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on-Tyne, as did Mr. Henderson; Mr. Hedworth found it at 

 Thornley; Mr. D. P. Morison at Chester-le-Street (E. W. I., 

 vol. vii., p. 11) ; Mr. Boss at Bishop Auckland, '' fairly common 

 at sugar;" Mr. Gardner got it in Upper Teesdale; it is given 

 in the Manual for Darlington. It is certainly not a coast species, 

 there is no record above of any captures near the sea. We have 

 never taken it on the sandhills at Hartlepool, though both Mr. 

 Gardner and I have taken it at Hezleden Dene at sugar, singly 

 in my experience, but Mr. Gardner, collecting on the south bank 

 of the dene, not half a mile from where I sugar, got it pretty 

 freely. I mention this to show how, in the same locality, a very 

 short distance makes much difference in numbers. 



CIRRHCEDIA, Gn. 



156. Cirrhoedia xerampelina, Hub. Centee-bareed 



Sallow. 

 Cirrhoedia ccerampelina. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 254. 

 ,, ,, I^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 377. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is.,vol.v.,p. 355, 



Orthosia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 60. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. v., pl.lxxxv., fig. 3 ; O.AVils., pl.xxxvi., 



fig. 20. 

 A rare species but widely distributed, and will probably be 

 found more plentifully when we know more of its habits. The 

 imago is generally found at rest on the trunk of an Ash tree, 

 and the late Mr. T. Meldrum, of Bipon, who was particularly 

 successful in taking it, was of opinion that after emerging 

 from pupa, it sat on the trunk of the tree till evening, but 

 did not return there after the first flight. Mr. Finlay found 

 imagines on Ash trunks in Meldon Park at the end of August 

 and in September, but never commonly. Mr. Msling bred one 

 from a larva found on the trunk of an Ash at Witton-le-Wear. 

 Mr. Sang took one at a lamp in Darlington on 12th Sep., 1853, 

 and another at sugar two days afterwards. Mr. Gardner found 

 one in Upper Teesdale in 1877 and another at Groatham. 



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