CATALOGUE OP MOTHS. 291 



A very common species everywhere. A variety with a 

 distinct black band across the wings often occurs at Hartlepool, 

 and probably elsewhere. This black band gradually becomes 

 paler in specimens in our cabinets. I have also once or twice 

 taken a form that I think must be Standinger's var. testaceolatay 

 which he describes as ^'testaceis non flavus.'* 



PHIBALAPTERYX, Steph. 



159. Phibalapteryx lignata, Hub. Obliqtje Caepet. 



Phihalapteryx lignata, Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 108. 



„ ,, ]S"ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 175. 



Hanthorhoe vittata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 226. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxli., fig. 5 ; 0. Wils., 



pi. xxvi., fig. 17. 



Very seldom met with in our counties. Mr. Maling found it 

 at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, but it was very scarce. Mr. Corder 

 took a single specimen at Boker in 1896, and Mr. Sang met 

 with the species at Hell Kettles near Darlington on September 

 9th, 1874. It is said to extend as far north as Benfrewshire, 

 and I see no reason why it should not occur in many places 

 where Galium is plentiful. Newman has misplaced the names 

 of P. lignata and conjunctaria, the figure and description on 

 page 175 being the present species, not conjunctaria. 



SCOTOSIA, Steph. 



160. Scotosia dubitata (Linn.). Tissue. 



Scotosia dubitata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 109. 



,, ,, !N"ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 176. 



Hydriomena ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 215. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxlii., fig. 1 ; 0. Wils., 



pi. xxvii., fig. 1 (pi. xxvi in text). 



Dubitata is recorded in Stephens' Illustrations as captured 

 by Mr. Wailes at Tynemouth (vol. iii., p. 263), but there is 

 nothing to show whether more than a single specimen was 

 taken. No one else appears to have met with it in Northum- 



