138 CATALOGUE 0¥ MOTHS. 



Not a very common species, and apparently not yet found in 

 JS'orthumberland. It is given in Ornsby's Durham, from whicli 

 city Mr. Maling had larvse sent him by Mr. Eaine, and where 

 Mr. Maddison still finds it. Mr. Backhouse took it at Darling- 

 ton and Seaton Carew. Tt is reported as rare at Bishop Auck- 

 land by Mr. Greenwell, and where Mr. Eoss had taken but one. 

 I have taken it myself at Darlington, and have found larvse at 

 Stockton feeding on London Pride in a small garden in the town. 

 About Hartlepool it occurs pretty regularly, and in fair num- 

 bers. At one time there was a row of palings at the edge of 

 the sand-banks behind the Cemetery. On these I could find 

 half a dozen any night when the species was on the wing, if the 

 wind was from the west. I have also got it at sugar and light, 

 but it appears rather late in the year, which, perhaps, as in 

 other cases, explains the paucity of records. 



80. P. Chi, Linn. The Geey Chi. 



Polta Chi. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 246. 



,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 394. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iv., p. 303. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 54. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vi. pi., Ixxxviii., fig. 3 ; 0. "Wils., pi. 



xxxvii., fig. 9. 



Generally distributed throughout the district, and appears to 

 be most numerous about I^ewcastle and Sunderland. Mr. Hew- 

 itson recorded it as very common at !N"ewca8tle as far back as 

 1829 (see Steph. lUust. Brit. Ent., vol. iii., p. 34). It is in the 

 Twizell list ; Mr. Pinlay took it on Ash tree trunks, '' generally 

 distributed and not scarce;" Mr. Maling wrote, **an abundant 

 species in this district. The beautiful var. olivacea occurs in 

 considerable numbers in August and September." Mr. Brady 

 wrote, ''common at sugar, the var. Olivacea seems much more 

 plentiful than the type about Sunderland." Miss Eosie took 

 both forms at Kenton ; Mr. Backhouse both forms at Sunderland 

 and Newcastle ; Mr. Hedworth, Mr. Ehagg, Mr* Patterson, and 

 other Newcastle collectors report both as generally distributed. 



