AGRIADES THETIS. 895 



[Lancashire : near Lytham (Renshaw, Ent., xxiv.. 267), afterwards noted by 

 Renshaw (Ent., xxv., p. 173) as being wrongly recorded, the species being 

 P. icarus.~\ [Middlesex: Pinner (Carrington), wants confirmation; Rowland- 

 Brown says that the record is "quite impossible."] Oxford: Watlington, 

 Pyrton Hill (Bell), Caversham (Ent. liec, iv., p. 59), Hardwicke (Holland), 

 Oxford district, sparingly (Shipp). Somerset: very scarce in the county 

 — Polden Hills, near Bridgwater, Pickeridge, near Taunton, Rudstock and 

 Stoke-sub-Hamdon (Hudd), Buckland, Dinham, near Frome (Mathew), Bath 

 (Ridley), Weston-super-Mare (Crotch). [Suffolk: Moulton, Dalham (Miss Jermyn, 

 Butt. Coll. Vade BJecum, p. 75). Probably an error, Bloomfield, Lep. Suffolk, 

 p. 7.] Surrey: locally common on the chalk— Clandon, Box Hill (Turner), 

 Godstone Road (Stainton), Kenley (Carrington), Guildford (Stephens), Kingswood, 

 near Reigate (Phillips), Ripley (Simes), Caterham (Bower), Reigate (Image), 

 Croydon (A. Hall), near Dorking (Trimen), Oxted, Purley (Sheldon), Ranmore 

 (Oldaker), Gomshall, Betchworth, Hog's Back (Goss), Sheep Leas, Horsley 

 (Champion), Riddlesdown, Park Down (T. B. Fletcher), Redhill (Buckell), 

 Mickleham (Newman), Banstead (Adkin). Sussex : locally common on the chalk, 

 and on all the downs between Hastings and Brighton (Stephens), Brighton Downs 

 (Draper), Hollingbury Coombe (Image), Mailing Hill, East Dean (Jenner), Beeching 

 chalkpit (White), Eastbourne (Montgomery), Lewes (B. W. Adkin), Beachy Head 

 (Hawes), Balcombe district, not common (Hamlin), near Abbott's Wood (Dale), 

 Burgess Hill district (Dollman), Glynde, Hailsham (James), Steyning (White), 

 between Brighton and Lewes, in Bible Bottom, and on Cliff Hill, near Lewes, 

 between Eastbourne and Beachy Head, Ripon Down, Broadwater, Hastings, 

 between Bramber and Shoreham (W. H. B. Fletcher). [Warwick : near 

 Birmingham (Weaver teste Stephens). Almost certainly an error.] Wilts : 

 Devizes, rare^ Winsley (Sladen), Amesbury Hill (Rudd). 



Distribution. — Confined to the area bounded by the southern shore 

 of the Mediterranean on the south (about 35° N. lat.), Persia on the 

 east, 50° E. long., the north of Germany and Denmark on the north, 

 about 54° N. lat. (a little higher in Denmark, and lower in England), 

 and west by the Atlantic sea-board of France, Spain, and Portugal. — 

 Africa : Algeria — Lambessa, Magenta, Sebdou (Oberthur); Morocco (fe.sfeBlacbier). 

 Asia: Asia-Minor — Tche Kirghe, Broussa, Amasia (Fountaine); Cilicia (Holtz)'; 

 [Syria— Hasbeyah, in the Lebanon district (Nicholl);] North Syria — Shar Deresy 

 (Leech coll.); Persia — Tage, Bostan (J. de Morgan), Irak district (Young); North- 

 west Persia — Urumiah (Brit. Mus. Coll.) ; north-east Persia — Kuldsar (teste 

 Bethune-Baker). Europe — Austro-Hungary : Bohemia, generally distributed — 

 Posthofwiese, Plobenwiese, towards Pirkenhammer (Huttner), Prague, Senften- 

 berg (Fritsch) ; Moravia — Briinn, abundant (Schneider), Kremsier, Mistek, 

 Neutitschein, Rottalowitz (Fritsch); Upper Austria, distributed throughout 

 — Freistadt, Kirchdorf, Linz (Fritsch), Ischl (Hormuzaki); Lower Austria, abund- 

 ant throughout — Vienna (Rossi), Gresten (Scbleicher), Hernstein district (Rogen- 

 hofer); Salzburg — Salzburg (Nickerl), Rossfeld, near Hallein, Gaisberg (Richter); 

 Tirol — in the northern, central, and southern parts, from 650 metres to 2700 metres — 

 Schliicken Alp, Stubai Alps, Seiser Alp, Trafoi (Heller), Bozen, the Sarnthal (Tutt), 

 Trient (Mann), the Dolomites — Misurina, Cortina (Mann and Rogenhofer), Brenner 

 district (Galvagni), Innsbruck to 6000ft. (Weiler), Stelvio district not rare (Speyer), 

 Gomagoi (Tutt), Bregenz (Fritsch); Carinthia — Flitsch, Preth (Zeller), Lavantthal, 

 St. Paul mountains, rather rare, Friesach, Portschach, the Bleiberg valley, 

 Pressegg. Mollthal and Glockner district, on the Pasterze (Hofner), Hausdorf, St. 

 Jacob (Fritsch); Styria — Cilli (Fritsch), Enns Valley — Admont, near Hall (Strobl), 

 lower parts of Scheiblingstein (Kiefer); Istria — Trieste (Zeller), near Miramar, 

 Pirano (Mathew); Carniola — Adelsberg (Hoffmann); Dahnatia — Zara (Wagner), Val 

 d'Ombla, near Ragusa (Nicholl); Spalato (Brit. Mus. Coll.); Croatia — Josefsthal 

 (Mann), Agram district, Podsused (Grund); Dobrudscha — Tultscha, very common 

 (Mann); Hungary — Herculesbad (Lang), Budapest (Lemann). Budafok (Aigner), 

 Svabhegy (Sheldon), between Budafok and Kelenfold, Cserna (Rosa), Peszer, 

 Nagyvarad, Pecs, Sopron, Pozsony, N. Levard, Tavarnok, Moki, Salmerzbanya, 

 Gacs, Rozsnyo, Iglo, Eperjes, Kassa, Szilicza, Hufza, N. Bocsko, St. Gothard, 

 Gyake, Tegesvar, Nagyszeben, Nagyag, Rea, Mehadia, Orsova, Vinkovcze, 

 Lipik, Szeged, Belenyes, Tapoleza, Felsolovo, Beszterazebanya, Trencsin, 

 Josipdol, Plitvicza, Fiume, Buccari, Pastora, Novi (Aigner- Abati); Moravia — 

 Oberweiden (Habich), Javorina, Bresztova (Vangel); Galicia — Livow, Janow, 

 Limberg sandhills, Czapli, Bileze, Paskowej (Nowicki), Cracow, Bielany, 



