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Belgium : common (Berce). Channel Islands : Guernsey, Herm, Sark 

 (Luff). Denmark : rather common (Aurivillius). France: greater part 

 of France, common, Compiegne, Auvergne, Gironde, Basses- Alpes, Le 

 Doubs, Besan^on, Pontarlier, nr. Autun (Berce), Uriage, Vernet-les- 

 Bains, Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine, Rennes, Banyuls-sur-Mer (Oberthiir), 

 Nohant, Forets du Cher, Mont Dore, Crevant (Sand), Rheims district, 

 common, banks of the Vesle and Suippe, Cormontreuil, Sillery, St. 

 Hilaire-le-Petit (Demaison), Loire-Inferieure (Bonjour), Dept. du Nord 

 (Dupont), Dept. l'Aube, Paris (Jourdheuille), Calvados, St. Quentin 

 (Dubus), nr. Paris, Touraine, Perigueux, Tarbes, Marseilles, Perpignay 

 (Rambur), Depts. of Meuse, Doubs, Puy-de-D6me, nr. Aix (Speyer), 

 Isere, Pyrenees-Orientales (Duponchel), Alpes-Maritimes (Milliere). 

 Germany: almost everywhere (Kayser), Baden, generally distributed, 

 also in mts., Kaiserstuhl, etc., Alsace, Pfalz, Wiirtemburg, Nassau 

 (Reutti), Prussia, Insterburg, Dantzig, Mannheim, Waldeck, Weimar, 

 Krefeld, Ratisbon (Speyer), Thuringia, Ohrdruf, Tambuch, Georgenthal, 

 Wanningsroda (Knapp), Silesia, Leubeusch (Prittwitz), banks of the 

 Wiese (Homeyer), Stettin, on the Wiese and Plone nr. Damm, nr. 

 Finkenwald and Tantow, common (Hering), Hilden nr. Dusseldorf 

 (Kirby), Leipzig (Ochsenheimer) . Italy: widely distributed and 

 moderately common in northern, central and southern provinces — 

 Tuscany, Sicily, etc. (Curd), nr. Susa, Ligurian Alps, nr. Naples (Costa), 

 Syracuse (Zeller), Piedmont (Boisduval). Netherlands: Overijssel — 

 between Raalte and Wijke, Gelderland — Groenlo, Varsseveld, Zutphen, 

 Arnhem, St. Michielgestel, North Brabant and Nijkerk, and ? Limburg 

 (Snellen), Luxemburg (Speyer). Roumania : rare, Concorova (Mann), 

 Turn Severin (Haberhauer). Russia : South Finland to 60° 41' 

 (Renter), Nyland, Tavastland, Karelen (Lampa), Prov. Orenburg, 

 Saratov, Kasan, Sarepta (Eversmann), White Sea to Urals, Moscow 

 district, mths. of Danube to Dnieper, Volga dist., Transcaucasia 

 (Erschoff), Poland (teste Caradja), Siebenbiirgen (Speyer). Scandi- 

 navia : South Sweden, rare (Aurivillius), Blekinge (Wistrom), Upsala 

 (Fallander). Spain: Andalusia, Granada, Malaga (Rambur). Swit- 

 zerland : appears sporadically in swampy meadows in June, and 

 goes up mts. to 5,000 ft., St. Gallen (Taschler), Berne, Gadmen and 

 mts. near Bagnethal, Simplon, Val Vedro (Ratzer), Bechburg 

 (Stehlin), St. Blaise-Neuveville (Couleru), Lauterbrunnen (Christ), 

 Valais (Jaggi), ? Bremgarten (Boll), ? Canton Glarus (Heer), nr. 

 Zurich (Snell), Trafoi (Wocke). 



anthrocera trifolii subsp. , palustris, Oberthiir. 



Synonymy. — Species : Palustris, Oberth., " Etudes," xxth livr., " Var. chez Lep.," 

 pp. 44-46, pi. viii., figs. 151, 152, 153 (1896). Scabiosae, Haw., " Lep. Brit.," i., p. 74 

 (1803). Loti, Stephs., "Illus.," i., p. 109, vars. a et /3 (1829). Meliloti, Stephs., 

 " Illus.," i., p. 107, teste Briggs (1829). Trifolii (the late form), Briggs, " Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond.," 1871, pp. 417 etseq.; Tutt, "British Moths," p. 353, in part (1896). 

 Trifolii-major, Tutt, "Ent. Rec," ix., pp. 88, 167 et seq. (1897). Trifolii, Bdv., 

 "Icones," pi. liv., fig. 8 (1834); Hein., " Schmett. Deutsch.," p. 160 (1859); 

 Speyer, " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xxxviii., pp. 40 et seq. (1877). 



Original description. — Boisduval had distinguished in his collec- 

 tion the Breton and Norman race of Z. trifolii under the name of Z. 

 palustris, and we think that he had rightly appreciated the differences 

 that exist between the south and west French races of this Zyt/aena. 

 In the west of France, Z. trifolii is of a much brighter red than in the 



