CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 303 



APPENDIX. 



"While the preceding pages have been passing through the 

 press, one additional species has been taken. I add also two 

 notes that appear to me to be specially important. 



N^ew localities for several species have reached me, but I 

 propose to give all these at the end of the next volume, when 

 probably others will have come to hand, and I may perhaps be 

 able to speak more definitely of the range of some species, of 

 which I have but a very fragmentary knowledge at present. 



Page 106. 



19a. A, puta, Hub. Shuttle- shaped Dart. 



Agrotis puta. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 223. 



„ „ Newm Brit. Moths, p. 317. 



,, ,, Barr. Lep. Brit. Is., vol. iii., p. 301. 



„ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 94. 



Larva. Buck., vol. v., pi. Ixx., fig. 3. 



A single specimen of this Southern species was taken in 

 1899 at Ragwort flowers in Crimdon Cut, above Hart Station, 

 by Mr. Gardner. This insect has no established habitat in the 

 Korth of England. Stainton's Manual gives it as occurring at 

 Birkenhead. Dr. Ellis's Lancashire and Cheshire Catalogue 

 states that a single specimen was taken at Wallasey by Mr. E. 

 Brockholes. As this gentleman supplied Stainton with the list 

 of species occurring at Birkenhead, it would appear that but 

 one had been taken. Morris, in his "British Moths," gives 

 Sutton-on-Derwent as a habitat for it, but gives no authority. 

 This record does not appear to have been confirmed; Porritt 

 quoted it, without confirming it, and knew of no other York- 

 shire locality. Meyrick says the range of the insect extends to 

 York, but he had no original information, and did not investi- 

 gate doubtful records ; it is probable therefore that Meyrick' s 

 statement referred to Sutton-on-Derwent only. Barrett gives 

 its correct Southern range, and says it is ''recorded, though 

 very rarely, in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland." The 



