Notes on the Barer Lepidoptera . By G. Bolam. 305 



Mamestra fiirva. Hb. 



This dull coloured moth has probably been confounded with some 

 of the closely allied species, or it seems likely that it would have 

 been more often recorded. I have taken it at sugar in several 

 localities round Berwick, as well as at a considerable elevation upon 

 the hill sides at Lanojleyford in Angust and September. The larvse 

 are of a lightish drab colour, thickly covered with dark warty spots, 

 each of which carries a hair, and there is a broad glossy brown 

 plate, of nearly the same colour as the head, upon the second 

 segment. I have found them in plenty at the roots of tufts of grass, 

 growing from the sides of the old town walls, in May and June. 

 They are full fed towards the end of the latter month. 



Apainea itjianiiuis. Tr. 



Have bred a good series of this moth. The larvte may be found 

 full fed in May, under loose bark on willows and sallows, where 

 they have retired to assume the chrysalis state, and the moth 

 appears about the middle of June. Month of the VVhitadder, 

 Allerdean Mill, etc. 



Agrotis ciirsprJn. Bork. 



I took a single specimen at sugar on the sea-banks near Scremerston 

 Sea House, on 25th August 1888, and it is the only record that I 

 am aware of for the district. It seems, however, to be not uncommon 

 about the mouth of the Tyne, and would no doubt be found upon 

 other parts of the coast if carefully looked for. 



Agrotis lucernea. L. 



I found this moth flying, in the sunshine, in considerable numbers 

 at Kyloe Crags, on 1st August 1895, attracted to the flowers of the 

 Wood Sage, along with another good species — Plusia inter rngationis. 



Tryphcena subseqtia. Hb. 



Since my last note on this species, it has turned up rather plenti- 

 fully in several other localities. Thus at Ancroft it was positively 

 common at sugar in 1889 ; and I had others at Scremerston in August 

 and September 1888, and on Eoss Links in July 1896. 



At Kyloe, on 1st August 1895, I found it hiding in considerable 

 numbers in the tufts of grass and other herbage growing upon the 

 face of the basaltic cliff, and took a few specimens in beautiful 

 condition. Nearly every tuft examined produced one or more of 

 the moths, and as their fresh state showed that they had only very 

 recently left the pupje, it is more than likely that these same tufts 

 had harboured the larva?. 



