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LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OF LANCASHIRE 

 AND CHESHIRE. 



JOHN \V. ELLIS, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.E., F.E.S., 



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

 and to the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club. 



TORTRICINA. 



The initials J.H.T., which here appear for the first time, are those 

 of Mr. J. H. Threllfall, of Preston, to whom I am indebted for much 

 valuable information about our local micro-lepidoptera. 



RHACODIA, Hub. 



Rhacodia (Teras) caudana, F. Generally distributed. 



Lane. — Chat Moss (J.C.) ; Croxteth Woods, near Liverpool 

 (C.S.G.) ; Fylde district (J.H.T.) ; Preston (J.B.H.). 

 Ches.— Prenton, in profusion (C.S.G.) ; Wirral (J.F.B.). 



TERAS, Tr. 

 (Including Peronea, Curt., Leptogramma, Curt., and Dictyopteryx, Steph.). 



Teras umbrana, Hub. Rarely among sloe at Grange (J.B.H.). 

 Teras hastiana, L. Abundant, but local. 



Lane. — Chat Moss (J.C) ; Farrington (J.H.T.) ; Longridge 

 and Lytham (J.B.H.). 



Ches. — Throughout Wirral (J.F.B.); abundant among dwarf 

 sallows on the Wallasey sandhills (J.C, J.W.E.). 

 Teras maccana, Tr. Manchester (Stainton's Manual, ii. 233). 



Not recorded by any of the Manchester entomologists. 

 Teras mixtana, Hb. Common on heaths and mosses. 



Lane. — Chat Moss (J.C); Farrington and Pilling Mosses 

 (J.H.T.) ; Longridge (J.B.H., J.H.T.). 



Ches.— Bidston Hill (C.S.G., J.W.E.) ; Delamere Forest 

 (C.S.G., Ent, vi. 452). 

 Teras logiana, Schiff. = tristana, Hb. Scarce, being recorded 

 only from a single locality in Lancashire, viz., Windermere, among 

 Viburnum lantana (J.B.H.), and from two localities in Cheshire: 

 Eastham, only a few taken (C.S.G.), and Rock Ferry (J.F.B.). 

 Teras permutatana, Dup. First recorded as British by Nicholas 

 Cooke (Zool., 1848, 2271), on the authority of a specimen 



Jan. 1889. 



