4?0 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



(Ash), Haxby (Thurgood), Pocklington, Kilnsea (Boult), Stanley (Charles), Newton- 

 on-Ouse (Hawkins), Pickering (Metcalt), Withernsea (Couldwell), Worsborough 

 Bridge (Whitaker), Sherburn, Broughton, Ayton (Lownsboro), Whitby (Halliday), 

 Seaton Ross (Blackburn), Oldfield, Marton-le-Moor (Fawcett), Niddersdale (Storey), 

 Hessle-on-Humber (Burton), Huddersfield (Inchbald), Brockholes (Varley), Cawood 

 (Smethurst), Malton (Morris), Thirsk, Easingwold (Tyers), Hacktall (Grassham), 

 Hebden Bridge (Gibson), Holderness (Dobree), Ilkley (Taylor), Pateley Bridge 

 (Storey), Pontefract (Hartley), Rastrick (Kaye), Richmond (Harris), Tadcaster 

 (Raine), Yeadon (Roebuck), Bedale (Wheldon), Burley (Liversidge), Hull district — 

 Whixley and the Hammertons (Wright), Warmfield (Townsend), Grangetown 

 (Elgee), Southbank (Vatch). 



DISTRIBUTION.* — Throughout Africa, Europe and western Asia. [M. styx, 

 which inhabits southern and eastern Asia, is treated by Rothschild and Jordan 

 as a distinct species.] Africa : Azores (Godman), Madeira (Baker), Canaries 

 (Speyer), Teneriffe (White), Cape Verde Island [teste Bartel), Mauritius, Reunion, 

 Madagascar (Tring coll.), Natal (Boisduval), Eastern Caffraria (Wallengren), Durbant 

 (Leigh), Pretoria (Distant), Transkei — Buntingville (Barrett), Somaliland (Holland), 

 South Africa (Smith), Mozambique, Guinea (Speyer), Sierra Leone (Morgan), German 

 southwest Africa [teste Bartel), Chinchoxo {teste Bartel). Gambia (Druce), Gaboon 

 (Holland), northwest Morocco (Blackmore), Algeria — Oran (Oberthiir), Bougie (Lucas), 

 Tangier (Meade- Waldo), Collo, rare (Seriziat), Egypt (Granger teste Reaumur), Alex- 

 andria (Speyer). Asia : Asia Minor, almost throughout — Smyrna, &c. (Staudinger), 

 Syria — Maimarice on coast (Mathew), Haifa (Staudinger), North Persia — Gjas, 

 Astrabad (Bienert). Austro-Hungary: Trient, Bozen, Meran (teste Bartel), Taufers, 

 Innsbruck (Weilen, Tyrol — lmstj very common (Hinterwaldner), Upper Austria — 

 Linz district, rare (Himsl), Bucovina (Hormuzaki), Pressburg ^Rozsay), Bohemia 

 (Nickerl), Neu Sandec (Klemensiewicz), Stanislawow (Werchratski), Galicia 

 (Nowicki), Cracow (Zebrawski), Briinn (Schneider), Hermannstadt (Czekelius), 

 Eperies, not rare (Husz), Hungary — Zubercoz, Kocsocz (Vangel), Puj (St. Bordan), 

 Golnitz (Hudak), Hraszt, near Fiume (Mann), Lavantthal (Hofner). Upper Styria — 

 St. Lambrecht (Kodermann), Salzburg, Kirchdorf, Vienna, Carlsbad, Prague, 

 Lausatian mts., Moravia — Mahrisch-Trubau, rare, Brody, Trembowla, Stanislau, 

 Hungary, generally common — Kaschau, Rosenau, Raab, Heveser and Zipzer 

 Comitat, Temesvar, Mehadia. Debreczen, Transsylvania, Croatia — Zupanje, Bosnia 

 — Dervent (teste Bartel), Fiinfkirchen, Budapest (Aigner-Abah), Istria, common — 

 Rovigno, &c. (Hermes). Belgium : not common (Donckier), Namur district, some- 

 times common ^Lambillion), Antwerp (Johnson), Virton, Cuesmes, Frameries, Cog-sur- 

 Mer, Heure-les-Marche, Bioul, Anhee, Jambes (Derenue). Bulgaria : nr. Sophia 

 (Bachmetjew), Rustschuk (ICowatschew), Schipka (Mische), Slivno (Haberhauer). 

 Channel Islands : Guernsey, Alderney, Sark. common some years (Luff). Corsica : 

 not rare (Marshall). Denmark: everywhere, but rare — Helsingor, Zealand Island. &c. 

 (Bang-Haas). Finland : singly (Lampa). France : pretty common throughout 

 (Berce), Aube (Jourdheuillei, Brittany, abundant (Oberthiir). Calvados (Fauvel), Douai 

 (Foucart), Berry and Auvergne (Sand), Eure-et-Loir (Guenee), Haute-Garonne 

 (Caradja), Meuse, Moselle and Meurthe dist., (Speyer), Gien (Abicot), Puy-de-D6me, 

 sometimes common, at others very rare (Guillemot), Morbihan (Griffith), Gironde, 

 throughout (Trimoulet), Doubs — Chamars, common (Bruand), Aude — Carcassono 

 (Mabille), Saone-et-Loire (Constant), Loire-Inferieure — Nantes, &c. (Bonjour), 

 Paris district — Port Marly (Walker), Nainvilliers, Poitou (Reaumur). Seine-Inferieure 

 (Viret), Indre, common (Martin), St. Quentin (Dubus), Deux-Sevres (Maillard), 

 Sarthe (Desportes), Bouches-du-Rhone — Marseilles, &c. (Siepi), Haute-Saone — Gray 

 (Paris), Var — Hyeres, Entrevaux, &c. (Powell), Cannes (Constant), Guyenue, Angers, 



* Kefcrstein says (Stett. Ent. Zeit., ii., p. 117) that he has "examples from 

 Mexico, Java, and Cape of Good Hope, which show no appreciable difference 

 from the European." Huwe, at the meeting of the Berlin Ent. Society, held 

 November 23rd, 1899, exhibited a specimen that, he said, " came from Honduras, 

 the forewings strongly marked with red-brown, the hind wings without bands.'' 

 Can this species really fly from Africa to central America ? Are the specimens 

 rightly named ? Have mistakes occurred as to their locality ? 



t It is remarkable that, living in or near Durban, from June, 1872, to April, 

 187=5, and being keenly interested in the lepidoptera of the district, I never saw M. 

 atropos in any sta«,'e. Natal is quite a home for the Solanactae, whilst Daturas and 

 PJiysalls are common wayside weeds, and Nicotianas are everywhere. Perhaps 

 the thought that it is a recent addition to the fauna is not so improbable as may 

 at first sight appear (Burrows). 



