74 CAfAtOGUE OF MOTfiS. 



DASYCHIRA, Hub. 



27. Dasychira fascelina, (Linn.). Dark Tussock 



Dasychira fascelina. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 131. 



Orgyia ,, ITewm. Erit. Moths, p. 39. 



Dasychira ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 320. 



„ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 172. 



Lahva. Buck., voL iii., pi. xxxviii., fig. 1 ; 0. Wils., pi. xii., 



fig. 2. 

 Mr. Barrett says of this species : "In England usually found 

 near the coast, but occasionally also on heaths." The only coast 

 record I have is that Mr. Joseph Leeming found a solitary larva 

 in 1859 on the banks near the mouth of Hesleden Dene, which 

 I failed to rear. Among Mr. Backhouse's papers I found three 

 water-colour figures of an immature larva of this species marked 

 ^'on Ling 13.5.59, fixed for casting its skin." He records 

 also that he found the chrysalis at Shull on Ling, and the per- 

 fect insect at St. Johns Weardale. Mr. Gardner met with the 

 species at Wolsingham, also on Ling. In Northumberland Mr. 

 Finlay found it rare on Keedless Hall Moor, and Mr. Maling 

 had pupae sent him from Redesdale. These exhaust my re- 

 cords. The larva is not by any means confined to Ling, but will 

 eat a variety of low plants. 



DEMAS, Steph. 



28. Demas Coryli, (Linn.). I^ut-Tree Titssock. 



Demas Coryli. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 132. 



,, „ Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 40. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. ii., p. 323. 



Colocasia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 173. 



Larva. Buck., vol. iii , pi. xxxviii., fig. 3; O.Wils., pi. xiii., 



fig. 5. 



A very rare species here, and at present only observed in 



Korthumberland. It is recorded in the Twizell list, and Mr. 



Finlay found larvse feeding on Hazel in Coal Law Wood in 



September, 1891, the imagines emerging in April, 1892. It will 



