232 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



Trans. Tyneside ISTat. Field Club, vol. v., p. 9). Mr. Wailes 

 also records it for Meld on Park and Gibside (Steph. Illust, 

 vol. iii., p. 321). These explain the Manual record of ]S'ew- 

 castle. Mr. Finlay never took it in Meldon Park, nor in any 

 of the Fir woods around, which is rather strange, as he was an 

 exceptionally good collector, and though the insect is of very 

 retiring habits, it not unfrequently sits on tree trunks. Mr. 

 J). Rosie took it at Dipton, Hexham, and at Alston, but I have 

 no record from the Derwent Valley. Mr. Greenwell reported 

 it as rare at Bishop Auckland. Mr. Sang took it near Darling- 

 ton 27th June, 1869. About Hartlepool we have only taken it 

 at Edder Acres near Thornley Station, though my first speci- 

 men was obtained at the Lighthouse here. 



HALIA, Dup. 



62. Halia wavaria, (Linn.). Y. Moth. 



Halia wavaria. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 56. 



,, ,, JS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 88. 



Biastictis wauaria. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 259. 



Larva. Buck.,vol. vii.,pl. cxxi.,fig.5;0.Wils.,pl.xxii.,fig.l. 



Generally a garden insect, the larva feeding on Currant and 

 Gooseberry, it is consequently common wherever these are 

 grown, and is most frequently reported from town suburbs. 

 Mr. Finlay found it common at Meldon Park ; Miss Rosie at 

 Kenton; Mr. Ehagg about ^N'ewcastle. Mr. D. Rosie not un- 

 common. Mr. Hedworth reported it as ''common in gardens 

 at Swalwell " ; Mr. Brady '' common in gardens at Sunderland" ; 

 Mr. Maddison found it at Durham ; Mr. Backhouse at Darling- 

 ton ; Mr. G. Ross at Bishop Auckland ; Dr. Lees reported it as 

 *' a pest in gardens in Upper Teesdale." It is also common in 

 gardens about Hartlepool, and I reared a dark slate-coloured 

 specimen from a larva found in the Nursery Gardens, West 

 Hartlepool, now, alas, covered with houses. I have also taken 

 it about Hezleden, but never in the Dene, though Gooseberry 

 grows wild there in plenty. 



