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NEW AND RARE YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



T. ASHTON LOFTHOUSE, F.E.S. 



The following notes are of Lepidoptera taken in recent years 

 for the most part in the Cleveland area, some of which are 

 additions to Mr. Porritt's Yorkshire List, and almost all are 

 additions to the Cleveland list. They are all ' micro- 

 lepidoptera,' and some of the records are of species added to 

 the British List in recent years, part of them due to the 

 researches of Mr. F. N. Pierce and others who have worked 

 at the ' genitalia ' of many of the more obscure species. I 

 have to acknowledge the kind assistance of Mr. John Gardner 

 and Mr. F. N. Pierce in the identification of some of the 

 species recorded. 



*Scoparia crataegella. Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. 



*Tortrix rosana. Mandale, Middlesbrough, 



*Spilonota rosaecolana. Kildale, 7/19. Three previous records for 



Yorkshire. 

 Mixodia palustrana. Cronkley, Upper Teesdale. A single specimen 



9 taken in July, 1919. Went up to the locality this last summer, 



but it rained almost incessantly all the time (3 days), and although 



only about a mile from where I was staying I never got on to the 



ground. It has been taken freely on the hills on the Durham 



side of the Tees by Mr. J. Gardner, and is recorded in the Durham 



and Northumberland list. 

 *Phoxot>'ervx ungiticella. Ingleby Grecnhow, 19/5/1918 ; also at 



Cronkley, Upper Teesdale. 

 * Phloeodes immiindana. Linthorpe, 7/1918. 

 ^ Pafdisca sinuana Pierce. Among Birch, etc, Eston Hills, 19/8/1919. 



I took two specimens of this, which were sent to Mr. Pierce, who 



says of them : ' the new Sinuana, the supposed variety of Solan- 



driana, but now proved to be a true species.' 

 Coccyx nanana. I have found this species common about some Spruce 



trees in the garden at Linthorpe, flying round the trees in the early 



evening, 6-30 to 8 p.m., from middle of July to middle of August. 

 *Endopisa nigricana. Specimen taken in garden, Linthorpe, 7/1918. 



Second Yorkshire record. 

 ■\Lipoptycha [Dicrorampha] aeratana Pierce. Recently described species, 



L,ealholm, 6/1918. Ingleby Greenhow, 24/5/1917. 

 ^Eupoecilia affinitana. Several about Aster tripolium in marshy 



ground near Grangetown Station, 14/6/1920. 

 *Tinea misella. Ingleby Greenhow, 24/6/1917. Second Yorks. record. 

 *Tinea pellionella. Beaten out of Firs in garden, Linthorpe, 7/8/1918. 

 *Adela croesella. A specimen of this beautiful Tinea taken by M. Lawson 



Thompson at Ingleby Greenhow in June, 1918. Third record for 



Yorkshire. 

 \Micropteryx sangii. Among Birch in Basedale. 20/4/1913. Addition 



to Yorkshire list. 

 *Exaereiia allisella. Specimen in garden, Linthorpe, 29/8/1919. Third 



Yorkshire record. 

 *Gelechia difjinella. Great Ayton, 6/1918 ; Eston, 5/7/1918. Two 



previous records in Yorkshire list. 



* Additions to Cleveland List. f Additions to Yorkshire List. 



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