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This is generally a very common insect, but it does not 

 appear to be so plentiful in our counties as the last species. 

 Stephens' (Haust. iv., 39), on the authority of the late George 

 Wailes, says that it occurs at " Meldon Park, Prestwick Carr, 

 Marsden, &c." Prestwick Carr has since been drained. Mr. 

 Finlay took it at a lake west of ITetherwitton, and Mr. Maling 

 got it on boggy ground on Newbiggin Moor. Durham records 

 are no more numerous. Marsden, named above, is in Durham. 

 Mr. Sang took it in August, 1860, on a gas lamp at Darlington ; 

 Mr. Gardner and I have taken it about Greatham brick ponds, 

 but not elsewhere. The larva appears to feed on Sparganium^ 

 though other food plants are given by various writers. 



BOTYDJE, Gp. 

 BOTYS, Latr. 



18. Botys lupulina, Clk. Hop Pearl. 



Botys lupulina. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 148. 



,, nuhilalis. Leech, Brit. Pyr,, p. '6'i. 

 Pyrausta ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 416. 



Imago. Leech, pi. iv., fig. 4. 



Mr. Gardner took a specimen of this exceedingly scarce species 

 behind the ropery at Hartlepool. This sheltered nook has 

 given us quite a number of rare insects — alas ! it is now quite 

 destroyed by the extension of the town. Mr. Meyrick thinks 

 this is but a casual immigrant. It is difficult to accept this, 

 and equally difficult to suggest another explanation of the facts. 

 The larva feeds in the stems of hop, and it would be expected 

 the insect would occur where hop is cultivated. This is not so. 

 I am not aware it has ever been taken in such a locality. 

 It has occurred, always singly I believe, at places so wide 

 apart as Hartlepool, Manchester, and Sandown in the Isle of 

 Wight. 



