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till 1902 — possibly an error ;"] formerly in plenty near Shirley (Enock, Newman's 

 Brit. Butts., p. 133). Wiltshire: Amesburyf (Stephens, Illus., i., p. 86). 

 Worcester : one taken about 1801, near Dudley (see Loudon's Mag., vi., p. 96); 

 formerly near Croft Farm, seen July, 1855 ; Hawford, near Worcester, Trench 

 Woods, Hilly Fields (V.C.H.). Yorks : chalky districts (Stephens); York district 

 (Watson teste Haworth). 



Distribution. — The species extends from about 66°N. lat. (Swedish 

 Lapland) in the north, to 33°N. lat. (Syria, Persia) in the south, and 

 from 8°W. long. (Portugal) in the west, to 132i-°E. long. (Askold) in 

 the East. The following are the detailed records : — Asia: Asia Minor — 

 Taurus Mountains (Lederer), Tchekirghe near Broussa, Amasia, Tokat Alps 

 (Staudinger), Sivas, near Tokat (Fountaine), Pontus (Staudinger); Cilicia — 

 Tschekor Koslii on the Tafelbergen, near Gozna (Holtzj; Syria — the Lebanon, from 

 2000ft. -5000ft., Baalbek, Djebel Kineyseh, Djebel Sunnin, Beit Chabab (Nicholl), 

 Ain Zahalta district, near Maharain (Fountaine), the Ain Zahalta Cedars, at Djebel 

 Barouk (Graves); North Syria — Shar Deresy (Brit. Mus. coll.); Mesopotamia — 

 Malatia (Brit. Mus. coll.); Hyrcania (Lederer), Armenia, North Persia (Elwes); 

 Persia — Astrabad (Lederer), Tash, Shahkuh, Hadscyabad (Christoph), Iran (Grum- 

 Grshimailo); West Siberia — Kirghiz Steppes (Grum-Grshimailo); Bokhara — Derbent 

 (Brit. Mus. coll.); Turkestan— Sary Ob, Sarafshan, 7000ft. -9000ft. (Funke, Brit. 

 Mus v coll.); Sarafshan Valley — Margusur-Kul, Artutsch, Iskander-Kul (Grum- 

 Grshimailo), Altai mountains (Elwes), Ongodai (Jacobson), Bashkaus and Bija 

 Valleys (Elwes), Arasai (Leder), south-western Altai (Kindermann and Ruckbeil), 

 the upper Irtish Valley, between Ustkamenogorsk and Ustbuchtarminsk (Lederer); 

 Fergana — Namangan (Brit. Mus. coll.); Thian-Shan — Yir-Madaus (Grum- 

 Grshimailo); Thian-Shan and Kuldja — Kounguesse-Thal to 7000ft. (Alpheraky); 

 Ala Tau — near Lepsa (Haberhauer); the Pamir— Chakhimardan, the valley of 

 Khingoob (Grum-Grshimailo); East Siberia — Winterberge (Middendorf); the Kentei 

 mountains (Staudinger); Amurland — Raddefka (Christoph), Chabarofka. Pokrofka 

 (Graeser teste Staudinger), near Borbi (Schrenck), Sutschan (Dorries, Brit. Mus. 

 coll.), Isle of Askold (Dorries), Blagovestchensk (Brit. Mus. coll.); the Lena district 

 — Witim and Wilui (Herz), Kokonor (Grum-Grshimailo) ; the Bureja 

 mountains— north side of Lake Baikal, Lower Ussuri (Bremer); Mongolia — 

 Changai mountains (Leder). Europe. — Austria-Hungary: nowhere rare (Hofner); 

 Bohemia — Prague, Krc (Nickerl), Carlsbad, common (Hiifctn<-r); Moravia — Brimn 

 (Schneider), between Mahrisch-Triibau and Undangs (Ent. Zeits. Gu'j., viii., 3), 

 Neutitschein, Rattalowitz (Fritsch); Upper Austria — Inn district, not rare, 

 Postlingberg, Buchenau, Weyer (Himsl), Linz (Fritsch), Ischl, etc. 

 (Hormuzaki); Lower Austria — Gresten (Schleicher), Hernstein district 

 (Rogenhofer); Salzburg — near Salzburg, not rare (Nickerl), the Gaisberg 

 (Bentall), Gastein (Riihl); Tyrol— the Stelvio to 7000ft. (Speyer), up to 

 6000ft., not rare (Hinterwaldner), Trafoi (Rowland-Brown), the Glockner 

 district, Bozen, Trient (Mann), Brenner (Rowland-Brown), Mendel Pa?s 

 (Tutt), Campiglio (Lemann), the Dolomites, the Misurina Lake, Cortina (Mann 

 and Rogenhofer), Innsbruck, frequent, the Taufers Valley, common (Weiler), the 

 Brenner district Navis, between Matrei and Steinach, etc. (Galvagni), Schlucken 

 Alp, Hottinger Alp, Kaisergebirge, Patscherkofel, Riesenfemer group, Schlern, 

 M. Baldo, Nardis, Brenta, Franzenshohe, Sulden (Heller), Bregenz (Fritsch); 

 Hungary, throughout — Budapest (Lemann), Eger, Parad, Pecs, Sopron, Pozsony, 

 Tavarnok, Gacs, R6zsahegy, Rozsnyo, St. Andras, Kocsocz, Golniczbanva, 

 Eperies, St. Gothard, Gyake, Nagyszeben, Nagyag, Mehadia, Orsova, Vinkovcze, 

 Lipik, Nagy-Levard, Beszterczebanya, Kir Tapolesany, Korituicza, Zolyom-Lipcse, 

 Nagy-Bocsko, Bustyahaza, Tichueza, Elopatak, Ferenczfalva, Plitvica, Josipdol, 

 Raduc, Fiume (Aigner-Abafi); Carinthia — one of the most widely distributed species 

 up to the alpine region — Raibl Valley (Mann), near Paludnig, on the 

 Vorderberg Moss, Sau Alpe (Homer), Friesach (Riihl), Portschach (Wagner), 

 Wolfsberg, Villach (Lemann), Modling (Lang); Carniola — Oberfeld (Maun); 

 Dalmatia (Mann); Croatia — Josefsthal (Mann), Agram district, common, especially 

 in the Jelenovac Valley and near Podsused (Grund); Styria — Admont (Blachier); 

 Galicia — Cracow district, Czatkowice (Zebrawski); Bukovina — the Cecina mts., 

 near Czernowitz (Hormuzaki). Belgium : very local without being rare — Mt. St. 

 Pierre, Liege, Hertogenwald (Donckier), Tete du Pre, Mozet, Fond d'Arquet, 



f This is given by Stephens as in Hants instead of Wilts. 



