INSECTS 



Lozotsenia xylosteana. Common generally 



- rosana. Common generally 

 Ditula angustiorana. Darlington 

 Ptycholoma lecheana. Common generally 

 Notocelia udmanniana. Recorded only from 



Durham and Hartlepool, but probably com- 

 mon generally 



Pardia tripunctana. Swarms in gardens 



Spilonota roborana. Hartlepool 



- roszcolana. DarRngton and Hartlepool 



trimaculana. Common among elm 



amoenana. On the coast among Rosa spinosis- 



sima 

 Lithographia compoliliana. Common among willows 



cinerana. Darlington 



nisella. Larvae common in sallow catkins. 



penklcriana. Among birch 



Phlzodes tetraquetrana. Abundant among birch 



crenana. Mr. Sang found this insect at 



Waskerley 



Poedisca piceana. Wolttngham, High Force, and 

 Thorp Bulmer near Hartlepool. Probably in 

 other marshy places 



stabilana. Hell Kettlei near DarRngton 



solandriana. Common among birch 



opthalmicana. On black poplar in Cattle Eden 



Dene 

 Catoptria scopoliana. Common among thistles 



fulvana. Hetleden Dene 



hohenwarthiana. Generally distributed, but not 



common 



expallidana. DarRngton 



Halonota bimaculana. Generally distributed, but 

 not common 



trigeminana. Seattm Careto 



cirsiana. Among thistles and centaurea. 



scutulana. Among thistles and centaurea. 



grandzvana. Confined as a British species to 



South Shields and Hartleptol. I believe it is 

 extinct at South ShleUi, but it still occurs 

 about Hartlepool 



brunnichiana. Plentiful amongst coltsfoot. A 



curious variety, without the white spot on 

 the forewings, was common in a quarry in 

 Hetleden Dene a few years ago. The colts- 

 foot disappeared there and the insect with it, 

 nor have I seen the variety since 



tetragonana. Very local. Wolsingham, Darting- 



ton, Hetleden Dene. The lame is said to be 

 found under moss at the roots of beech 

 trees. Mr. Gardner bred a specimen from 

 a larva found on Lotus corniculatus 



turbidana. Teeside from ConitcRffe to Black- 



weU: (J. Sang) 



inopiana. Taken at Seaton Carew in 1874 by 



the late John Sang 



- fcenella. Heileden Dene, once or twice 

 Dicrorampha petiverella. DarRngton and Hartlepool 



politana. Eggleston, Upper Teetdale 



alpinana. Mr. Sang took this southern species 



at Coniiclife 



- tanaccti. ConitcRffe, DarRngton, and near 



Hartlepool 



- plumbagana. Hartlepool 



acuminitana. ConitcRffe Moor, DarRngton, and 



Hartlepool 



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Dicrorampha consortana. DarRngton 

 Coccyx hyrciniana. ConitcRffe Moor 

 Capua ochraceana. Eggleston, Upper Teetdale 

 Cartella bilunana. HesleJen Dene 



ANCHYLOPERIDjE 

 Hedya paykuUiana. Wolsingham and HesUden Dene 



ocellana. DarRngton and ConiscRffe Moor 



dealbana. Dinsdale Wood and Neasham Lane 



near DarRngton, and in Heiledev Dene 



neglectana. 



aceriana. Gas lamps, DarRngton, by Mr. Sang 



in 1860 



trimaculana. I know of no record for this 



insect and never met with it, but it is cer- 

 tain to occur 



Steganoptycha naevana. Cattle Eden Dene and 

 Cockerton near DarRngton 



geminana. WolAngham 



Anchylopera mitterbacheriana. Gibiide, and prob- 

 ably elsewhere 



biarcuana. Winch Bridge, Upper Teetdale, near 



DarRngton, and probably elsewhere 



myrtillana. 



lundana. South Shields, Sunderland, Barnard 



Castle, and Hartlepool, probably everywhere 



paludana. Meyrick limits the range of this 



species to the fens of Norfolk and Cam- 

 bridge, but Mr. Sang took it at Hell Kettles 

 near Darlington 



comptana. Chiefly a chalk down species, but 



extending on the west coast to Cheshire. 

 Mr. Sang took it in a lane near DarRngton 

 in 1859, DUt never met with it again. It 

 may only have been a stray specimen 



unguicella. On the moors in the west. Has 



been taken at Wolstngham and on the Teet- 

 dale Moors 



Bactra lanceolana. Abundant among rushes 

 Argyrotoza conwayana. Generally among privet, 



but not a common insect 



Dictyopteryx contaminana. Very common by 

 hedge sides 



loeflingiana. Lanes and woods 



Croesia bergmanniana. Common everywhere 

 among rose 



fbrskaleana. Common among maple 



holmiana. Generally common 



Hemerosia rheediella. Not scarce, has been re- 

 corded at Sunderland, DarRngton, and Hartlepool 



PERONEID.E 



Cheimatophila mixtana. Rather common in 

 heathery places. Is recorded from Waskerley, 

 Wolsingham, and the Teesdale Moon 



Oxygrapha literana. Mr. Sang took this at Eggles- 

 ton and near DarRngton; I took a single 

 specimen at Hartlepool, and Mr. Gardner 

 another near the mouth of Cattle Eden Dene 



Peronea schallcriana. Generally common. 



perplexana. Of this comparatively new species 



Mr. Gardner took two at Greatbam, near 

 Hartlepool 



commariana. Mr. Gardner took a single 



specimen of this on the Teetdale Moon 



