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certain seasons ; Mr. Maling and Mr. Henderson met with it in 

 Jesmond Dene ; Mr. Hed worth at Dunston and Thornley ; Mr. 

 Greenwell, ''not uncommon" at Bishop Auckland; Dr. Lees 

 and Mr. Gardner in Upper Teesdale. About Hartlepool it is 

 tolerably plentiful, sits on palings and tree trunks, and comes 

 to Campion and other flowers and to sugar. It varies a little 

 both in colour and markings. 



67. H. Chenopodii, Fab. The I^utmeg. 



Hadena Chenopodii. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 275. 



,, ,, JN'ewm. Erit. Moths, p. 416. 



,, ,, Earr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 199. 



Melanchra Trifolii. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 82, 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vi., pi. xciii.,fig. 5; O.Wils., pl.xxxviii., 



fig. 6. 

 A rare insect in these counties, and the few that have been 

 met with are probably stray specimens only, as it has only 

 occurred singly. It is in the Twizell list. !Mr. Wasserman took 

 it at sugar (Ento., vol. viii., p. 224). Mr. Backhouse met with 

 it at Darlington. I took a specimen at sugar at Hutton Henry 

 near Castle Eden in 1875, another at sugar and one at Eagwort 

 on the sand-banks here in subsequent years. It does not appear 

 to be common anywhere. 



MAMESTRA, Och. 



68. Mamestra albicolon, Hub. The White Colon. 



Mamestra albicolon. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 208. 



„ ,, T^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 299. 



,, ,, Lep. Erit. Is., vol. iv , 205. 



Melanchra ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 87. 



Larva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ixvi., fig. 1. 



I^Tot very common and apparently confined to the mouth of the 

 Tyne and to Hartlepool sandhills, but I expect it will be found 

 elsewhere on the coast when the dunes are more fully explored. 

 Mr. Maling and Mr. Eales both took it at South Shields, but 



