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Cambridge, Rutland, Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire may be 

 regarded as connected with the first, those in Herefordshire, Somerset, 

 and perhaps Wiltshire with the second, and Dorset with the third, 

 though its Hampshire and Wiltshire localities seem somewhat isolated. 

 We have dealt elsewhere (p. 343) with its gradual disappearance 

 and it is probably now confined to the counties of Gloucester 

 and Cornwall, unless it still lingers on in some of its Devonshire 

 haunts. The following is its recorded distribution in this country : — 

 Bedford : (Ha worth), in the Mouse's pasture, near Bedford, in 1819 (J. C. Dale). 

 Bromham (teste Westwood). Bucks. : Clifden (Lewin). Cambridge : Chatteris, 

 near Cambridge (J.W.C.), (E.W.I. , vi., p. 178). Cornwall: north (Sheldon), 

 Bude abundant, Millook, Tintagel, etc. (Clark), east Cornwall, that part east of the 

 high road from Truro, through St. Columb to the inland extremity of Padstow 

 Creek (Bollason). Devon : ■ Salcombe. local and not abundant (Prideaux), Bolt 

 Head (Mathew), Prawle Point (Sheldon), near Plymouth (Bignell), Dartmoor 

 (Bogers), Bolt Tail (Gatcombe, Bignell). Dorset: Parley Heath (J. C. Dale). 

 Charmouth, once (Morris, British Butterflies, p. 134). Gloucester: near Leck- 

 hampton Court (Trye), Stinchcombe Hill, near Dursley (Lathom-Brown), between 

 Gloucester and Cheltenham (Marshall), Painswick Hill (Watkins), Dursley, Stroud 

 (Marsden), [Forest of Dean, 1892, seen from a bicycle, not captured (Brooke). 

 Confirmation is very necessary.] Cirencester (Harman), Wotton-under-Edge 

 (Griffiths), Rodborough Common, Sapperton, Misendene Park, Dane way Common 

 (Musgrave). Hants: Parley Heath (J. C. Dale), near Winchester (Stephens). 

 Herefordshire : in the Aqueduct, Hereford (Harman, Newman's Brit. Butterflies, 

 p. 140). [Herts* : Haileybury, seen 1898 (Stockley). Wants confirmation.] 

 Hunts: Stilton, near Yaxley (Chambers teste Ingpen), Monks Wood (Dale), near 

 Brington (Bell, E.W.I., vi., p. 178). [Kent: Dover cliffs (Lewin), ? near Deal 

 {Stephens.)] Northampton : Wigsthorpe (Doubleday), Polebrook, Barnwell Wold 

 (Bree), near Oundle (Whall). [North Wales: (Stephens.)] Rutland: Kington 

 (Stainton, Ent. Trans., 1858-61, p. 234). Somerset : hills near Bath (Lewin), 

 near Langport (Quekett), Weston-super-Mare (Crotch.) [Not recorded in the 

 county for half-a-century.] Shropshire : Ludlow (Blackmore). Wilts : Marl- 

 borough Downs (Lewin, p. 78), Savernake Forest (Preston, Newman's Brit. Butter- 

 Mes, p. 140). 



Abroad the range of avion from East to West is as wide as that of 

 the last species, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from 

 Einistere to the Island of Askold in the Bay of Vladivostock, but in 

 latitude its night is much more limited. It reaches northward only to 

 the extreme south of Finland and Sweden, where it is very rare, and to the 

 Baltic Provinces and the Govt, of St. Petersburg in Eussia, whilst in 

 Siberia Pokrofka is probably its northern limit. Southwards it 

 ■extends to the table-land of Central Spain, and has been taken at the 

 foot of Vesuvius and on Mt. Parnassus. There is a specimen in the 

 Brit. Mus. coll., from the Godman coll., labelled Algeria, but this must 

 be accepted with caution, since the species is unknown in southern 

 Spain and Italy, and has not been reported from any of the 

 Mediterranean islands with the exception of Corsica. In Asia Minor 

 the only record of it is from the neighbourhood of Brussa (Mann), 

 many years ago ; Young records it from the Irak district in 

 Persia, and it appears to be widely spread in Turkestan and occurs 

 both in Eastern and Western Siberia and in Thibet. It is fond of 

 broken and hilly country and rises to an altitude of at least 6,000ft. 



* The following note on " Arion in HertfordsJiire " was received from Mr. A' 

 E. Gibbs of St. Albans: — Mr. Bowyer, in his Haileybury List (1888), includes this 

 species as occurring in the neighbourhood of the school, stating that " one speci- 

 men was shown up for the Cornthwaite prize some years ago." Mr. Stockley 

 informed me, in litt., that three arion were again seen in 1898, and that he was 

 within a yard of one of them. 



