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Brandling Place, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the month of April, 1845. 

 August is stated to be the usual time of appearance of this moth. 

 This exceptional instance has, I believe, never been recorded. — V. R. 

 Perkins, Wootton-under-Edge ; January, 1877.' Mr. Barrett (vol. iv. 

 p. 114) speaks of this as 'a supposed capture at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,' 

 and suggests that this also was a variety of admta. Mr. Perkins, 

 however, was a good observer, and not likely to make any record 

 where there was room for doubt. As for the date of capture, Mr. 

 Barrett himself gives June, July, and August for this species, and 

 June, July, and, in forward seasons, the end of May for adusta. But 

 all these species are very uncertain, and after an open winter might 

 occur in April. As an illustratidh 1 might refer to the dates of Mr. 

 Gardner's captures of occulta [June, July, August, September, and 

 October] . Since the above was in type Mr. Perkins has written me 

 to say that he still has the specimen, and that neither he nor the late 

 Mr. Hancock had any doubt but it was correctly named." (P. 124.) 



Tapinostola elymi. — " This insect was introduced to the British 

 fauna in 1861, specimens having been taken on the Norfolk coast by 

 the late Mr. Crotch. It was soon turned up on the Yorkshire coast, 

 and I always understood that Mr. Eales was the first to take it in 

 Durham, but Mr. Hedworth says ' Mr. Thomas Richardson, of Mount 

 Pleasant, was the first to discover this species in its present habitat, 

 South Shields.' It was then found at Hartlepool, Dr. Lees being, I 

 believe, the first to take it. Mr. Gardner subsequently found the larva 

 and pupa, and bred the insect. The food-plant, Elymus arenarius 

 (sand reed or lyme grass), occurs in patches on the coast, and elymi 

 should be looked for wherever it grows. It flies in early dusk, and 

 is very easily distinguished on the wing. Later on it settles on the 

 stems of the food-plant, from which it may be easily boxed. The 

 most productive patches of the plant near Hartlepool are now de- 

 stroyed, but the larva?, living inside the stem, are not injured by 

 deposits of smoke, &c, on the leaves." (P. 157.) 



CiRRHffiDiA xerampelina. — " A rare species but widely distributed, 

 and will probably be found more plentifully when we know more of its 

 habits. The imago is generally found at rest on the trunk of an ash 

 tree, and the late Mr. T. Meldrum, of Ripon, who was particularly 

 successful in taking it, was of opinion that after emerging from pupa 

 it sat on the trunk till evening, but did not return there after the first 

 flight. Mr. Finlay found imagines on ash trunks in Meldon Park at 

 the end of August and in September, but never commonly." Then 

 follow other localities. (P. 177.) 



The work is issued as vol. xii. Part I. of the 'Natural History 

 Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne,' and great credit is due to all concerned in its production. 

 We hope that the second part of Mr. Robson's Catalogue will be 

 published at an early date. 



ENTOM. — SEPTEMBER, 1899. 



