CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 211 



BOARMIA, Tr. 



24. Boarmia repandata (Linn.). Mottled Beafty. 



Boarmia repandata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 26. 

 ,, ,, jN'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 63. 



Selidosema ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep. p. 263. 



Larya. Buck.,vol.vii.,pl.cxi.,fig. 4; O.Wils.,pl. xix.,fig-. 3. 



Common everywhere in woods and lanes. The banded variety, 

 Conversaria, occurs in Durham. The E-ev. J. G. Hobinson, 

 Eector of Castle Eden, took one in the Dene there on August 

 22nd, 1885. Mr. B. Pemberton got another in Hawthorn Dene. 

 Mr. Gardner and I have occasionally taken it in Hezleden 

 Dene, at Edder Acres, etc., but I have no inland records. A 

 dark, nearly unicolorous form, also occurs occasionally. 



25. B. rhomboidaria, W.V. Willow Beauty. 



Boarmia rhomhoidai-ia. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 26. 



,, ,, JS^ewm. Brit. Moths, page 64. 



Selidosema gemmaria. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 264. 



Larva. Buck.,vol.vii.,pl. cxi.,fig. 5.; 0.Wils.,pl.xix.,'fig.4. 



Most collectors in both counties report this as equally common 

 with Repandata. It is certainly so inland, but it is compara- 

 tively rare on the coast. In fact, the only coast record I have 

 is that Mr. Stephenson found it far from common at South 

 Shields. Mr. Gardner says it is ''not common in Hezleden 

 Dene." I never took it there nor elsewhere about Hartlepool, 

 though I have found it common in lanes north of Ifewcastle, 

 from whence every collector reports it. The late Edward ITew- 

 man introduced as a new species, under the name of Perfumaria, 

 a very dark form of this species. Mr. Maling was in the habit 

 of taking very dark specimens in his own garden. He sent me 

 eggs of these, which I reared to maturity, and, on submitting 

 specimens to Mr. Kewman, he pronounced them identical with 

 his Perfumaria. The same form has been taken by Mr. Madi- 

 son near Durham, 



