J. W. ELLIS: LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE GEOMETRID^. lOI 



Boarmia rhomboidaria, W.V. Common and generally distri- 

 buted. 



Boarmia roboraria, W.V. Very scarce, being recorded only from 



Dunham Park (J.C, J.B.H.). 

 Boarmia biundularia, Borkh. = laricaria, Doubl. Local. 



Lane— Preston, Longridge, etc. (J.B.H.); Prestwich and 



Worsley (J.C). 



Ches.— Petty Pool Wood, Delamere Forest (S.J.C., F.N.P.). 

 Boarmia crepuscularia, W.V. Local. 



Lane. — Botany-bay Wood, Worsley (J.C); Hale (CS.G.); 

 Longridge (J.B.H.). 



Ches. — Alderley, occasionally (H.H.C); Hooton (CS.G.) ; 

 Rudd Heath (J.C). 

 Boarmia consonaria, Hiibn. One locality recorded in each county, 

 viz., Newby Bridge, near Windermere (J.B.H.), and Upton, near 

 Birkenhead, a single specimen only (C.S.G.). 

 Boarmia extersaria, Hiibn. Mr. Hodgkinson records the capture 

 of a single specimen at Newby Bridge, at the foot of 

 Windermere. 



Boarmia punctularia, Hiibn. Local, and nowhere common. 



Lane. — Chat Moss, Hoghton Tower (J.C.) ; Croxteth and 

 Knowsley (CS.G.) ; Preston (J.B.H.) ; Silverdale (J.C.M.). 



Ches.— Bramall (H.H.C); Delamere (S.J.C); East Cheshire, 

 on the authority of N. Greening (A.O.W.). 



BISTON, Leach. 



Biston strataria, Hufn. =prodromaria (W.V.). Generally distributed 

 through both counties, but nowhere common. 

 Lane— Preston, rare (J.B.H.). 



Ches.— Alderley, rare (H.H.C); Bidston (CS.G.); Bowdon 

 and Dunham Park (J.CM.) ; Dunham Park and Tatton Park 

 (J.C); Delamere (J.C, CS.G., Ent, vi, 452); Eastham Wood, 

 occasionally (W.G., W.J., A.O.W., T. Galliers, Ent. Weekly 

 Intell., i860, i, 19). 



Biston pilosaria, W.V. Common and generally distributed. 



Biston hispidaria, W.V. Recorded only from Dunham Park, 

 Cheshire (J.C, J.B.H., R. S. Edleston, Zool., i, 176). 



Biston zonaria, W.V. Coast sand-hills of Cheshire and Lancashire, 

 probably introduced into the latter county. This species was 

 discovered by the late Mr. Nicholas Cooke in 1833 (although 

 his brother, Mr. Benjamin Cooke, had found a pupa in 1832) 

 on the New Brighton sand-hills. 



April 1887. 



