52 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



local forms or races of one. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has paired 

 them, and not only has he reared the hybrids, but has proved 

 them to be fertile with other hybrids or with either form. 



A few years ago I put down nearly a thousand pupae of Loni- 

 cerce, at what I thought a suitable place near Black Hall Bocks. 

 For two or three years afterwards specimens were taken where 

 I had placed the pupae, but I have heard of none recently. The 

 place seemed to me somewhat similar to its habitat near Scarbro'. 

 I mention it here so that, should the species establish itself 

 there, it may be known that it had been introduced. 



21. Z, Filipendulae, (Linn.). Six-spotted Buenet. 



A7ithrocera Filipendulce. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 81. 



Zygana ,, Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 24. 



,, ,, Barr.Lep.Brit. Is.jVol. ii.,p. 133. 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 447. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. 2, pi. xix., fig, 4 ; O.Wils., pi. x.. fig. 6. 



Mr. Wailes says, "apparently more generally diffused than 

 the last species, appearing two or three weeks later. Gibside ; 

 on the sea-banks at Tynemouth, Marsden, Whitley, 8eaton 

 Sluice, and Castle Eden, Shull, Seaton Carew, etc. Wm. Back- 

 house, Jun., Esq., who has shown me a beautiful variety captured 

 rarely there, in which the red of the spots on the upper wings, 

 and the entire under wings, except the usual margin, is replaced 

 by a bright orange-yellow. 'Twizell.' P. J. Selby, Esq. Ornsly^s 

 Durham. '' ^Not unf requent on plants in hedges in the months 

 of June and July. Yery common on the bents at Seaton Snook.' 

 J. Hogg, Esq." 



This species appears to be as abundant and widely distributed 

 as when Mr. Wailes wrote. Of recent records I have !N"ew- 

 biggin. W. Maling : "Chop well, Shields, and Blyth Links." T. 

 H.Hed worth: Marsden Bocks. C. Eales: Sea-banks, Whitburn, 

 etc. L. S. Brady. Shotley. W. Patterson. It is abundant on 

 the sea-banks and railway embankments about Hartlepool, and 

 I have found the larvae on hedge sides near Stockton-on-Tees. 



