198 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



263. C. caespititiella, Zell. 



Coleophora ccespititiella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 392. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 659. 



A very abundant species, the larva feeding on the seeds of 

 various species of rush. Mr. Finlay has taken it on Needless 

 Hall Moor, the only Northumbrian record. Mr. Sang has taken 

 it in several places near Darlington. Mr. Gardner writes, 

 "everywhere about rushes." These are all the records, but 

 there is no doubt of its occurrence " everywhere about rushes." 



ELACHISTID^. 



{BedelUa somnulentelia, Zell., may be included among the 

 species that seem likely to occur in Durham, for although 

 omitted from Mr. Porritt's Yorkshire list, it was found, 

 evidently commonly, in the larval state at Middlesbrough by 

 Mr. John Scott in 1857, and recorded by him in Ent. Wk. Int., 

 vol. ii., 149.) 



BATRACHEDRA, Stain. 



264. Batrachedra prseangusta, Haw. 



Batrachedra praangusta. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 396, 

 „ „ Meyr, Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 661. 



A common species, occurring among poplar and sallow. The 

 " Manual " gives it as occurring both at Newcastle-on-Tyne and 

 Darlington. Mr. Sang took it near Darlington and in Castle 

 Eden Dene. Mr. Gardner has found it in Hezleden Dene. 

 Meyrick says larva ' ' in catkins of poplar and salix (seldom 

 between joined leaves)." 



266. B. pinicolella, Dup. 



Batrachedra pinicolella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 396. 

 „ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 661. 



A local species, whose recorded range northwards Meyrick 

 limits to Hereford and Norfolk. Mr. Sang found it on Coniscliffe 

 Moor in 1879. He sought it again in 1881, and took two 

 specimens on 3rd August, and one only on the 7th. He went 



