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Scarce and very local. Mr. Finlay took it rarely at Old 

 Park, ISTetherwitton. Mr. J. "W. Corder writes, *' My father 

 took Camhrica this year (1897), he thinks in the garden here, 

 but he did not recognise the species, and had it mixed with 

 others, part of which were taken at Bamborough. He collected 

 at no other place, so it must have been one or the other." It 

 would be interesting to know it had occurred at or near Sunder- 

 land, but I think Eamborough the likelier locality. Mr. D. 

 Eosie took it at Alston and Slaggyford ; Mr. Gardner met with 

 it in Upper Teesdale, *'not common." The ''Manual" gives 

 Darlington as a locality. The larva feeds on Mountain Ash, of 

 which there is plenty around both Sunderland and Darlington 

 as an ornamental tree. This species is called the Welsh Wave 

 from a reputed occurrence in Monmouthshire, but it is rather 

 more of a northern species than the name implies. 



ACIDALIA, Tr. 



42. Acidalia rubricata, W.Y. Tawny Wave. 



Acidalia rubricata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 45 



„ „ Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 76. 



Leptomeris ruhiginata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 243. 



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



Dr. Lees took specimens in July, 1875, at Winch Bridge, 

 Upper Teesdale, and could have got more had he then known 

 what they were. Talking the matter over with Dr. Lees, I 

 expressed a desire to see the specimens, and he at once 

 forwarded them to me for my own collection. Though twenty- 

 five years old they are yet in fine condition, and are a grand 

 addition to our local fauna. They occurred on "low lingy 

 ground," and were not uncommon from the first to the third 

 week in July. I would strongly urge those who have the 

 opportunity to endeavour to find again one of the most local of 

 our British Lepidoptera, 



