TDRTRICIDf:. — SARROTHRirUS. 145 



Genus CCXCVIII. — SARuoTHRirus, Curtis. 



Palpi long, filiform, porrected in form of a beak, slender, clothed with long 

 pilose scales, which conceal the terminal joint, which is very long and 

 slender, nearly filiform : vmxilla long. Antennce long, slender, setaceous, 



. simple in both sexes : head rather short, with a porrected fascicle of scales 

 in front : eyes subglobose : thorax short, with a rounded crest behind : wings 

 entire ; anterior rounded at the base, the costa faintly emarginate in the 

 middle and ciliated ; hinder margin rounded, furnished with long cilia ; the 

 disc with a few slightly elevated scales ; posterior wings ample, faintly 

 notched towards the apex, with long cilia: body somewhat robust in both 

 sexes, stoutest in the females, moderately long, and furnished with a small 

 tuft: /eg-i moderate ; intermediate longest ; anterior with a long branch of 

 hairs on the inside of the femora and tibia. 



This genus, wliicli corresponds with Axia of Hlibner — a name 

 which ought strictly to be here employed, but to prevent a change I 

 have continued the one proposed in this country — is one of the most 

 conspicuous among the Tortricidas, not only from the magnitude of 

 the species, but from their habit ; the palpi are remarkably long, 

 slender, and filiform ; the maxillae are also long ; the anterior wings 

 very much rounded at the base, with the costa finely ciliated with 

 rough scales, and the disc with a few scattered elevated ones, and 

 marked with round dark dots, the hinder margin rounded and fur- 

 nished with long cilia; the anterior legs are adorned with long 

 fascicles of hair-like scales. The species are apparently autumnal, 

 making their appearance towards the end of summer, and sometimes 

 continuing throughout the winter. Hiibner, Haworth, and other 

 Lepidopterists, consider there are several species, as hereafter de- 

 scribed, but Treitschke unites them all under one name, as Pen. 

 revayana, in his 8th volume, forming them into Section A. (and 

 consequently the type) of his genus Pcnthina, as before referred to 

 (see p. 87) : though I suspect he has mistaken the species of a 

 variable genus for varieties of an inconstant species. At all events, 

 there appear to be two types of colouring, one with pale ashy or 

 hoary wings and a fulvous central dot — the other with fuscous or 

 brown wings and a black central dot : they arc comparatively rare in 

 this country ; but, upon an examination of about fifty specimens, I 

 think they may be separated into the species as I have placed them: 

 of their metamorphoses I am ignorant. 



Haustellata. Vol. IV. 30th August, 1834. k 



