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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  took 
  shelter. 
  There 
  were 
  also 
  Senecio 
  aquaticus, 
  Caltha 
  palustris, 
  

   Cardamine 
  pratensis, 
  Lychnis 
  flos-cuculi, 
  and 
  Sparganium 
  ramosum, 
  

   scattered 
  through 
  the 
  bog, 
  besides 
  rushes 
  and 
  sedges, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  

   occasional 
  stragglers 
  from 
  the 
  heath 
  above, 
  such 
  as 
  Anagallis 
  tenella, 
  

   Wahlenbergia, 
  and 
  Pedicidaris, 
  amongst 
  the 
  grass 
  and 
  Sphagnum, 
  

   which 
  formed 
  a 
  rather 
  treacherous 
  footing." 
  Birchall 
  observes 
  (loc. 
  cit.) 
  

   that 
  near 
  Killarney, 
  on 
  the 
  bog 
  that 
  lies 
  between 
  the 
  Tower 
  Lodge 
  and 
  

   the 
  precipitous 
  base 
  of 
  Cromaglaun 
  Mountain, 
  the 
  imagines 
  are 
  abun- 
  

   dant, 
  being, 
  however, 
  apparently 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  dry 
  and 
  somewhat 
  

   elevated 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  bog, 
  the 
  first 
  example 
  taken 
  there 
  being 
  disturbed 
  

   from 
  a 
  clump 
  of 
  Calluna 
  vulgaris. 
  In 
  the 
  Norwich 
  district 
  (op. 
  cit., 
  

   viii., 
  p." 
  153), 
  Barrett 
  found 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  a 
  marsh 
  by 
  the 
  river 
  Yare, 
  

   where 
  Senecio 
  aquaticus 
  grew 
  among 
  coarse 
  grass, 
  flying 
  over 
  reeds 
  and 
  

   the 
  tall 
  herbage 
  there. 
  In 
  the 
  early 
  summer 
  of 
  1880, 
  Barrett 
  further 
  

   notes 
  (op. 
  cit., 
  xvii., 
  p. 
  91) 
  that 
  he 
  found 
  the 
  species 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  

   scarce, 
  flying 
  before 
  dusk 
  among 
  Senecio 
  aquaticus, 
  in 
  the 
  stem 
  of 
  which 
  

   its 
  larva 
  feeds, 
  and 
  among 
  which 
  it 
  conceals 
  itself 
  in 
  the 
  day-time, 
  on 
  

   a 
  piece 
  of 
  peculiarly 
  wet 
  marsh 
  thickly 
  overgrown 
  with. 
  Iris 
  pseudacorus, 
  

   Senecio 
  aquaticus, 
  Mentha 
  palustris, 
  Ranunculus 
  flammula, 
  &c, 
  at 
  Pem- 
  

   broke, 
  whilst, 
  in 
  August 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year, 
  the 
  imagines 
  were 
  so 
  abundant 
  

   on 
  the 
  same 
  ground 
  that 
  he 
  could 
  have 
  taken 
  hundreds. 
  Bankes 
  records 
  

   (Ent. 
  Mo. 
  Mag., 
  xxv., 
  p. 
  455) 
  that 
  its 
  habitat 
  near 
  Wareham 
  is 
  a 
  water- 
  

   meadow, 
  and 
  says 
  (in 
  litt.) 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  excessively 
  local, 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  south 
  

   of 
  Devon 
  and 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  Dorset 
  (the 
  only 
  counties 
  where 
  it 
  has 
  occurred 
  

   to 
  him), 
  but 
  usually 
  common 
  in 
  its 
  special 
  and 
  very 
  restricted 
  haunts, 
  

   which, 
  in 
  his 
  experience, 
  are 
  swampy 
  corners 
  of 
  water-meadows 
  beside 
  

   rivers, 
  and 
  the 
  like 
  ; 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  water-meadows 
  for 
  hay- 
  

   making 
  and 
  grazing 
  purposes, 
  suitable 
  spots 
  are 
  few 
  and 
  far 
  between, 
  

   and, 
  hitherto, 
  his 
  efforts 
  to 
  find 
  it 
  in 
  Purbeck 
  have 
  only 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  

   discovery 
  of 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  larvae. 
  When 
  first 
  he 
  met 
  with 
  it 
  in 
  Dorset, 
  in 
  

   1889, 
  it 
  had 
  only 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  county 
  once 
  previously, 
  namely, 
  in 
  

   1886. 
  Watts 
  found 
  it 
  in 
  a 
  reedy 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  Belfast 
  hills 
  where 
  Senecio 
  

   aquaticus 
  is 
  abundant. 
  Barrett 
  later 
  writes 
  (Lep. 
  Brit. 
  Isles, 
  ix., 
  p. 
  

   352) 
  : 
  It 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  marshy 
  places 
  rather 
  than 
  fens 
  in 
  Norfolk 
  ; 
  in 
  

   Wales, 
  it 
  is 
  common 
  near 
  Pembroke 
  and 
  elsewhere 
  on 
  the 
  Pembroke- 
  

   shire 
  coast, 
  and 
  also 
  in 
  Carmarthenshire 
  ; 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  Stainton 
  records 
  

   it 
  from 
  the 
  Orkneys, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  F. 
  Griffith 
  found 
  it 
  in 
  a 
  marsh 
  in 
  the 
  

   Hebrides, 
  whilst, 
  in 
  Ireland, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  among 
  the 
  hills 
  near 
  

   Belfast 
  and 
  Carrickfergus. 
  In 
  Friedland, 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  found 
  beside 
  

   ditches, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Datze 
  (Stange) 
  ; 
  [in 
  south 
  Holland, 
  

   near 
  Leiden, 
  on 
  marshy 
  ground 
  (de 
  Graaf).] 
  In 
  Spain, 
  July 
  

   12th-16th, 
  1904, 
  at 
  Puerto 
  de 
  Pajares, 
  the 
  road 
  from 
  Leon 
  to 
  Oviedo 
  

   crosses 
  the 
  Cantabrian 
  range 
  at 
  a 
  height 
  of 
  4500 
  feet 
  ; 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  

   region 
  hereabout 
  is 
  not 
  unlike 
  a 
  Scotch 
  moorland, 
  and, 
  in 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  

   marshy 
  bogs 
  about, 
  Senecio 
  aquaticus 
  is 
  common, 
  and 
  among 
  this 
  P. 
  

   isodactylus 
  is 
  abundant, 
  just 
  as 
  the 
  Senecio 
  is 
  coming 
  into 
  flower 
  

   (Chapman). 
  

  

  British 
  localities. 
  — 
  Exceedingly 
  local 
  in 
  England, 
  Scotland 
  and 
  

   Ireland, 
  but 
  abundant 
  where 
  it 
  occurs. 
  Antrim 
  : 
  Belfast 
  Hills 
  — 
  Knockagh, 
  

   near 
  Carrickfergus 
  (Watts). 
  Carmarthen: 
  Carmarthen 
  (Hearder). 
  Cork 
  : 
  Glengariff 
  

   (Tutt 
  coll.). 
  Devon 
  : 
  between 
  Haldon 
  and 
  Teignmouth 
  (Jordan), 
  Dartmouth 
  

   (Bankes), 
  Exmouth 
  (Leech). 
  Dorset 
  : 
  near 
  Wareham, 
  Isle 
  of 
  Purbeck 
  (Bankes), 
  

   Dorchester 
  (Dale). 
  [Edinburgh: 
  Merchiston 
  (Evans).] 
  Galway 
  : 
  Moycullen 
  

   (Kane). 
  Hebrides: 
  South 
  Uist 
  (Griffith). 
  [Hants: 
  Isle 
  of 
  Wight 
  — 
  New 
  Forest 
  

  

  