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SS^ VOLUME XXIII. Jl^ 



NOTES ON BEITISH TORTRICES. 

 BY CHAS. G. BABRETT, F.E.S. 

 (^Continued from Vol. xxi, p. 126.) 



Adverting to my remarks (Vol. xxii, pp. 1, 2) on the closely 

 allied and difficult species of Dichrorampha, Gn. {Dicrorampha and 

 Endopisa, Wilkinson), I have, I think, after much consideration, 

 arrived at some sort of a satisfactory conclusion. 



Out of the eight species or varieties there enumerated, I think 

 that four species may be reliably distinguished. One of these — the 

 6th — is our \fQ\\-\.no'^n plumhagana, about which there is no question, 

 and which seems to require no remark now. 



No. 5 — our commonest species, found almost everywhere in grassy 

 places — is heavily weighted with names. It is certainly ulicana, of 

 Wilkinson and Stainton, and, I think, without doubt, hlepharana, H.-S. 

 (197, 8), ?i,VLdt. plumhana of Heinemann. Zachana, Treitschke, appears 

 to be a rather more pointed-winged species, but its markings would do 

 for this or either of its allies, yet ulicana of Gruenee was confessedly 

 substituted for it. In fact, Guenee gave no description of ulicana at 

 all. Scopoli's description of his plumhana is quite useless ; in fact, he 

 mentions "ferruginous spots," of which this species presents no trace, 

 but the name 2)lumbana seems to have been restored to it by Zeller, 

 who had an opportunity of examining the (very rare) plates belonging 

 to Scopoli's work, and must have found in them the necessary evi- 

 dence. Under this name of jilumbana the species is now generally 

 known, and it seems unnecessary to object to it. It certainly has the 

 merit of suitability. 



The species — No. 1 — which we had been accustomed to call 

 tanaceti, until Mr. Warren unravelled the history of that name, and 

 showed it to belong to the comparatively northern species which I had 

 called herhosana, appears to agree sufficiently well with Guenee's de- 

 scription of saturnana, to which Heinemann and Wockc also refer it. 



Anterior-wings above olivaceous, irrorated witli yellow scales, as in ulicana, es- 

 pecially at the apex. A very faint dorsal spot and leaden lines, not blue, of which 



