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Pcecilocliroma signatana, Doiigl. 



Pcecilochroma oppressana, Tr. — Not now a rare species, having 

 been taken some years ago in great numbers by Dr. Ivnaggs and otliers 

 near London. I have also found it in Norfolk. 



Anisotcenia tdmana, Hiibn.^ — This pretty species is common in the 

 lanes around Haslemere, Surrey, frequenting hazel. 



Boxana nreuana, Clerck. — I have always found this species flying 

 over and settling upon stunted oak bushes in woods, not upon Pteris 

 aquilina. In Epping Forest Mr. Doubleday finds it on hazel. 



Semasia populana, Eab. — Mr. Doubleday, in his list, substitutes 

 ephippana, Hiibn., but it seems to be generally admitted that this is 

 the ivxxQ. 2Jopulana of Pabricius. 



In the Norfolk fens its larva feeds in the shoots of dwarf sallow 

 (Salis o^epens ?). I once found the perfect insect sitting in a blossom 

 of Parnassia jjcilustris, apparently extracting honey, a very unusual 

 circumstance amoug the Tortrices. 



Semasia spiniana, Tisch. — Prof. Zeller says : " only among Prunus 

 " spinosa,'' but in this country we find it about hawthorn hedges, 

 flying about sunset. 



Semasia obscurana, Wilk. — Under this name Wilkinson accurately 

 describes gallicolana, Zell. (not obscurana, Steph.), the only fault in 

 his description being that he omits to say that the rich chestnut-brown 

 of the fore-wings is much clouded with dark grey with a bluish gloss. 

 Prom obscurana, Steph., it differs in the greater breadth of the fore- 

 wings, the more upright, clearer and whiter dorsal blotch, and the 

 more richly coloured aj)ical space. 



This species, as I have already remarked, has also been confounded 

 with Halonota cosfipunctana, and, under that name, its larva is re- 

 corded as feeding in "oak apple" galls (galls of Teras termmalis). 

 It is well known and not scarce in Germany, but exceedingly rare in 

 this country, apparently occurring in woods in the south of England. 

 Mr. Sang has kindly sent me specimens taken, he believes, at Darenth. 

 Mr. Doubleday has also British specimens. 



Por this species the name of gallicolana, Zell., must be retained. 



Semasia obscurana, Steph. — Stephens' description "Anterior wings 

 " obscure, brown, with darker clouds, towards the apex of the costa 

 " are a few rather indistinct whitish abbreviated lines, placed irre- 

 " gularly, and on the middle of the inner margin is a faint whitish 



