36 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



(Desportes), Normand}' — Tancarville (Leech), Brittany — Etretat (Reid), Boulogne 

 (Timins), Le Trayas (Chapman), Nice (Bromilow), Paris district— Courbevoie, 

 Foret de St. Germain, Pare Maison Latitte (Walker). Germany : everywhere 

 (Heinemann), northwest Germany, generally distributed (Jordan), Rhine Palatinate 

 (Bertram), Wurtemberg (Seyffler), Giessen (Dickore), Lower Elbe district, common 

 everywhere (Zimmermann), Waldeck (Speyer), Berlin district, common (Pfutzner), 

 Zeitz-on-the-Elster (Wilde), Munich (Kranz), Rudolstadt (Meurer), Mecklenburg, 

 common some years, rare in others (S.chmidt), Bremen, common (Rehberg), 

 Saxon Upper Lusatia, not rare — Bautzen, Kamenz (Schiitze), Dresden, common 

 (Steinert), Thuringia — Erfurt, Gotha, nowhere rare (rCrieghoff), Prussia— not 

 common, Dantzig, Konigsberg, &c. (Grentzenberg), Tapiau, Goldap, Gerdauen, 

 Domnau, &c. (Riesen), Rastenburg (Klups), Upper Lusatia., everywhere common 

 (Moeschler), Nassau, common (Rossler), Silesia, nowhere rare (Assmann), 

 Pomerania, not rare (Hering), Alsace (Peyerimhoff), Wernigerode, in some years 

 common (Fischer), Brunswick (Heinemann), Hanover (Glitz), Frankfort-on-Oder 

 'Kretschmer), Eutin (Dahl), moorlands of the Upper Hartz, rare (Hoffmann), Crefeld 

 and district, verv abundant 1892, Hilden, Barmen, Elberfeld, common, Cassel, 

 Halle, Leipzig, Wurzen, Kissingen, Ratisbon, Augsburg, Kempten, Frank- 

 fort-on-Main, Wiesbaden, Trier, Bavarian Palatinate (teste Battel), Chemnitz 

 (Pabst), Baden district, very common, Black Forest, to 3000ft., Constance, 

 Carlsruhe, &c (Reutti), Lubeck, common (Paul), Hildesheim, common (Grote). 

 Greece : everywhere — Acarnania, Attaca (Staudinger), Crete — Canea, Suda 

 Bav, Theodore Island (Mathew), Corfu, Argostoli, Volo, Lemnos, Nauplia, 

 Avas Bay, Plataea, Zea Island (Fletcher), Navarino (de la Garde). Italy : 

 verv common throughout (Curd), sometimes exceedingly abundant in the Alpine 

 valleys — Susa, Courmayeur, Pie St Didier, Aosta, Torre Pellice, Bobbie, above 

 Au Pra to 8000ft.; Turin, &c. (Tutt), Modena (Fiori), Roman Campagna, very 

 common (Calberla), Italian Riviera, Rome (Stainton), Riva dist.. generally 

 common (Jones), Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Sardinia, both lowlands and moun- 

 tains, Tuscany (teste Bartel), very common throughout, Sicily— Messina, &c, every- 

 where in February — Monreale (Mina-Palumbo). Malta: general (Fletcher). Nether- 

 lands : all provinces, not rare (Snellen), Breda, very common (Heylaerts), Schwe- 

 ningen (Walker). Portugal: Lisbon (Mathew). Roumania : everywhere through- 

 out the year (Caradja), Jassy (Cosmovici). Russia: Baltic Provinces, throughout 

 (Nolcken), Moscow government (Albrecht), southwest Caspian district — Lenkoran 

 (Radde), Crimea (Melioransky), Volga district, not frequent in Orenburg province, &c. 

 (Eversmann), Transcaucasia, common everywhere— Derbendt, Tim's, Alexandropol, 

 Kars, Erzeroum (Romanoff), St. Petersburg- -Mourino, Charbola, Lachta (Erschoff), 

 govts, of Archangel, Oblonez, govts. Pskow, Mogilew — Gorki and Kiev, Podolia, 

 Bessarabia, govts. Cherson, Jekaterinoslaw, Poltawa — Lubny, south coast of the 

 Crimea — Alupka, govts. Orel, Kaluga, Tambow, Kasan, Simbirsk, Ufa, Ural 

 district, Baschkiria, govts. Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Astrachan - Zarizyn, not 

 common, Sarepta, &c. (teste Bartel). Scandinavia : rare (Aurivillius), Scania, 

 Blekinge, Smoland, Gothland, East Gothland (Wallengren), Norway, some years 

 not rare — Christiania, Homansby, Haegdehaugen, Naes Vaerk, &c. (Siebke), 

 Uplandia — Staket (Sandahl), Upsala (Trybom), Lyngor (Strand). SPAIN: Andalusia 

 — Cadiz, &c, everywhere common (Rambur), Galicia ( Macho- Velado), Barcelona dis- 

 trict, throughout (Cuni y Martorell), Catalonia (Martorell y Peha), Bilbao, common 

 (Seebold), Gibraltar (Mathew), Granada, Honda (Walker). SWITZERLAND : every- 

 where up to a considerable elevation, e.g., on the Riffelberg, near Zermatt and the 

 Albula I'ass, near Bergun, at a height of 7000— 8000ft. (Frey), Tuors Pensch, Bergun, 

 Ober-Albula (Zeller), Weissenburg, common (Huguenin), Grisons (Killias), Dranse 

 and Arve valleys (Baker), valleys ol the Engadine (PfafFenzeller), Bechburg 

 (Riggenbach-Stehlin), Zurich, Dietikon (Dietrich), Canton Glarus, Andcrmatt at 

 44joft., Engelsten (Baker), Thun (Forbes), Bernese Oberland (Jordan', Evolena 

 (Tutt). Turkey: Sea of Marmora— Bulair Lines, Salonika. Besika Bav, Artaki 

 Bay, Gallipoli, very abundant (Mathew). 



Subfam : Eumorphin^e. 



Bacot insists most strongly that this group is, on larval characters, 

 the most generalised of all the Sphingids, and that we have in it 

 a division equal in value to all the rest of the Sphingids (see anted, 

 iii«> PP- 365 — 366)* Meyrick treats f Handbook, &c. } p. 294) the group 

 as a genus, uniting, under the name Deilephila, all our British species, 

 which he diagnoses and tabulates as follows ; 



