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Mr. Finlay took it at " Coal-Law Wood, never common" ; Mr. 

 Henderson found it at Jesmond ; Mr. "Wailes took the species at 

 Gibside (Step. Brit. Ent., vol. iv., p. 67) ; Mr. Henderson found 

 it at Thornley-on-Derwent in the same district, where he also 

 obtained the larva. We take it sparingly in most of the woods 

 and denes around Hartlepool, but I have met with it most fre- 

 quently at Edder Acres near Thornley Colliery and the upper 

 portion of Castle Eden Dene, which adjoins this wood. 



Family. NOLIDJE. 

 NOLA, Leach. 



8. Nola cuculatella, (Linn). Shoet-cloaked Moth. 

 Nola cuculatella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 156. 



,, ,. Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 25. 



„ ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 183. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk., Brit. Lep., p. 33. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xliii., fig. 3. 



Mr. Sang once said this species was common in every old 

 hedge in the county of Durham, but the accounts of its occur- 

 rence that have reached me are very few. Mr. Sang himself 

 only records it from one lane near Darlington. Mr. Gardner 

 found it on a hedge by the Railway side near Greatham, and 

 Mr. Einlay reports it from Meldon Park, Northumberland, but 

 adds that it is "never plentiful." It is a small, inconspicuous 

 species, flying in July, when insects abound, and may very easily 

 be overlooked, especially by those who do not collect micros. 



9. Nola confusalls, Hub. Least Black Aeches. 



Nola cristulalis. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 157. 



,, ,, IS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 25. 



,, confusalis. Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 187. 

 Roeselia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 52. 



Labva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xliii., fig. 7. 



Though this species is generally distributed in England, I 

 have no records of its occurrence in ^Northumberland, and only 

 for the southern portion of Durham. 



