52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I visited its Fifeshire haunts in 1913, but apparently its numbers 

 had greatly diminished ; still, I got all of the usual forms — 

 artaxerxes, salmacis, qiiadrijmnctota and semiallous. 



Gonepteryx rhamni, L. In the north, as both species of 

 Bhaminis are exceptionally rare, this insect cannot gain any 

 substantial footing ; at Great Ayton, Cleveland, near Eoseberry 

 Topping, where li. catharticns is actuall}" indigenous, the insect 

 was obtainable a year or two ago, and I got a female, which was 

 captured drying its wings. 



Endromis versicolor, L. Quite common on the small birches 

 on the outskirts of the wood on Culbin Sands, and to be found 

 also on isolated birches scattered throughout the sandhills ; also 

 found freely enough on the alders along the old bed of the 

 Pindhorn close by. I once beat fourteen larvae out at one stroke 

 of the stick. 



Parasemia plantaginis, L. Obtainable both as larva and 

 imago on all of the Cleveland moors, but probably in greatest 

 profusion near Goathland ; the variety Jiospita also occurs. 

 Larvae plentiful on the sea- coast near Warkworth, Northumber- 

 land. The males can be obtained in plenty as they fly wildly 

 over the heather on the top of Fair Head, Antrim, Ireland. 



AncJiocelis pistacina, F. Eestricted to England as far north 

 as Yorkshire, according to Meyrick ; despite this, I can record 

 it as everywhere plentiful in North Durham. I saw two picked 

 off adjacent trees on the roadside at Birtley on October 23rd by 

 a friend who certainly had no idea of looking for them, and I 

 disturbed others the same day myself. 



Anchocelis lunosa. Not plentiful anywhere with us. I have 

 seen Cleveland examples, and observed one on a letter-box at 

 Birtley, Durham, on October 16th. 



Orthosa macllenta, Hb. Wide-spread with us, and only included 

 because I believe it to be a general feeder in spite of its reputa- 

 tion. I find it in numbers, as it dries its wings under the pines 

 and larches in Wilton Woods, Cleveland. The only possible 

 food-plants there are Pimis sylvestris, Lnrix decklua, Oxalis 

 acetosella, liumex acetosclla, Deschampsia Jiexuosa, Pteris aquilina 

 and Lastrea. 



Micma literosa, Haw. In multitudes at sugar on posts 

 crossing Birtley Fell, including very fine melanic forms ; only 

 types at Forres on ragwort and at sugar. 



Acronycta menyanthidis, View. Not really rare on the fells 

 and moors in the northern counties. I have observed the imago 

 sitting on the dry stone dykes striking across such areas as well 

 as on the stum{)S in clearings in the pine woods of the Cleveland 

 Hills. The larva feeds on heather generally, but I have seen it 

 on Hypericum pidchram on Dryburn, West Allendale, Northum- 

 berland, and on Myrica gale both in Stirling and in Derry. 



Plusia iota, L., and P. pulchrina, Haw. Both of these species 



