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on the heathy land just inside the marshes at Aldeburgh. Prout found 

 a larval case spun up (so securely that he thought it was a cocoon) 

 on April 11th, 1899, among rootlets of ivy, pieces of lichen, &c, on an 

 old trunk in Bowdown Copse, near Sandown. After a few weeks it was 

 observed moving about, and it apparently freed itself for pupation 

 towards the end of May, suspending the cocoon by a few threads from 

 the box in which it was confined. The larva, in May, is to be found 

 on tree-trunks, walls and rocks, in Brandenburg (Sorhagen), and also 

 on fences and rocks in Baden, the imago flying in the forenoon 

 (Beutti). At Garz, Biittner found the cases spun-up in the outer 

 chamber of an ice-cellar. Bossier notes that in Nassau the case has 

 been found in several hilly districts, in autumn, under stones. Zeller 

 found a case on a rotten beech stump at Baibl, the larva in which lived 

 all the winter and died in spring. 



Localities. — Bekks: Sonning (Digby). Cheshire: Birkenhead (Stainton), 

 Bowdon (Edleston), Rock Ferry (Brockholes). Cumberland : Lake District (Stain- 

 ton). Derby: Burton-on-Trent (Mason). Devon: Exeter (Parfitt). Dorset: 

 Purbeck (Bankes), Glanvilles Wootton (Dale), Bloxworth (Cambridge). Dublin: 

 Howth (Hodgkinson). Durham : Stockton (Scott), Baydale near Darlington (Sang 

 teste Gardner). Hants: I. of Wight, Sandown (Prout). Hereford: Tarrington 

 (Wood), Ledbury (Warren). Gloucester: Stapleton (Harding), Ahnondsbury (Hill). 

 Kent : Bexley (Bower), Alkham (Beale), Pembury (Weir), Darenth (Miller), Plum- 

 stead (Butterfield). Lancashire : Grange, local and not common (Ellis), Preston 

 (Hodgkinson), Manchester (Stainton), Cleveleys (Threlfall), near Simonswood Moss 

 (Gregson). Londonderry : Benone (Salvage). Middlesex: Neasdon (Warren). Nor- 

 folk: (Digby). Stafford: Cannock Chase (Barrett), Wirksworth (Baker). Suffolk: 

 Aldeburgh (Cruttwell). Surrey: West Wickham (Healy), near Croydon (Douglas), 

 Ripley (Stephens), Oxshott (Warren). Sussex : Guestling (Bloomfield), Abbotts Wood, 

 Hayling (Fletcher). Westmorland: Witherslack (Threlfall). Wicklow: Wicklow 

 mountains (Birchall). Yorkshire: York (Stainton), Huddersfleld (Inchbald). 



Distribution. — Asia Minor: Brussa, Amasia (Mann), Bithynia, Pontus 

 (Wocke). Austria : Lavantthal (Hofner), Bohemia, Hungary (H.-Schaffer), Carin- 

 thia — Raibl (Zeller), Glockner, Mehadia, Tyrol — Montepiano (Mann). Belgium: near 

 Brussels (Fologne), Liege (Fre). Denmark: Geel's Wood and Naestoed in 

 Zealand, Haldin Jylland (Bang-Haas). France : St. Florent, Cher (Sand), Saone- 

 et-Loire — Montjeu near Autun (Constant), Venancon, near S. Martin Lantosque 

 (Milliere). Germany: Generally distributed but not common in woods (Heine- 

 mann), near Dantzig (Tiedemann), Munich (Hartmann), Wiesbaden (Nolcken), 

 Silesia, near Frankfort-on-Oder, near Glogau, on the Probsthainer peak (Zeller), 

 Gross Glogau, Bergiin (Zell. coll.), the province of Glatz (Zebe), Bavaria (H.- 

 Schaffer), Ueberlingen, Heiligenberg, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Durlach, Spires, the 

 Palatinate, near Neustadt-on-Hardt (Reutti), widely distributed in Brandenburg, 

 occurs in North Germany but rare, Garz, Friedland (Sorhagen), Alsace, Trois-Epis, 

 pinewoods of Altenberg, La Vancelle (Peyerimhoff), Brunswick (Frey coll.), Bur- 

 gundy (Constant coll.), Hanover (Glitz), Pomerania (Biittner), Lichtenau near 

 Lauban (Moeschler), Cassel (Koch), Waldeck (Speyer), Nassau (Bossier), Wurtem- 

 berg, Urech, Kapfenburg (Hofmann), Worth, Kelheim, Ratisbon (Schinid), Breslau 

 (Assmann). Italy: Italian Tyrol (Mann),? Valtellina (Curo). Netherlands: 

 Rare, only found in a few localities in south and south-eastern parts of Holland, 

 Hilversum, Arnhem (Snellen). Russia : Caucasus (Seebold), Baltic Provinces 

 (Sintenis), Dubbeln, Kemmern (Teich), Livonia (Lienig), near Abo (Tengstrom), 

 Pichtendahl (Nolcken). Scandinavia : Sweden (Boheman), Scania, Smaland, 

 Oland, Gothland, West Gothland, Jemtland (Wallengren). Switzerland : near Bergiin 

 (Zeller), Bergell (Bazziger), Upper Engadine, Soglio (Killias), Valais (Anderregg). 



Family : solenobiidae. ::: 

 Probably this is the least known of the families included in the 



* We are informed that th3 correct way to spell this is Solenobiadae, and that 

 the "i i" is inadmissible. As a matter oi' uniformity we prefer to retain the same 

 spelling throughout our chapt3r on the P.iychids. 



