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Phoxopteryx siculana, Hub. Local. 



Lane. — Grange (J.B.H.); Simmonswood Moss (C.S.G.). 

 Ches. — Knutsford (J.C). 

 Phoxopteryx comptana, Froel. Recorded by Mr. Gregson as 



common on Flaybrick Hill, near Birkenhead. 

 Phoxopteryx lundana, F. Common everywhere. 

 Phoxopteryx myrtillana, Tr. Common on the moors. 



Lane. — Chat Moss (H.H.C.) ; Longridge (J.B.H.); near 

 Stoneyhurst (J.B.H., Ent., xii. 204). 



Ches. — Flaybrick Hill, scarce (C.S.G.) ; Staley- brushes 



(J.C)- 



RHOPOBOTA, Led. 



Rhopobota nsevana, Hiib. Common wherever hollies grow. 

 Var. (sp. ?) geminana, Steph. Common on the moors and 

 mosses. 



DICHRORAMPHA, Guen. 



Dichrorampha petiverella, L. Fairly common. 

 Lane. — Grange district (J.B.H., J.H.T.). 

 Ches.— Heswall (J.W.E.); Knutsford (J.C); New Brighton 

 (C.S.G.) ; Tranmere (J.F.B.). 

 Dichrorampha alpinana, Tr. Recorded from Grange (J.H.T.) 



and from near Rock Ferry (C.S.G.). 

 Dichrorampha simpliciana, Haw. Recorded by Mr. Gregson 



from Croxteth Park, near Liverpool. 

 Dichrorampha plumbagana, Tr. =tanaceti, Wilk. Local. 

 Lane. — Grange and Preston (J.B.H. , J.H.T.). 

 Ches. — Bidston Marsh (C.S.G.); near Crewe (Stainton's 

 Manual, ii. 214). 

 Dichrorampha acuminatana, Zell. Grange (J.B.H., J.H.T.). 

 Dichrorampha consortana, Wilk. Grange (J.B.H., J.H.T.) ; 

 near Manchester (Stainton's Manual, ii. 215). 



Dichrorampha plumbana, Scop. = ? (Endopisa) ulicana, 

 Guen. Recorded only from Grange by Messrs. Hodgkinson 

 and Threllfall. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mr. Richard Howse, the curator of the Museum at Xe\vcast]e-on-Tyne, has 

 just published in the Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and 

 Durham, a valuable ' Catalogue of Fossil Plants in the Hutton Collection,' 

 illustrated by seventeen woodcuts. It is prefaced by a history of this celebrated 

 collection, in which are preserved the type-specimens described in Lindley and 

 Hutton's ' Fossil Flora,' all of which are carefully indicated. 

 Feb. 1889. 



