CATALOGFE OP MOTHS. 1^3 



I^ot very abundant in either county, and I think, becoming 

 scarcer. It is recorded as long ago as 1829 for !N"ewcastle by 

 Mr. Hewitson (Steph. Brit. Ent., vol. iii., p. 50). It is also in 

 the Twizell list, in that for Ornsby's Durham, and in Mr. Back- 

 house's old list for Darlington. Eecent records are much scarcer 

 in comparison. Mr. Finlay took it about Meldon and remarks 

 that he has taken it in June and on 24th August. The June 

 specimen would be a hybernated example. A worn specimen 

 came to my sugar on Hartlepool sand hills in June, and Stainton 

 gives that month as the latest for those that have lived over the 

 winter. Mr. Henderson took the species at Jesmond, Mr. Hed- 

 worth met with it at Thornley, but not commonly; Mr. Brady 

 took one only at Ryhope ; Dr. Lees a single specimen below 

 the bridge at Middleton-in-Teesdale. Porty years ago it was 

 abundant about Hartlepool, and I have found the pupa freely 

 in the railway cutting above Hart Station. The larva twists 

 the narrow willow leaves spirally, making it rather a conspicuous 

 object, and forms a nest for the pupa within the coils. I have 

 not seen any for many years now, and only meet with an odd 

 imago occasionally. 



EUGLIDIA, Och. 



187. Euclidia glyphica, (Linn.). Btjenet Noctua. 



EuisUdia glyphica. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 318. 



,, „ Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 469. 



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



,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 164. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vi., pi. cv., ^g. 4. 



Kot very plentiful in either county. It is in the Twizell list, 

 Mr. Finlay found it "generally distributed and not very uncom- 

 mon." These are all the Northumberland records I have. It 

 is in the list in Ornsby's Durham without locality ; Mr. Hed- 

 worth took it at Chopwell ; Mr. Backhouse at Shull and in damp 

 fields at Darlington. Mr. Sang does not mention it in his diary, 



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