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of West Northumberland captures. Mr. Sang's captures in 

 Durham were at Castle Eden Dene, at Black Hall Eocks, at 

 Aycliffe Station and Ayeliffe quarry, and at several places near 

 Darlington ; Mr. Gardner also has taken it near Greatham. 

 Mr. Sang found a larva on a plant he did not know, which Mr. 

 Stainton said seemed to be a Cirsium. The larva appears 

 always to feed on thistles. 



120. G. gracilella, Stain. 



Gelechia gracilella. Staint. Ent. Ann,, 1871, p. 97. 



,, acuminatella. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 590 



(liartim). 

 Respecting this insect Mr. Stainton says, " Mr. C. Eales, of 

 South Shields, has sent me three specimens of a Gelechia which 

 he believes to be new, and for which he proposes the above 

 name. They were taken in a green lane, about a mile from 

 South Shields, on the 29th May, flying at dusk among hawthorn. 

 I am strongly of opinion that these specimens really do repre- 

 sent a Gelechia hitherto unknown to us ; certainly I know of 

 no species to which they can be referred." " Two of them 

 come very close to the male of G. acuminatella^ but the hind 

 margin of the anterior wings is more rounded ; moreover, one of 

 these two is a female, and therefore veiy different from the 

 small pointed-winged female of G. acuminatella.^'' (Ent. Ann., 

 1871, p. 97). 



Mr. Eales writes concerning it — " Ever since I took tlie first 

 specimen of this insect in 1870, I have done my best to make it 

 common ; but up to the present season I have not obtained 

 more than a dozen specimens; the locality where I took most 

 of them has been taken for building ground, and the hedgerows 

 replaced with brick walls. There yet remain two other places 

 where it has occurred singly, and where I hope to obtain 

 specimens for my friends." (Ent., viii., 197). 



Mr. Stainton's note shows clearly that he believed it to be 

 a distinct species, but I know no more about it, nor whether it 

 has been taken at Shields recently. 



