218 CATAIOQUE OF MOTHS. 



wherever there is plenty of common willow. Mr. Hodgkinson 

 found it in West Northumberland. Mr. Sang got it at Black 

 Hall Eocks. These are all the records I have, but that is 

 probably more on account of its abundance than its scarcity. 



321. L. pomifoliella, Zell. 



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



,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 740 



(partim). 



This insect is very plentiful in most places, the larva feeding 



in hawthorn and apple leaves. It is doubtless common all over 



both counties, but I have no records. It is marked in the 



''Manual" as being abundant both at Newcastle-on-Tyne and 



Darlington.* It is plentiful also both in Hezleden Dene and at 



Greatham. Mr. Gardner has taken it at both places. 



322. L. spinicolellaj Stain. 



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

 ,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 741. 



A common insect almost everywhere. It is given in the 

 "Manual" as being abundant both at Newcastle-on-Tyne and 

 at Darlington. I have no further Northumberland record, and 

 in Durham only from Grange E.oad and ConisclifPe Lane, near 

 Darlington, where Mr. Sang found it, and from Hezleden Dene, 

 where Mr. Gardner got it. The larva feeds in sloe leaves, 

 and wherever blackthorn is plentiful this species will be 

 found, f 



* See Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii., 262, where Sang states both pomifoliella 

 (i.e., at any rate oxyacanthce) and spinicolella are common enough at 

 Darlington, but he never finds either on the high grounds where he gets 

 sorbi, 



t This statement clearly requires some modification, for in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxii., 262 (1886), Sang wrote — "Now I never find spini- 

 colella . . .on the high grounds " ; he adds, however, that it is 

 "common enough" at Darlington. — E. R. B. 



