CATALOGTTE OF MOTHS. ^67 



the railway bank at Darlington on 30th June, 1861, which 

 were probably true Innotata. More recently Mr. Gardner took 

 a melanic pug on the railway at Hartlepool, near the Cemetery 

 which is on the Sand Banks, concerning which he writes : — 

 ** There was a great deal of Artemisia growing close to where 

 I took it, and I concluded it must be Innotata, and now, after 

 close inspection, when faint markings are discernable on the 

 wings, I am still of the same opinion. It is much too large for 

 Fraxinata.''^ This is probably correctly attributed to Innotata. 



In August, 1899, I took some pug larvae on the sand banks 

 between Black Hall Rocks and Castle Eden, which produced 

 three melanic imagines for which the same name is suggested. 

 I made no notes of the larva, thinking them some common 

 species, and writing now from memory I think they more 

 resembled Fraxinata than Innotata. They were feeding on 

 Scabious, and I do not remember any Artemisia near, but 

 certainly there was no Ash. Up to the present time I believe 

 Innotata has only been found on Artemisia. Mr. Gardner says, 

 *' I find all the pugs I have bred will feed upon the flowers of 

 plants, particularly of Scabious and Centaurea." 



It will be seen there is no certain record here of Innotata^ 

 but I have so little doubt, at least as to Mr. Sang's and Mr. 

 Gardner's specimens, that I include it, feeling sure satisfactory 

 proof will yet be found for its occurrence. 



116. E. fraxinata, Crewe. Ash-Tkee Pug. 



Eupithecia fraxinata. Kewm. Brit. Moths, p. 131. 

 Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep,, p. 195. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxii. , fig. 8 ; O.Wils , pi. xxiv., 



fig. 10. 



Fraxinata, as already said, was introduced by the Eev. H. 



Harper Crewe in 1863 as a species new to science. One or 



both of the earlier records of Innotata may belong to this insect, 



and I have two additional that are certainly correct. Mr. 



Finlay took it regularly though sparingly in Meldon Park ; and 



Mr. Maling got it near Hexham. It is likel^ to occur else- 



