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rays has been taken in Yorkshire^ for which our collectors on 

 moors should be on the look out. 



The species is given in the Twizell list as Roboris, a name no 

 longer used. Mr. Howse reported it from the Redewater dis- 

 trict; Mr. Finlay found it on J^^eedless Hall Moor, but more 

 abundantly on Greenleighton Moss ; Mr. Maliug also found Cal- 

 luncB elsewhere on the Northumberland moors. In Durham it 

 is reported from Chop well and Marsden by Mr. Hed worth ; Mr. 

 Backhouse found it at ShuU ; Mr. Howse met with it above High 

 Force; from which Dr. Lees wrote ''now and then seen but 

 never so plentiful as on Hartlepool sand hills." Mr. Gardner, 

 on the other hand, found it very common on the Teesdale moors. 

 Mr, Eales found the larvae on Bramble at Marsden and Mr. 

 Greenwell reported the species from Bishop Auckland. About 

 Hartlepool it is abundant on the sand hills, but not so plentiful 

 on the hedges. 



36. Lasiocampa Rubl, (Linn.). Fox Moth. 



Lasiocampa Btcbi. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 153. 



Bomhyx ,, ITewm. Brit. Moths, p. 43. 



Lasiocampa ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 32 



Eriog aster ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 322. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xlvi., fig. 4; 0.Wils.,pl.xiv.,fig.3. 

 This is very common in both counties, occurring abundantly 

 wherever there is a suitable locality. It swarms all along the 

 coast, both on the sand banks and cliffs. It is common on all 

 the moors and mosses in both counties, ascending to nearly 2000 

 feet on the Cheviots, and I have found the larvae feeding on 

 hedge banks both at Hartlepool and near Stockton-on-Tees. 

 Inland localities may be quoted as follows : Twizell list, and 

 list in Ornsby^s Durham. ** Bogs at Shull," W. Backhouse ; 

 *^ On heaths near Stockton," L. Rudd, in Steph. Illust. Brit. 

 Ent., vol. ii., p. 39 ; Upper Teesdale, common on the moors, F. 

 A. Lees, J. Gardner; N'eedless Hall Moor, sometimes very plenti- 

 ful, J. Finlay. Coast localities, ''very common at Bambro', a few 

 at Castle Eden," L. S. Brady; Warkworth, Amble, T. Rhagg; 

 " Cliffs near Castle Eden," M. Corder. 



