532 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



at 5,000 ft., Buda (Speyer), Bucovina, generally distributed (Hormu- 

 zaki), Cracow (Zebrowski). Belgium : general (Selys), Namur 

 (Colignon). Bulgaria: Sofia (Bachmetjew). Denmark: common, 

 and generally distributed (Aurivillius). France : distributed through- 

 out the country, very common in north-west France, Le Havre, etc. 

 (Dupont), Nohant, Sologne, St. Florent, Gueret, Murols, Lac Chambon, 

 Auvergne, generally common (Sand), Vernet-les-Bains, Cauterets, 

 Ille-et-Vilaine, St. Malo, Cancale (Oberthiir), Bourg d'Oisans, Aix-les- 

 Bains, Fontainebleau (Tutt), Paris, common (Lucas), Depts. of 

 Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, Doubs, Puy-de-D6me, Savoy (Speyer), 

 nr. Gavarnie (Pierret), Rheims dist., very common (Demaison), 

 Dept. l'Aube (Jourdheuille), Loir-et-Cher (Harrison), Tancarville 

 (Leech), Loire-Inferieure (Bonjour), Calvados, St. Quentin (Dubus), 

 Dept. du Nord (Dupont). Germany : everywhere (Heinemann), 

 Alsace, common (Peyerimhoff), Silesia (Assmann), Thuringia, common 

 (Knapp), Leubusch (Prittwitz), Hilden, nr. Diisseldorf, rare, Urden- 

 bach, common (Kirby), nr. Stettin (Hering), Baden, common, 

 Pfalz, Wiirtemburg, Nassau (Reutti), Saxony (Dadd). Greece : 

 Parnassus and Veluchi, common (Staudinger). Italy : northern 

 provinces, common, central and south, less common (Curo), Pied- 

 mont, Liguria, Hiigel, Tuscany (Speyer), Naples (Costa), Sicily (Frey), 

 Montecuccio, Mondello (Tedaldi) . Netherlands : in all provinces 

 (Snellen). Roumania : generally distributed and common (Caradja). 

 Russia : Lower Volga dist. (Eversmann), St. Petersburg, Livonia, 

 Ciscaucasiandisfc. (Speyer), Crimea (Melioransky), Caucasian o provinces, 

 common (Menetries), Baltic provinces, common (Nolcken), Aland, Abo 

 (Lampa), Finland to 60° 30' (Renter), North Russia, White Sea to Urals, 

 Moscow district, Poland, mouth of Danube to Dnieper, Volga district 

 and Transcaucasia (Erschoff). Scandinavia: common in Sweden, 

 Norway and S. Finland, most northerly locality, Dalecarlia (Auri- 

 villius), Groto, 68° N. lat. (Schneider), Norway to 67° 50' N. lat. 

 (Reuter), Arctic Norway, Dovrefjeld, Oestersjon, Christiania, Ringe- 

 rige, Drommen, Smolen (Schoven), Dovre (Siebke), Upland, Stock- 

 holm, common (Boheman), Upsala (Belfrage), Saltdalen (Sommer- 

 felt), Laerdal, St. Bergenhus (Petterssen), Torghatten 65° 54' (Chap- 

 man). Spain : Galicia (Macho Velado), Province of Teruel (Zapater), 

 Barcelona dist., generally distributed (Cum y Martorell). Switzer- 

 land : generally distributed (Frey), nr. Bellinzona, Glarus (Speyer), 

 everywhere in the Engadine (Mengelbir), Oberalbula, common (Zeller), 

 Simplon (Jordis). 



anthrocera hippocrepidis, Stephens (nee Hb.). 



Synonymy. — Species: Hippocrepidis, Stephs., " Illus.,"i., p. 109 (1828) ; Wood, 

 " Index Entom.," iv., fig. 6 (yellow ab.) (1839); Kirby, "Cat. Lep. Het.," p. 70 

 (1892) ; " Handbook," etc., p.' 94 (1897) ; Tutt, " Ent. Record," pp. 87-88, 103-104, 

 106, 1G9 (1897) ; South, " Entom.," xxx., pp. 181-183 (1897). Ochsenheitiieri, Boden, 

 "Entom.," xviii., p. 317 (1883) ; South, "Entom.," xxiv., p. 233, in part (1891). 

 Filipendulae, ? Newm., " Brit. Moths," p. 24, in part (? 18G9) ; Briggs, " Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond," 1871, pp. 434-435, in part; Tutt, " Ent. Rec," ii., p. 110 (1891). 



Original description. — Alis anticis nigro-cyaneis, maculis sex 

 rubris, subtus omnino confluentibus, posticis rubris sinuato viridi- 

 cyaneo, abdomine immaculato. This varies in size, like A. JUijwndulae, 

 which it greatly resembles ; but the border of the posterior wings is 

 considerably more distinct than in that insect, and undulated internally, 



