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a common plant, I have no doubt the insect will be found 

 generally distributed, though records, as yet, are not very 

 numerous. IS'ewcastle is a ''Manual" locality, and Mr. Rhagg 

 has taken it there recently. Mr. Backhouse met with it in 

 Hoffall Wood, near Durham; Darlington is a "Manual" 

 locality, and Mr. Sang has taken it at Seaton Carew. Mr. 

 Gardner and I have taken it for many years about Hartlepool. 

 Here it occurs on ballast and the railway side. I have not met 

 with it in country lanes, though Mr. Gardner has taken it at 

 Greatham. Possibly some of the older records refer to the next 

 species which for a long time was scarcely separated from this. 



105. E. subfulvata. Haw. Tawny Speck. 



Eupithecia suhfulvata. JSTewm. Brit. Moths, p. 122. 

 Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 189. 



Lakva. Buck.,vol.viii., pi. cxxx.,fig. 3; 0/Wils., pi. xxiv., 



fig. 5. 



Haworth described this as a distinct species, and Stephens 

 and others followed him, but the discovery of varieties inter- 

 mediate between this and the last species inclined entomologists 

 to the opinion that they were all forms of one variable insect. 

 These were Disparata, Hub., a variety of Succenturiata with a 

 dark centre, and Cognata, Steph., a variety of Suhfulvata 

 without tawny scales. Those who possess a good series of all 

 these will not wonder that the opinion obtained that they were 

 all one species, until the larvae of both were discovered, and ably 

 described by the Rev. H. Harper Crewe in the Entomologist's 

 AduuiiI : — the present species in that for 1861, and both com- 

 pared and differentiated in that for 1862. In Stainton's second 

 volume the type and varieties are all described under Succen- 

 turiata, Subfulvata is generally commoner than Succenturiata, 

 and will be found in many places where it has not yet been 

 recorded. Mr. Bolam says, "Several examples have occurred 

 in and about Berwick" (Trans. Ber. Field Club, vol. xv., 

 p. 301); Mr. Wailes got it in Meldon Park before 1839 (see 

 Steph. lUust., vol. iii., p. 288), and Mr. Finlay found it still 



