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counties are not so regular. The species is given in the 

 Twizell list, without reference to the date of its emergence, 

 but Mr. Pinlay, who found it freely in Meldon Park, never saw 

 but the spring brood. Miss Rosie recorded it from Kenton, and 

 Mr. D. Eosie at Erunton, Dinnington, and Prestwick, without 

 saying whether he found more than one brood. He got larvae 

 from Oak, Eirch, and Meadow-sweet, the latter being an un- 

 usual food. Mr. Hedworth appears to be the only collector 

 who has taken both broods. He says, ''At Dunston and 

 Thornley in May and again in July." Mr. Sticks also found 

 larvae in Thornley Woods. Mr. Eackhouse obtained the species 

 at Shull, and also at Hoffall Wood ; Mr. Sang took the early 

 brood at lamps at Darlington ; Mr. Eoss met with it at Eishop 

 Auckland, but not commonly. In reference to its occurrence 

 in Upper Teesdale, Dr. Lees writes — ''Common along hedge- 

 rows in July. I am doubtful if this is not the only brood up 

 here. I never caught it in early spring ; indeed there is little 

 or no vegetation then in Teesdale, even Pilosaria scarcely 

 appears till April." About Hartlepool on the other hand the 

 early brood is common, and I have reared the summer form in 

 confinement from eggs laid in spring, but I never took the 

 second brood at large in the Hartlepool district. It would be 

 very interesting if some of our younger collectors would work 

 out the facts and study the different forms, especially where 

 only one occurs. 



11. S. lunaria, W. V. Lunar Thoen. 



Selenia lunaria. Staint. Man., vol. vii., p. 12. 

 ,, ,, !N^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. bb. 



,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 283. 



Laeva. Buck.,vol.vii.,pl. cvii.jfig. 5; O.Wils.,pl.xvi.,fig.ll. 



Decidedly a scarce species here. Single specimens and but 

 few of these, are all that are recorded. Yet it appears widely 

 distributed, and more knowledge of its haunts and habits, and 

 a more diligent search might produce it in greater abundance. 

 Those that have occurred so far appear to have been met with 



