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Lauson and Grauson Valleys (Tufct). Elwes found this species on the 

 pass between Kurai in the upper Tchuja valley, and a tributary of the 

 Bashkaus river, above the tree limit, at a height of 7,000 feet, on 

 July 25th, 1898. 



Localities. — Aberdeenshire: Braemar, the hill-tops, at an elevation of 

 from 2,000-3,000ft. (White, etc.). ? Argyleshire : mountains in Glencoe district [on 

 July 8th, 1898, flying in sun at 3 p.m., about 1,000 ft. above sea-level, a single very 

 worn specimen of this species, or one not hitherto recorded as British (Sheldon)]. 



Distribution. — Asia (central): Tarbagatai mts. (Haberhauer), 

 Altai mts. (Elwes). Austria : Glockner (Hohenwarth), Austrian 

 Tyrol — Falzarego Pass, most of the high mts. around Cortina (Tutt), 

 Styrian Alps (Boisduval), Carinthian Alps (Hiibner), Salzburg, Heili- 

 genblut (Staudinger), Oetzthal, Biffelsee, Breitlehnerjoch, very common 

 (Escherich), Paschterkofel, nr. Innsbruck, at 6,000 ft., Sth. Tyrol, at 

 7,000ft. (Speyer), Bohemia — Burglitz (Heinemann). France: Savoy 

 Alps (Lucas), Mont Cenis Pass, Dauphine Alps^-Le Lautaret, La Grave, 

 Col du Galibier, etc. (Tutt), Pyrenees — Vallee d'Eyna, sommet du 

 Nethou, leMonne, au-dessus de Cauterets (Oberthiir), Hautes-Pyrenees 

 (Boisduval), Dept. of Doubs, Mont d'Or, at 1,360 metres (Bruand), nr. 

 Alios (Donzel), Faille-feu, 2,000m. (Bellier), Lozere (Duponchel), 

 Plateau du Cantal (Sand), Basses-Alpes, Larche.Barcelonnette (Berce). 

 Italy : Cogne, Val Grauson, Val Lauzon, Petit St. Bernard, etc. (Tutt), 

 Alps of Valtellina (Curo), Great St. Bernard (Jordan). Bussia : Finland 

 (Beuter), Tundra dist. from White Sea to Ural (Erschoff). Scandi- 

 navia : everywhere abundant in the mountains (Aurivillius), Nor- 

 wegian Lapland, Finmark, Gamstenstind, Lyngen, Bossekop, Skaad- 

 avaara (Zetterstedt), between Lake Kilpisjaur and Tromso (Frigelius), 

 on the highest summits of the Dovre mts., Drivstuen, Kongswald, 

 Fogstuen, Tofte, Jettefjellet, etc. (Boheman), Muonioniska (Kol- 

 strom), Tornean Lapland (Dalman), more typical forms in Dale- 

 carlia (about 61° N. lat.) and in the mountains of southern Norway, 

 the var. vanadis, in the mountains of northern Sweden and Norway 

 to the coasts of the Polar Sea (Reuter), Dovrefjeld and Arctic Nor- 

 way, Saltdalen (Sahlberg), Porsanger, Elvenaes (Sandberg), Hammer- 

 fest, Rolfso, North Cape (Schneider), " Sandholm " Fjords (Schoyen), 

 Bodo, Alten, (Staudinger), Domaas, Jerkin in the Dovrefjeld, Snae- 

 hatten (one in snow) (Champion). Switzerland: from the western 

 boundary of Valais to beyond the eastern boundary of the Grisons, from 

 5,000 ft.-8,000 ft., the Stelvio, most abundant (Frey), Oberalp, Ander- 

 matt (Chapman), Schwarze See, nr. Zermatt (Buckler), Tosa Falls 

 Valley (Bateson),Glarus, Kandersteg, Schwarenbach, 6,200 ft.-6,400 ft. 

 (Speyer), Oberhaslisthal, 8,000ft., Grindel Alps, the Gemmi (Freyer), 

 Heuthal and nr. the Bernina glacier (Mengelbir), on the Tschita, 

 Ober-Albula nr. Hospice (Zeller), Mattmark See (Jones), Val de Fain, 

 7,000 ft. (Stainton). 



anthrocera (thermophila) vicim, Schrank. 



Synonymy. — Species: Viciae, Schrank, "Fuessly's Neues Mag.," ii., p. 208 

 (1785) ; " Fn. Boica," ii., p. 238 (1801) ; Bork., "Khein. Mag.," i., p. 638 (1793) ; 

 111., "Mag.," ii., p. 40 (1802); Hb., "Eur. Schmett.," text, p. 80 (? 1805); 

 "Verz.,"p. 117 (? 1822) ; Werneburg, "Beitriige," etc., i., p. 501 (1864); Kirby, 

 "Cat. Lep. Het.," p. 67 (1892); "Handbook," etc., p. 93 (1897); nee ? Bork., 

 "Sys. Besch.," ii., p. 162 (1789); nee Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," fig. 11 (? 1805). 

 Meiilothi, Esp., "Die Schmett.," ii., pt. 2, p. 10, pi. xxxix., figs. 1-8 (1789). 

 Meliloti, Ochs., " Die Schmett. Eur.," ii., p. 43 (1808); Bdv., "Mon. des Zyg.," 



