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COCHYLIS RUPICOLA. 



The Chalk-clifF Tortrix. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tortricidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tortrix rubellana Huh. 

 CocHYLis Och., Curt. — Tortrix Hub., Haw., Och. 



AntenncB inserted close to the eyes on the anterior part of the 

 head, rather shorter than the body, setaceous, composed of nu- 

 merous joints clothed with scales above, very hairy beneath (1 «). 

 Maxillce rather shorter than the Palpi, formed of 2 filaments (3). 

 ia6««/Pff/pi nearly horizontal, clavate, thickly clothed with scales, 

 the apical joint slightly apparent (4) ; triarticulate, basal joint 

 small and clavate, 2nd long stout and ventricose, 3rd short and 

 slender (4 a). 

 Head clothed with long scales, combed up and meeting on the crown : 

 eyes rather small, orbicular arid lateral: ocelli 2. Thorax 5ma// 

 and subglobose. Abdomen short and tufted at the apex in the male. 

 Wings, superior somewhat linear and truncated more or less obliqriely; 

 mferiov someivhat angulated at the apex. Legs, anterior short : tibiae, 

 middle and posterior furnished with long spurs at the apex, the latter 

 having a pair also a little below the middle (8 1) • 



RuPicoLA Curt. Guide, Gen. 963. 10. 



In the Author's Cabinet. 



The following species belonging to this beautiful group have 

 been recorded as British. Many of them fly in the forenoon. 



1. Francillana F. — Don. 10. S55. 1. — Baumanniana? Hiib. 



— Tort. 23. 148. c?' — sanguinea Och. 

 Middle of July, sides of cliff below Dover Castle, J. C. 



2. Smeathmanniana F. — Fabriciana Hiib. 23. 149. 



3. straminea Haw. 401. 18. 



May, and end of August, pastures, Dover and Yorkshire. 



4. alternana Sic. 



Middle and end of August, on flowers of Centaurea {pi. 241. 

 and 361.), and flying in the evening on the cliffs near Dover. 



5. Dubrisana Ctcrt. 



4 to 6 lines broad. Palpi head and thorax griseous; abdo- 

 men silky grey; superior wings pale sulphur mottled with 

 shining white and brownish marks, with a somewhat inter- 

 rupted oblique brown fascia across the middle and another 

 beyond it : inferior wings white, more or less freckled with 

 fuscous towards the apex.— Middle of August, top of cliffs 

 near Dover, J. C. 



6. marmcralana Ciui. 



7 lines broad. Antennae and palpi blackish, the latter white 

 inside; head thorax and abdomen griseous, the latter white at 

 the apex : superior wings pale sulphur freckled with brown 

 and variegated with shining white spots and lines, leaving two 



