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has written me to say that he still has the specimen, and that 

 neither he nor the late Mr. Hancock had any doubt hut it was 

 correctly named. 



55. E. adusta, Esq. Dark Beocade. 



Hadena adusta. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 174. 



,, ,, E'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 412. 



Eurois ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 114. 



Hadena ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 130. 



Laeva. Buck., vol, iv., pi. xciii., fig.l ; O.Wils., pi. xxxviii., 



fig- 5. 

 Apparently not at all a common or generally distributed spe- 

 cies, though it may yet be recorded from other parts of both 

 counties. It is in the Twizell list ; Mr. Pinlay found it at Coal 

 Law Wood, but never plentiful; Mr. Maling met with it at 

 Jesmond, where other I^ewcastle collectors do not appear to have 

 seen it. Pew of the Durham collectors have taken it. I have 

 captured it on the railway banks at Campion flowers, and on 

 the sand banks once or twice at sugar; Mr. Gardner has also 

 met with it in Hezleden Dene and in Upper Teesdale. Mr. 

 Lofthouse of Middlesbro' has taken it on Greatham salt marsh. 

 Both Mr. Gardner and I have occasionally reared it from larvae. 

 One variety of the lar7a is, green with a dull crimson patch on 

 the back. On one occasion I was watching one of this form 

 changing to the pupal state, and I noticed that when the larval 

 skin was cast, this crimson patch appeared on the pupa, but of 

 course disappeared as the pupa skin hardened and assumed its 

 usual colour. 



CHAR^AS, Steph. 



56. Gharaeas graminis, (Linn.). Antlee. 



Charmas graminis. Staint. Man., vol. i. p. 204. 



,, ,, IS^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 292. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 127. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 75. 



Laeva. Buck. vol. iv., pi., Ixvi., fig. 4 ; O.Wils., pi. xxxiv.. 



