8f)2 BRITISH LERIDOPTERA. 



April 6th, 1896, many cases at Holbendorf, from which imagines ap- 

 peared in May (Schiitze) ; imagines on April 14th, 23rd, and May 24th, 

 in Hungary (Fritsch) ; imagines May 9th, 1886, in the Baltic Provinces 

 (Teich) ; the larvae in April on grass in Baden, the cases later spun up 

 on stems (Reutti) ; a case from a trunk of Populus tremula, near Riga, 

 in April, produced a male on May 12th (Nolcken) ; cases are found on 

 trunks, palings, stones, oaktrees, &c, from the middle of April to May, 

 at Arolsen and Wildungen, the imagines emerging from the beginning 

 to the end of May (Speyer) ; cases are found in early spring on trees, 

 rocks, and bushes, in the moor region of the Upper Hartz, the larva 

 winters once, the imagines emerge in June (Hoffmann) ; the imago 

 emerges in May and June at Jaegersborg and Rudehegn (Bang-Haas) ; 

 middle of April to end of May for spun-up cases, the imagines emerge 

 throughout May at Arolsen (Speyer) ; common at Bisbinno June 3rd, 

 1894 (Knecht). 



Localities. — Several parts of the south of England and Highlands of Scot- 

 land (Barrett). Berks : Beading (Barnes), Crowthorne (Brit. Mus. Coll.), Pad- 

 worth (Holland), Wellington College (Hamm), Wokingham (Barrett). Dorset : 

 Poole Heath (Dale), Bournemouth (Cowl). Hants : New Forest and district 

 (Bankes), Woolmer Forest (Barrett), nr. Brockenhurst (Newman). Perthshire : 

 Bannoch dist. local — Black Wood, &c. (Beid). Surrey: Haslemere (Barrett). 

 Sutherland: (Salvage). Westmorland: Wither slack (Murray teste Threlf all). 



DISTRIBUTION.'" — Asia Minor: Armenia (Staudinger). Austro-Hungary : 

 Pressburg (Bozsay), Styria, Berchtesgaden in Fuchsthal at 2500, near Meran, 

 Salzburg (Speyer), Briinn (Muller), Bohemia — Kuchelbad near Prague (Nickerl), 

 Hansdorf (Fritsch), Innsbruck (Weiler), Chemnitz (Pabst), Lavantthal (Hofner), 

 Nagyag (Czekelius), South Tyrol (Staudinger), Wienerwald (Schleicher). Den- 

 mark : Sjffilland, Helsingor, Jernbanen, Jaegersborg, Budehegn, etc. (Bang-Haas), 

 La Hulpe (Hedemann). Finland : Lajosee (Sintenis), Abo, Karelen, Osterbotten 

 (Lampa), Aland, 8. Karelia (Tengstrom). France: Cannes, Antibes, cfec. (Tutt). 

 Germany : Scattered as far north as Arolsen, Berlin, and the Hartz (Heinemann), 

 Berlin, Hartz, Weimar, Lissa, Klarenkraust, Halle, Trier (Speyer), Munster, Freiburg, 

 Erlangen (Hofmann), Karlsruhe (Beutti), Silesia — from the plains to the highest 

 mountains — Parchwitz, Obernigk, Schreiberhau, Seefelder, Altvater (Standfuss), 

 Waldeck — nr. Arolsen, Wildungen — nr. Breslau (Speyer), Erfurt (Keferstein), 

 Saxon Upper Lusatia — Holbendorf, Ober-Eulowitz, Bachlan (Schiitze), Dresden 

 (Steinert), Upper Lusatia — Herrnhut (Moeschler), Silesia, the Stilfser-Joch 

 (Wocke), Batisbon (Schmid), Alsace — Colmar, Strasburg, Saverne (Peyerimhoff), 

 Jena, Biesengebirge (Zell. coll.), on the Winzerberg near Batisbon (Herrieh- 

 Schaffer), Upper Hartz (Hoffmann). Italy: North, not common (Curd), Lom- 

 bard?, Brianza (Turati), Piedmont — Macugnaga (Staudinger). Boumania : Gruma- 

 zesti, Slanic (Caradja). Bussia : Transcaucasia — Tiriis (Staudinger), Baltic Pro- 

 vinces — Dorpat, NeuKasseritz (Sintenis), Wolmar (Lutzau), Biga (Nolcken). Scan- 

 dinavia : rare, but generally distributed to Alten (Aurivillius), Dovre, Finmark nr. 

 Bossekop (Staudinger), Arctic Begion — common at Kuusamo and Uleaborg (Schilde 

 teste Petersen). Spain: Andalusia (Bambur). Switzerland : up to 6000ft. (Frey), 

 Grisons — Bergell, &c. (Killias), Lugano (Huguenin), Engadine, nr. Bergiin, Ober- 

 Albula — Weissenstein, Tuors Pensch (Zeller), Stelvio (Wocke), Locarno (Chap- 

 man), Ticino — Bisbinno (Knecht). Turkey : Constantinople (Staudinger). 



Genus : Pachythelia, Westwood. 

 Synonymy. — Genus: Pachythelia, Westd., " Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond.," v., pp. 

 xli-xlii (1848) ; "Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.," 1854, note p. 220; Humph, and West., 

 "Brit. Moths," i., pp. 84, 94(1851). Psyche, Ochs., " Die Schmett.," hi., p. 180 

 (1810) ; iv., p. 54 (1816) ; God., " Hist. Nat.," iv., p. 284 (1822) ; Cantener, " Lep. 

 du Var," p. 14 (1833); Bdv., "Gen. Ind. Meth.," p. 79 (1840); Dup., "Hist. 

 Nat.," supp. iv., p. 61 (1842); "Cat. Meth.," p. 66 (1844); Evers., "Bull. Mos3.," 

 3, p. 542 (1843) ; H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii., p. 20 (1845) ; Bruand, " Mem. Soc. 

 Doubs," ii., livr. 1-2, p. 66 (1845) ; " Mon. Psych.," p. 51 (1853); Hdrch., "Sys. 

 Vcrz.," 2nd ed., p. 6 (1846) ; 3rd ed., p. 24 (185i) ; Led., " Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wicn," ii., 



* Belgium.- -Heylacrts notes this as a probable Belgian and Netherland species, 

 specimens, supposed to be native, being in Breyer's collection, but without labels. 



