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abound in our counties, and I find them equally numerous in 

 Stirling, Inverness and Elgin, and likewise at Ballycastle in 

 Antrim and Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. 



Plusia interrogationis, L. Common enough in the Clevelands, 

 both as larva :tnd imago, on heather ; more sparingly on 

 Whitfield Fell, Northumberland. 



Eupitlieria hiriciata, Frv. Present in every well-established 

 larch-wood in all of these counties ; similarly distributed in all 

 the larch-woods in Scotland I have worked in Argyleshire, 

 Dumbarton, Elgin and Ross. Chiefiy included here, because I 

 have taken it in vice-county 68, from which it had not been 

 previously reported ; I beat larvae from larch near Spindlestone 

 and Bamburgh. 



Eiip'ithecia assimilata, Gn. Rai'e enough in Durham to 

 ■warrani the recording of a single example in the garden at 

 Birtley. 



Mekinippe tristata, L. Of general occurrence with us on the 

 outskirts of pine and other woods on the moors and other sub- 

 alpine regions wherever there is a free growth of Galium saxntile ; 

 rarely, if ever, to be found, even when that plant abounds, lower 

 than 600 ft. in Durham, Northuu)l)erland, and North Yorkshire. 

 It occurs freely, however, in Altyre ^Yoods, Foires, only a few 

 feet above sea-level. Flying readily by day it can easily be 

 netted as one startles it off the dry stone dykes and the pine 

 trunks. Suffused forms are not uncommon throughout its 

 range. 



Mekinippe galiata, Hb. Leaden forms are (or were) not rare 

 on Birtley Fell, which has now been jjloughed up, and produces 

 about two grains of oats to the acre. 



Melanippe unangiiLita, Hw. A single specimen at Black 

 Hall Rocks. 



Ephyra pendularia, CI. Fairly common as larva on birches 

 near Forres and Kiiipen — almost certainly only single-brooded. 



Acidalia fumat'i, Stijh. Common enough amongst various 

 grasses in dampish spots on the Cleveland moors, obviously 

 preferring various Aim species ; in similar spots amongst the 

 heather on Culbin Sands, 



PJiigalia pedar'ia. Common and varying little in Northumber- 

 land and Durham ; of all shades from unicolorous black and 

 chocolate down to pale straw in the pine and birch woods of the 

 Cleveland moors and there abounding. It prefers oak and elm 

 on the lowlands and larch in its higher haunts. It is to be 

 noted, however, that the pure black form made its apipearance 

 first in the birch woods. 



Zoological Dept., 



Armstrong College. 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



