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Axwell and Dunston ; lie also found the larvse in spring feeding 

 upon dock. Mr. Maddison reports that it comes to sugar in 

 Burney Wood, near Durham, ''sometimes in fair numbers." Mr. 

 Sang took it at Darlington, which is a locality given in the 

 Manual. 



43. N. C- nigrum, Linn. Setaceofs Hebrew Character. 



Noctua C-nigrum. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 234. 



„ „ Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 346. 



„ ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is,, vol. iv., p^ 51. 



Agrotis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 99. 



Larva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixxvi., fig. 1. 



A very widely-distributed species and common in most parts 

 of both counties. I would have considered it unnecessary to 

 give localities, but that Mr Barrett does not mention its occur- 

 rence in !N'orthumberland. It is in the Twizell list ; Mr. Finlay 

 found it generally distributed in his district ; Mr. Maling found 

 it in Jesmond Dene and at Hexham; Mr. Y. R. C. Perkins 

 records it (Ent. W. I., vol. vi., p. 14) as under loose stones at 

 ^Newcastle. Mr. Bhagg also found it at Newcastle and Miss 

 Rosie at Kenton ; I have taken it at Wideopen and near Gos- 

 forth. It is in all the Durham lists, which I therefore omit. 

 Though tolerably constant in its markings, it varies much in the 

 ground colour, and I have taken specimens at Hartlepool of a 

 very light grey. It also varies greatly in size. I have taken 

 specimens which were barely an inch in expanse, while others 

 were quite one and three-quarter inches. I have specimens from 

 Batoum on the Black Sea, quite undistinguishable from British 

 examples. Mr. Barrett says it extends eastward to Japan. It 

 is also abundant in iNorth America, where it attains its maxi- 

 mum size. I have specimens from !N'ew York and from Canada 

 which expand over two inches. 



{N. rhomhoidea is given in Stainfcon's Manual as occurring at 

 Darlington, but Mr. Sang assured me it was a mistake and that 

 the insect so named was only triangulum). 



