226 Catalogue of moths. 



CEMIOSTOMA, Zell. 

 344, Cemiostoma spartifoliella, Hub. 



Cemiostoma spartifoliella. Staint. Man., vol. ii,, p. 425. 

 Leucoptera ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 755. 



Common and generally distributed. It probably occurs in 

 both counties where there is plenty of broom. The " Manual " 

 gives it as abundant both at Newcastle-on-Tyne and at Darling- 

 ton. Mr. Hodgkinson has taken it in West Northumberland, and 

 Mr. Sang records it for Darlington in his diary on July 27th, 

 1874. I have no other records. Broom is not common near 

 the coast, and does not occur at all near Hartlepool, nor yet in 

 Upper Teesdale or Weardale. 



346. C. laburnella. Stain, 



Cemiostoma laburnella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 425. 



Leucoptera ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 755, 



The only record of this species in these counties that I have 

 seen is that of Mr. Gardner, who took it at Barnard Castle. 

 Meyrick limits its range to Yorkshire, the boundary of which 

 county is the river Tees, which flows past Barnard Castle. The 

 insect, however, is likely enough to occur elsewhere,* 



346. G. "wailesella. Stain. 



Cemiostoma loailesella. Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 426. 

 Leucoptera ,, Meyr, Hdbk. Brit. Lep,, p. 755. 



A very local species, the larva feeding in Genista tinctoria. 

 It is given in the "Manual" as occurring regularly at New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, and Mr. Hodgkinson found it in the west of 

 Northumberland. Mr. Sang found larvae at Elders, near Dar- 

 lington, in 1873, and again in 1880, by the footpath through 

 the fields to Hurworth. I have no other records. 



347. G. scitella, Zell. 



Cemiostoma scitella. Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 426. 

 Leucoptera ,, Meyr, Hdbk. Brit. Lep,,p, 756, 



* I now find that this species is common in my own garden at Hart, 

 and also in eveiy garden in the district where hxburnum grows — probably 

 the lack of records is owing to its being too common to mention,— J, G. 



