﻿CROMBKUGGHIA 
  DISTANS. 
  465 
  

  

  last 
  week 
  in 
  July, 
  1881, 
  in 
  north 
  Devon 
  (South) 
  ; 
  very 
  abundant 
  and 
  

   in 
  fine 
  condition 
  in 
  early 
  August, 
  1884, 
  at 
  Tuddenham 
  (Meek); 
  in 
  

   profusion 
  in 
  August, 
  1886, 
  at 
  Tuddenham 
  (Warren) 
  ; 
  July 
  13th, 
  

   1889, 
  at 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  Deal 
  sandhills 
  (Purdey) 
  ; 
  rather 
  

   abundant 
  from 
  mid- 
  July 
  onwards, 
  1889, 
  at 
  Dover 
  (Webb) 
  ; 
  July 
  18th, 
  

   1891, 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  at 
  Tuddenham 
  (Tutt) 
  ; 
  August 
  13th, 
  1891, 
  at 
  

   Tuddenham 
  (Porritt); 
  July 
  (end) 
  to 
  mid- 
  August, 
  at 
  Thetford 
  (Hare). 
  

  

  Habits. 
  — 
  Walking 
  over 
  the 
  short-herbaged 
  waste 
  lands 
  at 
  Tudden- 
  

   ham, 
  one 
  may, 
  in 
  the 
  daytime, 
  occasionally 
  put 
  up 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  

   species 
  on 
  a 
  fine 
  still 
  afternoon, 
  but 
  we 
  have 
  never 
  noticed 
  having 
  

   done 
  so 
  on 
  the 
  sandhills 
  of 
  Deal 
  and 
  Sandwich, 
  although 
  just 
  at 
  dusk 
  

   it 
  flies 
  naturally, 
  with 
  a 
  gentle 
  movement, 
  at 
  some 
  little 
  height 
  above 
  

   the 
  herbage, 
  often 
  for 
  some 
  distance 
  before 
  taking 
  rest 
  again, 
  the 
  

   flight 
  continuing, 
  apparently, 
  until 
  it 
  is 
  quite 
  dark. 
  Barrett 
  says 
  that, 
  

   at 
  sunset, 
  it 
  flies 
  very 
  quietly 
  in 
  its 
  favoured 
  haunts, 
  but 
  is 
  quite 
  easily 
  

   disturbed, 
  and 
  induced 
  to 
  flit 
  a 
  short 
  distance, 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon 
  

   especially 
  in 
  hot 
  weather 
  ; 
  he 
  observed 
  it 
  once 
  flying 
  in 
  the 
  late 
  after- 
  

   noon 
  at 
  Brandon. 
  Meek 
  notes 
  it 
  as 
  flying 
  just 
  before 
  dusk 
  at 
  

   Tuddenham, 
  so 
  abundantly 
  on 
  one 
  evening 
  in 
  early 
  August, 
  1884, 
  

   that 
  he 
  captured 
  some 
  40 
  specimens 
  ; 
  whilst 
  Bower 
  observed 
  it 
  flying 
  

   in 
  the 
  afternoon 
  near 
  Brandon. 
  At 
  Stanford, 
  near 
  Merton, 
  the 
  imagines 
  

   frequent 
  Picris 
  hieracioides 
  (Durrant). 
  At 
  Tuddenham, 
  Warren 
  

   observed 
  that 
  it 
  seemed 
  to 
  affect 
  bushes 
  of 
  broom, 
  which, 
  however, 
  it 
  

   possibly 
  only 
  haunted 
  for 
  shelter. 
  Abroad, 
  however, 
  the 
  little 
  experi- 
  

   ence 
  we 
  have 
  had 
  with 
  the 
  insect 
  makes 
  us 
  look 
  on 
  it 
  as 
  one 
  rather 
  

   easily 
  disturbed 
  by 
  day. 
  At 
  Hyeres, 
  whilst 
  collecting 
  small 
  things, 
  we 
  

   disturbed 
  a 
  specimen 
  on 
  April 
  28th, 
  1905, 
  from 
  among 
  the 
  long 
  herbage 
  

   on 
  the 
  slopes 
  at 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  castle, 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  morning 
  sunshine, 
  

   between 
  8 
  a.m. 
  and 
  9 
  a.m.; 
  it 
  flew 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  and 
  settled 
  on 
  a 
  

   grass-culm, 
  flying 
  again 
  a 
  little 
  farther, 
  on 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  occasions, 
  as 
  

   we 
  approached 
  it, 
  until, 
  at 
  last, 
  we 
  netted 
  it 
  ; 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  afterwards 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  was 
  observed 
  at 
  Draguignan, 
  under 
  almost 
  exactly 
  the 
  same 
  

   conditions. 
  A 
  long 
  search 
  in 
  both> 
  places 
  failed 
  to 
  disclose 
  more. 
  At 
  

   St. 
  Michel-de-Maurienne, 
  the 
  species 
  was 
  found 
  under 
  almost 
  identical 
  

   conditions, 
  during 
  the 
  first 
  few 
  days 
  of 
  August, 
  1897 
  ; 
  the 
  imagines 
  were 
  

   disturbed 
  in 
  the 
  full 
  sunshine, 
  in 
  the 
  morning, 
  soon 
  after 
  9 
  a.m., 
  and 
  

   were 
  captured 
  as 
  they 
  flitted 
  from 
  stem 
  to 
  stem 
  of 
  the 
  short 
  herbage 
  

   on 
  a 
  rather 
  sparsely 
  grass-covered 
  piece 
  of 
  waste 
  ground 
  by 
  the 
  road- 
  

   side 
  ; 
  some 
  seven 
  or 
  eight 
  examples 
  were 
  thus 
  captured 
  in 
  about 
  a 
  

   quarter-of-an-hour. 
  In 
  Brandenburg, 
  Hesse, 
  and 
  Baden, 
  near 
  Ueber- 
  

   lingen, 
  it 
  is 
  reported 
  as 
  occurring 
  among 
  Ononis 
  spinosa, 
  possibly, 
  

   however, 
  only 
  seeking 
  this 
  plant 
  for 
  shelter. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  slight 
  hollows, 
  sheltered 
  by 
  a 
  range 
  of 
  low 
  sand- 
  

   hills, 
  about 
  lOOyards 
  from 
  the 
  sea, 
  roughly 
  overgrown 
  with 
  marram 
  grass, 
  

   but 
  thickly 
  carpeted 
  beneath 
  with 
  Ononis, 
  Thymus, 
  Hieracium, 
  Crepis, 
  and 
  

   other 
  plants, 
  formed 
  the 
  favoured 
  haunt 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  on 
  the 
  sandhills 
  

   lying 
  between 
  Sandwich 
  and 
  the 
  sea. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  the 
  home 
  of 
  Acidalia 
  

   ochrata, 
  and 
  many 
  other 
  local 
  lepidoptera, 
  which, 
  abundant 
  in 
  this 
  

   restricted 
  area, 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  more 
  sparingly 
  over 
  a 
  considerable 
  

   area 
  around. 
  Sorhagcn 
  also 
  notes 
  that, 
  in 
  Brandenburg, 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  

   sandy 
  spots, 
  among 
  Ononis 
  spinosa, 
  and 
  Rossler 
  in 
  a 
  deserted 
  sandpit 
  

   near 
  Biebrich, 
  about 
  0. 
  spinosa, 
  so 
  that 
  it 
  would 
  appear 
  to 
  love 
  an 
  

   arenaceous 
  soil, 
  and 
  to 
  thrivo 
  thereon. 
  Crombrugghe 
  writes 
  that, 
  on 
  

   the 
  Belgian 
  coast, 
  opposito 
  our 
  own 
  famous 
  "Breck" 
  district, 
  a: 
  

  

  