44Z BKITISH LEPlDOPTERA. 



irregular in north-west Germany. The favourite localities at Glogau 

 are open places among birch and fir woods, where flowers are 

 numerous, on loamy hillocky ground, and where A. filipendulae and A. 

 lonicerae soon afterwards appear. Its favourite flower is Dianthus cartha- 

 sianorum, on which it sleeps at night, hanging on the calyx as though 

 to be less easily seen. More rarely it frequents Scabiosa arvensis 

 (Zeller). Fortification trenches at Stettin, and .a plantation on dry 

 sand near the town (Hering) ; on the chalkhills near Pont-de-1'Arche 

 (Dupont). 



Time of appeaeance. — On June 4th, 1849, Nolcken found, near 

 Eiga, about 100 larvse, which pupated June 6th-20th, and emerged 

 July 8th-23rd. Middle of June at Merlin Park (J. J. Walker), middle 

 of June on Clare coast (Lawless), end of June at Galway, July 1st, 

 1863, ten days later than usual (Birchall), June 30th, 1880, at 

 Claring Park, worn (J. J. Walker), June 8th, 1887, at Abersoch 

 (Samuels), second week of June, 1889, at Abersoch (Oldham), June 

 11th, 1893, at Abersoch (Arkle), first fortnight in June, 1896, at 

 Abersoch (Blagg), June 26th, 1858, at Loch Etive (Prof. W. 

 Thomson), July 4th, 1898, nr. Oban (Sheldon), July 10th, 1859, at 

 Earn Heugh, Stonehaven (E. Thomson), June 25th-July 10th, 1844 

 (Freyer), July 1st, 1897, above Sepey, just emerging (Lowe). It 

 occurs throughout July and early August at the higher elevations 

 in the mountains of Central Europe : July 30th and 31st, 1894, 

 and July 25th-August 3rd, 1898, nr. Bourg St. Maurice and on the Little 

 St. Bernard Pass, August lst-8th, 1894, at Courmayeur and Mont de 

 la Saxe, August 1st, 1896, at LeLautaret (at about 8,000 ft.), through- 

 out latter half of July, 1895, at Mendel Pass (Tutt). At Glogau, 

 the best time to obtain good specimens is the first half of July (Zeller). 

 Himsl says : " second half of July to the end of August for East 

 Prussia." Eeutti notes it from May until August, in the mountains, 

 up to moderately high elevations in Baden, sometimes more, at other 

 times less, rare. Abundant on July 31st, 1898, on a hill near Pont- 

 de-1'Arche with A. carniolica (Dupont). 



Localities. — Abgyllshire : Taynuilt (Salwey), south side of Oban, in great 

 abundance (Somerville), between Oban and Dunstaffnage Castle, at mouth of Loch 

 Etive (Prof. W. Thomson), Isle of Mull (Somerville teste Chapman). Carnarvon: 

 Abersoch (Samuels). Clare: Clare coast (Milner), Burren District, Castle Taylor 

 (More), Black Head (Lawless). Cornwall : Tintagel {vide, Science Gossip, xvii., 

 pp.41, 65, 414). Forfar: Ram Heugh, near Stonehaven, by the sea- side (R. 

 Thomson), coast of Forfar (F. B. White). Galway : Ardrahan (More), between 

 Kinvara and Ardrahan (Wright), Claring Park, nr. Kilcornan, and Merlin Park 

 nr. Galway (J. J. Walker), Kilcolgan (Kane) ; Kilcornan and Oranmore (Birchall), 

 Salthill (Allen). 



Distkibution. — Africa (north) (Meyrick). Asia : Asia Minor, 

 Hadjin (Manissadjian teste Staudinger), Brussa (Zeller), Tokat 

 (Speyer), Armenia, Central Asia, Ala Tau, Lepsa district (Staudinger), 

 Siberia, Obi and Yenesei districts, Pamir, defile of Chakhisnarden 

 (Erschoff), Kokand district (Fedchenko). Austria: Gross Glockner, 

 nr. Pasterze Glacier (Lederer),Patscherkofel, nr. Innsbruck, at 5,000ft., 

 Heiligenblut to 7,000 ft. (Staudinger), Buda (Speyer), Carinthian 

 Alps (Chapman), Mendel Pass district (Tutt), Upper Austria (Himsl), 

 nr. Vienna (Dorfmeister), Bucovina, Krasna, common (Hormuzaki), 

 Cracow (Zebrawski), Brameralp, Styria (Zeller). Denmark : not un- 

 common (Aurivillius), Seeland (Boie). France : in chalky plains and 

 low mountains only, nr. Paris, Chartres, Besancon, Grenoble, Hautes- 



