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at sugar at Ryhope; Mr. Maddison found it ''very rare at 

 Durham, near Maiden Castle Wood; " and Mr. Greenwell '' occa- 

 sionally met with it at Eishop Auckland." It is generally a 

 garden insect, but not exclusively so. 



{Hecatera serena. Fab., is a species that might occur with us. 

 It has been taken at Eeverley in Yorkshire, in Cheshire, and 

 Lancashire, and in more than one district in Scotland. The 

 larva feeds on Hawkweeds and kindred plants). 



DIANTH^GIA, Bdv. 



71. Dianthaecia carpophaga. The Tawny Sheaes. 



DianthcBcia carpophaga. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 261. 



,, ,, K'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 385. 



,, ,, Barr.Lep. Brit.Is.jVol. iv.,p,228. 



Harmodia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 78. 



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



Chiefly a coast insect in our counties, and perhaps most abund- 

 ant on ballast heaps where the Bladder Campion (S{le?ie injlata) 

 gi'ows freely. Mr. Eales found it plentifully in such places at 

 South Shields, and it is equally abundant at Hartlepool on the 

 ballast hills and the railway embankment. It flies freely to 

 Campion flowers both to feed and for the $ to deposit her eggs. 

 I have never known it come to sugar and only once found a speci- 

 men on palings, but it was close to a patch of the food-plant, 

 and might have gone up the paling when it left the pupa case. 

 Besides these two localities Mr. Maling took the species else- 

 where on the Northumberland coast, and Mr. B,hagg took it at 

 Rowland's Gill. The specimens taken at Hartlepool are gener- 

 ally darker than southern examples, but are ochreous brown, a 

 much warmer tint than Capsophila. Occasionally, however, 

 pale forms occur (var. och'acea), and these are sometimes larger 

 than any of the dark ones. Mr. James Dixon took a specimen 

 nearly white on the railway side at Hartlepool. It is now in 

 Mr. Gardner's cabinet. 



