GLEANINGS FROM MY NOTEBOOKS — I. 151 



Mania maura, L. This is another species, rare enough in 

 Ireland to justify a reference to the capture of a fine female by 

 my little girl in Ballymena Station, Antrim. This presented me 

 with a batch of eggs, but I failed to rear the larvae. 



T(enioc/tmpa gracilis, F. At sallows in West Allendale, 

 Northumberland. This "Quaker" is rare or local in our two 

 counties, although on record for several Durham habitats. The 

 same applies to T. miinda and T. 'popideti, of which I have taken 

 or seen odd examples at Birtley, Durham. 



Xanthia gilvago, Esp. This insect seems to be extending its 

 range, for I obtained a fair number at Great Ayton, Cleveland, 

 and, later, Mr. J. P. Robson took it at Barnard Castle, in 

 Durham. 



Cosmia 'paleacea, Esp. A few larvae beaten from birch in 

 Lonsdale, N. Yorks. I have taken the imago at Forres. 



Plusia hractea, F. I have, of course, netted this at various 

 flowers at Forres, but I have to note that it is not uncommon at 

 flowers of Dianthus, Lilium, etc., in West Allendale, Northumber- 

 land. Further, I have found it at rest on white dead-nettle, 

 Cookstown, Tyrone. 



Selenia tetralunaria, Hufn, Larvae beaten from larch, birch, 

 and alder at Forres, Elgin; and also from birch Birtley, Durham; 

 and alder Ninebanks, Northumberland. 



Selenia lunaria, Schiff. The same remarks apply to this, but 

 the occurrence is not so noteworthy. 



Ennomos alniaria, L. Extremely common on birch, alder, 

 and sallow at Forres, Kippen in Stirling ; and singly, Birtley, 

 Durham. Verj^ fine, purplish examples can be bred from Forres 

 larvae. 



Cleora glahraria, Hb. Sparingly at Forres — a " furthest 

 north " record, I believe, for Great Britain. 



TepJirosia bistortata, Goeze. Not very common as larvae 

 Strathpeffer, Ross-shire ; Culbin Sands, Forres ; imago not 

 uncommon at Townle}^ and Chopwell, Durham ; very common 

 Lonsdale, Kildale, and Eston, N. Yorkshire. In all these cases 

 the insect is single-brooded and, what Tutt used to call, the 

 "Perthshire" form. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia, Hb. Sparingly, type and var. dela- 

 merensis at Dinsdale, Durham ; the melanic form once, Nun- 

 thorpe, N, Yorks. 



Geometra papilionaria, L. Not common in lanes near Cooks- 

 town, Tyrone, on alder. 



Lohophora halterata, Hufn. I believe this likewise to be very 

 rare as an Irish insect ; larvae beaten, however, by a friend and 

 myself at Cookstown from Salix. 



Melanthia hicolurata, Hufn. Type and an enormous range of 

 melanic aberrations at Strathpeffer, Forres, and Kippen, Scot- 

 and. Only the type, but still in great numbers, at Ninebanks, 



