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it on palings. About Hartlepool we get it on palings by the 

 railway side, and on tree trunks in Hezleden Dene ; it also 

 comes to sugar, but it is by no means a common species. 



62. H. suasa, Bkh. Dog's Tooth. 



Hadena suasa. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 276. 



„ „ ]^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 418. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 175. 



Melanchra dissimilis. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 84. 



Larva. Buck., vol. vi., pi. xciv., fig. 2. 



A scarce and local species. It is in the Twizell list, and Mr. 

 Rhagg has more recently found it at Fawdon near Newcastle. 

 These are all the Northumbrian records I have met with. In 

 Durham it appears to be confined to Greatham salt marshes, 

 where it comes to sugar. Mr. Gardner has reared a considerable 

 number from larvae found there on Plantago maritima and Statice 

 limonium, much preferring the latter. I have taken an odd 

 specimen or two at sugar on the sand-banks at Hartlepool at 

 long intervals, but these were doubtless stray specimens from its 

 habitat at Greatham swamp. 



63. H. Pisi, Linn. Broom Moth. 



Hadena Pisi. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 277. 



„ „ lyfewm. Brit. Moths, p. 419. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 181. 



Melanchra Pisi, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., 85. 



Larva. Buck., vol. vi., pi. xciv., fig. 4; O.Wils., pl.xxxviii., 



fig. 9. 

 Generally distributed throughout the district, and fairly com- 

 mon everywhere, but most numerous on the coast, where the 

 very beautiful larvge may be collected in large numbers in 

 August. The imago, in this part of the country, is dark, cold 

 brown in hue, very different from the warm reddish-brown of 

 southern examples. It comes freely to sugar, but I have not 

 often taken it at fiowers. 



