84 J- W. ELLIS : LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE PTEROPHORINA. 



Micropteryx mansuetella, Z. Manchester (Staint. Man., ii, 303). 

 Micropteryx aureatella, Scop. =- allionella, F. Local, but 



common where it occurs. 



Lane— Chat Moss (J.C) ; Grange (J.H.T.); Windermere 



(J-B.H.). 



Ches. — Knutsford (J.C). 

 Micropteryx Thunbergella, F. Local, and recorded only from 



Lancashire. Croxteth Wood, by beating hollies (C.S.G.) ; 



Grange (J.H.T., J.B.H., Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 40); Manchester 



(Staint. Man., ii, 303) ; Windermere (J.B.H.). 

 Micropteryx Sparmanella, Bosc. Local, and not recorded 



from Cheshire. Grange (J.H.T.) ; Manchester (Staint. Man.^ 



ii, 304); Simmonsvvood Moss (C.S.G.) ; Windermere (J.B.H.). 

 Micropteryx subpurpurella, Haw. Local, but abundant where 



it occurs. 



Lane. — Chat Moss and Prestwich (J.C.) ; Grange and 



Preston (J.H.T.) ; Windermere (J.B.H.). 



Ches. — Dunham Park (J.C.) ; lane leading from Brom- 



borough to Eastham AVood (C.S.G., J.W.E.); AVirral (J.F.B.). 

 Micropteryx unimaculella, Zett. Local. 



Lane. — Chat Moss (J.C); Lancashire mosses (C.S.G.);; 



Windermere (J.B.H.); Withnell (J.H.T.). 



Ches. — Abundant in Delamere Forest (C.S.G., Ent., vi, 453). 

 Micropteryx semipurpurella, Steph. Local; recorded only 



from Lancashire. Chat Moss (J.C); Grange (J.H.T.); Lan- 

 cashire mosses (C.S.G.); Windermere (J.B.H.). 

 Micropteryx purpurella, Haw. On the mosses, recorded by 



R. S. Edleston from Coppy Wood near Middleton (ZooL, ii,. 



735); by C S. Gregson from the Lancashire mosses; and in 



Stainton's Manual (ii, 303) from the Manchester district. 



PTEROPHORI NA. 

 PLATYPTILIA, Hub. 



Platyptilia ochrodactyla, Hlib. Local. 



Lane. — Bedford Leigh (J.C) ; banks of the Alt and at Hale- 

 (C.S.G.); Manchester (Staint. Man., ii, 440); Grange (J.B.H.); 

 Pendlebury (R. S. Edleston, Zool., 1845, 1220). 



Ches.— Bromborough Pool (C.S.G.); Wirral (J.F.B.). 

 Platyptilia Bertrami, Rossi. Recorded by J. B. Hodgkinson 



from Button near Ribchester (Ent., xiii, 105), and Grange. 

 Platyptilia gonodactyla, Schiff. = trigonodactyla, Staint. 

 Common and generally distributed among coltst'oot. 



Naturalist. 



