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name to this species, though he uses it in comparing with the 

 next species. Mr. Bolam took "one or two about Berwick" 

 (Trans. Ber. F. Club, vol. xv., p. 301) ; Mr. "Wailes took it in 

 Meldon Park more than sixty years ago (see Steph. lUust., 

 vol. iii., p. 286). This explains the '^Manual" ''Ke." Mr. 

 Maling recorded it in 1868 from Witton-le- Wear ; Mr. Corder 

 found it flying on the cliffs near Sunderland. Darlington is 

 given in the "Manual." At Hartlepool we formerly took it 

 freely on the ballast beyond the Cemetery, but I have not seen 

 it for some years now. We also got larvae feeding on Eagwort 

 flowers — a short, stiff, hairy, green larva, not much resembling 

 the most of Pug larvae; the usual Y markings are also very 

 indistinct. 



123. E. minutata, Hub. Ling Pug. 



Eupithecia minutata, Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 89. 



,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 137. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 187. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxiv., fig. 2 ; 0. Wils., pi. xxv., 



fig. 11. 



Another moorland species, and not uncommon in suitable 

 places in either county. It is given in the Manual for New- 

 castle ; Mr. rinlay found it at Throphill Moor, generally, but 

 not always common; Miss Rosie took it at Kenton, and her 

 brother got both larva and imago at Dinnington ; Mr. Maling 

 got it freely at Hexham In Durham Mr. Hed worth found it 

 at Marley Hill, Thornlpy, &c., &c. ; Dr Lees got it abundantly 

 on heaths in Upper Teesdale, and Mr. Sticks found it common 

 on the Weardale moors about Stanhope. The imago of this 

 species is so close to that of the preceding that Guenee at one 

 time united them, and Meyrick says it may be very questionable 

 whether *' this is anything more than a heath frequenting form 

 of Absinthiatay Stainton, however, points out that Mi7iutata 

 is "smaller and less reddish." The larvae" differ, though not 

 very much, and they feed on different plants. 



