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It is given in Ornsby's Durham as occurring in Castle Eden 

 Dene, and I possess a single specimen that was taken in Hesle- 

 den Dene by Mr. Joseph Leeming. Mr. George Wailes records 

 it in Castle Eden Dene, 27th Jane, 1860. Trans. Tynes. JS'at, 

 Field Club, vol. v., p. 4. Stainton's Manual records it for Dar- 

 lington. It ought to occur in our Counties, as it is a species of 

 general distribution and common in most places, occurring at 

 York, Scarbro', and Richmond in Yorkshire, at many places 

 in Lancashire, and in the south of Scotland. 



NISONIADES, Hb. 



3.5. Nisoniades Tages (L.). Dingy Skipper. 



Thanaos Tages. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 65. 



Hesperia ,, J^ewm. Brit. Butt., p. 170. 



,, ,, Meyrick, Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 357. 



Nisoniades ,. Barrett's Lep. Brit. Is., vol. i., p. 304. 



Larva. Buck., vol. i., pi. xvii., fig. 3. 



Wailes says, " common in most parts of the counties in dry 

 lanes and on heaths at the end of May and during June. A 

 second brood in August. It is enumerated in the Twizell Eauna 

 and in Ornsby's Durham." With this statement I am inclined 

 to agree, but I have very few recent records. Mr. Backhouse 

 found it at Shull, and Mr. Maling and Mr. Hedworth at Chop- 

 well. It occurs pretty generally about Hartlepool, particu- 

 larly on the railway banks and at Black Hall Bocks. Its dark 

 colour and peculiar flight render it very difficult to see and to 

 capture, without carefully watching for it. The larva feeds on 

 the common Lotus corniculatus (Bird's-foot Trefoil), and ought 

 to be found wherever that plant is abundant, especially on rail- 

 way embankments and dry hill sides. I have never seen the 

 second brood. 



This species completes the Butterflies, and I have not been 

 able to add any to the thirty-five species enumerated in the 

 Catalogue by Mr. Wailes in 1858. Mr. Eawcett of Satley pub- 

 lished a list in a local newspaper, in which he included several 



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