CATAXOGXJE OF MOTHS. 217 



318. L. spinolella, Dup. 



LitJiocolletis spinolella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 417. 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 739. 



Rather a local insect, though often common amongst its 

 food plant Salix caprea. The "Manual" gives it as occurring 

 regularly at Newcastle-on-Tyne and abundantly at Darlington. 

 Mr. Hodgkinson found it in West Northumberland, and Mr. 

 Gardner has met with it in Hezleden Dene and elsewhere 

 about Hartlepool. 



319. L. sorbi, Frey. 



Lithocolletis sorhi. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 741. 



A new species, introduced since the publication of the 

 " Manual." It is given in Meyrick's " Handbook " as occurring 

 in Durham, and the only record I know of is that Mr. Sang 

 took it on June 2nd and 3rd, 1879, and on May 1 6th, 1880. 

 There must be some published record, or Meyrick would not 

 have it, as he had no private aid; but I have not found it.* 



320. L. salicicolella, Sire. 



Lithocolletis salicicolella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 418. 

 „ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 740. 



Rather a common species. It is marked as abundant at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, and is probably plentiful in both counties 



* In Eut. Mo. Mag., sxii., 262-3 (1886), a note by Sang was published, 

 in the course of which he says that in the upper part of Weardale, on the 

 edge of the moors, in the autumn of 1854, "Z-. so7^hi was plentiful on 

 the mountain ash, as it usually is with us, at high elevations," and 

 that he then collected, in the same locality, some mines on Prunus padus 

 which yielded L. sorbi in the following spring. The comma after " us " in 

 the above quotation should obviously have been omitted, for Sang proceeds 

 to emphasize the fact that he found this species " on the high grounds " onli/, 

 and never at Darlington. His note contains the first record of L. sorbi, 

 Frey., formerly more generally known in this country by Scott's name 

 *' aucupjariella," as a Biitish species, — E. K. B, 



