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23. E. sambucalis, W.V. Eldee Peael. 



Ehulea sambucalis. Staiut. Man,, vol. ii., p. 151. 



,, ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 38. 



Phylctcenia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 410. 



Imago Leech, pi. v., fig. 2, 



Laeva. Buck., vol. ix., pi. cliv., fig. 4. 

 These counties appear to be rather beyond the range of 

 Sambucalis, which Meyrick limits to York. Mr. Sang used to 

 take it at Hell Kettles, near Darlington, which is within a mile 

 of the Yorkshire boundary. I took a single specimen behind 

 the ropery, Hartlepool, flying in the sun, late in the afternoon, 

 and Mr. Gardner took another in Hezleden Dene in 1902. The 

 larva feeds on elder (^Sambucus), and Stainton adds convolvulus. 

 There was no elder within some miles of the place where I 

 took it, but plenty of convolvulus. There is a great deal of 

 elder in Hezleden Dene. 



PIONEA, Gn. 



24. Pionea forficalis, Linn. Gaeden Pebble. 



Pionea forficalis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 152. 



,, ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 42. 



Mesographe ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 425. 



Imago. Leech, pi. v., fig. 8. 

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



Common everywhere in gardens and elsewhere. 



{Psamotis pulveralis, Hb., is recorded in Stephens' (Illust, 

 Haust., vol. iv., p. 55) as having been taken at Meldon Park 

 by Mr Wailes. No other specimen has been taken there, and 

 Stephens subsequently concluded that the specimens taken as 

 above, and at Darenth Wood, were but varieties of Botys 

 fuscalis. K'either Stainton nor Doubleday recognised Pulveralis 

 as a British species, and it was not really taken in Britain till 

 1869, when Mr. E. G. Meek introduced it (see Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. vi., p. 141). The only reliable captures that I know of have 

 been at Folkestone and in the Isle of Wight, with the exception 



