400 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Martin Lantosqvte, Burgundy (Constant), Auribeau, nr. Cannes 

 (Tutt). Germany: generally distributed (Kayser), Bavaria (Freyer), 

 Baden (Reutti), Eastern Prussia, common (Halffler), Schwarzwalde at 

 4,000 ft. (Speyer), Brieg, Silesia, (Assmann), Tannenwald, Nonnen- 

 bruch, Hardt, banks of tbe Wiese, Dorneck (Peyerimhoff), Oberursel 

 in Rhine Valley (Fuchs), Cranz, nr. Konigsberg, Warnicken (Eeisen), 

 Upper Hartz (A. Hofmann), Thuringia (Knapp), Pomerania, Stettin 

 (Hering). Greece: Karpinisi, in Attica (Staudinger), Corfu (Erber). 

 Italy : very common in north and central, common in southern, Italy, 

 Italian Tyrol, mountains of Lombardy, Sicily (Cur6), Piedmont, Liguria, 

 Tuscany, Naples (Speyer). Netherlands : in most provinces (Snellen). 

 Roumania (Caradja). Russia : generally distributed (Erschoff), Kasan, 

 Orenburg, Saratov (Eversmann), St. Petersburg, Livonia, Caucasus to 

 6,000 ft. (Speyer), Finland to 64° N. lat. (Renter), generally distributed 

 in Baltic provinces (Nolcken). Scandinavia : common in southern parts 

 of Sweden and Norway, extending to 62° N. lat. (Reuter), as far 

 north as Helsingland and Oesterbotten (Aurivillius), Angermanland 

 (Tragardh), Helleberg (Lampa), Saeterstoen (Chapman), Dovrefjeld, 

 Christiania (Wallengren), Ringerige, Edsberg, Soloer, Hedmarken, 

 etc. (Siebke), Westmannland (Fredrichs), rare in Lapland, Tornea, 

 Upland, Gottland, etc. (Zetterstedt). Spain: Granada (Rambur), 

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

 (Peyerimhoff), Zermatt, Grisons, Upper Engadine (Frey), Tarasp 

 (Killias), Davos (Huguenin), Bergiin (Zeller), Canton St. Gallen, 

 Toggenburg, Appenzell (Taschler), Glarus (Heer), Berne, Engstlen, at 

 5,715 ft., Visp (Jaggi), Schaffhausen (Trapp), Zurich, Winterthur 

 (Biedermann), Bremgarten (Boll), Aargau, Engelberg, Aarau, Lenz- 

 burg (Wullschlegel), Lugano (Meyer-Diir), Visp Valley (Jordan). 



adscita geryon, Hiibner. 



Synonymy.— Species : Geryon, Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," ii., figs. 130-1 (? 1818) ; 

 H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii., p. 28 (as statices, var.) (1845) ; Led., " Ver. zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien," ii., p. 103 (1852) ; Speyer, " Geog. Verb. Schmett.," p. 358 (1858) ; 

 Staud., " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xxiii., p. 354(1862); "Cat.," p. 45 (1871); Sta. and 

 Staud., " Ent. Ann.," 1864, p. 103 ; Newm., " Zool.," 1863, pp. 8403 and 8694 ; " Brit. 

 Moths.," p. 472 (? 1869); Sta., " Ent. Ann.," 1864, p. 1-22; "Ent. Ann.," 1866, 

 p. 19; Curd, "Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital.," vii., p. 193 (1875); Sand, " Cat. Lep. 

 Anv.," p. 22 (1879) ; Kirby, " Eur. Butts.," etc., p. 87 (1879); "Cat. Lep. Het.." 

 i., p. 85 (1892) ; " Handbook," etc., Hi., p. 99 (1897) ; Buckler, "Larvse," etc., ii., 

 p. 91 (1887) ; Auriv., " Nord. Fjar.," p. 52 (1888) ; Hofmn., " Die Gross-Schmett.," 

 p. 33 (1887) ; " Die Baupen," etc., p. 35 (1893); Barr., "Lep. Brit.," ii., p. 115 

 (1894); Meyr., " Handbook," etc., p. 449 (1895); Tutt, "Brit. Moths," p. 351 

 (1896). Statices, Ochs. et Treit., "Schmett. Eur.," iv., p. 163, in part (1816); 

 Dup , " Cat. Meth.," p. 53, in part (1844) ; Speyer, " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," 1859, p. 29 ; 

 Frey, " Lep. der Schweiz," p. 43, in part (1880). Chrysocephala, Nickerl, " Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit.," 1845, p. 93; H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii„ p. 28 (1845) ; Freyer, " Neu. 

 Beitrage," v., p. 126 (1845) ; Led., "Ver. zool-bot. Ges. Wien," ii., p. 102 (1852); 

 Staud., "Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xxiii., p. 356 (1862); Zell., "Stett. Ent. Zeit.," 

 xxxviii., p. 317 (1877), et Auct. Tenuicornis, Edmunds, "Ent. Week. Intell.," 

 1860, p. 196. 



Description of original figures. — Fig. 130. — $. Fore-wings 

 bronzy-green ; hind-wings dark grey ; thorax and abdomen green ; 

 antenna? pectinated, blunt at tip. Fig. 181. — ?. Fore- wings more 

 bronzy-green than those of male, hind-wings dark grey ; thorax and 

 abdomen bronzy ; antenna? simple, blunt towards tip (Hiibner, Faiv. 

 Schmett., ii., figs. 130-181). 



Imago, — Anterior wings 18 mm, — 24 mm, in expanse ; bronzy- 



