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likely that it would have been more often recorded. I have 

 taken it at sugar in several localities around Berwick, as well as 

 at a considerable elevation upon the hill ridges at Langleyford 

 in August and September. The larvse are of a lightish drab 

 colour, thickly covered with warty spots, each of which carries 

 a hair, and there is a broad, glossy -brown plate, of nearly the 

 same colour as the head, upon the second segment. I have found 

 them in plenty at the roots of tufts of grass, growing from the 

 sides of the old town walls in May and June. They are full fed 

 towards the end of the latter month." (Trans. Ber. F. C, vol. 

 XV., p. 305). Other records are but few. I took a single speci- 

 men at sugar at Hutton Henry on Jst July, 1876. Mr. Gardner 

 took another at Hartlepool about the same time. Mr. Corder 

 took four on 20th July, 1895, near Sunderland, and another on 

 22nd. He has sugared several times since at the same place, 

 but got no more. Mr. T. A. Lofthouse took one on the Great- 

 ham Salt Marsh in 1894 and another in 1896. I know of no 

 others. 



XYLOPHASIA, Steph. 



90. Xylophasia lithoxylea, "W. Y. Light Aeches. 



^ylophasia lithoxylea. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 199, 



„ „ ITewm. Brit. Moths, p. 284. 



,, „ Barr. Lep. Brit. Is.,vol. iv., p. 356. 



Hadena ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 131. 



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



In nearly all the lists, and recorded as '* sometimes common" 

 in most of them. It comes to sugar, — in fact I never took it 

 except at sugar, — but it is more uncertain and peculiar at that 

 bait than any other species I have noticed ; one season they 

 may be abundant for a single night, but never appear again. 

 Another night they will sit on the sugared patches, and allow 

 themselves to be taken off at leisure, or not appear disturbed 

 while you are taking their neighbours. Then, suddenly, as if 

 some signal had been given, they will cease feeding, look alert 

 for a moment, and then fly away. You pass on to the next 



