CATALOGUE OF MOTHS, 265 



Dorset. The species was subsequently re-disco veied and named 

 Tripimctata by Herrick-S chaffer. In the Entomologist's Annual 

 ior 1863 (p. 127), the Rev. H. Harper Crewe pointed out the 

 identity of the species, since when it has been known by 

 Haworth's name as Albipunctata. Stephens considered it 

 tolerably well distributed in Eritain^perhaps it was after- 

 wards mixed with Pimpinellata, At all events it was omitted 

 from the ''Manual" by Stainton, but it has been fully recog- 

 nised as a British species at least since 1863. In our district it 

 has been seldom recorded, probably only because it has not been 

 looked for. It is in Selby's Twizell list representing North 

 !N'orthumberland. It also occurs in Hezleden Dene representing 

 the South of our counties. It will yet turn up in many places 

 between. The larva feeds on flowers of Angelica. 



114. E. valerianata, Hub. Valekian Pug. 



Eupithecia valerianata. llewm. Brit. Moths, p. 129. 

 [ Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 188. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii, pi. cxxxii., fig. 7. 



This stands as E. viminata, Dbld., in the 1859 Edition of 

 Doubleday's Catalogue. In 1863 the Eev. H. Harper Crewe 

 described the larva in the Annual for that year (p. 123), which 

 was found on the flowers and seeds of Valeriana officinalis. It 

 proved to be identical with the Valerianata of Hubner, and 

 Doubleday's name was therefore sunk. The only collector in 

 our counties who has met with it is Mr. Gardner, who found 

 the larva in Hezleden Dene ^'not uncommon." I never, met 

 with either larva or imago myself. Valerian is plentiful in 

 both counties. " Streamsides and ditches, common, ascending 

 to 450 yards in the Cheviot ravines, to 1600 feet in Harwood 

 Dale " (Trans., vol. ii., p. 186). 



(^E. irriguata is given in the ''Manual" as occurring at 

 Newcastle. I know nothing of the authority for it, and believe 

 it to be an error. Lyndhurst, in Hampshire, is the only other 

 "Manual" locality. Newman says the species occurs in the 



