274 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



128. E. exiguata. Hub. Mottled Pug. 



Eupithecia exiguata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 90. 

 ,, ,, JS'ewm. Erit. Moths, p. 141. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 194. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxv., fig. 4 ; O.Wils., pl.xxiv,, 



fig. 13. 



A very generally distributed and common species. The larva 



feeds on Hawthorn, and the insect might occur in any lane. 



It is in the Twizell list ; Mr. Finlay found it in most parts of 



his district, though not often common ; Mr. Wailes recorded it 



for I^ewcastle (which is a "Manual" locality) in Stephens' 



Illustrations, vol. iii., p. 283 ; Mr. Maling's got it at Hexham 



in June ; Mr. D. Eosie bred it from larvae found on Birch at 



Dinnington and Swalwell. Mr. Hedworth took it at Thornley 



and other places in the Derwent Valley. Mr. Gardner got it in 



Upper Teesdale, though not very commonly. It is plentiful 



enough in Hezleden Dene, and I have also taken it freely in 



lanes about Stockton-on-Tees. 



129. E. sobrinata, Hub. Juniper Pug. 



Eupithecia sobrinata. Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 91. 

 „ ,, ITewm. Brit. Moths, p. 142. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 196. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxv., fig. 5. 



Mr. Bolam says, "I took a moth, which Mr. Richard South 

 believes to be this, at Kyloe Wood, 21st May, 1888" (Trans. 

 Ber. r. Club, vol. xv., p. 301). The presence or absence of the 

 food plant in the immediate neighbourhood should settle this 

 point. The '^Manual" gives Newcastle as a habitat for this 

 species, but I believe the specimens referred to were taken in 

 Castle Eden Dene, at the Shotton end of which, as well as at 

 the mouth, the insect occurs in some numbers. It was formerly 

 common on the coast at Black Hall Eocks, but the Juniper has 

 died off within the last twenty years, and Sohritiata has dis- 

 appeared with it. Juniper occurs in the Cheviots and other 



