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Vicar’s Cross, near Chester, bred from 1. (P.C.); 0. at 
e.l., White Hall, near Tarporley (Stk.) ; Chester, n.u. at 
el. (Do.); ditto, s. (N.); ditto and gas lamps (A.); 
l., c. in the Chester district on sallow and poplar (A) ; 
Stockport, 1., sp. (J.); Knutsford, 1., o. (Da.) 
F,—Near Holywell, 1., c. (W.L.) 
N. dromedarius, L. Common generally on the mosses where 
the larve feed on the birch bushes. Not often seen 
except in the larval stage, though the perfect insect has 
been taken at light. The imagines in this district are of 
atich dark-brown colour, much darker than the type, 
and showing very little trace of the blood-red markings 
of the southern form. 
C.—Wirral (W.LZ.); Delamere, 1. (Ta., M., Da., J.); 
ditto and Oakmere, f.c. (N.); ditto, red and type forms 
of 1. c. (A.); Sale and Dunham, 1. (Ta.); Carrington 
(Stb.) ; ditto, 1. used to be common on the Moss (Da.) ; 
Bowdon (Tp.); Bidston, on birch n.c. (Pr.); once at 
Stockport (J.); Chester, four or five at e.l. in 1899 and 
1900 (Do.); ditto, o. in Aug. (A.); Wybunbury Bog, 1. 
(F. C. Woodforde) ; ditto, Sept. 1888 (Th.) 
D.—Colwyn Bay, 1. on hazel (W.Z.); ditto, 1., s. (N.) 
N. trepida, Esp. Local and rarely met with. 
C.—Northwich, one (Tp.); Mr. Thorpe states that 
his brother took another specimen near the same spot 
subsequently ; Delamere Forest—recorded in /.Z. on the 
authority of S. J. Capper, J. C. Melvill, and E. C. Buxton 
in Zoologist, IX., 1851, p. 3181; Pettypool Wood, May 
1851 —N. Cooke in Zoologist, Ser. 1., Vol. X., p. 3515. 
Also recorded in Cheshire, within twelve miles from 
Warrington, by N. Greening. 
LOPHOPTERYX, St. 
69. L. camelina, L. Fairly common, and generally distributed 
in suitable localities, such as moss-lands and woods 
with birch undergrowth. 
C.—Chester district, c. (A.); Chester, two or three at 
e.l. 1898, 1899, and 1900 (Do.); the White Hall, near 
Tarporley, at light (Stk.); Delamere (Cr., J., N., Da., 
H., M., Ta.); Whitegate Heath, 1. (Co.); Wallasey, 1. 
(M.); ditto, n.v.c. (Pr.); Oxton and Hooton (Sh.); 
Stockport, o. (J.); Carrington (Stb.); Wybunbury Moss 
(F. C. Woodforde). 
D. —Colwyn Bay, sp. (N.) 
Car.—Near Deganwy (W.G.) 
