CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



The earliest is in Stephens' Illustrations (Haustellata, vol. iv., 

 p. 23), where he says that George "Wailes reported it as 

 occurring at Newcastle. Recent collectors apparently have 

 not met with it there, hut certainly because they have 

 not sought it where alone it may be found. Mr. Corder 

 got it at Sunderland, Mr. Gardner has taken it at Great- 

 ham, and we have both found it at Hartlepool. Stainton, 

 copying some continental writer, says the larva feeds on greasy 

 horse-cloths, but Buckler, who devoted some time to studying 

 the habits of the insect, states that the larva lives in com- 

 parative darkness among the chaffy rubbish on whiclL they 

 feed. They spin a silken sheath, or gallery, and never leave it 

 until full-fed. Then they sometimes ascend the walls and 

 pupate in the interstices of the bricks. They will not touch the 

 greasy foods continental writers attribute to them, and in one 

 case, where a larva was under a cloth with a piece of lard upon 

 it, the larva was found there dead on the third day, having 

 neither eaten the lard nor the greasy cloth. 



LTJRID^, Gn. ^ 



PYRAUSTA, Schr, 



9. Pyrausta punicealis, Linn. Pueple and Gold. 



Pyrausta punicealis. Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 137. 

 ,, aurata. Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 22. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 414. 



Imago. Leech, pi. ii., fig. 11. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. is., pi. cL, fig. 1. 



This pretty little species is widely distributed in Britain, but 

 is generally very local, and is much less frequent in the north. 

 Dr. Ellis does not record it for Cheshire, and only for two 

 localities in Lancashire, in one of which it is very scarce. Mr. 

 Porritt gives six localities for the large county of Yorkshire, 

 but marks it as common in only two of them. The '* Manual " 

 gives Darlington as a place where it occurs, but the specimens 



