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Haas records that it occurs principally in dry and sandy places, most 

 abundantly in the heath regions of the south of Funen. Its habitats 

 in Germany and Austria are of much the same kinds as elsewhere. 

 Schmidt, for instance, remarks that he once took the species pretty 

 abundantly between Schwerin and Ludwigslust in the heath, but still 

 more abundantly in the forest near Mestlin, in a locality which was 

 covered with heath. Rossler, again, says that in Nassau it is abundant 

 in July in meadows, and also in the Mombach Forest, on the left bank 

 of the Rhine, " in places where a tall reed-grass grows," whilst 

 Limpert speaks of it as being abundant in the same month at Hanau, 

 in clearings of the forest. In Hesse, Glaser observes that in July and 

 August it is to be found in forest glades and clearings and also at the 

 sides of little-used roads, and further states that it loves to wander 

 about in dry meadows on the outskirts of woods, where the scanty 

 vegetation consists chiefly of Lotus corniculatus, on which it is fond of 

 settling, without, apparently, feeding from the flowers. Many similar 

 habitats are described from different parts of Germany and Austria, 

 but a somewhat different one is described in Salzburg by Bentall, who 

 found it in August near the summit of the Gaisberg, at 4,200ft., 

 with Cyaniris semiargus, Polyommatus hylas, Chrysophanus hippotho'e, 

 Issoria lathonia, Melitaea athalia, Argynnis adippe var. cleodoxa, etc. 

 Dadd also found it near Oberstdorf in the Allgau Alps at a spot where 

 the river has formed an extensive sandbank overgrown with willow and 

 other bushes, on which butterflies were common, and Lycaena avion 

 occurred commonly with Cyaniris semiargus, Agriades bellargus, P. icarus 

 Cupido minim us, Plebeius argus, P . argyrognomon, Chrysophanus hippotho'e, 

 etc. It also occured in the Oythal at the junction of the Oy and Trittach 

 on asunny bank with a great wealth of other species — Meliteadictynna,M. 

 athalia, Brenthiseuphrosyne, etc., whilst it also occurred on the lower slopes 

 of the Seealp with the same species; on the Solleneck it also occurred in 

 a mountain meadow with a host of lowland and sub-alpine species : — 

 Colias phicomone, C. hyale, Erebia melampus, Coenonympha satyr ion, C. 

 iphis, Euchlo'ecardamines, Agriades bellargus, Cyaniris semiargus, Cupido 

 minimus, etc. It was also seen in the Oythal occasionally with swarms 

 of Cupido minimus at patches of damp earth. Of some of its haunts in 

 France we have already spoken, but these by no means comprise all 

 the situations in which it may be found. Turner, for instance, took it 

 "in one corner of an orchard of the Petit Val (Cotes du Nord), on a 

 bank overgrown with broom and bramble, with J\lelanargia galathea, 

 Epinephele tithonus, E. janira, and swarms of other common things." 

 Sand reports it from the Auvergne district as occurring in dry heaths 

 and clearings of the mountain woods, whilst Oberthiir describes a very 

 characteristic haunt at Monterfil, in north Brittany, which he calls a 

 " lande," a kind of rough heath-land, no part of which is level, yet 

 whose acclivities and depressions could not be described except in a 

 toy or fairyland sense, as hills and valleys, and where the short 

 vegetation is constantly interrupted by outcrops of stone. In northern 

 Italy its haunts are naturally of the same kind as those in the French 

 and Swiss Alps. Wheeler, for example, found it not uncommonly 

 in the few open spots of the marvellous Gorge of Gondo, probably the 

 sublimest spot in the Alps, and, again, more frequently on brambles by 

 the roadside between Gondo and Isella. Curo speaks of it as occurring in 

 Italy in fields, meadows and woods, and Wheeler observes that he took 



