532 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



at 5,000 ft., Buda (Speyer), Bucovina, generally distributed (Hormu- 

 zaki), Cracow (Zebrowski). Belgium : general (Selys), Namur 

 (Colignon). Bulgaria: Sofia (Bachmetjew). Denmark: common, 

 and generally distributed (Aurivillius). France : distributed through- 

 out the country, very common in north-west France, Le Havre, etc. 

 (Dupont), Nohant, Sologne, St. Florent, Gueret, Murols, Lac Chambon, 

 Auvergne, generally common (Sand), Vernet-les-Bains, Cauterets, 

 Ille-et-Vilaine, St. Malo, Cancale (Oberthiir), Bourg d'Oisans, Aix-les- 

 Bains, Fontainebleau (Tutt), Paris, common (Lucas), Depts. of 

 Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, Doubs, Puy-de-D6me, Savoy (Speyer), 

 nr. Gavarnie (Pierret), Rheims dist., very common (Demaison), 

 Dept. 1'Aube (Jourdheuille), Loir-et-Cher (Harrison), Tancarville 

 (Leech), Loire-Inferieure (Bonjoiir), Calvados, St. Quentin (Dubus), 

 Dept. du Nord (Dupont). Germany : everywhere (Heinemann), 

 Alsace, common (Peyerimhoff), Silesia (Assmann), Thuringia, common 

 (Knapp), Leubusch (Prittwitz), Hilden, nr. Diisseldorf, rare, Urden- 

 bach, common (Kirby), nr. Stettin (Hering), Baden, common, 

 Pfalz, Wurtemburg, Nassau (Eeutti), Saxony (Dadd). Greece : 

 Parnassus and Veluchi, common (Staudinger). Italy : northern 

 provinces, common, central and south, less common (Curo), Pied- 

 mont, Liguria, Hiigel, Tuscany (Speyer), Naples (Costa), Sicily (Frey), 

 Montecuccio, Mondello (Tedaldi). Netherlands: in all provinces 

 (Snellen). Roumania : generally distributed and common (Caradja). 

 Russia : Lower Volga dist. (Eversmann), St. Petersburg, Livonia, 

 Ciscaucasiandist. (Speyer), Crimea (Melioransky), Caucasian O provinces, 

 common (Menetries), Baltic provinces, common (Nolcken), Aland, Abo 

 (Lampa), Finland to 60 30' (Router), North Russia, White Sea to Urals, 

 Moscow district, Poland, mouth of Danube to Dnieper, Volga district 

 and Transcaucasia (Erschoff). Scandinavia: common in Sweden, 

 Norway and S. Finland, most northerly locality, Dalecarlia (Auri- 

 villius), Groto, 68 N. lat. (Schneider), Norway to 67* 50' N. lat. 

 (Reuter), Arctic Norway, Dovrefjeld, Oestersjon, Christiania, Ringe- 

 rige, Drommen, Smolen (Schoyen), Dovre (Siebke), Upland, Stock- 

 holm, common (Boheman), Upsala (Belfrage), Saltdalen (Sommer- 

 felt), Laerdal, St. Bergenhus (Petterssen), Torghiitten 65 54' (Chap- 

 man). Spain : Galicia (Macho Velado), Province of Teruel (Zapater), 

 Barcelona dist., generally distributed (Cuui y Martorell). Switzer- 

 land : generally distributed (Frey), nr. Bellinzona, Glarus (Spoyer), 

 everywhere in the Engadine (Mengelbir), Oberalbula, common (Zeller), 

 Simplon (Jordis). 



ANTHROCERA HippocREPiDis, Stephens (nee Hb.). 



SYNONYMY. Species : Illppocreindis, Stephs., " Illus.," i., p. 109 (1828) ; Wood, 

 " Index Entom.." iv., fig. (J (yellow ab.) (1839) ; Kirby, " Cat. Lep. Het.," p. 70 

 (1892) ; ".Handbook," etc., p. 94 (1897) ; Tutt. "Ent. Record." pp. 87-88. 103-104, 

 10(5, 169(1897) ; South, " Entom.," xxx.. pp. 181-183 (1897). Ochxenlieimeri, Boden, 

 "Entom.." xviii., p. 317 (1883) ; South, " Entora.," xxiv., p. 233. in part (1891). 

 Filipfmliilae, ? Newm., " Brit. Moths," p. 24, in part (? 1869) ; Briggs, " Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond.," 1871, pp. 434-435, in part; Tutt, " Ent. Rec.," ii., p. 110 (1891). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. Alis anticis nigro-cyaneis, maculis sex 

 rubris, subtus omnino confluentibus, posticis rubris sinuato viridi- 

 cyaneo, abdomine immaculato. This varies in size, \ikQA.jili}H')i<lidae, 

 which it greatly resembles ; but the border of the posterior wings is 

 considerably more distinct than in that insect, and undulated internally, 



