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21. B, urticata, Linn. Small Magpie. 



Botys urticata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 150. 

 Eurrhypara ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 28. 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 407. 



Imago. Leech, pi. iii., fig. 8. 

 Laeva. Buck., vol. ix., pi. cliii., fig. 8. 



Meyrick limits the range of this species to York, but it is 

 common all over Durham and in South Northumberland, and I 

 expect it will be found over the greater part of that county 

 wherever nettles grow freely. It is recorded for Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne by Mr. "Wailes in Stephens' Illustrations (Haust. iv., p. 44) 

 as far back as 1834, a record that Mr. Meyrick has evidently 

 overlooked. More recently Mr. Henderson found it about 

 Jesmond; Mr. Corder got it commonly around Sunderland; 

 it is given in Ornsby's "Durham " ; and Mr. Sibson found it at 

 Stockton. It is common enough around Hartlepool wherever 

 there are plenty of nettles, except in the immediate precincts 

 which it has deserted as the town extended. 



EBULEA3 Gn. 



22. Ebulea crocealis, Tr. Ocheeotjs Peael. 



Elulea crocealis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 151. 



,, ,, Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 37. 



Phlyctcenia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 408 



Imago. Leech, pi. iv., fig. 12. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. ix , pi. cliv., fig. 1. 



This species is marked "Da" in the "Manual," and Mr. 

 Sang appears to have taken it near Darlington on 29th July, 

 1874, which is long after the publication of that work. There 

 is only one entry in Sang's Diary, but I would suppose it 

 occurred regularly. It occurs commonly on the Durham coast, 

 among Inula dysenterica (flea-bane), from Black Hall Eocks, 

 where we take it regularly, to Sunderland, where Mr. Corder 

 has met with it. The imago flies before dusk, and I think 

 should be. taken in many other places in both counties. 



