394 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Aricia astrarche, H&odes thei'samon, etc., as well as on some broken 

 ground in the Rilska valley, where granite blocks have rolled down the 

 precipices into a sheltered meadow at the foot of the woods, and which 

 are overgrown with all kinds of flowering weeds and intersected by a 

 tiny stream, where it occurs with Polyommatus anteros, P. hylas, 

 P. icarus, Cyaniris semiargus, Avicia eumedon, Scolitantides orion, 

 Loiceia dorilis, ChrysopJianus hippothoe, etc. Near Slivno, it is found 

 in a rough little valley among the vineyards with Glaucopsyche cyllarus, 

 G. iolas, Avicia astrarche, A. eumedon, E ceres argiades, and Scolitantides 

 baton, whilst, in Bosnia, it occurs on the road between Focha and 

 Celebic, in country where forests alternate with mountain -meadows 

 brilliant with flowers and swarming with insects, among others 

 Lycaena areas, L. arion, Polyommatus amandus, P. meleayer, Ayriades 

 coridon, etc. The species is abundant locally in Asia Minor, occurring 

 everywhere in the mountains in Cilicia, as well as in the coast districts; 

 Mrs. Nicholl says that it occurs on the chalkhills near Hasbeyah in 

 the Lebanon district, but we believe the record refers to A. corydon 

 var. syriaca, which was mistaken for the species under consideration. 

 We know nothing of the habitats of the species in its extreme haunts 

 in Persia. 



British localities. — This species is very local, and restricted to a 

 few southern counties of England ; records outside these are to be 

 considered with great suspicion. — [Argyll: near Oban, July, 1881 (Sturge, 

 .E»£.,xiv.,p.225). Wants confirmation very badly.] Bedford: near Bedford (C. G. 

 Barrett), Barton Hills, rare (Gifford-Nash). Berks : Streatley district, Pangbonrne, 

 Sulham (Hamm), between Streatley and Blewberry (Holland), White-Horse Hill 

 (Wheeler), between Newbury and Aldermaston (Rowland-Brown). Bucks : Clifden 

 (Lewin) (hence its name of " Clifden blue "), Drayton Beauchamp (Crewe), now 

 extinct absolutely, the ground having been recently cultivated (Rothschild), near 

 Marlow (Clarke), High Wycombe (Peachell), on the Chiltern Hills between Kimble 

 and Prince's Risborough (Rowland-Brown), Halton (Greene). [Cambridge: New- 

 market, several specimens taken by Mr. WagstarT many years ago (Fenland) (see 

 Bloomfield, Lep. Suffolk, p. 57).] Devon: Seaton (Reading), Bere Regis, near 

 Seaton (Tetley), near Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove (Rogers), Chapel 

 Hill (Reading), Sidmouth (Wells), Beer Head (Blathwayt), Dartmoor (Lester). 

 Dorset : near Corfe abundant, Blandford (Bankes), Abbotsbury (Hopson), Sutton 

 Poyntz, Chalbury Vale, Culliford Tree (Bogue), Sherborne (Douglas), Swan age 

 (Hall), Hodd Hill (Nelson), Isle of Purbeck (Parmiter), Weymouth (Frohawk), Lul- 

 worth (Green), Puddle Hill, Knowle Hill (J. C. Dale teste Stephens), Buckland New- 

 ton, Portland (Dale). [Essex : near Saffron Walden, reputed to have been taken once 

 or twice by Mr. Jos. Clarke (teste Harwood), wants confirmation]. Gloucester: 

 local, but sometimes common — Clifton, Durdham and Coombe Downs, Hen bury 

 (Hudd), Cheltenham district (Robertson), near Stroud, Fairford. Bristol district, 

 Rodborough, Amberley (Merrin), Wotton-under-Edge, local, and sometimes 

 common (Perkins), Painswick (Watkins), Stapleton (Harding), Stonehouse (Nash). 

 Hants : Isle of Wight — Apse Down (Bond), Yentnor, Brading (Prout), Freshwater 

 (Bower), Sandown (Bull), Mottistone (Prideaux), Bullen, near Ryde (Jordan), 

 Carisbrooke Castle (James), Bowcombe Down (Morey), St. Boniface Down and 

 Bembridge Down (Poole), Winchester (Hamm), St. Catherine's Hill, near 

 Winchester (Alderson), Worthy Down, near Winchester (Johns), near Silchester 

 (Rowland-Brown). Herts: Tring (Rothschild), Dancer's End (Goodson), 

 Royston (Kingston), Aldbury Down (Barraud). Hunts : St. Ives district 

 (Norris). Kent : locally common on the chalk — the chalk-hills near Strood, 

 Cuxton, Hailing, Bush, Luddesdown, etc., between Rochester and Chatham 

 and Maidstone, near Rainham, etc. (Tutt), Cuxton (Burrows), Chatham district 

 (Sabine), Queendown Warren, Blue Bell Hill (Walker), Frinsted. near Sitting- 

 bourne (Mathew), Folkestone (Page), Cheriton (Heitland), Shorncliffe (Rogers), 

 near Deal (Harding), near Dover (Curtis), Wye (B. W. Adkin), Westwell Downs, 

 near Ashford (Russell), Ashford (Wood), Chilham Park, Dane Court (Stowell), 

 between Dover and Sand gate (Cox), Lower Fant (Golding), Maidstone district (Good- 

 win), Shoreham (Bower). Seal Chart (Carrington), near Darenth Wood (West). 



