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  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTEKA. 
  

  

  30th- 
  August 
  3rd, 
  1902, 
  at 
  Chavoire 
  (Tutt) 
  ; 
  July 
  29th, 
  1901, 
  on 
  the 
  Prenj 
  ; 
  June 
  

   27th, 
  1902, 
  at 
  Maklenpass 
  (Rebel) 
  ; 
  April 
  6th, 
  1902, 
  in 
  Malta 
  (T. 
  B. 
  Fletcher). 
  In 
  

   Britain 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  only 
  double-brooded, 
  the 
  first 
  brood 
  in 
  late 
  Mtiy 
  and 
  June, 
  

   the 
  second 
  in 
  late 
  July 
  and 
  August. 
  June 
  19th, 
  1860, 
  at 
  Elston 
  Barrows 
  

   (Gregson) 
  ; 
  June 
  26th, 
  1861, 
  at 
  Black 
  Halls, 
  Hartlepool 
  (Sang) 
  ; 
  July, 
  1868, 
  in 
  

   Rossshire 
  (F. 
  B. 
  White) 
  ; 
  July 
  4th-15th, 
  1869, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (Hodgkinson) 
  ; 
  July 
  

   16th-17th, 
  1869, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (Gregson); 
  May 
  28th, 
  1870, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  

   (Hodgkinson); 
  June 
  13th, 
  1870, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (Porritt) 
  ; 
  July 
  23rd, 
  1871, 
  at 
  

   Shields 
  (Sang); 
  July 
  19th, 
  1872, 
  at 
  Grange; 
  July 
  10th, 
  1877, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  

   (Hodgkinson) 
  ; 
  July 
  13th, 
  1878, 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  ; 
  August 
  14th, 
  1879, 
  at 
  Hartlepool 
  

   (Sang) 
  ; 
  July 
  17th, 
  1890, 
  at 
  Aberdovey 
  (Arkle) 
  ; 
  July 
  9th, 
  1896, 
  at 
  Corsemalzie 
  (ft. 
  S. 
  

   Gordon) 
  ; 
  June 
  10th. 
  1902, 
  common 
  at 
  Keswick 
  (Beadle). 
  Habits 
  : 
  The 
  imagines 
  

   fly 
  freely 
  among 
  Scabiosa 
  columbaria 
  at 
  Witherslack 
  (Gregson) 
  ; 
  also 
  in 
  Hesleden 
  

   Dene 
  among 
  scabious, 
  and 
  on 
  railway 
  banks 
  at 
  Black 
  Halls 
  (J. 
  Gardner) 
  ; 
  flies 
  at 
  

   dusk 
  on 
  honeysuckle 
  flowers 
  in 
  garden 
  at 
  Corsemalzie 
  (B. 
  S. 
  Gordon). 
  Habitat: 
  

   Usually 
  in 
  hilly, 
  moorland, 
  or 
  mountainous 
  localities 
  in 
  Britain. 
  At 
  Llanferres, 
  

   the 
  insect 
  is 
  found 
  among 
  scabious 
  plants 
  growing 
  on 
  the 
  ledges 
  of 
  rocks, 
  along 
  

   which 
  only 
  sheep 
  and 
  goats 
  can 
  travel 
  (Gregson) 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  Cumbrian 
  mountains 
  it 
  

   is 
  usually 
  found 
  in 
  or 
  near 
  woods, 
  and 
  haunts 
  such 
  a 
  locality 
  among 
  rough 
  

   herbage 
  at 
  Keswick 
  (Beadle). 
  In 
  France 
  it 
  occurs 
  on 
  the 
  pasturages 
  of 
  the 
  high 
  

   alps 
  above 
  Pontarlier 
  (Bruand) 
  ; 
  in 
  Savoy 
  and 
  Dauphiny 
  among 
  the 
  hills 
  above 
  

   Lac 
  Bourget, 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  high 
  mountains, 
  to 
  about 
  5000ft., 
  at 
  La 
  Grave 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

   Little 
  St. 
  Bernard 
  Pass. 
  In 
  Piedmont, 
  at 
  Bobbie, 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  found 
  among 
  the 
  mountains 
  

   where 
  the 
  herbage 
  is 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  stunted, 
  and 
  the 
  scabious 
  is 
  luxuriant. 
  In 
  Switzer- 
  

   land, 
  in 
  damp 
  localities 
  in 
  mountain 
  woods, 
  and 
  on 
  both 
  shores 
  of 
  Lake 
  Zurich 
  

   (Frey). 
  In 
  Germany, 
  on 
  the 
  turf 
  moor 
  at 
  St. 
  Leonhard, 
  in 
  Baden 
  (Reutti), 
  etc. 
  

   In 
  Bosnia 
  and 
  Hercegovina 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  mountain 
  species, 
  going 
  up 
  to 
  nearly 
  6000 
  ft. 
  

   at 
  Treskavica, 
  and 
  5500ft. 
  at 
  Velezi 
  (Rebel). 
  Localities: 
  Carnarvon: 
  Llandudno 
  

   (Porritt). 
  Cumberland 
  : 
  Keswick 
  (Beadle), 
  Lake 
  district 
  (Stainton), 
  Carlisle 
  

   district 
  (Day). 
  Denbigh 
  : 
  Llanferres 
  (Gregson). 
  Durham 
  : 
  Darlington, 
  Black 
  

   Halls, 
  Hartlepool, 
  South 
  Shields 
  (Sang), 
  Hesleden 
  Dene 
  (J. 
  Gardner). 
  Gloucester 
  : 
  

   Cotswolds 
  (Merrin). 
  Isle 
  of 
  Man 
  (Gregson). 
  Kent 
  : 
  Folkestone 
  (Purdey). 
  

   Lancashire: 
  Grange 
  (Hodgkinson). 
  Merioneth: 
  Aberdovey 
  (Arkle). 
  Norfolk: 
  

   Norwich 
  (ao 
  an 
  aberr.) 
  (Barrett). 
  Ross 
  (F. 
  B. 
  White). 
  Warwick 
  : 
  Knowle 
  (Bradley). 
  

   Westmorland 
  : 
  Witherslack(Hodgkinson), 
  Kendal 
  district, 
  Coot 
  Scar 
  (Gregson). 
  Wig- 
  

   town: 
  Corsemalzie 
  (R. 
  S. 
  Gordon). 
  York: 
  Great 
  Ay 
  ton 
  (Lofthouse). 
  Distribution: 
  

   Mountains 
  of 
  Central 
  Europe, 
  including 
  Great 
  Britain 
  (RebeJ). 
  Austro-Hungary 
  : 
  

   distributed 
  everywhere 
  in 
  the 
  Austrian 
  Alps 
  (Rebel), 
  Hernstein 
  district 
  — 
  Gahns 
  

   (Rogenhofer). 
  Schneeberg 
  (Mann), 
  Hochschwab, 
  Stelvio 
  (Rebel), 
  Trafoi 
  (Wocke), 
  

   Carinthia 
  (Hofner), 
  Carniola 
  (Mann), 
  Tyrol— 
  Innsbruck, 
  to 
  6600 
  ft. 
  (Weiler), 
  

   Franzenshohe, 
  Lafatscher 
  Joch 
  (Heller), 
  Bozen 
  (Hedemann), 
  Kaiser 
  (Hofmann), 
  

   Glockner 
  (Mann), 
  Upper 
  Austria 
  (Aigner), 
  Galicia 
  (Garbowski). 
  Bosnia 
  and 
  

   Hercegovina 
  : 
  Trebevic 
  (Apfelbeck), 
  Treskavica, 
  at 
  1800m. 
  (Rebel), 
  Maklenpass 
  

   (Hilf), 
  Prenj, 
  Velezi, 
  at 
  1700m., 
  Gacko 
  (Rebel). 
  Corsica: 
  Monte 
  Corte 
  (Curo). 
  

   France: 
  Doubs 
  — 
  Pontarlier 
  (Bruand), 
  Seine-et-Loire 
  — 
  Couches-les-Mines 
  (Con- 
  

   stant), 
  Savoy— 
  Lanslebourg, 
  Bourg 
  St. 
  Maurice, 
  Petit 
  St. 
  Bernard, 
  Gresy-sur-Aix, 
  

   Chavoire, 
  Dauphiny 
  — 
  La 
  Grave, 
  Bourg 
  d'Oisans, 
  St. 
  Michel-de-Maurienne 
  (Tutt). 
  

   Germany 
  : 
  Baden 
  — 
  Ueberlingen, 
  St. 
  Leonhard 
  (Reutti), 
  Wiirttemberg 
  — 
  Eisenbach 
  

   (Steudel 
  and 
  Hofmann), 
  Mecklenburg 
  — 
  Friedland 
  (Stange), 
  Neustrelitz 
  (Herrich- 
  

   SchafTer), 
  Pomerania 
  — 
  near 
  Stettin 
  (Biittner). 
  Italy 
  : 
  Italian 
  Alps 
  (Curo), 
  

   Piedmont 
  — 
  Bobbie 
  (Tutt). 
  Malta 
  (T. 
  B. 
  Fletcher). 
  Switzerland 
  : 
  near 
  Zurich, 
  

   on 
  the 
  Uitliberg 
  (Frey), 
  Bergiin 
  (Zeller), 
  Degersheim, 
  Gabris 
  (Muller). 
  

  

  Stainton's 
  two 
  descriptions 
  of 
  plaijio 
  dactyl 
  us 
  (Syst. 
  Cat., 
  app. 
  p. 
  28 
  ; 
  

   Ent. 
  Ann., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  45) 
  make 
  this 
  a 
  darker, 
  yet 
  more 
  brightly-tinted, 
  

   insect 
  than 
  the 
  type, 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  (1) 
  an 
  ochreous 
  tinge 
  towards 
  

   the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  (2) 
  the 
  black 
  streak 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  lobe 
  much 
  more 
  

   strongly 
  marked 
  ; 
  (3) 
  two 
  distinct 
  black 
  streaks 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  lobe 
  ; 
  (4) 
  

   the 
  costa, 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  much 
  clouded 
  with 
  dark 
  fuscous. 
  The 
  

   original 
  specimens, 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  first 
  description 
  was 
  based 
  were 
  taken 
  

   on 
  the 
  Schneeberg, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Austrian 
  mountains, 
  by 
  Mann, 
  but 
  

   Stainton 
  had 
  no 
  hesitation 
  in 
  admitting 
  the 
  insect 
  as 
  British, 
  and 
  in 
  

   concluding 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  that 
  Gregson 
  took 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  July, 
  1853, 
  in 
  

   North 
  Wales, 
  was 
  the 
  insect 
  he 
  had 
  named 
  playiodaetylus, 
  and 
  further, 
  that 
  

  

  