CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 51 



limited in extent, is much trodden over, and the herbage is 

 eaten down by sheep, Geryon shows no diminution in number, 

 and it would be quite easy to take a hundred or two on a suit- 

 able day. 



ZYG^NA, Tab. 



20. Zygaena Lonicerae, (Esp.). JS'aekow-boedered Five- 

 spotted BUENET. 



Anthrocera Lonicerce. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 81. 



Zygmna „ l^ewm. Erit. Moths, p. 24. 



n >, I^arr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 130. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 448. 



Larva. Buck., vol. ii., pL xix., fig. 3 ; O.Wils., pi. x., fig. 5. 

 Mr. "Wailes wrote as follows, under the head of TrifoUi : — 

 ''Sea-banks near' the Spanish battery, Tynemouth, in June; 

 ShuU, abundant, W. Backhouse, Esq. ; Gibside, Mr. J. Han- 

 cock." I presume the first record is on the authority of Mr. 

 Wailes, but I have been unable to trace a specimen which has 

 been taken at Tynemouth, and certainly the species does not 

 occur there now. When Mr. Wailes' insects were sold in Lon- 

 don (14th May, 1884), no Burnets were mentioned in the 

 catalogue, nor have I been able to learn that there were any 

 in the collection. 



In the papers of the late Mr. Backhouse TrifoUi is not marked 

 as being taken at Shull, but '•'- Loti^'''' the name then used for 

 Lonioerm, With respect to the specimens said to be found at 

 Gibside, I called some years ago on the late Mr. John Hancock, 

 and examined those in his collection which he had taken there. 

 They were of the form now known as Lonicerm. Besides this, 

 Lonicerce occurs in Yorkshire ' ' in profusion on the east coast, 

 but local inland." (Porritt's List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, p. 

 23). Eor TrifoUi Mr. Porritt gives but three localities, and says 

 he thinks it ''is often confounded with Z. Lonicerce.^'' Erom 

 York, one of his localities for TrifoUi^ I have had specimens 

 sent me. They were all Lonicerce. In the face of this evidence 

 I have ventured to alter the name from that used by Mr. Wailes. 

 I have very little doubt but these two, so called species, are only 



