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grassy places, but is more common among the foothills of the Harz 

 Mountains (Gillmer) ; in Hesse-Nassau, it is generally distributed in 

 fields, woods, woodland roads, bare, stony hillocks, and is sometimes 

 particularly abundant in stone quarries (Glaser) ; in Waldeck, it 

 haunts dry sunny openings on the borders of woods, woodland- 

 meadows and roadsides (Speyer), whilst, near Zeitz-on-Elster, it is 

 also found in woodland-meadows and open places in woods, but, on 

 the Mosigkauer Haide, in the duchy of Anhalt, it is distributed 

 over the heaths, in dry, sunny, grassy places, and haunts the bare 

 spots found there (Amelung). In Silesia, it is everywhere common in 

 open woods and woodland-meadows, but goes up into the mountains 

 to about 2000 ft. elevation (Wocke), whilst it is distributed over the 

 whole of the '■' heath " or " Haide" district in the neighbourhood of 

 Sprottau (Pfitzner). In the kingdom of Saxony, it is found on dry, 

 sunny slopes, or in open places in woods (Steinert), and, in Bavaria, the 

 borders of woods and dry sterile places are its chief haunts (Schmid), 

 whilst, in Anhalt, it prefers openings in woods, roadsides passing 

 through woods, and at Ilmenau, in Thuringia, it is common in 

 meadows in the drives of the Schorte (Gillmer). 



Localities. — Generally distributed throughout the British 

 Islands, although local, being particularly so in Ireland and Scot- 

 land. Ayr : near Ayr (Dalglish). [Banff (Brown). J Bedford : Barton 

 Hills (Nash), Bedford, Luton (Vict. Count. Hist.). Berks : Bagley 

 Wood, Boar's Hill (Geldart), Newbury (Beales), Beading (Butler), Hurley 

 (A. H. Clarke). Bucks : Chiltern Hills, Kimble district (Rowland- 

 Brown), Halton, Wavendon, near Newport Pagnel (Stainton), Drayton- 

 Beauchamp (Rothschild), Marlow (A. H. Clarke), Stoney- Stratford (Foddy), 

 Buckingham (Slade). Cambridge : Chippenham Fen, Fleam Ditch, near 

 Fulbourn (Rothschild), near Ely (Archer), Boxworth (Thornhill), Cambridge 

 (Crisp). Carnarvon: on limestone in Llandudno district (Newstead), Conway 

 Valley, very common (Bland), North Cardigan Bay, mouth of Conway 

 (Gardner), Capel Curig (Birch). Cheshire : rare and local — Wirral, between 

 Spital and Bromborough (Ellis), Gill Brook, near Flaybrick (Prince), Ledsham 

 (Sharp), near Bromborough (Gardner), Shavington Park (Thornewill), Cottrell 

 Wood (Edelsten), Birkenhead (Stainton). Clare : abundant throughout 

 the Burren — from Dromoland, Kilfenora to Bally vaughan, Ennis (Kane), Cratloe 

 (Nugent). Cornwall : Truro (Rollason). Cumberland : Keswick district, 

 uncommon and local (Beadle), Carlisle, Wreay, Gelt Wood, Newby, Silloth (F. H. 

 Day), Lake district — Isel, Udale and Aspatria Road, abundant (Wbittaker), Castle 

 Carrock (Routledge), Orton, Kingmoor, Todhills, Newbiggin (Dawson). Denbigh: 

 Colwyn Bay (Whittaker), Llandulas (Pitcairn-Campbell), Abergele, Pensarn, 

 Minera and Llangollen districts (Newstead), Llanferres, Cefn Caves, near Ruthin 

 (Gardner), Ruthin (Butler). Debby : common in the dales (Fuller), Dovedale (Brown), 

 Lathkil Dale (Sheldon), Longstone Edge (Hill), Bakewell (Payne). Devon : 

 common (Mathew), Exeter, Plymouth, Teignmouth (Stainton), Sidmouth 

 (Majendie),Instow (Hinchliff), Honiton (Riding), Dartmoor (Gummer), Torquay and 

 neighbourhood (Crocker), Lynmouth (T. H. Briggs), Silverton (Ward), Torrington 

 (Doidge), Paignton district (Goodale). Dorset : south Dorset, generally abundant 

 (Bogue), Portland (Brown), Swanage (Bloomfield), Lulworth (Dale), Blandford 

 (Stainton), Charmouth, Lyme Regis (Morris), Sherborne (Kimber), Wimborne, 

 Hod Hill (Fowler), Weymouth (Mathew), Isle of Purbeck, Blandford, Glanvilles 

 Wootton, Isle of Portland (Bankes). Dubhabi : common (Wailes), Shull (Back- 

 house), Chopwell (Hedworth), Hartlepool, Black Hall Rocks (Robson), Darlington 

 {Stainton), Sunderland (Corder), Hart (Bower), Stanley (Dewar). [Elgin (Brown).] 

 Essex: Epping Forest (Bayne), Colchester (Harwood), Thundersley, Eastwood 

 {Whittle), Hazeleigh, Shenfield, Woodham Ferris (Raynor), Raydon Wood 

 (Morris), Harwich (Mathew), Brentwood, Mucking (Burrows), Ongar Park 

 Woods (Wright). Fermanagh: Enniskillen, locally abundant (Sinclair), Lough 

 Erne (Allen). Flint : the coast of the county (Gardner), Bagillt (Walker). 

 Galway : near Galway (Birchall), Ardrahan (Nugent), Castle Taylor (Kane). 



