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Dr. Lees reported it as common on tree boles in Upper Teesdale. 

 Mr. Sang found it in Park Lane and elsewhere near Darlington. 

 It is not uncommon in Castle Eden and Hesleden Denes, and I 

 have found it in the Cemetery at West Hartlepool, and occa- 

 sionally on palings on the Eailway side at Hartlepool. Mr. 

 Gardner has met with it at Greatham. 



It ought to occur in all open woods of any extent. The 

 imago sits on the tree trunks, generally eix or eight feet from 

 the ground, always with its head downwards. 



Family. LITHOSID^, Steph. 

 NUDARIA, Haw. 

 10. Nudaria Mundana, (Linn). The MnsLm. 

 Nudaria Mundana. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 141. 

 ,, ,, J^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 27. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 198. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 31. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xliii., fig. 1 ; 0. Wils., pi. x., 



fig. 10, 10a. 

 This inconspicuous little Moth is common in many parts of our 

 district, probably in all, though I have no records for JN'orthum- 

 berland except in the Newcastle district. I have myself taken 

 it on tree boles in a wood near Wideopen. Mr. Maling records 

 it from " Kewbiggin and Inggall on lichen-covered walls." Mr. 

 Patterson found it about lesmond. Mr. Wasserman (jS"at. Hist. 

 Trans., vol. v., p. 286), said "it is found in the larva state feed- 

 ing on the lichens growing on walls near Marsden." Mr. Eales 

 and Mr. Hedworth both report it from the same locality, and 

 the latter found the larvae abundantly. Mr. Backhouse took it 

 at Darlington; Mr. Picard at "Wolsingham. I met with it at 

 Tow Law (not a very promishing locality), whilst in Dpper 

 Teesdale it is excessively abundant. Dr. Lees writes, ''a per- 

 fect pest for a month, to be seen everywhere, on wall sides, on 

 tree boles, and in spiders' webs in windows of houses. I never 

 found the larvae." Mr. Gardner did so, however, ''under the 

 top stones of lichen-covered walls. Imagines on walls later." 



