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alone, of the JsTortliiiniberland collectors, has recorded its occur- 

 rence, and he only met with it in Meldon Park, where it was 

 far from common. Mr. Hedworth took it at Gibside and 

 Thornley, but always very sparingly ; Mr. Stock also found it 

 there both as larva and imago ; at South Shields Mr. Stephen- 

 son has met with it, and at Hartlepool I took a single specimen 

 in April, 1874, on the Cemetery palings. This is the only 

 imago I have seen here, but I have beaten the larva off hedges 

 more than once. The ? is very slender bodied, entirely with- 

 out wings, but easily recognised by having a small brush or 

 tuft of hairs on the anal segment. 



LARENTID^, Gn. 

 CHEIMATOBIA, Steph. 



80. Gheimatobia brumata, (Linn.). Wintee Moth. 



Cheimatohia brumata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 76. 

 Chimatohia ,, !Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 106. 



Operophtera ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 222. 



Laeva, Buck., vol. vii.,pl.cxxvi.,fig.2;0."Wils ,pl.xxiii.,fig.l. 



Very abundant all the winter everywhere. It emerges as 

 early as October or November, and continues to appear till 

 January. The male is plentiful on gas lamps, in the outskirts 

 of towns, or on the oil lamps of country railway stations, on 

 house windows, etc., or may be seen flitting about the leafless 

 hedges at dusk searching for the wingless female. Like 

 Rupicapraria it seems almost impervious to cold, and I have 

 seen it on the wing in comparatively severe weather. The 

 female, being wingless, is not so easily found, but may be got 

 in any number by breeding. 



81. G. boreata. Hub. ]^oetheen Wintee Moth. 



Cheimatohia horeata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 76. 

 Chimatohia ,, ]N'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 108. 



Operophtera ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 222. 



JjAeva. Buck.,voLvii.,pl.cxxvi.,fig.3;0."Wil8.,pl.xxiii.,fig.2, 



