FOUND IN CASTLE EDEN DEAN. 43? 



figure, which has evidently been drawn fi-om a wasted example,, 

 conveys a poor idea of the beauty of fresh specimens. 



Emmelesia ericitata. — The only specimen which has oc- 

 curred hereabout, I met with in a damp part of the dean on 

 our last visit. 



Emmelesia Blomeri, Dale's MSS. — The first notice I had 

 of this beautiful moth was from my friend Mr. Dale, who 

 casually mentioned his having received a drawing of it from 

 Captain Blomer, who bred it from the pupa in the spring of 

 1831. In July, I met with half-a-dozen specimens at Castle 

 Eden, which, however. Captain Blomer did not appear to re- 

 cognize, when I had the pleasure of seeing him last September ; 

 and Mr. Curtis, in November, shewed me a drawing, made 

 from a specimen I sent Mr. Sparshall, and first intimated it 

 was quite new. It will appear in one of his early numbers.'' 

 I succeeded in taking about twenty specimens this season, and 

 suppose that the larva feeds either on the hazel, the Scotch 

 elm, or the white thorn. The moth seems to delight in dark 

 shady places, where the sun hardly penetrates. Can it be 

 double brooded ? Captain Blomer's was taken in the spring ; 

 mine, in beautiful condition, in July. The times of appearance 

 of insects is comparatively little known; but the subject is 

 well worthy of investigation. 



Hypercallia Christiernana.- — I took a single specimen of 

 this little beautiful creature in 1831. 



Tipula nigra. — Rare. 



Dolichopeza sylvicola. — Last year, I met with this rare 

 species near Newcastle, and also at Meldon Park ; but all the 

 specimens, about half-a-dozen, were males. This season I 

 captured a good many, including some females. Its flight is 

 slower than most of the Tipulidae, and its beautiful white tarsi, 

 as Mr. Curtis justly observes, betray it when the rest of the 

 insect is scarcely visible. The banks of rivulets, in dark deep 

 woods, are its favourite habitats. 



=> See Curtis's Brit. Ent. 416, for a figure of this beautiful insect, together with 

 the rare Cyprepidium calceolus, mentioned above. — Ed. 



