156 CATALOGtTE OP MOTHS. 



This insect has scarcely been recorded from Northumberland, 

 but I can only assume that it has been overlooked, for the larva 

 feeds inside the stems of Thistle, Eagwort, Artemisia, Eupa- 

 torium, and many other common plants, and the species is so 

 well distributed in Durham, that I feel sure it vrill be found 

 to occur in the more northern county. It is not in the Twizell 

 list, nor does Mr. Finlay record it, but Mr. Henderson met 

 with it at Jesmond, the only locality I have north of the Tyne. 

 Mr. Hed worth found the pupa at Lockhaugh, Thornley, and 

 Dunston ; Mr. Maling at South Shields ; Mr. Khagg at Chop- 

 well ; Mr. Brady at Sunderland ; Mr. Backhouse at ShuU and 

 Darlington, the latter being a Manual locality ; and Mr. Loft- 

 house found it at Greatham. About Hartlepool it is tolerably 

 common, and most easily obtained by splitting the stem of the 

 food plant, as it changes to pupa within the stem where the 

 larva has fed. Those I have bred or taken here are paler and 

 less rich in colour than specimens from the South of England. 



NONAGRIA, Och. 



112. Nonagria Typhae, Esp. Bull Eijsh. 



Nonagria Typhcs. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 194. 



„ „ Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 270. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 83. 



,, arundinis. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 111. 



Labva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ixi., fig. 4 ; O.Wils., pi. xxxiii., 



fig. 7. 



Mr. Barrett thinks this species does not occur north of York- 

 shire, but Mr. Bolam appears to have found it in several places 

 in North Northumberland and the Scottish borders. He writes, 

 ' *■ In addition to the Scremerston and Ancroft stations for this 

 fine species, which I previously recorded, there is a flourishing 

 colony among the Bull-rushes, Typha laiifoUa, in the old pond 

 at Whitedam Head, within the Borough of Berwick." Trans. 

 Ber. Eield Club., vol. xv., p. 304. I know of no other record. 



