INSECTS 



Apameid^ {continued) 



Xylophasia hepatica, L. Not rare 



— scolopacina, Esp. Recorded from Jge- 

 croft near Manchester and Preston 



Dipterygia scabriuscula, L. Near Man- 

 chester 



Charaeas graminis, L. Generally common, 

 and sometimes in immense abundance, 

 as when the larvae appeared on the 

 moors near Clitheroe in 1881 in such 

 numbers as to attract public atten- 

 tion to their profusion 



Laphygma exigua, Hb. A single specimen 

 is recorded as having been taken at 

 Crosby by the late Mr. G. A. Harker 

 of Liverpool 



Neuronia popularis, F. 



Cerigo matura, Huf. 



Luperina testacea, Hb. 



— caespitis, F. Local : 



Crosby 

 Mamestra abjecta, Hb.) 



— sordida, Bork. ) 



— albicolon, Hb. Common on the sandhills 



— brassicae, L. Only too abundant every- 



where 



Generally common 

 F 



Common 



Carnforth, Preston, 



Rec orded from 

 Preston 



— persicariae, L. 

 Apamea basilinea, 



— gemina, H. 



— didyma, Esp. 



— unanimis, Tr. 



Occasional 



Miana. All our species occur fairly com- 

 monly 



Phothedes captiuncula, Tr. Recorded 

 from the extreme north on the 

 Westmorland border 



Celoena haworthii, Curt. Not rare in 

 most of the moorlands and mosses 

 Caradrinidje 



Grammesia trigrammica, Hf. Generally dis- 

 tributed 



Stilba anomala, Haw. Rare ; recorded from 

 Ribchester, Silverdale, Staleybrushes 



Charadrina morpheus, Huf. "1 Generally 



— quadripunctata, F. J common 



— alsines, Brab. Rare ; Preston, etc. 



— taraxaci, Hb. „ „ „ 

 Rusina tenebrosa, Hb. Occasional 



NoCTUIDiE 



Agrotis suflfusa, Hb. Generally abundant 



— segetum, Schiff. „ „ 



— exclamationis, L. „ „ 



— saucia, Hb. Occasional 



— corticea, Hb. „ 



— vestigalis, Hf. 



— cursoria, Bork. 



— nigricans, L. 



— tritici, L. 



— aquilina, Hb. 



— praecox, L. 



More or less common 

 on the sandhills 



NocTUiDiE {continued) 



Agrotis agathina, Dup.lMore or less com- 



— strigula, Thumb. J mon on the heaths 



— cinerea, Hb. Recorded from near 



Grange 



— ripae, Hb. Ru 



— obelisca, Hb. 



— obscura, Brab, 



Crosby 

 Near Manchester 

 Lytham near Liverpool 



Near Bolton, Grange 

 More or less common 



— simulans, Hf. 



— lucernea, L. 

 Noctua augur, F. 



— plecta, L. 



— c-nigrum, L. 



— brunnea, F. 



— festiva, Hb. 



— rubi. View. 



— baja, F. 



— xanthographa, F. 



— glareosa, Esp. Occasional 



— triangulum, Huf. „ 



— umbrosa, Hb. „ 



— depuncta, L. Staleybrushes 



— dahlii, Hb. Windermere, Woolton near 



Liverpool 

 Triphaena orbona, Huf."! Abundant every- 



— pronuba, L. j where 



— ianthina, Esp., T. interjecta, Hb., and 



T. fimbria, L. Generally distributed, 

 but not at all common, except locally 

 the latter, which is frequent near 

 Windermere 

 Amphipyrid.5: 



Amphipyra tragopogonis, L. Generally 

 abundant. Both species of Mania 

 are common and widely distributed 

 Orthosiid^ 



Panolis piniperda, Panz. Common in all 



fir plantations 

 Pachnobia leucographa, Hb. Preston, Win- 

 dermere 



— rubricosa, F. Preston, Chat Moss ; 



rather more common than the pre- 

 ceding 

 Orthosia lota, Clerck. Not very common 



— macilenta, Hb. „ „ 



— suspecta, H. Recorded rarely from 



the Manchester district 



— ypsilon, Bork. Preston, and the north 

 Taeniocampa. Of this genus all the 



British species occur more or less 

 commonly 



— opima, H. Almost exclusively re- 



stricted to the coast 

 Anthocelis pistacina, F. Generally common 



— litura, L. „ „ 



— rufina, L. Crosby 



Cerastis vaccinii, L. Generally distributed 



— spadicea, Hb. „ „ 

 Scopelosoma satellitia, L. „ „ 

 Xanthia cerago, Tr. Fairly common 



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