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species is that of the ''Manual" that it had occurred at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. The larva feeds on moss on old walls, and 

 the west of either county might readily produce it, but I cannot 

 more specifically locate it at present, except that it is also 

 marked in Mr. Hodgkinson's list of West Northumberland 

 species, 



128. G. umbrosella, Zell. 



Gelechia umbrosella. Staint. Ent. Ann., 1864, p. 169. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 588. 



This also was introduced since the publication of the 

 "Manual." It is principally a coast species, and had up to 

 1864 been mixed with affinis in collections. The differences 

 between the two species are given in the 1864 Annual, and 

 again in that for 1874, p. 15. There is but one local record 

 to my knowledge. Mr. Sang took it at South Shields on July 

 23rd, 1871; although its recorded range is only given by 

 Meyrick as extending northwards as far as Yorkshire.* 



129. G. rhombella, W.V. 



Gelechia rhomhella.- Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 335. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 601. 



Eather a local species, but very common around Darlington. 

 The larva feeds between leaves of apple, and Mr. Sang appears 

 to have found it about crab-apple in almost every lane there^ 

 Grange Boad, Coniscliffe Lane, Baydales, Teeside near Black- 

 well, etc., etc. He reared it in 1867 (see E. M. M., iv., 153), 

 and in 1869 (E. M. M., vi., 170), he said, "The larva of 

 Gelechia rhomhella is very abundant in the apple bushes in 

 hedges about the town. The moths are all of a very dark grey 

 colour, none of them being light like southern specimens." 

 I have no other knowledge of its occurrence here. 



* I have since bred the species (in 1907) from moss got on the sand 

 hills near Hartlepool,— J. G. 



