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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  but 
  they 
  are 
  certainly 
  found 
  on 
  various 
  different 
  geological 
  formations. 
  

   Having 
  always 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  distinguish 
  the 
  larva? 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  

   cosvwdactyla, 
  Hb. 
  (acanthodactyla, 
  Tr. 
  nee 
  Hb.), 
  the 
  precise 
  spots 
  where 
  

   some 
  of 
  my 
  larvae 
  and 
  pupae 
  have 
  been 
  collected 
  are 
  unknown 
  to 
  me, 
  

   but 
  the 
  cases 
  where 
  these 
  are 
  known 
  for 
  certain 
  show 
  that, 
  in 
  each 
  

   instance, 
  the 
  larvae 
  or 
  pupae 
  have 
  all 
  been 
  collected 
  in 
  some 
  one 
  

   particular 
  spot 
  where 
  one 
  has 
  had 
  the 
  good 
  fortune 
  to 
  chance 
  upon 
  a 
  

   brood. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  explanation 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that, 
  from 
  some 
  two 
  dozen 
  

   larvae 
  that 
  I 
  collected 
  in 
  1884, 
  all 
  but 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  

   forwarded 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Porritt 
  as 
  the 
  common 
  acanthodactyla, 
  Tr. 
  (nee 
  Hb.), 
  

   the 
  whole 
  number 
  of 
  resulting 
  moths, 
  with 
  only 
  four 
  exceptions, 
  were 
  

   punetidaetyla, 
  Haw. 
  But 
  one 
  may 
  often 
  closely 
  search 
  a 
  district 
  where 
  

   A. 
  punetidaetyla 
  occurs, 
  and 
  collect 
  many 
  hundreds 
  of 
  larvae 
  of 
  A. 
  cosrno- 
  

   daetyla, 
  and 
  yet 
  have 
  no 
  success, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  A. 
  punetidaetyla 
  

   is 
  concerned." 
  In 
  Herefordshire 
  and 
  Kent 
  it 
  comes 
  to 
  the 
  sallow-bloom 
  

   in 
  woods 
  in 
  spring, 
  and 
  Jordan 
  notes 
  it 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  woods 
  at 
  Kop- 
  

   pang, 
  in 
  Scandinavia. 
  In 
  the 
  western 
  parts 
  of 
  America 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  the 
  

   high 
  mountains, 
  and 
  is 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  western 
  United 
  States 
  to 
  

   Alaska 
  ; 
  in 
  New 
  Mexico 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Las 
  Vegas, 
  

   between 
  the 
  Pecos 
  and 
  Sapello 
  rivers, 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  11000ft. 
  

   (Cockerell) 
  ; 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  at 
  Platte 
  Canon, 
  at 
  7000ft. 
  (Dyar). 
  Walsing- 
  

   ham 
  says 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  at 
  least 
  fifty 
  American 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  insect, 
  

   taken 
  at 
  different 
  times 
  and 
  places, 
  ranging 
  from 
  San 
  Francisco 
  to 
  

   Mount 
  Shasta 
  and 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  Oregon. 
  

  

  British 
  localities. 
  — 
  Widely 
  distributed, 
  but 
  generally 
  rare 
  or 
  very 
  

   local. 
  Aberdeen: 
  Braemar 
  (Rfid). 
  Argyll: 
  very 
  rare, 
  Dunoon 
  (Chapman). 
  

   Berwick: 
  Pease 
  Dean 
  (Evans). 
  Cardigan: 
  Aberayron 
  (Richardson). 
  Carmarthen 
  : 
  

   Llangennech 
  (Richardson). 
  Cheshire 
  : 
  Bidston, 
  Tranmere, 
  Claughton 
  (Ellis), 
  

   Birkenhead 
  (Stainton). 
  Devon: 
  between 
  Sidmouth 
  and 
  Buckerell, 
  Harpford 
  Wood, 
  

   Honiton, 
  Tipton 
  (Riding), 
  Oxton 
  (Studd), 
  Lynmouth, 
  Exeter 
  (Leech), 
  Dartmouth 
  

   ^Bankes). 
  Dorset 
  : 
  [Portland 
  (Baker),] 
  Bloxworth, 
  very 
  rare 
  (Cambiidge), 
  Isle 
  of 
  

   Purbeck, 
  scarce 
  (Bankes), 
  Glanvilles 
  Wootton, 
  rare 
  (Dale). 
  Fife 
  : 
  near 
  St. 
  Andrews 
  

   (Rothschild). 
  Gloucester: 
  nearBr'stol, 
  scarce, 
  Redland, 
  Almondsbury 
  (Hudd), 
  

   Coxhorne 
  (Robertson), 
  Painswick 
  district 
  (Farn). 
  Hereford 
  : 
  Leominster 
  (Hutch- 
  

   inson), 
  Tarrington 
  (J. 
  H. 
  Wood). 
  Kent 
  : 
  Strood 
  (Tutt), 
  Alkham, 
  Pembury, 
  

   •Charlton 
  (Stainton). 
  Kerry 
  : 
  [Killarney 
  (Birchall), 
  probably 
  coswodactyla 
  

   (Kane).] 
  [Lanark: 
  Glasgow 
  (Mackay).] 
  Lancashire 
  (Barrett). 
  Merioneth: 
  

   Barmouth 
  (Horton). 
  Middlesex: 
  Enfield 
  (Edelsten). 
  Perth 
  (Barrett). 
  Shrop- 
  

   shire 
  : 
  Clee 
  Hill 
  district 
  (H. 
  Williams). 
  Somerset 
  (Barrett). 
  Surrey: 
  Mickleham, 
  

   Farnham 
  (Stainton), 
  Haslemere, 
  Witley 
  (Barrett). 
  Sussex: 
  Lewes 
  (Stainton), 
  

   Brighton, 
  Falmer 
  Downs, 
  Shoreham 
  (Vine). 
  Westmorland 
  : 
  Lake 
  district 
  

   ((Stainton). 
  Worcester 
  (Barrett). 
  [Yorks 
  : 
  Scarborough 
  (Stainton).] 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Apparently 
  throughout 
  the 
  Palsearctic 
  and 
  western 
  

   Nearctic 
  regions. 
  In 
  north 
  America, 
  the 
  western 
  district 
  from 
  

   California 
  to 
  Alaska 
  (Cockerell) 
  ; 
  throughout 
  central 
  Europe, 
  northwest 
  

   Kussia, 
  southeastern 
  Scandinavia, 
  Sicily 
  and 
  Dalmatia 
  (Eebel). 
  

   America 
  : 
  British 
  Columbia 
  — 
  Kaslo 
  (Dyar) 
  ; 
  U. 
  S. 
  A.— 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Las 
  Vegas 
  

   Range, 
  between 
  the 
  Pecos 
  and 
  Sapello 
  rivers, 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  11000ft. 
  (Cockerell); 
  

   Colorado— 
  Pine 
  Grove, 
  Platte 
  Canon, 
  ac 
  ab^ut 
  7000ft. 
  (Dyar), 
  California 
  — 
  San 
  

   Francisco, 
  Oregon 
  (Walsinghmn). 
  Asia 
  : 
  Asia 
  Minor, 
  near 
  Brussa 
  (Mann). 
  Austro- 
  

   Hungary 
  : 
  Bohemia 
  (Nickerl), 
  Lower 
  Austria 
  — 
  Vienna 
  district 
  — 
  Kahlengebirge 
  

   (Kollar), 
  nearTivoli, 
  on 
  the 
  Laaerberg, 
  Bisamberg, 
  the 
  Prater 
  (Mann), 
  Tyrol 
  — 
  

   North 
  Tyrol 
  (Wocke), 
  Innsbruck, 
  Taufers 
  Valley, 
  Sternbach-Moos, 
  near 
  Uttenheim 
  

   (Weiler), 
  Bozen 
  (Meess), 
  Upper 
  Carinthia 
  — 
  Flitsoh 
  (Zeller), 
  Dalmatia 
  (Mann). 
  

   Denmark 
  (Bang-Haas). 
  France 
  : 
  Auvergne 
  district 
  — 
  Cantal, 
  Murat 
  (Sand). 
  

   Germany 
  : 
  east 
  and 
  west 
  Prussia 
  (Siebold), 
  Pomerania— 
  Greifswald, 
  Zarrentin 
  

   (Paul 
  and 
  Plotz), 
  Mecklenburg 
  — 
  near 
  Neustrelitz(Messing), 
  Hamburg 
  — 
  Sachsenwald, 
  

   nearReinbeck, 
  Niendorf 
  (Sauber), 
  Hanover 
  — 
  Hanover 
  (Reinhold), 
  Thuringia 
  — 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  