LEPIDOPTEBOUS FAUNA OF LANCASHIRE 

 AND CHESHIRE. 



JOHN W. ELLIS, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.E., F.E.S., 

 Liverpool \ Honorary Secretary, Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



NOCTURE. 



Fam. BOMBYCOIDsE. 

 DILOBA, Boisd: 



Biloba caeruleocephala, L. Common, and generally distributed 

 throughout both counties. 



DEMAS, Steph. 



Demas coryli, L. Not common, the localities recorded being 

 Dolphinholme, near Lancaster (J.B.H.); Grange, local (E.S.); 

 Croxteth Park, near Liverpool (C.S.G.). 



Fam. A CRONYCTID/E. 

 CRANIOPHORA, Snell. 



Craniophora ligustri, L. Very scarce. 



Lane. — Speke, Hale, and Rainhill, at sugar (C.S.G.). 

 Ches. — Taken at Old Marsh Lane, Ince, by Mr. Newstead 

 (A.O.W.). 



ACRONYCTA, Ochs. 



Acronycta leporina, L. Generally distributed. 



Lane— Bolton (W.J.) ; Chat Moss (J.C, W.J.); Hale and 

 Huyton (S.J.C); Ormskirk (W.G.) ; Preston (J.B.H.) ; Rixton 

 and Risley Mosses (J.C) ; Simonswood Moss (F.N. P., W.J., 

 J.W.E.); Birch-wood, near Woolton (C.S.G.). 



Ches.— Bidston (J.F.B., C.S.G.) ; Carrington Moss (J.C); 

 Delamere Forest (F.N.P.) ; Dunham Park (J.C). 

 Acronycta alni, L. Of occasional occurrence, principally in the 

 larval state, recorded localities being : — 



Lane. — Grange (J.B.H.) ; two larvae near his own house at 

 Huyton, in August 1871 (S.J.C, Ent, v, 417) ; near Manchester 

 in 1868 (J. Leigh, Ent. Mo. Mag., ii, 105); an imago at sugar, 

 in June 1850, at Speke Hall (C.S.G.). 



Ches. — Delamere Forest, taken by Mr. Leather in 1877 

 (A.O.W.); larvae at Deysbrook, in August i860 (C.S.G.) ; Dun- 

 ham Park, in 1842 (J.B.H.), and in July 1872 by J. Chappell 



Sept. 1886. 



