240 CATALOGUE OF MOIHS. 



385. N. gratiosella, Stain. 



Nepticula gratiosella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 437*. 

 ,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 718. 



E.ather a common species, the larva feeding in leaves of haw- 

 thorn. Mr. Hodgkinson met with it in West Northumberland. 

 Mr. Sang got it in Coniscliffe Lane and Grange Eoad, Darling- 

 ton. It probably occurs in most places. 



386. N. lapponlca, Wocke. 



Nepticula lapponica. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 724. 



I have not been able to discover when this species was intro- 

 duced to the British list, but it would be since the discontinuance 

 of the Entomologist's Annual in ]874f. Meyrick gives its 

 range as " Sussex, Hereford, York to Westmorland." The 

 last-named shows a westward tendency, and here it has been 

 met with only in Upper Teesdale, Mr. Sang having found it at 

 High Force and at Eggleston, in the extreme south-west of 

 Durham. The larva feeds in birch leaves. 



387. N, regiella, H.-S. 



Nepticula regiella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 437. 

 „ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 716. 



Mr. Meyrick is wrong also in the northerly range of this 

 insect, which he limits to Lancashire and York. Mr. Hodgkin- 

 son met with it in West Northumberland, and Mr. Sang around 

 Darlington, in Grange Eoad, Coniscliffe Lane, etc. The larva 

 feeds in hawthorn leaves. 



* It seems advisable to mention that whereas, in the " Manual," the 

 imago IS given as appearing in May, and the larva as being " yellowish " 

 and feeding in September, the real facts are that the former emerges in 

 June, and that the latter is bright green and is to be found in July and 

 August, but becomes full-fed before September. [See Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 ser. 2, v., 47 (1894)].— E. R. B. 



. t N. lapponica was added to the British list in Ent. Mo. Mag., xv., 

 239 (1879), but the yellow larva feeds in June, and not in October as 

 there stated.— E. R. B. 



