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by accident. Mr. Finlay got one or two in Meldon Park, but 

 did not find it elsewhere ; Mr. Henderson found one at Jesmond. 

 These are the only Northumberland records. Mr. Hedworth 

 beat one from oak at Thornley, 14th June, 1870. (See also 

 Entom. X., 256). Mr. D. E,osie found a pupa at Alston and 

 bred the imago. Mr. Gardner got a pair in Hezledon Dene in 

 1876; my son found one on a hedge side near West Hartlepool 

 in 1880, and my wife found another in the lower part of Hezle- 

 den Dene in 1891, and finally Mr. Lofthouse met with one at 

 Middleton-in-Teesdale in 1897. Stephens, who gave the spring 

 and summer broods of these insects as doubtfully distinct, calls 

 attention to the curious fact tliat the size of the imago alter- 

 nates with the generations. This obtains also with the genus 

 Tephrosia, but not with double brooded noctuae such as P. 

 meticulosa, nor with all the Geometrae as A. plagiaria. 



ODONTOPERA, Steph. 



12. Odontopera bidentata, (Linn.). Scalloped Hazel. 



Odontopera hidentata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 13. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. bQ. 



Gonodontis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 287. 



Larva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cviii., fig. 1 ; O.Wils.jpl.xvii.jfig.l. 



Generally common in both counties, but least so on the coast. 

 ''Meldon Park, plentiful," J. Finlay; ''Kenton," Miss Eosie; 

 "IN'ewcastle," G. Wailes (Step. Illust., vol. iii., p. 163). The 

 species is still common there ; Mr. Henderson reported it from 

 Jesmond; Mr. Mcholson, "larvae on Hawthorn at JS'ewcastle"; 

 Mr. D. Eosie, "Numerous at the outskirts of Newcastle, larvae 

 common on Oak and Ivy " ; " Throughout the district," T. H. 

 Hedworth; "Pound sparingly in the lanes near South Shields 

 Water "Works. Hardly to be considered a real coast insect," 

 J. C. Wasserman (Trans., vol. v., p. 287). Mr. Stephenson, of 

 South Shields, on the other hand, reported the species as 

 common there, and varying a little. Mr. Brady, of Sunderland, 

 also reported it as generally common. "Abundant in Upper 



