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This species appears to occur everywhere, but to be most 

 abundant on the moors, especially at their edges. It is also 

 abundant in many of our woods and denes. It is in all the 

 lists, and I need not specify localities. Dark forms are also 

 quite common. Stainton gives only Aspen as a food plant, but 

 the larvae feed also on Salix, Birch, Calluna, &c., &c. 



172. G. populata, Bork. Northern Spinach. 



Cidaria populata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 114. 



„ ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 191. 



Eustroma ., Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 204. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxliv., fig. 3; 0. Wils., 



pi. xxvii., fig. 14. 



Very generally distributed, and in all the lists, but no one 



speaks of it as being abundant. It is perhaps most plentiful 



in Upper Weardale and Upper Teesdale, but is so common that 



I need not give localities. 



173. C. fulvata, Eorst. Barred Yellow. 



Cidaria fulvata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 114. 



,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 192. 



Hydriomena fulvata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 211. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxliv., fig. 4 ; 0. Wils., 



pi. xxvii., fig. 15. 



Common wherever there is rose. In all the lists. A beauti- 

 ful insect when fresh, and not subject to variation. 



174. C. pyraliata, Tr. Barred Straw. 



Cidaria pyraliata. Staint. Man., vol. ii , p. 115. 



,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 192. 



Hydriomena dotata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 211. 



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



pi. xxvii., fig. 16. 



This species appears to be fairly common in all parts of the 



district. It is in all the lists, old and recent, but appears to be 



rather more numerous inland than immediately on the coast. 



The synonymy is rather confused between this and the next 



