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leaf, looking very pretty. It flies naturally at dusk about the 

 roses iu gardens, and still more about those growing at the 

 sides of country lanes and roads, but is not absent from the 

 gardens of the London suburbs, and comes willinelv to the 

 attraction of a strong light. A plentiful species throiigiiout 

 the southern and eastern counties of England to Oxfordshire 

 and Bucks, Herts and Norfolk ; also found in Gloucestershire, 

 Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire ; but 

 so far as I know not further north ; and I have no record for 

 AVales. In Ireland it has been taken near Dublin and Cork, 

 and rarely at Enuiskillen. Abroad it is frequent in Central 

 Europe, Central and Northern Italy, the north of Spain, 

 Asia Minor, and Armenia. 



7. P. variegana, 11,0,.; cynosbatella, ].. WIW.; 

 cynosbana, D. Z.— Expanse j to | inch (15-18 mm.). 

 Fore wings broad, rather blunt behind; rather more than 

 half black-brown, the remainder dull white clouded with 

 grey, and having a round black dot or two outside the dark 

 area. 



Antennte black-brown ; palpi, head, and thorax grey- 

 black ; crest more grey ; abdomen black-brown. Fore wino-s 

 broad and blunt ; costa arched ; apex almost squared ; hind 

 margin straight and faintly oblique ; rather more than one- 

 half the area from the base mottled with black-brown and 

 dark slate-grey, the portion between the usual basal blotch 

 and central band more blue-grey; outside the irreo-ular 

 margin of this space are two black dots in the middle often 

 with other dots, less distinct, between them; outer area 

 dull white shaded with rather large smoky grej- clouds ; 

 costa faintly dotted with black ; cilia mixed, grey and white. 

 Hind wings and their cilia smoky brown. Female similar. 

 Underside of the fore wings dull smoky brown. Hind 

 wings smoky white. 



Usually not variable, but a very singular variation — or 

 albinism — which occurs rarely in many species of Tortrices, 



