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Lynwood (Tremayne) ; on a railway embankment a few miles south of 

 Ayr (Dalglish) ; in the meadows around Pinner Woods (Rowland- 

 Brown) ; on the uncultivated chalk-downs at Drayton Beauchamp, in 

 the grassy ridings at Oundle, and in a marshy spot at Godstone 

 (Rothschild) ; the woods and dry banks around Lewes (Jenner) ; and the 

 glades of Epping Forest (Bayne). It is found on the stony limestone 

 pastures of Clare (Kane) ; the islands of Loch Erne (Allen) ; on the dry 

 oolitic hillsides of the Cotteswolds, in Gloucestershire (Watkins) ; and 

 on the roadside between Portland and Weymouth (Mathew). 

 Although common in Epping, only a single specimen had occurred 

 in the Colchester district previous to 1893, but, in that year, several 

 were found in the High Woods, and since then it has been quite 

 common there (Harwood). It is not uncommon on heaths and 

 old pastures, from 600ft. to 800ft. above sea-level, in northwest 

 Durham (Dewar) ; it also occurs in dry lanes and on heaths in both 

 Northumberland and Durham (Wailes). On the continent, it is 

 exceedingly widely distributed in a great variety of habitats, Miss 

 Fountaine asserting that it appears to occur everywhere in Europe 

 and Asia Minor. Our own experience with it suggests very varied 

 habitats. The grassy uplands on the mountains around Digne, the 

 cistus-clad slopes at the Pont du Gard and Carqueiranne, the meadows 

 by the Siagne at Auribeau, the grassy banks and gardens around 

 Draguignan, the box-covered hill-slopes above Gresy-sur-Aix, the 

 flowery meadows among the vineyards at Susa, the thyme-clad wilds 

 near Torre Pellice, and the meadows around Basle, may be noticed as 

 being among the haunts of the species. It also occurs on the mountain 

 slopes at Grasse (Tutt), at Granada (Nicholl), at Pontresina, Fusio r 

 and around Brunnen (Chapman), at Macolin (Lowe), and at Mendel 

 (Rowland-Brown). It is not a common species at more than 5000ft. 

 in the Alps of Central Europe, although it has been recorded from 

 the Stelvio (Wocke). It goes up the Tyrolean Alps to 6000ft. 

 (Weiler), and, on the Prenj Mountains, in the Hercegovina, it is not 

 uncommon up to 5700ft. (Penther). It abounds on the hillsides in 

 the neighbourhood of the Foret d'Arques, near Dieppe (Moore) ; on the 

 coast of Brittany, from Cancale to St. Malo (Oberthiir), whilst in the Pont 

 de l'Arche district, it prefers the dry parts of the forests (Dupont) ; and 

 Bruand notes it as haunting the fields and roadsides in the dept. 

 Doubs. It occurs on the warm slopes of the foothills near the coast at 

 Spezia (de la Garde), and of Corfu (Norris). In Hungary it is common 

 on the banks of the river at Herculesbad (Lang), and, in Bohemia, 

 although generally common, prefers dry, sunny places (Hiittner) ; in 

 the Salzburg district, it extends from the plains up to the alps, being 

 most abundant on the mountain slopes where Thymus serpyllum grows, 

 and is particularly plentiful on the slopes of the Gaisberg (Richter), 

 whilst, in the Tyrol, it also goes high into the mountains, and, about 

 Innsbruck, reaches from the valleys to the sub-alpine region, at an 

 elevation of 6000 ft. (Weiler). In Germany, its habitats appear to 

 be much the same as in Britain, e.g., in Pomerania, it chooses meadows 

 near woods (Paul and Plotz), as also it does in the Rhine Provinces 

 (Weymer). In Mecklenburg, it prefers openings in woods, their 

 borders, and the broad open paths running through them, but appears 

 to occur, like Cyclopides sylvius, only in the woods and forests that are 

 situated on heavy soils (Schmidt). In the Oberharz, it chooses dry, 



