ANTHROCERA. 89 



THE MOUNTAIN BURNET. ANTHROCERA EXULANS. 



(Plate LXXX. Fig. 4.) 

 Sphinx exulans, Hochenwarth & Reimer, Bot. Reisen, p. 55, 



taf. 6, fig. i (i792);Esper, Schmett. ii. (2) p. 17, taf. 41, figs. 



i, 2 (1793); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii. figs. 12, 101 (1803?). 

 Zygana exulans, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 40 (1808); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 89 (1879); Barrett, 



Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 121, pi. 58, figs. 5, 50, 5^. 

 Anthrocera exulans, Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 13, pi. 



19, fig. i (1887). 



Var. a. Anthrocera subochracea. 

 Zygcena subochracea. White, Scot. Nat. i. p. 175 (1872); Kirby, 



Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 90 (1879). 



Var. b. Anthrocera vanadis. 

 Zygana vanadis, Dalman, Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1816, p. 



223. 



This species is found in all the higher mountains of Europe, 

 from Lapland to the Caucasus, and is often very abundant. 

 It flies at a much greater elevation in Southern than in 

 Northern Europe, and abounds in the Alps and Pyrenees, 

 where the palest specimens are said to be found at the greatest 

 elevation. I predicted its occurrence in Scotland as long ago 

 as 1859 ("Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," vii. p. 69), 

 but it was not till 1871 that the late Dr. Buchanan White met 

 with it on the mountains near Braemar ; and up to the present 

 time, no other locality for it has been discovered in Britain. 



The body is covered with shaggy black hair, and the legs 

 are pale yellow. There is a pale yellow collar, at least in the 

 female. The wings are thinly scaled, the fore-wings being 

 greyish-black with five carmine spots. The hind margin of 

 the hind-wings, which is greyish-black, is broad in the male 

 and narrow in the female. The club of the antennae is short 



