CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 235 



M^SIA, Steph. 



66. Maesia belgiaria, Hub. Ghey Scalloped Bae. 



Mcesia helgiaria. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 60. 

 Scodiona ,, Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 91. 



Crocota helgaria. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 272. 



Lajiva. Buck.,vol.vii.,pl.cxxii.,fig.2;O.Wils.,pl.xxii.,fig.3. 



Exclusively a moorland species, but not rare in suitable 

 places in either county. It is recorded by Mr. Wailes as 

 occurring at Prestwick Carr (see Steph. Illust., vol. iii., p. 

 151). That I suppose was before the famous locality was 

 drained. The Manual gives I^ewcastle as one of its habitats, 

 which must refer to Prestwick Carr or other moorland haunts. 

 Mr. Bolam says, "My only capture was taken at Adderstone 

 Hall in 1888" (Trans. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. xv., p. 300). Mr. 

 Finlay reported it as not uncommon on the ^Northumberland 

 moors. Mr. Nicholson found it on the Moors near Gilsland. 

 In Bang's diary I find records of the larvae being found 

 on the "Weardale moors at Wolsingham, etco Dr. Lees says it 

 is common on the moors of Upper Teesdale. The Durham 

 specimens that I liave seen are rather paler than others from 

 Yorkshire moors, but I have not seen enough to warrant me in 

 stating that this is always so. 



FIDONIA, Tr. 



Fidonia carhonaria is recorded in the Twizell list, but there 

 are no details of the capture, nor were there any specimens in 

 the collection when it was examined for me. It is a species 

 that only occurs as British on the mountains of Perthshire, and 

 it is scarcely likely that even a stray specimen would reach the 

 East Coast of Northumberland. It is true there is a record of 

 the supposed capture of a specimen on 24th April, 1856, on 

 Ingleborough, a mountain between Yorkshire and Lancashire 

 (see E. W. L, 10th May, 1856, vol. i., p. 44). There can be 

 little doubt but a variety of Atomaria was mistaken here for 

 Ca?'honanaj and it is more than probable that Selby fell into 

 the same error. 



