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Chat Moss (Edelsten), Witherslack (James), near Manchester (Newman). Lincoln : 

 hillsides in Lincolnshire (Brameld), Lincoln district (Burton), Allington (Wynne), 

 formerly in the Louth district (Bailey). Middlesex : Mill Hill (South), Isleworth 

 (Myers) ; formerly at Grim's Dyke, last seen 1901 (liowland- Brown), formerly 

 common at Wormwood Scrubs (A. H. Clarke). Monmouth: Pontnewydd (Conway). 

 Norfolk: on the hillsides of Norfolk (Brameld), Norwich, Hunstanton, King's 

 Lynn, Merton, Thetford, Broom Heath (Barrett), Sparham (Norgate). Northants : 

 Northampton (Goss), near Peterborough (Morley), Towcester (Clark). Notts: 

 Mansfield (Smith). Oxford : Oxford (Blackburn), Watlington (Lucas), Shotover 

 (Geldart), Wychwood Forest (Bull), Enstone (Cruttwell), Charlbury, very common 

 (Sanders), Chinnor (Spiller), Stonesfield (Stretch). Peebles: (Black). Pembroke: 

 Tenby (Puckridge), Pembroke (Barrett), Castlemartin (Hodge). Perth: Glen 

 Lochray (Morton), Dunsinane Hill, Glen Tilt (Buchanan White), Kinfauns, Braes 

 of Gowrie near Kilspindie (Stewart), Moncrieffe Hill, scarce and local (Moncrieffe), 

 Bannoch (Cockayne), Pitlochrie (James), Kinloch (Walker), half-way between 

 Callander and the Trossachs, near Loch Earn (Lovell-Keays), Bridge of Allan 

 (Paterson). Boss: Nig Sutor, Tarbet Ness (Jackson). Boxborough : Ancrum, 

 Hawick, Jedborough (Benton), Crossford Castle (Elliott). Butland : Uppingham 

 (Bell). Salop: Shrewsbury (Newman). Selkirk : Galashiels (Haggart) . Somerset: 

 Taunton (Tetley), Cheddar (Bath), Croscombe, Burford, locally common (Bogue), 

 Weston-super-Mare (Crotch), Wells (Troupe). Stafford : some years abundant in 

 the Valley of the Dove (Masefield). Suffolk: Bentley (Burrows), Cavenham 

 (Bothschild), Stowmarket (Baker), Downham, Barham (Norgate), Brandon (Fenn). 

 Surrey: Beigate (Tonge), Gomshall (Wheeler), Guildford (Grover), Dorking, 

 Banmore, Polesden (Oldaker), Croydon (Hall), Clandon (Hodgson), Caterham 

 (Morris), Biddlesdown (Fletcher), Box Hill (Turner), Betchworth (James), Purley, 

 Oxted (Sheldon), Hog's Back, Albury Downs, Horsley, Sheep Leas (Champion), 

 Chipstead, Banstead (Carr), Kenley (Carrington), Bagshot (Floersheim), Godstone 

 (Stainton). Sussex: Hastings, Bye, Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester 

 (Newman), Eastbourne (Sotheby), Steyning (White), Shipley (Bird), Lewes 

 (Hodgson), Brighton (Hind), Burgess Hill (Dollman), Hailsham (Carr), Newhaven 

 (Beeve), near Bognor (Tiimen), Abbot's Wood (Alderson). Warwick: not 

 common ; near Birmingham (Morris), Bugby (Sidgwick), Wolford (Wheeler). 

 Westmoreland : fairly common from Kendal to Witherslack (Moss), Arnside 

 Methop (Forsythe), Cunswick (Littlewood). Wigtown: Stranraer (Gordon). 

 W t ilts : Wishford near Salisbury, near Wilton (Carr), Savernake (Kimber). 

 Worcester: Worcester (Newman), Malvern (Sich), Bredon, Oddingley, Broadway 

 (Fletcher). Yorks : local; near Sledmere, common, Grasswood, Wharfedale 

 (Tetley), Ledsham (Taylor), Grassingham (Carter), Bichmond (Sang), Scarborough 

 (Tyers), Boston Spa (E.W.I.), Bedmere (Yorks Nat. Union). Ireland. — [Down : 

 Mourne Mtns. (Birchall). Dublin : Dundrum (Birchall).] Galway : Clonbrook 

 (Dillon). [Wicklow: Wicklow Mtns. (Birchall).] Birchall's records are considered 

 doubtful, but in the light of the undoubted modern records from Galway, they are 

 probably correct. 



The foreign distribution of this species follows much the same 

 general lines as that of Polyommatus icarus, not, however, extending 

 quite so far north, but, on the other hand, stretching considerably 

 further east. In fact, without taking note of the doubtful chinensis, 

 Murray, its range is only bounded by the Atlantic on the West and 

 the Pacific on the East, for it extends from Tromso, Galway, Portugal 

 and the Canaries to the Island of Askold in the Bay of Vladivostock. 

 Its southern limit is practically the same as that of Pohjommatus icarus, 

 but it only occurs exceptionally further north than 66° 40'. Its 

 occurrence, however, is by no means so unbroken as that of the last 

 species, there are considerable tracts of country from which we have 

 no record of its appearance, and in many parts where it occurs, over a 

 great part of Germany for instance, it is scarce and local. Here and 

 there, on the contrary, especially in mountainous districts it occurs in 

 abundance and is reported as very abundant at all elevations in 

 Morocco. It reaches a higher altitude than P. icarus, for Gram- 



