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Mr. Gardner has reared it from larva found at Hartlepool feed- 

 ing on the flowers and seeds of Anthemis. At one time it was 

 not uncommon about Hartlepool, but I have not seen it in 

 recent years. Those that occurred here are probably the 

 variety (?) Saxicola, introduced as a new species by the late 

 Howard Vaughan, but now considered only to be a form of 

 Nimbella. 



53. H. senecionis, Vaughan. 



Somoeosoma senecionis. Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 93. 



,, cretacella. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 377. 



Imago. Leech, pi. xi., fig. 2. 

 Laeva. Buck., vol. ix., pi. clvii., fig. 5. 



This was introduced by the late Howard Vaughan in the 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, vol. vii., p. 131, as a species 

 new to science. It was subsequently found that it had been 

 described in 1866 by Dr. Rossler and named Cretacella. It is 

 not very uncommon among ragwort about Hartlepool, and Mr. 

 Gardner has reared it from larvse found in the stems and flower 

 heads of ragwort. It was at one time rather plentiful between 

 the Eopery and the railway, a place often referred to, but now 

 destroyed entomologically. I also took it freely in an enclosure 

 outside the Cemetery between 1884 and 1887, but the sea has 

 spoiled this place, and I have not seen Senecionis for some years. 

 I have no record of its occurrence elsewhere. It has not been 

 recorded from Yorkshire, a,nd Meyrick limits its northward 

 range to Gloucester and Norfolk. 



PHYCILID^, Eag. 



The number of species in this group that are recognised as 

 British have been nearly doubled in number since the publica- 

 tion of Stainton's Manual, but only two of the additional 

 species have been taken in these counties. The arrangement of 

 genera and the nomenclature have also been much modified in 

 recent years. I have followed Stainton in both respects, and 

 trust no confusion will follow from the difference between old 

 and new names and position. 



