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LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OF LANCASHIRE 

 AND CHESHIRE. 



JOHN W. ELLIS, M.B. (Vict.), L.R.C.P.E., F.E.S., 



Liverpool; late Honorary Secretary to the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society \ 

 and to the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club. 



TINEINA. 



Fam. CHOREUTIDA':. 



CHOREUTIS, Hiih. 



Choreutis myllerana, F. = scintillulana, Hub. Very local, 

 being recorded only from Hoghton, near Preston (J.H.T.), 

 Dunham Park and Moss Side (J.C.), and from a quarry between 

 Poulton and Wallasey (C.S.G.). 

 Choreutis oxyacanthella, L. = fabriciana, Steph. Abundant 

 everywhere among nettles. 



Fam. TAL.EPORID.E. 

 TAL/F PORTA, Hiib. 



Talaeporia pseudo-bombycella, Hiib. Local, and recorded 

 only from Cheshire : — Bidston Hill, on heath and tree trunks 

 (C.S.G.); Bidston Heath (J.F.B.); Delamere Forest (J.B.H.) ; 

 Dunham Park (J.C); and Knutsford (H.H.C). 



SOLENOBIA, Z. 

 Solenobia inconspicuella, Staint. Local, and not common. 



Lane. — Preston (J.B.H.) ; Prestwich Wood, on beech 

 (R. S. Edleston, Zool, xvii, 6463) ; Prestwich and Pendlebury 

 (J.C). 



Ches.— Jackson's Wood, Claughton (C.S.G.); Wirral (J.F.B.). 

 Solenobia triquetrella, Fisch. Very local on the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire moors, such as Withnell and Staleybrushes (J.B.H.). 



Fam. TIl^EIDX.. 

 DIPLODOMA, Z. 



Diplodoma marginepunctella, Steph. Local, and not common. 

 Lane— Cleveleys (J.H.T.); Preston (J.B.H., J.H.T.); on 

 old posts near Simmonswood Moss (C.S.G.). 

 Ches.— Rock Ferry (J.F.B.). 



XYSMATODOMA, Z. 

 Xysmatodoma melanella, Haw. Very rare, and recorded only 

 from three localities in Cheshire, viz., Bowdon (J.H.T.), 

 Eastham Wood (J.F.B.), and Prenton Wood, near Birkenhead, 

 a single specimen (C.S.G.). 



Feb. 1890. l> 



