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skirts of woods, and marshy spots in the neighbourhood of these in Salz- 

 burg (Riohter), and by roadsides and woods throughout Carinthia (Hof- 

 ner). In southeastern Europe, Walker notes it as common throughout 

 the summer at Port Baklar, near Gallipoli, and Mathew records it from 

 Boulair, on ground covered with bushes of Berberis. Homuzaki says 

 that it is common throughout the summer on the slopes of the 

 Cecina Mount, near Czernowitz, at an altitude of 400 metres in the 

 first half of June. In Spain it occurs very generally in all suitable 

 localities. Walker says that it appears on the Rock at Gibraltar, as 

 well as in the pinewoods near San Roque, whilst Sheldon records it 

 in the La Granja district with Lampides boeticus, Heodes viryaureae, 

 Thecla ilicis, T. spini, Loweia gordius, Drj/as pandora, Brenthis daphne, 

 and dozens of other species, in a wooded dell through which a stream 

 flowed, and beyond which the trees thin out, and brooms and cistus 

 are the prevailing plants. In Algeria it occurs in the copses behind 

 Mustapha Superieur, near Algiers (Nicholl). 



British localities. — The range of this species in the British 

 Isles is one of those things we cannot understand. It is abundant 

 throughout England and Wales, becoming locally rare in Cumberland, 

 Durham, and Westmorland, and apparently failing absolutely throughout 

 Scotland, and yet generally abundant throughout Ireland. [Compare 

 range of Smerinthus ocellata (Brit, hep., vol. iii., p. 445), Mimas tiliae 

 (op. cit., p. 420), Malacowma neustrid (op. tit., vol. ii., p. 565), etc.]. 

 Bedford: Bedford (Sharpie.). Berks: common (Hamm), Heading (Holland), 

 Newbury (Hopson). Brecknock: Builth (Vaughan). Bucks: Black Park 

 (Stevens), Aylesbury (Greene), Drayton Beaucbanip (Rothschild), Stony Strat- 

 ford, rare (Foddy), Buckingham (Slade), near Ma'rlow (A. H. Clarke), Barn- 

 ham Beeches, Chalfont St. Giles (Bowland-Brown). Cambridge : Boxworth 

 (Thornhill), Cambridge (Crisp), Peterhouse (Kaynor), Gogmagog Hills, near 

 Cambridge (Lee). Carmarthen : local, but distributed — Carmarthen (Barker), 

 Laugharne (Jeffreys). Carnarvon : Bettws-y-Coed (Perkins), near Deganwy 

 (Gardner), Conway Valley, between Gwydyr Castle and Bettws-y-Coed (Bland), 

 Llanrwst (Bairstow), Conway Castle (Harding). Cheshire: Delamere (Harri- 

 son), north Cheshire (Greening), White Hall, near Tarporley (Stock), 

 Eastham, Hooton (Harris teste Gregson). Cork (Mc Arthur) : Curriglass 

 (Longfield). Cornwall, : east and west Cornwall (Rollason), Penzance district 

 (Daws), Bude (Sheldon), St. Austell (Hodge), Menabilly (Rashleigh), Carbis Bay 

 (James), locally common from Kilkhampton and Whitsand Bay to Penzance — 

 Newquay, common, etc. (Clark), Torpoint (Waldegrave). Cumberland: Keswick 

 district — Lodore, the Borrowdale Road (Beadle), Wetheral (Armstrong), [one a few 

 miles east of Carlisle (Hodgkinson), probably the Wetheral record (Routledge)] , 

 Keswick (Morson), Workington, uncertain and spasmodic (Wilkinson). Denbigh: 

 near AVrexham, common, Colwyn Bay, sparingly (Newstead), near Ruthin 

 (Gardner), Llanferres (Birch), Minerva mountain (Arkle). Derby: Repton 

 (Garneys), Needwood Forest (Payne), Parson's Brake, near Burton-on- 

 Trent (Thornewill), Kirk Langley (Fuller), Melbourne district (Corbett). 

 Devon: south Devon (Green), Egg Buckland (Briggs), Cockington, Torquay (Tutt), 

 Oxton (Studd), Teignmouth (Jordan), W'oodbury (Kane), Barnstaple, Bideford, 

 Braunton Burrows, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Instow (Mathew), Paignton (Goodale), 

 Tiverton (Reed), Sidmouth (Wells), Kenton (Bower), Honiton district, abundant 

 (Riding), Totnes (Swinton), Silverton, Torrington (Ward), Mortehoe (Longstai'f), 

 Dawlish (Rawlinson), Stoke (Harvie), near Babbacombe (Prideaux). Donegal: 

 at Rathmullan, on the east shore of Lough Swilly (Walker). Dorset: Swanage 

 (Hall), Sturminster Newton (Eaton), Glanville's Wootton (Dale), Isle of Purbeck, 

 Wareham (Bankes), Carne Wood, Preston Upton, Weymouth (Bogue), Sherborne 

 (Douglas), Gussage St. Michael (Ward), near Poole (Green), Portland (Richardson). 

 Dublin : rare (Kane). Down : abundant (Bristow), Donard demesne (Watts). Dur- 

 ham : formerly well distributed, but no record of its capture for 50 years (V.C.H.), 

 Gibside, in 1870, see p. 468 (Hedworth), Sunderland, formerly common, no 

 recent records (Corder), Derwent Valley, Ravensworth (Wailes), Gibside, Dilston, 

 Winlaton Mill (Wailes), Shull, Darlington (Backhouse), Castle Eden Dene, 



