CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 123 



EURIOS, Hubn. 



52. Eurios herbida, Hub. Geeen Arches. 



Aplecta herbida. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 271. 



,, ,, !N"ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 405. 



Eurios ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 102. 



Triphana ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 108. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vi., pl.xcii., fig. 1 ; O.Wils..pl.xxxviii,, 



fig. 3. 

 Not by any means a common species, though occurring in 

 several places widely apart. It is in the Twizell list, and Mr. 

 Finlay reported it as generally distributed in the district where 

 he collected, and in some years appearing in considerable num- 

 bers. In the Hartlepool district it is always rare, and very 

 uncertain. Mr. Sang took it 1853 in Castle Eden Dene; Mr. 

 Gardner took one in 1874 on a tree trunk in Hezleden Dene. 

 I have met with it there occasionally in subsequent years, my 

 last capture being in 1888. Mr. Gardner also bred it in 1874 

 from pupee dug at Eggleston in Upper Teesdale. 



53. E» occulta, (Linn.). Geeat Brocade. 



Aplecta occulta. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 271. 



,, ,, ]S'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 406. 



Eurios ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 106. 



Agrotis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 96. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vi., pi. xcii., fig. 2. 



The earliest records of this species in our counties are those 

 of the Twizell list and of the late Mr. Backhouse, who took a 

 specimen on the trunk of an Ash tree at Hoffal. Since then 

 solitary specimens have been met with occasionally. Mr. Hen- 

 derson took one at Jesmond ; Mr. Hedworth another at Axwell 

 on 14th August, 1870, which passed into the collection of Mr. 

 Maling. My own acquaintance with it dates back to 1860, 

 when I beat a worn specimen out of a clump of dead Whin in 

 Hezleden Dene. I took another at sugar on our sandhills in 

 1864. In 1880 I found one at rest under the coping of the wall 



