104 CATALOGVE 0* MOTHS. 



comes freely enough to sugar, but the places it frequents are not 

 always easily accessible for night work. Mr. Mcholson reports 

 it from the moors near Gilsland ; Mr. Finlay from IS'eedless Hall 

 and other moors in ^Northumberland. In Durham Mr. Gardner 

 and Dr. Lees found larvse freely on the moors of Upper Teesdale. 



14. A. Rumicis, (Linn.). Knot Gkiss. 



Acronyda Rumicis. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 182. 



,, ,, JS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 255. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 265. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 143. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ivii., fig. 3 ; 0. Wils., pi. xxxii., 



fig. 7. 



The Knot Grass is well distributed over both counties and is 

 generally common. It comes very freely to sugar, sits on palings 

 and tree trunks, and the conspicuous-looking larva feeds in the 

 day time, so that it is a species that comes in the way of the 

 beginner in his first season. The larvse appear to me to have a 

 partiality for Bramble, but they eat a variety of low plants. 



A dark form of this insect was figured by Curtis under the 

 name jSalicis, and the larva of Menyaiithidis was depicted as that 

 which produced the Moth. How the error was made does not 

 concern us, but Mr. Backhouse records the variety from Darling- 

 ton, and I bred one here. 



15. A, Ligustri, W. V. Coeonet. 



Acronycta Ligustri, Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 182. 



„ ,, JS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 255. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 270. 



,, „ Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 142. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ivii., fig. 2; O.Wils., pi. xxxi., 



fig. 7. 



The Coronet has only been recorded by Mr. Pinlay, who found 



it generally distributed in the Morpeth district, but not very 



