158 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



This insect was introduced to the British Fauna in 1861, 

 specimens having been taken on the Norfolk coast by the late 

 Mr. Crotch. It was soon turned up on the Yorkshire coast, and 

 I always understood that Mr. Eales was the first to take it in 

 Durham, but Mr. Hedworth says *'Mr. Thomas Richardson of 

 Mount Pleasant was the first to discover this species in its pre- 

 sent habitat, South Shields." It was then found at Hartlepool, 

 Dr. Lees being, I believe, the first to take it. Mr. Gardner 

 subsequently found the larva and pupa and bred the insect. 

 The food plant, Elymus arenariiis (Sand Heed or Lyme Grass), 

 occurs in patches on the coast, and Elymi should be looked for 

 wherever it grows. It flies in early dusk, and is very easily 

 distinguished on the wing. Later on it settles on the stems of 

 the food plant, from which it may easily be boxed. The most 

 productive patches of the plant near Hartlepool are now des- 

 troyed, but the larvae, living inside the stem, are not injured by 

 deposits of smoke, etc., on the leaves. 



CALAMI A, Hb. 



115. Calamia lutosa, Hub. Large Wainscot. 



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

 Calamia lutosa. Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 272. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 116. 



Caradrina ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 119. 



Lakva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ixi., fig. 5. 



Mr. Gardner was the first to take the insect in our district on 

 Eeeds in the ''Stells" at Greatham, up which the tide flows. 

 He obligingly showed me the locality and I found it in some 

 seasons not at all scarce. Mr. Gardner also took two specimens 

 at the brick ponds near Hartlepool, but these are now filled up. 

 Mr. A. Wood took two on palings in a narrow foot road in West 

 Hartlepool. These had doubtless fiown from one or other of 

 the above-named habitats. Mr. J. W. Corder subsequently found 

 it '* on the cliffs between By hope and Seaham on a large Reed 

 bed, and in October, 1894, 1 took a considerable number (twenty- 

 five) in one night. They struck me as being very small in size." 



