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town is driving it further and further away. I took it formerly 

 on a paling on the railway side close to the town, where it sat 

 near the bottom concealed by the herbage. It no longer occurs 

 there, but less than quarter of a mile away it is still com- 

 paratively common, but I have not found it anywhere but on 

 ballast or similar ground. 



47. A. virgularia, Hub. Small Dttstx Wave. 



Acidalia virgularia. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 47. 

 ,, incanaria. !Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 78. 



Eois virgularia. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 236. 



Larva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxviii., fig. 2. 



Mr. Bolam says, ' ' "Very common in gardens in July, about 

 St. John's Tea Plant. Berwick, Scremerston, Alnwick, etc." 

 (Trans. Ber. ITat. Club, vol. xv., p. 300). Mr. Wailes recorded 

 it for l^ewcastle as long ago as 1829 (see Steph. Illust., vol. iii., 

 p. 310). Mr. Henderson and Mr. Patterson have taken it there 

 more recently. It is also given in the "Manual" for !N'ew- 

 castle and Darlington, the former doubtless referring to Mr. 

 Wailes' captures. Mr. Corder found it common at Sunderland. 

 Mr. Sang took it at Seaton Carew in 1853, the only record 

 of its occurrence I have found in his diary. It occurs about 

 Hartlepool, both on the railway embankment and in Hezleden 

 Dene. It is not an uncommon species generally, and ought to 

 occur in most parts of both counties. 



48. A. incanata, Hub. Small Dusty Wave. 



Acidalia incanata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 47. 



,, incanaria. I!^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 78. 



Leptomeris marginepunctata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep.,p.241. 



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



This is another of the scarcer Acidalia, one that does not 

 range much further north than our counties. It is given in the 

 ** Manual" as occurring at IS'ewcastle, but I do not know the 

 authority. Most of the Newcastle references there were given 



