176 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



Certainly a scarce species. It is in the Twizell list as Orthosia 

 lunosa, but I have no other ^Northumbrian records. Mr. Eales 

 took it at sugar at South Shields ; Mr. Sang got it at lamps at 

 Darlington (9th Sep., 1855) ; and Mr. Gardner writes " scarce ; 

 I know of only one capture many years ago." I took one myself 

 on the sandbanks just beyond the Cemetery at Hartlepool on 

 1st Sept., 1874, and another on 28th August, 1876, both on 

 Ragwort flowers. I know of no others. 



154. O. lota, CI. Red-line Quakee. 



Orthosia lota. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 246. 



,, ,, :^ewm. Rrit. Moths, p. 365. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 349. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p 63. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixxxii., fig. 5 ; O.Wils.,pl. xxxvi., 



fig. 11. 

 A well distributed species, but never very abundant. It is 

 in the Twizell list ; Mr. Finlay found it in Coal Law Wood ; 

 Mr. Henderson at JTesmond ; Mr. Hedworth got both larvae and 

 imagines at Thornley and Dunston ; Mr. Ross found it fairly 

 common about Bishop Auckland. About Hartlepool we get it 

 pretty nearly every year, and both Mr. Gardner and I have bred 

 it from larvae found in Hezleden Dene. I have generally beaten 

 them from young oaks. It should be found in or about all the 

 woods in both counties. 



155. O. macilenta, Hub. Yellow-line Qitakee. 



Orthosia macilenta. Staint, Man., vol. i., p. 246. 



,, ,, INewm. Brit. Moths, p. 365. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. v., p. 352. 



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 63. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixxxii., fig. 6. 



Yi^ell distributed but seldom common, and apparently rather 

 local. It is in the Twizell list ; Mr. Finlay took it at Coal Law 

 Wood, but never plentifully ; Mr. Rhagg got it near ^Newcastle- 



