224 CATAL0GT7E OF MOTHS. 



also, and on waste ground generally, as well as in Hezleden 

 Dene. It sits on palings, low down among the herbage at the 

 bottom, but I never saw it on tree trunks. 



45. A. trigeminata, Haw. Teeble-brown Spot. 



Acidalia trigeminata. Staint. Mac, vol. ii., p. 45. 

 „ ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 77. 



Eois „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 239. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxvii., fig. 4. 



Always a scarce and local species. The only captures in 

 this district that I know of are two that Mr. L. S. Brady took 

 near Eyhope. The insect is equally rare in the adjacent 

 counties. 



46. A. osseata, W.Y. Daek Ceeam Wave. 



Acidalia osseata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 46. 



,, interjectaria. Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 78. 

 Eois dilutaria. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 237. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxvii., fig. 7. 



There has been considerable diversity of opinion as to the 

 insect here called Osseata, and two or more species may be 

 included in the various names given above. Our specimens are 

 pale bone-coloured, with the costa brownish ; not red as in one 

 form. I have the idea that the redder form may be but a 

 climatic variant, as I have only seen it in southern examples, 

 but I have no special evidence to support the view. This 

 species does not appear to reach Scotland, indeed Meyrick gives 

 York as the limit of its northward range. Mr. Bolam, however, 

 has met with it at Allerdean Mill, where he took one on 22nd 

 August, 1883 (Trans. Ber. IS'at. Club, vol. xv., p. 299). This 

 is probably the most northerly record. Mr. Sticks bred a single 

 specimen from a larva he found in the Herwent Yalley in 

 1895. At South Shields Mr. Stephenson tells me it is common. 

 About Hartlepool it occurs on the railway embankment, and on 

 the levelled ground towards Hart Station, and can still be 

 obtained there in some numbers, though the extension of the 



