Catalogue of moths. 107 



{Agrotis ripae is likely to be met with on some of our sandy- 

 shores. Yorkshire appears to be the limit of its range, but it 

 has been taken in Ayrshire, and stray specimens might readily 

 occur with us). 



21. A. cursoria, Hub. Coast Daet. 



Agrotis cursoria. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 225. 



,, „ IS'ewm. Brit Moths, p. 329. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 324. 



„ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 94. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. v., Ixxi., fig. 7. 



Another coast species, in this country at least. It was very 

 common at Hartlepool until some twenty-five years ago, when 

 the northward extension of the town probably drove it away. 

 The last specimen I took was in 1876. Mr. Eales took it freely 

 in his time on the links at South Shields, from whence Mr. Rhagg 

 reports it more recently. Mr. Maling found it in similar places 

 on the South iN'orthumberland coast. Mr. Bolam says, *' I took 

 a single specimen on the sea-banks near Scremerston Sea House 

 on 25th August, 1888, and it is the only record that I am aware 

 .of for this district. It seems, however, to be not uncommon 

 about the mouth of the Tyne, and would no doubt be found upon 

 other parts of the coast if carefully looked for." Trans. Bar. 

 Field Club, vol. xv., p. 305. 



Cursoria is a very variable species, and some of the forms are 

 very difficult to separate from Tritici. Those we took at Hartle- 

 pool in former years were always a lighter brown, though the 

 markings were often very close to Tritici. 



22. A. nigricans, Linn. Gaeden Daet. 

 Agrotis nigricans, Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 225. 



I^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 329. 

 Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 331. 

 Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 92, 

 Laeva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixxii., fig. 1. 



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