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Common on the higher moors of both counties. ''Eothley 

 Craggs, and on the moors north of Greenleighton, " J. Pinlay; 

 <' Moors near Blanchland," J. S. Brady ; '' ShuU, Place Fell, 

 and St. John's," W. Backhouse; "Abundant on faces of lime- 

 stone and trap rocks at Widdy Bank, Highfield, Eggleston Fell, 

 etc., etc.," F. A. Lees; " Bare near Hamsterley," J. Greenwell; 

 " Common on the moors in Teesdale. One worn specimen close 

 to Hezleden Dene in August, 1897 — ^probably brought from the 

 •west on a coal truck," J. Gardner. I searched in vain for this 

 species on Cotherstone Moor, but found it very abundant on the 

 fells beyond Cauldron Snout. There is a good deal of bare 

 surface rock there, with very little vegetation. Ccesiata was 

 sitting about everywhere. Heavy rain had fallen, and little 

 pools were all over the flat rocks. In these were hundreds 

 of drowned Ccesiata floating on the water. 



88. L. flavicinctata, Gn. Yellow-einged Cabpet. 



Larentia flavicinctata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 78. 

 ,, ruflcinctata. JS'ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 111. 



Hydriomena flavicinctata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 215. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. oxxvii., fig. 4. 



Stainton's Manual gives Newcastle as a locality for this 

 species, which must refer to some of the !N'orthumberland 

 moors, but none of the recent collectors appear to have met 

 with it. Dr. Lees writes, " JS'ot uncommon on Heather at 

 night. If Saxifraga granulata be its food plant, it is abundant 

 on the banks about Middleton-in-Teesdale." This species 

 should be looked for on some of the higher moors where Saxi- 

 frages abound. The larva does not confine itself to one species, 

 Stainton gives Saxifraga granulata and hypnoides, and Meyrick 

 gives aixoides. The imago appears in July. 



