210 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



Monthly Magazine, vol. v., p. 78. He says " they are scarce, 

 and difficult to find, as they seem to grow up all at once, and 

 are fearfully subject to ichneumons." That was in 1868, and 

 down to 1880 he still notes in his diary that the larvae are rare. 

 On May 16th, 1868, he appends a note that they are then too 

 small to take; in 1880 he got them on the 12th — four days 

 earlier. 



298. E, biatomella, Stain. 



Elachista biatomella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 411. 

 „ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 672. 



Eather a local species, and I have unusually few notices of 

 its occurrence here. The ''Manual" gives Newcastle-on-Tyne 

 as one of the places where it has been found. I have no idea 

 where the insect was really met with. Mr. Sang got it at 

 Darlington on the railway banks in June, 1880. I have no 

 other notice of it. 



299. E. triatomea, Haw. 



Elachista triatomea. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 411. 

 „ ,, Meyr. Hdbk, Brit. Lep., p. 673. 



Eather a common species, but I have few records. It is 

 given in the "Manual" as occurring at Newcastle-on-Tyne 

 and being abundant at Darlington, whence Mr. Bankes received 

 larvse from Mr. Sang in 1885. Mr. Gardner has found it 

 commonly at Grreatham, in Crimdon Cut, and elsewhere. It is 

 probably plentiful in most places in both counties. 



300. E. pollinariella, Stain. 



Elachista pollinariella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 411. 

 „ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 673. 



This species has only been taken in South Durham. It is 

 recorded for Darlington in the " Manual," and Mr. Sang took 

 it in several places around the town, and in Castle Eden Dene. 

 Mr. Gardner has also taken it on the railway side close to 

 Hezleden Dene. Mr. Bankes writes that it is not the true 

 pollinariella originally described by Zeller. 



