CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. Ill 



"Ne" (Newcastle) of the "Manual." The larva feeds iu a 

 long slender case on lichens growing on palings and tree trunks. 

 We never found it about Hartlepool, nor is it entered in Sang's 

 diary. 



SOLENOBIA, Zell. 



8. Solenobia inconspicuella, Staint. 



Solenohia inconspicuella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 286. 



Meyr. Hdbk. I3rit. Lep , p. 775. 



There is a little uncertainty as to the exact number of species 

 belonging to the obscure genus Solenobia that have been found 

 in Britain. Stainton, Doubleday, and Meyrick each give two, 

 but the nomenclature was then in sad confusion. Stainton 

 gives inconspicuella and douglasii ; Doubleday inconspicuella 

 and triquetrella, with douglasii as a doubtful variety of the 

 lirst ; Meyrick inconspicuella and douglasii, with triquetrella 

 as a synonym of douglasii. There is no doubt but that these two 

 are wrong as to douglasii, which was long thought unique, and, 

 being distinct from every known species, is now placed in a 

 separate genus. Earrett gives another supposed species, tvockii 

 (E.M.M., xxxi, 164.) This would appear to be an error also, 

 and the British species to be only inconspicuella, lichenella 

 (of which no male is known, the females being parthenogenetic), 

 clathrella, and according to Tutt's "British Lepidoptera," 

 possibly nickerlii. 



The authorities it will be observed agree on one point only, 

 inconspictiella. This, thongh a local species, is not particularly 

 rare. The larva feeds on lichens on tree trunks and palings. 

 The only record I have found of its occurrence in our counties 

 is the " Ne " of the " Manual." "Whether the specimens taken 

 by "Wailes were found in Durham or Northumberland must 

 remain doubtful at present. When these insects are more 

 searched for I think it will probably be found in both counties. 



9. S. clathrella, F.v.R. 



This insect has never before been recorded as British, though 

 there is a misleading account of one " supposed British example " 



