EitpceciJia griseana, ITaw. — This is a subject not to be lightly 

 liandled ! It has cost me many hours of careful study, comparison, 

 and consideration for years past, and I have arrived at no very satis- 

 factory conclusion yet — nor has anybody else. 



To begin with, Hawoi'th's description is not satisfactory, not 

 recognizable, in fact, I may go further and say, incomprehensible and 

 untranslateable. He compares it with roseana, but without at all 

 making his meaning clearer, and only gives one a faint idea that he 

 nia^ have had nofuJana, Zell., before him. Stephens copies his diag- 

 nosis, but adds a description, to which I shall have to refer presently. 

 AVood figures subroseana, Haw., under this name. Mr. Doubleday, in 

 his list, sunk it into a doubtful synonym of udana, Gn., and Wocke 

 (without the query) restored it as the prior name, making udana the 

 synonym. But udana is not grey, and the description does not apply 

 to it at all. Mr. McLachlan passes griseana with very short notice, 

 but makes it synonymous with Manniana, F. v. E-. — a yellow species 

 — as well as with udana, Gn. The consequence is that at least half-a- 

 dozen different species have been sent to me as griseana, Haw., and I 

 had come to the conclusion that the name must be discarded altogether, 

 when, in examining the collection of Tortrices in the British Museum, 

 I came upon eight specimens, in fine condition, and labelled from 

 Stephens's collection, which stood under the name of griseana, and arc 

 not, in my judgment, referable to any other species with which I am 

 acquainted. These specimens have the fore-wings brownish-grey, with 

 a dark brown central fascia attenuated towards the dorsal margin, and 

 a brown streak or narrow fascia before the apex. Cilia ochreous with 

 brown spots. Hind-wings fuscous. They agree so closely wdth 

 Stephens's English description, that I see no reason why the name 

 should not be retained for them. The locality from w^hich they were 

 obtained is unknown, and I am not aware of the existence of any 

 similar specimens in any private collection. This species is larger 

 than Vectisana, with more rounded fore-wings, and seems intermediate 

 between it and rupicola. 



Eupoecilia udana, Gn. — This is the species from which Messrs. 

 Stainton and Wilkinson's descriptions of griseana were taken. 

 Guenco's description is tolerably accurate (but the ghjssy shades seem 

 to fade readily, and leave it a comparatively dull ochreous). 



"Anterior wings glossy, variegated with dark olive, ochreous, and 

 " silvery markings, a darker central fascia not very clearly dcjined, in 

 " which is a blackish spot. Apex of the wings ochreous and marked 

 " with brown. Posterior wings greyish-fuscous. Head and palpi 

 " yellow." 



