27. subcristana Brit.Ent. 1st Edition. 



" Anterior wings dark glossy brown, with deep clouds, especially towards the 

 costa, on which is a dusky blotch ; on the disc is an elevated dark but minute 

 tuft of scales and a few others towards the anal angle j head, thorax, and palpi 

 ashy-white; posterior wings pale-fuscous." Step. 

 Scotland, Darent-wood, and New Forest. 



38. latifasciana Haw. 



Superior wings cinereous or hoary with a truncate and trigonate fascia at the 

 base, and another very broad dark brown one a little behind the middle, ob- 

 lique at the extremity and extending almost to the posterior margin which is 

 ashy-white. 

 August, September, hedges and woods, Hampshire, Yorkshire, 

 and round London. 



39. plumbosana Hau: — plumbana and elevana Fah. — scabrana Hiib. 10. 58 ? 

 Livid-castaneous, costa darker at the base with elevated scales, and a few mi- 

 nute darker ones on the disc, and 3 forming a compact triangle towards the 

 middle of the costa. 



September, Birch-wood and New Forest. 



B. Palpi shorter. Button vanishing ; wings a little scabrous. 



40. Leachana Curt. 



As large as Sarrothripus ; rough, grey freckled with brown, costa ciliated at the 

 base and the cilia spotted with brown ; a reddish brown trifid mark in the 

 centre : inferior wings spotted and somewhat reticulated with bi'own. A single 

 specimen in the British Museum. 



41. marmorana Bent. MSS. 



Expanse 12 lines; superior wings brown and ferruginous freckled with 

 greyish-white and black, narrowed at the base, the costa not depressed ; palpi, 

 head, thorax, and base of wings brown, a large indistinct elongate-trigonate 

 brown space on the costa, the base bicurved and forming a black spotted line, 

 leaving between it and the base a somewhat grey fascia, the costa from the 

 middle to the apex spotted brown and grey. — Curt. 

 October, off paling, Epping Forest, Mr. Bentley. 



42. reticulana Haw. 409. 48. — tristana. Haw. var. 



Similar to No. 42 ; anterior wings pale ash-colour obscurely reticulated Avith 

 fuscous ; costa with irregular and obscure fuscescent spots ; inferior wings pale 

 fuscous or whitish. 

 July to September, amongst grass, Epping Forest, and in woods 

 round London. 



43. favillaceana Hilb. 11. 62. — Acleris Hub. 



Superior wings grey slightly scabrous ; a spot at the base and a large elongated 

 trigonate spot on the costa from the middle to the apex, ferruginous, forming 

 a fascia truncated on the disc. 



July to September, Scotland, Coomb, Birch, and Darent-woods. 



44. Fagana Curt. 



Silvery grey, with the head, thorax, and a spot at the base of the superior 

 wings purplish brown, an oblique striga broadest at the costa before, and an ob- 

 lique fascia of the same colour across the middle with the edges indented, 

 generally vanishing before it reaches the anal angle, and extending in a triangle 

 towards the apex which is slightly reticulated; abdominal tuft of male ochreous. 

 Similar to No. 43, but I have seen no connecting varieties. I have 

 always found it amongst beech trees the end of August near Lynd- 

 hurst. 



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