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263. C. genistaBj Stain. 



Coleophora genistce. Staint. Man., vol ii., p. 390. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 654. 



A very local species, and the only record here within my 

 knowledge is that of the "Manual," which gives Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne as a place where it occurs. The larva feeds on Genista 

 anglica^ a moor plant, so that it must have been on some of the 

 damp moors that it was taken, but Mr. Finlay never met with 

 it. I would urge upon the Newcastle collectors to find the 

 habitat. 



254. C. onosmella, Zell. 



Coleophoi-a onosmella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 390. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 655. 



Mr. Sang entered in his diary that he took this insect in 

 Headley Lane, Darlington, on 26th June, 1859. It is not entered 

 again, nor is there any note or mark of its abundance or other- 

 wise. It may therefore have been but a stray specimen, as 

 Durham is much beyond its range. It does not occur in York- 

 shire, nor have I any knowledge of the insect on the east side 

 of the island. Mr Bankes thinks it not improbable that Sang's 

 entry may have been due to an error of identification, and adds 

 that everyone makes at least a few erroneous entries in his 

 diary, especially in his younger days, but it is by no means 

 everyone who, if the errors are afterwards detected, remembers 

 to correct the entries. He points out that in 1859 Sang was 

 only 31 years of age, and was no authority on this difficult 

 genus Coleophora, nor is it known that the specimen was sub- 

 mitted to any expert. 



255. G. therinella, Stain. 



Coleophora therinella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 391. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 656. 



A very local species, not recorded as extending northward 

 beyond Durham according to Meyrick, but Mr. Hodginson 

 entered it as found by himself in West Northumberland. In 



