214 Ci^TALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



{Tephrosia consonaria. Mr. Sticks informs me that he took 

 a specimen of this insect in a grass field near Gateshead in 

 1888. The specimen was accidentally destroyed, but Mr. 

 Sticks speaks confidently as to the name. I feel equally 

 confident he is mistaken. Consonaria is a very unlikely species 

 to occur in Durham, and certainly not in a grass field. It is 

 probable that the insect in question was the above species, 

 T. crepuscidaria, which Consonaria very closely resembles.) 



27. T. punctulata. W.Y. Gkay Biech. 



Tephrosia punctulata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 29. 



,, ,, I^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 67. 



Ectropis punctularia. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 260. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxiii., fig. 5. 



Becorded in Stephens' Illustrations (vol. iii., p. 193). ''New- 

 castle, Meldon Park, etc., G. Wailes, Esq." Mr. Finlay never 

 met with it in Meldon Park, but took it regularly, though 

 sparingly, in Coal Law "Wood. It has not been recorded for 

 Durham. It occurs in several places in Yorkshire, though it 

 has disappeared from many of its old haunts in that county. It 

 should be looked for in May and June, where there is plenty of 

 Birch. 



GNOPHOS, Tr. 



28. Gnoplios obscurata, W.V. Annulet. 



Gnophos ohscurata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 29. 



,, pullata. ,, ,, p. 30. 



,, ohscurata. N^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 67. 



Pseudopanthera obscuraria. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 270. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxiv., fig. 1. 



This species appears to be only a coast species here, and is 

 fairly common there except it does not frequent Sand banks. 

 Mr. Patterson found it at Alnmouth ; Mr. Wailes recorded it 

 (as Pullata) from Tynemouth (Step. Illust., vol. iii., p. 267). 

 Mr. Stephenson found it fairly common, but very local at South 



