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37. F. ambigualis, Tr. Small Brotvn Geet. 



Eudorea amhigualis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 161. 

 Scoparia ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 14. 



„ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 423. 



Imago. Leech, pi. xiv., fig. 5. 



A generally distributed insect, abundant almost everywhere. 

 Mr. Finlay says it is very common in his district. Tt is equally 

 so about Hartlepool, and though I have no further records I 

 expect it will he found in every part of both counties. The 

 larva is said to feed on moss growing on trees, and the imago 

 certainly sits on tree trunks. It must feed on other mosses, 

 for I have met with the insect in abundance far away from 

 trees. 



38. E. ulmella, Knaggs (Dale, M.S.) Lichek Geet. 



Scoparia conspicualis . Leech, Brit. Pyr., p 15. 



,, amhigualis. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 423. 



Imago. Leech, pi. xiv., fig. 8. 



On the 13th July, 1844, the late J. C. Dale took three 

 specimens of a Scoparia from the trunk of a wych elm in a 

 wood at East Meon. He believed it to be new, and gave it 

 the manuscript name of Ulmella, but it was not until March, 

 1867, that any publication was made of the discovery. Then 

 (see E. M. M., vol. iii., p. 217) Dr. Knaggs introduced it as " an 

 hitherto unacknowledged species of Sco.paria." A very good 

 woodcut by Mr. E. C. Bye accompanies the article. No more 

 specimens appear to have been taken, and these three (one of 

 which was given to Mr. Curtis, and went to Australia with his 

 collection) were the sole representatives of the species for some 

 thirty years. Then the late J. B. Hodgkinson introduced as 

 new, a Scoparia which he had taken for a year or two previously 

 in the Cumberland Lake District. From its conspicuous appear- 

 ance as it sat on the tree trunks he proposed to name it Con- 

 spicualis. Within a year or two it was found at Burton-on- 



