180 CATALOOTJE OF MOTHS. 



161. G. ligula, Esp. Dabk Chestnut. 



Cerastis spadicea. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 249. 



„ „ Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 370. 



,, ligula. Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. vi., p. 15. 



Conistra ,, Mejr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 65. 



Larva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixxxiii., fig. 6. 



Much rarer than the last. In the Twizell list I find Spa- 

 dicea, which name properly belongs to the dark variety of the 

 preceding species, and it is more than probable that only the 

 dark form of Vaccinii was met with at Twizell, for there is no 

 other Northumberland record, and Ligula has not been taken in 

 Scotland. If this suggestion be correct we may conclude that 

 the Tyne is the limit of its range. Mr. Hedworth took it at 

 Thornley on the Derwent at sugar ; Mr. D. P. Morison met 

 with it at Chester-le- Street, also at sugar (E. W. I., vol. vii., 

 p. 11) ; Mr. Boss took it at Bishop Auckland ; and Darlington 

 is given in the Manual. It is generally a common species where 

 it occurs, but it is rare around Hartlepool. 



SCOPELOSOMA, Curt. 



162. Scopelosoma satellitia, (Linn.). Satellite. 



Scopelosoma satellitia, Staint. Man., vol. i , p. 250. 



,, ,, ]S"ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 37 L 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. vi., p. 19. 



Orthosia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 64. 



Laeva. Buck.^vol. v., pl.lxxxiv., fig. 1 ; O.Wils., pi. xxxvi., 



fig. 14. 



Yery common everywhere in the autumn, when it comes freely 

 to sugar. Less often seen in spring, though it comes to Sallow 

 blossoms, at which I have taken it as fine as though newly 

 emerged. It is in all the lists. 



