128 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



i.e., on the bogs and hills of Connemara and Mayo, but not extending 

 so high in the hills, occurring in May and the beginning of June. 

 Mrs. Battersby says that it is frequent on the moors in the west of 

 Ireland, and Kane on the bogs at Tullamore. In Scotland, it is 

 frequently also a moss species, being recorded from the famous 

 Methven and Birnam mosses in Perthshire, but it is also found in the 

 Black Forest, Clackmannan Forest, and other well-known wooded 

 areas, whilst it occurs all round Luss, on the shores of Loch Lomond. 

 It is common on Ullock Moss in the Keswick district (Beadle), and 

 Bland says that it is abundant on the moors at the top of the glens, 

 running down the cliff-like line of hills which form the boundary 

 of the Vale of Conway on the west side, whilst at Bernau, near 

 Berlin, it occurs in the pinewoods with a thick undergrowth of 

 bilberry (Dadd). Barrett notes it as occurring freely on a boggy 

 heath in Devonshire, where Eriophorwn angustifolium. grew in pro- 

 fusion, and where, among it, these charming green butterflies -were 

 flitting about in plenty. This locality, he says, was very different from 

 one where the species was observed a few years ago, high up on one 

 of the hills of Cannock Chase, and where it was evidently quite at 

 home on the extensive patches of Vaccinium myrtillus. Tetley notes that, 

 at Scarborough, it is one of the commonest of the moorland butter- 

 flies, but very local, and may generally be found where the dales run 

 up to the moortop, and adds that it flies freely over the whortleberry 

 bushes that grow up the sides of the little "ghylls" that form the top 

 «nd of the dale. It also occurs freely on the sunny downs between 

 Guildford and Dorking (Swinton), on the heaths at Kings Lynn (Atmore), 

 all over the moors at Rannoch (A. H. Jones), whilst, in Cumberland, it 

 frequents bilberry-covered banks in and near woods (F. H. Day), and it 

 is abundant on the moss at Witherslack (Hodgkinson). At Baslemere, 

 Barrett found it on a rough pasture sloping down to a little stream. 

 In some places it is noted rather as a coast species, e.g., Piquet records 

 it as common all along the coast of Jersey, frequenting more 

 particularly the blackberry bloom; Prideaux says it occurs on the 

 coast near Salcombe; and Jones, that it is abundant on the coast of 

 North Cornwall, frequenting flowers. Near Plymouth it occurs in 

 sheltered nooks under high cliffs, on an old landslip, where the ground 

 is very rough (Bignell). On the other hand, near Aldeburgh, it 

 frequents the hedges (linage), and flies in the forest glades of Delamere, 

 chiefly, however, where there is a growth of heath and birch (Arkle), 

 and the New Forest (Ridley), similarly also in w T oodland glades at 

 Tivoli, in Italy (Rowland- Brown), and throughout the forest-zone in 

 the Pamirs at considerable elevation (Romanoff), in the Black Wood, 

 at Rannoch (White), plentiful in one of the woods and also on an 

 open, heathy, hillside near Wellington, in Somerset, in early July, 

 1887 (Milton), and common in all the woods of Herefordshire (Bowell), 

 also on the Chiltern Hills among the scrub and in the beech woods 

 (Rowland-Brown), whilst, in Jane, 1899, Carr notes that it appeared 

 in the "fuciformis wood," near Newark, after not having been observed 

 in the county for many years. Speyer says that, throughout Europe, 

 its favourite habitats are — the edges of forests, among shrubs and 

 bushes, and by hedges, and that it occurs in the central Alps of Europe, 

 the mountains of France, Spain, and Italy, of the Balkan Peninsula, 

 and the Harz mountains, in some places up to 6000ft. In 



