CATALOGUE 



Class INSECTA. 



Order. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sec. II. HETEROCERA, 



NOCTURNI. 



Giioxjp, PYRALIDINA. 



Following the arrangement of Stainton's "Manual," we now 

 arrive at the Pykaxidina. This is the first of those groups that 

 have generally been called Mice,o-Lepidopteka. Very many 

 Lepidopterists collect no further than the last group. A few 

 collect the PTKALinmA, though many only take the Deltoides, 

 which, indeed, are now often included with the Noctxjina. 

 These do not collect the Piealides, the Toeteicina, the Tineina, 

 nor the Pteeophoeijsta. This neglect of the smaller species 

 prevents us having so many records of their appearance, and we 

 consequently have less knowledge generally of their distribution. 

 In this district, however, a few well qualified entomologists 

 have collected the whole of the Lepidoptera, and our knowledge 

 of them here, though very deficient in localities, is probably 

 not so in species. Less is known of the north-west of both 

 counties than of the other portions. Especially is this the case 

 with !N"orthumberland, the north and north-west of which is 

 scarcely known. 



