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-Lakes.— Westmoreland. Cumberland. North Lancashire. 
S. Wales —Radnorshire. Brecknockshire. Glamorganshire. Car- 
marthenshire: near Llechryd, W. Hutchison. Pembrokeshire. 
Cardiganshire. 
N. Wales.—Anglesea. Denbighshire: Vale of Clyde. Merion- 
ethshire. Montgomeryshire. Flintshire: Kilken. Carnarvonshire. 
W. Lowlands.—Dumfries-shire. Kirkeudbrightshire. Ayrshire. 
Lanarkshire. Renfrewshire. 
E. Lowlands.—Roxburghshire. Berwickshire. Edinburghshire. 
Linlithgowshire. 
E. Highlands. —Stirlingshire: Stirling, Mrs. Macleod. Clackman- 
nanshire.  Kinross-shire. Fifeshire: St. Andrews, C. Howie; 
Lomond Hills. Perthshire: Callander. Forfarshire. Kincardine- 
shire. Aberdeenshire. Banffshire. Morayshire. Nairnshire. 
W. HigMands.—Inverness-shire. Argyleshire: Campbelton, A. 
Tait; Ardrishiag. Dumbartonshire. Isles of Arran ; Bute ; Islay ; 
Cantyre; and Iona. Ailsa Craig. 
N. Highlands.—Cromarty. Sutherlandshire. Caithness. 
N. Isles.—Orkney. 
W. Isles.—Tarbet, Harris. 
Ulster.— Antrim, D. Moore. Down. Donegal: Killybegs. 
Connaught.—Galway: Gort; Connemara. Arran Isles. Mayo: 
Island of Achill. . 
Leinster.—Meath : Drogheda. Louth. Dublin. King's County. 
Wicklow: Glen of the Downs. Kilkenny. 
Munster. Â Kerry : Killarney. Cork. Waterford: Ardmore, J. 
R. Kinahan. Tipperary. Clare: Black Head. Limerick: Bally- 
william, Mrs. Barrington. Cork: Kinsale, Miss Townsend. 
Channel Isles.—Jersey. Guernsey. 
The present is a widely-dispersed species, the common forms 
occurring all over Europe, from South Scandinavia and the provinces 
of European Russia through Denmark, Belgium, ‘France, Switzer- 
land, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Balearic Isles, Italy, Dalmatia, 
Croatia, Hungary, and Transylvania, to Greece and Turkey ; speci- 
mens from Sicily show a transition from the variety acutum to the 
more common form. It is found in Teneriffe, Madeira, and the 

