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reared it from larvae. At one time we thought we had taken 

 Alsmes, but upon careful consideration and comparision we are 

 agreed that they are all Blanda and that Alsmes does not occur. 



142. C. cubicularis, W. V. Pale Mottled Willow. 



Caradrina cubicularis. Staint. Man., vol. i., p, 218. 



,, „ IS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 314. 



,, J, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is.jVol.v., p. 292. 



,, quadripunctata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 122. 



Larva. Buck., vol. iv., pi. Ixix., fig. 5. 



A very common and abundant species, apparently occurring 

 everywhere. Being in all the lists I need not give localities. 

 The larva does not appear to be at all particular in its food. 

 Mr. Gardner found one hiding between piled deals in his wood 

 yard, where it could only have wood splinters to eat. He has 

 also fed it through the winter on apple skin, and told me they 

 went down into the soil and came up again when he put in a 

 fresh supply. It is very common in the rubbish at the bottom 

 of stacks, and there appears to be no special time for the emer- 

 gence of the imago, which may be met with from May to Sep- 

 tember or October. 



GRAMMESIA, Steph. 



143. Grammesina trilinea, Bkh. Teeble Lines. 



Grammesia trilinea. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 215. 



,, ,, I^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 310. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 295. 



Caradrina trigrammica. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 123. 



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



This species, though common and generally distributed through- 

 out England, is very rare with us. It is in the Twizell list, 

 and the dark variety Bilinea also. Mr. Hedworth met with it 

 once or twice at Thornley. At Hartleppol Mr. Gardner took a 

 single specimen at sugar on the railway side in 1873. These 

 are all the records. 



