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ridge, Weston-super-Mare (Aldridge), Langport (Dale\ South Petherton (Taylor), 

 Stafford: Woktanton (Heale), Wolverhampton (Morris). Suffolk: Sudbury 

 (King). Surrey : near Boxhill (Paskell), Haslemere (Chandler), Croydon (Gower), 

 Dorking (Flood), Cheam (Brown), Kenley (Snell), Heme Hill (Wilde), 

 Weybridge (Barton), Limpsfi eld (Patterson). Sussex: Brighton, Cuckfield (Merri- 

 field), Lindfield (Blaber), Bevingdean, near Brighton (Clark), St. Leonards-on-Sea 

 (Kent), Preston (Morris), Polegate (Ward), Worthing, Ringmer, Firle, Lewes 

 (Jennerj, Westbourne (Matthews), Guestling, Hastings district (Bloomfield), Slindon 

 (Fletcher). Warwick: Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Edgbaston (Enock). Water- 

 ford : Newtown Hill, Tramore ( Burkitt teste Wallace), Wilts: Marlborough 

 (Preston). Worcester: Worcester (Gustard), Malvern Links (Edwards). Yorks : 

 Barnsley (Stainton's Manual), Saltburn-on-Sea, Cleveland (I'Anson), Taylor Hill, 

 near Huddersheld (Carter), Darlington (Backhouse), Birstall (Binns), Hebden Bridge 

 (Gibson), Middleton (Taylor), Hornsea, near Hull (Inchbald), Guisbro' (Birks). 



DISTRIBUTION. — One of the most widely distributed Sphingids, occurring 

 throughout the whole of the warmer temperate and subtropical parts of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia, and extending as a migrant into the temperate regions. [In 

 North America and the Pacific Islands it is replaced by the allied P. Imeata.'] In the 

 Elburz mountains it has been found at an elevation of 12000ft. The species is only 

 a true native of the most southern portions of the Palsearctic regions, the specimens 

 taken in the central and northern areas being immigrants or the direct descendants 

 of immigrants. Africa: Morocco — northwest districts (Blackmore), Tangier 

 (Walker), Tunis (Oberthur), Bizerte (teste B'artel), Algeria, distributed — Sebdou, 

 Oran (Codet), Biskra (Bleuse), Bon-Saada (Oberthur), Collo (Seriziat), Valley 

 of Djebel- Amour (Lucas), Meridja {teste Bartel), Madeira (Baker), Canary Islands 

 (teste Bartel), in the Red Sea (Manger), Khartoum (Brit. Mus. coll.), Cape Colony 

 (Trim en) J Bloemfontein at 6000ft. {teste Bartel), North Central Somaliland — Eyk 

 (Peel teste Druce), Madagascar (Mabille). Asia : Syria — Bey rout, rare, Haifa, Wiiste 

 near El-Arisch (Lederer), Asia Minor — coast of Sea of Marmora (Mathew), Cilicia — 

 Amasia, Tokat (Lederer), Palestine, local — Jaffa, &c, common (Swinton), northwest 

 Asia Minor — Brussa, Olympus Maghnisa, Smyrna, Aidin, Anatolia (Staudinger), 

 North Persia, very common — Shahrud, Hadschyabad, Elburz Mts. at 12000ft. 

 (Menetries), Astrabad, near Tschehar-deh, Tuieh (Bienert), Turkestan — Serachs, on 

 the frontiers of north Persia and Turkestan (Erschoff), central Siberia (Alpheraky), 

 southwest Siberia, Achal-Tekke district — Nuchur, rather common, Kisil-arwat 

 (Christoph), Krasnowodsk, Mangyschlak peninsula, Pamirs — Kisilkoum (Grum- 

 Grshmailo), British Beloochistan — Quetta, India — Sikkim {teste Bartel), northeast 

 India (Koch), Cashmere, Darjeeling (Boisduval), northwest Himalayas, Aden, 

 China (Hampson), Wei-hai-Wei (Fletcher), Wa-shan (Leech), Thibet — Ta- 

 tsien-Lou, Te-Pin, Lou-Chan (Oberthur coll.). Australia*: West Australia 

 — Dunbrody (Brit. Mus. coll.), South Australia — Adelaide {teste Bartel). 

 Austro-Hungary : Taufers Valley, Innsbruck, occasional visitor only (Weiler), 

 Bucovina, rare, but pretty constant resident (Hormuzaki), Pressburg (Rozsay), 

 Bohemia — Carlsbad, Leitmeritz, one (Fieber), Galicia, very sparingly — Gruszow, 

 Podgorze, Lemberg (Garbowski), Brody, Neu Sandec (Klemensiewicz), Stoposiany, 

 one, Podhorodec (Nowicki), Moravia — Briinn, Grussbach (Miiller), Salzburg (Fritsch), 

 Epiries, rare (Husz), Golnitz, three times (Hudak), Franzenshohe, one (Wocke), 

 Tyrol — very rare Bozen, Trient, Innthal, Pusterihal, Etschthal (Hinterwaldner), 

 near Linz — Por-tlingberg, Ritzlhof (Himsl), Jaufen (Heller), St. Lambrecht 

 (Kodermann) Lavantthal, occasionally common (Homer), Vienna, siugly (Speyer), 

 Augsburg, Ottensheim, Buda (Speyer), Carniola — Wippach, Hungary— Puj, Rea, 

 Hermannstadt, Klausenburg, St. Gotthard, Moszo-Zah, Transsylvania, Nosag, 

 Kaschau, Tavarnok, Grosswardein, Papa, Funfkirchen, Comitat Szerem, Croatia, 

 Fiume, Buccari, Karansebes, Orsova, Bosnia — Dervent, Dalmatia — Obrovazzo 

 Budapest (teste Bartel). Belgium : Huy, twice, Brussels, once (Douckier), Namur 

 (Hedemann). Bulgaria : near Sofia, very rare (Bachmetjew). Channel Isles : 

 Jersey (Johnson). Corsica (Rambur). Cyprus (Fletcher). Denmark : 

 Zealand — Niidebo (Bang-Haas). France: sometimes rather common in southern 

 France, in Provence and Languedoc (Berce), dept. Lozere — Florae (Bellier de la 

 Chavignerie), Pyrenees-Orientales — at summit of Canigou (Oberthur), once near 

 Caen (Fauvel), Berry and Auvergne, occasionally (Sand), Eure-et-Loir (Guenee), 

 Haute-Garonne, common throughout dept. — Mont Cagire (Caradja), Puy-de- 



* P. livornica is also recorded from Polynesia— the Hawaiian Islands, &c., but 

 the species that occurs here is P. lineata> the Nearctic and not the Paluearctic species. 



