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The commonest of the genus and occurring in woods as well 

 as open ground. It flies to Campion and other flowers, but may 

 be best taken in the larval stage. They feed inside the capsules 

 of Lychnis diurna, vespertina, etc., and sometimes pupate therein. 

 It is in the Twizell list ; Mr. Patterson found it at Alnmouth ; 

 Mr. Maling generally on the Northumberland coast ; Mr. Finlay 

 *' scarce at Meldon Park;" Miss Eosie at Kenton; Mr. Hen- 

 derson at Jesmond; Mr. Hedworth found the larvae abundant on 

 seed pods on the railway slope at Derwent Station ; Mr. Eales 

 took it at South Shields on the ballast heaps ; Mr. Brady found 

 larvae on the Bladder Campion at "Whitburn ; Mr. Sang took it 

 in Conisclifle Lane, Darlington; Dr. Lees says "one at Cother- 

 stone banks, a rare insect in the "Western dales I suspect." At 

 Hartlepool it comes freely to Campion flowers {Silene injlata), 

 and the larva is abundant on Silene and Lychnis. 



75. D. conspersa, Esp. Marbled Coronet. 



DianthcBcia conspersa. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 262. 



„ „ Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 389. 



„ ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 249. 



Harmodia fiana. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 77. 



Yery rare in our counties, and, as yet, only taken in three 

 places. It is in the Twizell list under Stephen's name of Miselia 

 compta. The next record is that of our Hartlepool captures. 

 In 1865 I took a specimen at Campion flowers behind the ropery. 

 The next year I got one or two more, and most of the collectors 

 took specimens ; for a year or so longer an odd specimen turned 

 up, but we have seen none now for more than twenty-five years. 

 The last record is that of Mr. Maddison of Durham, who wrote 

 in 1895, ''bred from larvae got here sparingly. I bred two 

 very fine yellow varieties this year, — one was unfortunately 

 crippled, but the other is a beautiful specimen." The Hartlepool 

 specimens were very fine, large insects, with the black and white 

 of the wings very distinctly contrasted. I have seen none so 



