CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 93 



Mr. Einlay is the only collector who has met with this insect, 

 and that but a single specimen which he reared from a larva 

 found in Meldon Park. It is not easy to explain how it got 

 there. The species is said to be confined to chalk, and its range 

 does not extend north of Euckingharashire. 



PETASIA, Steph. 



66. Petasia cassinea, Fab. The Speawlee. 



Petasia cassinea. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 125. 



„ ,, JN'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 217. 



„ „ Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 155. 



Astei'oscopus sphinx Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 57. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xxxvi., fig. 2 ; 0."Wils.,pl.xxix., 



fig. 1. 

 This has been very rarely met with, and only in the extreme 

 south of Durham. Mr. Sang took it at lamps in Darlington 

 in 1853, which locality was subsequently given in Stainton's 

 Manual. The late Mr. Winter of Beccles told me he had taken 

 it at lamps at Hartlepool about the same date. It is found in 

 several parts of Yorkshire, and the curious larva should be 

 looked for in our counties. It feeds on a variety of trees, and 

 the imago (as does that of the last species) emerges quite late in 

 the year after the ordinary collecting season is over. 



PYGCERA, Ochs. 



57. Pygoera bucephala, (Linn.). Buri' Tip. 



Pygoera bucephala. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 128. 



,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 219. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is , vol. iii., p. 161. 



Phalera ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 312. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xxxvii., fig. 4; O.Wils., pi. xxix., 



fig. 2. 



"Wallis was the earliest to record this species, which he calls 



the '^ silvery brown and yellow Moth." It is in the Twizell 



