230 CATALOGUE OP MOTHS. 



357. N. pygmseella, Haw. 



Nepticula pygmcBella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 431. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbt. Brit. Lep., p. 714. 



The larva of this insect feeds in leaves of hawthorn. It is 

 said to be rather local. It is given in the "Manual" as 

 occurring regularly both at Newcastle-on-Tyne and Darlington. 

 Mr. Hodgkinson met with it in the west of Northumberland. 

 Mr. Sang got it on the railway side and in Grange Road and 

 Coniscliffe, near Darlington, and also in Castle Eden Dene. I 

 think it will be found in most parts of both counties. 



368. N. pomella, Yaughan. 



Nepticula pomella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 431. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 714. 



Pomella is limited by Meyrick in its northward range to the 

 county of York, but Mr, Hodgkinson has met with it in 

 the West of Northumberland. Mr. Sang also found it in 

 Grange Eoad and in Coniscliffe Lane, near Darlington. These 

 latter places are not many miles from the Yorkshire boundary, 

 but when the Nepticula are more collected I quite expect this 

 species will be found widely spread. 



359. N. oxyacanthella, Stain. 



Nepticula oxyacanthella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 431. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 716. 



This insect is given in the "Manual" as occurring regularly at 

 Darlington, but Mr. Sang never recorded it in his diary. Meyrick 

 also says, " England to Durham," but that would probably be 

 taken from Stainton, as he had no original lists of species. It 

 is likely enough to occur, being abundant at Scarborough, but it 

 would be desirable that future Nepticulce collectors should turn 

 it up. The larva makes a long gallery in hawthorn* leaves. 



♦ Otlier trees from which tliis species has been bred in Britain are 

 Cotoneaster affinis, Pyrus aucuparia, P. communis^ and P. malua, as 

 recorded in Tutt's Brit. Lep., i., 203.— E. R. B, 



