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A very local species, and only taken here once. Mr. Sang 

 recorded it as "beaten out" in August, 1869, at Elders, near 

 Darlington. The larvse feed on seeds of several common 

 plants. 



276. A. terminella, Westw. 



Asychna terminella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 402. 

 Mompha „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 679. 



Another local species, and only recorded here for Castle Eden 

 Dene, where Mr. Sang took larvae in September, 1878 and 1879, 

 and the Rev. E. Gr. I. Robinson and Mr, Bankes found them in 

 August and September, 1885. The larva feeds in leaves of 

 CirccBa lutetiana, which is common enough in Hezleden Dene 

 and most woods and denes in both counties, and I have little 

 doubt but that the insect will be found in many places. 



CHRYSOGORYS, Curt. 



277. Chrysocorys festaliella, Hub. 



Chrysocorys festaliella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 402. 

 SchrecTiensteinia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 690. 



This is generally a common insect, the larva feeding on 

 bramble and raspberry. It is given in the " Manual " as 

 abundant at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and occurring at Darlington. 

 The only notices that I have come across besides these are 

 Sang's bare entry in his diary of his having met with it at 

 High Eorce on September 5th, 1879, and his fuller note, 

 evidently referring to the same occasion, in the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, that the larvae were in thousands at High 

 Force, and that the raspberry bushes were bleached in every 

 direction by them, and formed quite a feature in the landscape. 

 Mr. Backhouse also found it at St. John's. It will probably 

 occur elsewhere in the west.^' 



* Note. — Mr. C. 0. Trechmann has more recently (1909) taken the 

 insect at Eclderacres near Castle Eden. 



