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Though I have few records of the occurrence of this species, 

 I have little doubt but it is common in all parts of the district ; 

 indeed, the records I give cover both counties. Appearing in 

 January and February, when the weather is seldom favourable 

 for collecting, and only enthusiasts are looking for Lepidoptera, 

 it may easily be plentiful and yet escape notice. Mr. Pinlay 

 recorded it as abundant everywhere in his district. Mr. D. 

 Eosie got larva near Prudhoe and at Callerton. Mr. Hedworth 

 found it common at Gibside, Thornley, etc. ; Mr. Boss got it 

 plentifully at Bishop Auckland. The Manual gives I^ewcastle 

 as a place where it occurs, and Darlington as one where it 

 occurs regularly. It is not uncommon on lamps on the out- 

 skirts of Hartlepool, and often enters Kailway Signal Cabins. 

 I have also found it on palings and tree trunks, and under 

 sleepers lying on the railway embankment. It does not seem 

 to be affected much by ordinary cold. I have had it emerge in 

 a room where there was no fire, during a severe frost, and I 

 have seen it paired when snow was on the ground, but outside 

 it disappears during intense frost, to reappear as plentiful as 

 ever when a thaw comes. This species has a very close super- 

 ficial resemblance to Aleucis pictaria, 



75. H. leucophearia, W.Y. Speing Ushee. 



Hyhernia leucophearia. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 70. 

 „ ,, Newm. Erit. Moths, p. 103, 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 275. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxxv., fig. 2. 



Recorded from few places in either county. Mr. Finlay only 

 found it in the Old Park, iN'etherwitton, and not commonly 

 there. Mr. Henderson once took it at Jesmond, and Mr. Wailes 

 recorded it for iN'ewcastle in Stephens' Illustrations (vol. iii., 

 p. 152). Mr. Hedworth met with it at Thornley and Gibside. 

 Dr. Lees took it in April in Upper Teesdale ; and the late Mr. 

 Soutter told me he had seen it in the Bishops Park at Bishop 

 Auckland, but the Auckland collectors do not appear to have 

 met with it, "We never see it around Hartlepool. 



