h^ CATALOGUi: OF MOXHS. 



lUust. vol. iv.; p. 9). It was then called Cilix compressa. It 

 is given in the Twizell list as Cilix impressa. More recent 

 records are : Ancroft, Mr. G. Bolam ; Hexham, I^ewbiggin-by- 

 the-Sea, and Witton-le-"Wear, "W. Maling; Thornley and Dunston 

 Carr, T. H. Hedworth ; Ebchester, W. Patterson ; Meldon Park, 

 ''not scarce," J. Finlay; Upper Teesdale, "not uncommon," F. 

 A. Lees; Bishop Auckland, ''very common," Messrs. Koss and 

 Greenwell. Though these records are not numerous, I have no 

 doubt it occurs commonly throughout the cultivated parts of 

 both counties, perhaps not so frequently in !N'orth JS'orthumber- 

 land. Mr. Bolam's record is of one specimen only in July, 

 1888. "We find it all round Hartlepool, and the larva, which 

 is not unlike, in general appearance, that of the Puss Moth in 

 miniature, may be beaten out of every hedge. The imago sits 

 with its wings sloping like a very steep roof, and is wonderfully 

 like the droppings of a bird, which is no doubt a useful protec- 

 tive resemblance. 



NOTODONTID^, Bdv. 



CERURA3 Schrk. 



44. Cerura bicuspis, Bkhn. The Aldek Kitten. 



Cerura bicuspis. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 117. 

 Dicranura ,, K'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 210. 

 Cerura ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 84. 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 312. 



Larva. Buck., vol. ii., pi. xxxii., fig. 1. 



This rare species has never been met with in the perfect state 

 in either county, but Mr. George Bolam, of Berwick, in his 

 " l^otes on the Barer Lepidoptera" says, " although I have not 

 yet been able to capture a specimen, this Moth undoubtedly 

 occurs at AUerdean Mill, where for some years past I have 

 occasionally found the cocoons — always empty — upon the old 

 Alder trunks; an experience which is common in other parts 

 of the county, for the Alder Kitten seems to be one of the most 

 difficult of all pupae to discover." (Trans. Berwickshire Kat. 

 Field Club, vol. xv., p. 303). This is confirmed by Mr. Barrett, 



