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very rare indeed. The imago flies freely in the sun, or may be found 

 at rest on the flowers in its habitat. Weir reports having taken it 

 in Sussex, twenty years before it was captured in the New Forest, but 

 its occurrence in this county has never been confirmed. There is no 

 doubt that Hodgkinson's report that : "A. meliloti was formerly 

 common near Manchester and on the railway bank near Scorton," is 

 an error. Probably both these reports refer to the small form of A. 

 trifolii. Barrett says that "it inhabits marshy spots" in the New 

 Forest. Tugwell says that the species occurs over a fairly wide 

 locality, viz., from the top ride (just outside Eamnor), through all the 

 upper rides of Park-hill enclosure, the ride on the Denny side of 

 Stubby Copse, Perrywood Heath, and by the rides running parallel to 

 the railway. Most of the ground is high, plenty of wet spots exist, 

 but these do not seem to be at all necessary for the welfare of the 

 species, the district where it occurs being well wooded, and plants 

 luxuriant. It is common in woods in the Rheims district (Demaison), 

 in an open wood near Damm, in Pomerania (Hering), in wood- 

 clearings at Grumazesti, and in a meadow covered with bushes and 

 scattered oaks at Kloster Neamtz. The males fly in the sunshine, whilst 

 the females sit on low plants, usually in the most shady places, under 

 trees and bushes, and there await the males ; in the afternoon, one 

 may there find them in copula, and sweep them in numbers with a 

 net (Caradja). 



Time of appearance. — Boisduval gives the end of June and early 

 July, which agrees well with the time that the species occurs in Britain, 

 and Caradja notes it from June 22nd to July 25th in Roumania, 

 Fritsch gives June 12th-22nd, in three successive years, at Gresten, 

 Austria, and July 12th at Salzburg ; the last week in June, 1871 (Tug- 

 well), June 29th, 1871, at Stubby Coppice (J. P. Barrett), July 9th, 

 1873, in New Forest (Briggs), first week in July, 1874 (Fletcher), 

 July 6th-15th, 1874, June 20th-July 4th, 1875, nr. Brockenhurst 

 (Bower), July 19th, 1879, in the New Forest (Auld), July, 1888, 

 at Matley Bog (Nicholson), July 13th, 1890, in New Forest (Blagg), 

 July 20th, 1890, nr. Lyndhurst (Bobbins), June 23rd, 1895, June 

 25th, 1896, July 11th, 1897, July 6th, 8th, 10th, 1898, in the New 

 Forest (Christy), July 22nd-25th, 1898, in New Forest, worn (Dadd). 



Localities. — Hants : New Forest. This is the only known British locality. 

 [Sussex : nr. Emsworth, where eggs were put down in 1896 and 1897, and imagines 

 found in 1898 (Christy)]. 



Distribution. — Africa: Barbary (Wagner). Asia : Obi and Yenesei 

 districts (Erschoff), Pontus, Armenia, Altai mts. (Staudinger). Austria: 

 Bohemia, Vienna, nr. Klosterneuburg, Linz, Styria, Salzburg (Speyer), 

 Mollthal in Upper Carinthia, Carniola, Meran, Buda, Thalwaldungen, 

 Habandorf, Nazzaro, Bruck-on-Mur (Dorfmeister), Dalmatia, Hun- 

 gary (Staudinger), Gresten, Salzburg (Fritsch). Bulgaria (Staudinger). 

 Denmark: (Reuter). France: Forest d'Allogny (Sand), Dept. Doubs, 

 nr. Pontarlier, Pagney (Bruand), Pyrenees, Cauterets, nr. the cascade 

 of Serizet (Oberthiir), Dept. cle l'Aube, woods of Thouan (Jourd- 

 heuille), Rheims dist., common, Berru, Rilly, Germaine, etc. (Demai- 

 son), Saone-et-Loire (Constant). Germany : generally distributed 

 (Heinemann), Pomerania, nr. Damm (Hering), Wismar, Gesselwitz, 

 Frankfort-on-Oder, Taunus, Boppart (Kayser), Constance, Ueber- 

 lingen, Herrenwicz, Bergstrasse, Wurtemburg, Nassau (Reutti), 



