TORTRlCIDt. — AXTICLEA. llj 



with minute blackish dots, the hinder portion is similarly marked, and 

 bears an hidistinct speculum with a lead-coloured patch and three or 

 four transverse black dots: costa streaked with black, with a brown dot at 

 the apex: hinder margin with a black line: cilia white, brownish at the 

 apex: posterior wings fuscous: cilia ashy and shining. 

 Not common ; found in hedges at the end of June and beginning 

 of July, within the metropoUtan district. 



Sp. 11. asseclana. Alis anticis obtusis albidis, postice fuscis macula nuhocellari 

 suhargenied, margine unuii cinereo, upice puncto rotunda picto. (Exp. Alar. 

 5^—6 lin.) 



To. asseclana. Hubner. — N. G. asseclana. Steph. Catal. ii. 178. No. 6969. 



Anterior wings very obtuse, whitish, very thickly sprinkled with minute bluish 

 dots and streaked with the same on the costa; the hinder portion of the 

 wings is brownish, with a very obsolete silvery spot on the speculum, in 

 which are some minute black lines ; at the apex is a rounded brown dot : 

 posterior wings brownish. 



I suspect this insect may prove to be a large and suffused variety of the pre- 

 ceding species, which it very much resembles, excepting in colour, and in the 

 anterior wings being more retuse at the apex. 

 Not common ; found at Darenth in July. 



Sp. 12. Mitterbacheriana. Alis anticis subtestaceis nebulosis, strigis costalibus 

 JcLsciaque rectangulari albicantibuSt posticis fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 7 lin.) 



To. Mitterbacheriana. ^Wi&rter? — N. G. Mitterbacheriana. Sieph. Catal. ii. 178. 

 iVo. 6970. — Ph. To. trimaculana. Donovan, xi. pi. 369. f. 1. 



An extremely variable insect : in general the anterior wings are of a testaceous 

 brown, with darker streaks and clouds, with a conspicuous rectangular 

 whitish fascia a little before the middle, varying in width ; towards the apex 

 is another but more obscure one, placed obliquely and faintly marked with 

 silvery spots near the anal angle, adjoiinng to which are three or four black 

 longitudinal streaks: the costa is prettily streaked with oblique white lines, 

 and at the extreme tip is a brown dot, edged with black; cilia brown: 

 posterior wings fuscous. 



Some examples are entirely suffused with fuscous, with the usual markings 

 very indistinctly traced : others are brownish, or pitchy, or nearly black, 

 and all intermediate shades are found ; while in some, which are pale testa- 

 ceous-brown, the markings are scarcely visible ; in fact, two examples hardly 

 occur precisely alike. 

 I suspect this species feeds on the elm : it is abundant where that 



tree is found, and is in plenty within the metropolitan district 



throughout the summer. " Gibside." — G. Wailes, Esq. " Rac- 



hills."^— Tfc'f. W. Litlle. 



