546 BBITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



common in central France — at Paris, Fontainebleau, &c. (Beree), rather rare in 

 north France — Eure, Pont de l'Arche (Dupont), Vernet-les-Bains, Cauterets (Ober- 

 thiir), AIpes-Maritimes — Pic de l'Aigle (Milliere), Poitiers (Boisduval), Evreux 

 (Bellier de la Chavignerie), Eure-et-Loir, Chateaudun (Guenee), Chateau-du- 

 Loir (de Graslin), Indre, Cher, Sologne, Auvergne (Sand), Aube (Jourdheuille), 

 Haute-Garonne — Bouconne, Lardennes, Encausse (Caradja), Puy-de-D6me 

 (Guillemot), Morbihan (Griffith), Gironde — Facturo, St. Medard, Cestas (Trimoulet), 

 Saone-et-Loire, Autun, rare, Chalon, common (Constant). Finland: couthern dis- 

 tricts, Osterbotten (Lampa). Germany: north-west Germany — Hanau, Elberfeld, 

 Quedlinburg, Osnabriick, Hamburg, Eutin, &c. (Jordan), local in the middle Rhine 

 district and south Germany — Holstein, L-'ineburg, Frankfort-on-Oder, Berlin, Kem- 

 berg, Mannsfeld, Mayence (Speyer), south-west Germany local — Giessen, Griin- 

 berg, Laubach, &c. (Koch), Silesia (Assmann), Pomerania — Garz (Hering), on the 

 Danholm at Stralsund (Plotz), Spires (Linz), Wiirtemberg — Ober-Schwaben 

 (Seyffler), Batisbon to Griinberg (Hoffmann), Giessen (Dickore), Lower Elbe dist. 

 — Sachsenwald, Hamburg (Zimmermann), Posen — Meseritz (Zeller), Halle, Dessau 

 (Stange), Hesse — the Wetterau, &c. (Glaser), Mecklenburg — Sulz, Neustrelitz, 

 Waren (Schmidt), Bremen (Rehberg), Pressburg(Rozsay), Prussia — Dantzig, Inster- 

 burg, Eilegenburg, Wittemberg (Schmid), Upper Lusatia (Moeschler), Gorlitz 

 (Hirte), Nassau — Mombach, Lorch, Bad Schwalbach (Bossier), Dessau, not rare 

 (Richter), Eutin (Dahl), Baden — Waldshut, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Schwetzingen, 

 Heidelberg, near Wertheim, very common (Reutti). Italy : north and central 

 Italy (Curo), Roman Campagna — Abruzzi, very common at 1500m. elevation (Cal- 

 berla), Modena — Montegibbio (Fiori). Malta: Civita Vecchia (Garde). Nether- 

 lands : everywhere on heaths — Breda, &c. (Heylaerts). Roumania: Grumazesti, Tult- 

 scha (Caradja), near Turn Severin (Haberhauer). Russia : Livonia (Teich), Baltic 

 Provinces — generally distributed, Schleck, Kokenhusen, Pichtendahl (Nolcken), 

 Moscow dist. (Albrecht), Wolmar (Lutzau), Volga dist. — prov. of Orenburg, Basch- 

 kiria, Caspian littoral (Eversmann), St. Petersburg (Erschoff), southern Russia 

 (Moschler). Transcaucasia : distributed — Tiflis, Borjom, Lagodekhi, Manglis, Eldar, 

 Istissou, Kasikoparan, Derbent, Delijan, Helenendorf (Romanoff). Scandinavia: 

 common in south Sweden, but rarer farther north — extends to Upland, Westman- 

 land and S. Finland, in Norway only in Smaalenene (Aurivillius), Scania, Blekinge, 

 East Gothland, Skofde in West Gothland (Wallengren), Lapland, very rare (Zetter- 

 stedt). Spain: Teruel — Griegos, Alcala de la Selva (Zapater and Korb). Switzer- 

 land : local and apparently absent in northern Switzerland, limits of flight about 

 4000ft. (Frey), Tarasp (Killias), Basle (Knecht), Jura— St. Blaise-Neuveville 

 (Couleru), Mont Saleve, nr. Geneva (Frey), several places in the Valais — Bergell, 

 Vieschwald, Brieg, Berne (Meisoner), Visp Valley, Saas Valley (Jordan), Grisons 

 (Agassiz). Turkey (Speyer), Varna (Lederer). 



Malacosoma neustria, Linne. 

 Synonymy. — Species : Neustria, Linn., " Sys. Nat.," 10th ed., p. 500, no. 19 

 (1758) ; 12th ed., p. 818, no. 34 (1767) : " Fauna Suec," 2nd ed., p. 292, no. 1102 

 (1761) ; Mull., " Faun. Frid.," p. 39, no. 350 (1764) ; " Zool. Dan. Prod.," p. 118, 

 no. 1358 (1776); Hufn., " Berl. Mag.," ii., p. 402, no. 11 (1766); Fuessly, " Verz.," 

 p. 34 (1775) ; " Neu. Mag.," ii., p. 60 (1785) ; iii., pp. 148, 152 (1786) ; Fab., " Sys. 

 Ent.," p. 567, no. 42 (1775) ; " Sp. Ins.," ii., p. 180, no. 58 (1781) ; " Mant.," ii., p. 

 114, no. 70 (1787) ; "Ent. Syst.," iii., p. 432, no. 79 (1793) ; Wilkes, " Nat. Hist.," 

 pi. xlv (1773) ; Schiff., " Sys. Verz.," p. 57 (1776) ; Goze, " Ent. Beit.," p. 315 

 (1781) ; Esp., " Schmett. Eur.," iii., p. 143, pi. xxvii., figs. 1-7 (1784); Vill., 

 "Linn. Ent.," pp. 133, 134 (1789); View., "Tab. Verz.," i., p. 37 (1789); 

 Rossi, "Fauna Etrus.," p. 170 (1790); Bork., "Sys. Besch.," hi., p. 103, 

 no. 28 (1790); "Rhein. Mag.," i., p. 368 (1793); Brahm, "Ins. Kal.," ii., p. 

 341 (1791) ; Donov., " Nat. Hist.," hi., p. 61, pi. xcv (1794) ; Hb., "Eur. Schmett.," 

 iii., p. 144, pi. xl., figs. 179-180 (? 1800) ; " Larva? Lep.," hi., Q. a.b. figs, la-c 

 (?1803) ; " Verz.," p. 192 (? 1822) ; Schrk., "Fauna Boica," ii., Abth. 1, p. 279, no. 

 1465 (1801); Abth. 2, p. 155, no. 15 (1802); Latr., " Genera, &c," iv., p. 219 (1809); 

 Ochs., " Die Schmett.," hi., p. 296 (1810) ; Germ., " Prod. Sist. Bomb.," p. 48 

 (1811); Godt., "Hist. Nat.," iv.. p. 137, pi. xiii., figs. 3-4 (1822) ; Curt., "Brit. 

 Ent.," expl. pi. 229 (1828); "Guide," p. 142 (1829) ; Stphs., "111. Haust.," ii., p. 

 49 (1828) ; " Cat. Brit. Ins.," p. 48 (1829) ; " List. Br. An. Br. Mus.," v., 1st ed., 

 p. 47 (1850) ; 2nd ed., p. 44 (1856) ; Meig., " Eur. Schmett.," ii., p. 207 (1830) ; 

 Wood, "Inch Ent.," no. 50 (1839); Zett., "Ins. Lapp.," p. 926 (1840); Bdv., "Gen. 

 et Ind.," p. 69, no. 563 (1840) ; Dup., " Cat. Lep. Eur.," p. 75 (1844) ; H.-Sch., 

 " Sys. Bearb.," ii., p. 105 (1847) ; " Samm. auss. Schmett.," p. 9 (1856) ; Humph. 



