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583. 

 PHILALCEA JULIANA. 



Beiitley's Marble Tortrix. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tortricidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tortrix ramella Linn. 

 Philalcea and Aiiticlea Step. — Phoxopteris Treit., Goda., Curt. — 

 Ancylis and Epinotia Hub. — Grapholitha and Sciaphila Goda. — 

 Tortrix Linn., Haw. 



Antennce inserted close to the eyes on the crown of the head, 

 rather short, setaceous and composed of numerous joints, scaly 

 above and very hairy beneath (1). 



Maxillce spiral, rather stout and membranous, considerably 

 shorter than the labial palpi (3). Palpi very minute, biarticu- 

 late ? terminal joint ovate. 



Labial palpi rather long and clavate, porrected obliquely, densely 

 clothed with short scales, the apical joint a little visible (4) : 

 triarticulate, basal joint short, stout, somewhat securiform, 2nd 

 long, slightly inflated towards the apex, 3rd small obovate, elon- 

 gated and truncated somewhat obliquely (a). 

 Head small, with the scales combed over the crown : eyes small but 

 prominent : ocelli distinct. Thorax small. Abdomen short tufted 

 in the male ; conical and sometimes acuminated in the female. Wings 

 subdeflexed in repose ; superior elongate, casta generally curved, the 

 apex sometimes slightly falcate : inferior not very ample, with a 

 shallow notch towards the apex. Legs, anterior very short : tibiae, 

 anterior very short, intermediate with a pair of long unequal spurs 

 at the apex (8*), hinder with 2 pair, one at the middle: tarsi 5 -jointed, 

 anterior very short. 

 Caterpillars with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. 

 Obs. the dissections are drawn from T. bilunana Haw. 



Juliana Bent. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 956. 12. 



Cream-colour, superior wings gray at the base, the costa ochre- 

 ous towards the apex, spotted with brown, leaving oblique whitish 

 stripes divided by a dark line, several interrupted brown curved 

 bands at the base, with a dark triangular spot on the interior 

 margin, a lozenge brown mark at the middle of the costa, the 

 posterior portion of the wing ferruginous, forming an irregular 

 line from the apex to the inner margin, a black ovate spot, 

 whitish internally beyond the middle, with another nearer the 

 centre and closer to the posterior inargin, which is bounded by 

 a black line, edged with ochre internally and broken by irre- 

 gular longitudinal black lines, both as well as a smaller one at 

 the anal angle margined externally with silver of a rose or blue 

 tint : disc of thorax and segments of abdomen fuscous, inferior 

 wings the same, with an aureous tinge. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



If the extremes of this pretty group be compared, a consider- 

 able difference of form in the upper wings will be discover- 

 able, being slightly hooked in the type, but obtuse in the spe- 

 cies figured; yet there is a concatenation amongst them, which 



