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late John Sang, who was much the best Lepidopterist we have 

 had here, always assured me it was an error, and that none of 

 the Psychidse ever occurred there. Mr. Barrett, to whom I have 

 referred, writes (15th Dec, 1897) in respect to Mr. Orde's note, 

 " the record certainly appeared as of a species found near Dar- 

 lington. If not, it seemed to be objectless ; and this in the absence 

 of any contradiction would seem quite authority enough for my 

 statement, — which is, that a record exists for it at Darlington. 

 If our late friend Sang had communicated to me a doubt on the 

 subject, I should have accepted it, as this is not exactly a pro- 

 bable Durham insect." Mr. Meyrick also writes, "I may say 

 that I received no private lists of species from Durham, and 

 cannot therefore add anything to information already published. 

 I could not definitely remember whether I found any other pub- 

 lished record, beyond that in Stainton's Manual, but very pro- 

 bably not." 



I do not quite agree with Mr. Barrett that Mr. Orde's note 

 was purposeless if it did not mean that fusca was found near 

 Darlington, but the note, as it stands, is not a clear and unques- 

 tionable statement thdX fusca occurred near Darlington, and there 

 is Mr. Sang's evidence against the Manual '' Da." Mr. Stainton 

 was, no doubt, exceedingly careful, but there are others marked 

 *' Da " in the Manual that certainly never occurred there. These 

 will be referred to in their places. The present species being 

 recorded in all the works quoted, as a Durham insect, I include 

 it in the Catalogue, but my own opinion is that the records are 

 made in error. 



PCECILOCAMPA, Steph. 

 31. Pcecilocampa Populi, (Linn.). December Moth. 

 Poecilocampa Populi. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 154. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 41. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brfe. Is., vol. iii., p. 2. 



Eriogaster ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 343. 



Larva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xlviii., fig. 2, pi. xlix., fig. 1 ; 



0. Wils., pi. P., fig. 7. 

 This species appears to be well distributed over both counties. 



