7^ CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



Family. LIPARID^, Bdv. 

 Genus. PORTHESIA, Steph. 



24. Porthesia chrysorrhoea, (Linn.). Eaowi^ Tail. 

 Porthesia chrysorrhcea. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 134. 

 Liparis ,, Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 36. 

 Porthesia ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 292. 

 Euproctis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 174. 

 Larva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xl., fig. 1 ; 0. Wils., pi. xii„ 



fig. 5. 

 This species is but a casual visitor to our counties. Mr. Back- 

 house met with it many years ago at Darlington. Mr. Wasser- 

 man records two. '' Has been twice taken on the coast ; once at 

 South Shields on the ballast, and once on a mignonette bed " 

 (Trans., vol. v., p. 287). I gather from Entom. viii., p. 196, 

 that Mr. "Wasserman took the CuUercoats specimen himself. 

 Mr. Eales took other two in 1875 at South Shields^ one of which 

 Was floating in a pond. The same year I took about a dozen at 

 Hartlepool, most of them at rest on a paling on the railway side 

 formed of old sleepers. It does not appear to have been met 

 with since, and is in no more recent lists. The sudden appear- 

 ance of a number of specimens of a strange insect is always in- 

 teresting and suggestive. This insect has become much rarer in 

 recent years in its southern localities. 



25. Porthesia auriflua, W. Y. Gold Tail. 

 Porthesia auriflua. Staint. Man., vol, i., p. 135. 

 Liparis ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 36. 

 Porthesia . ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 296. 



,, similis, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 174. 

 Larva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xl., fig. 2 ; O.Wils., pi. xii., fig 6. 



This species is recorded from ]S"ewcastle in 1829 by Mr. 

 Hewitson (Steph. Illust. Haust., vol. ii., p. 18), and curiously 

 enough I have no more recent records from Northumberland, 

 neither Mr. Maling nor Mr. Einlay ever having met with it. 

 In 1875 Mr. C. Eales reported that he had taken it at South 

 Shields on 27th July, and that it was new to the district (Entom. 



