the latter form. 

 Another important fact is that the early A. trifolii is frequently taken 

 in the same meadows as A. hippocrcpidis, Stephs., the latter being 



