158 LEPIDOPTERA. 



by a straight, oblique, ill-defined fascia, fuscous with a reddish 

 tint, especially at the lower half; there is also a short 

 blackish transverse streak above the middle of the fascia. 

 Moreover, as already stated, the basal portion is nearly 

 white. Now in parva the basal portion occupies about half 

 the wing, and is bounded by a distinctly undulated line {pace, 

 M. Guenee), and the colour of the basal portion is ochreous 

 (or reddish fuscous-ochreous in one example), the colour 

 being intensified towards the boundary line. Again, the 

 shape of the second line in paula is a line once angulated, 

 but that of parva (I must again ask M. Guenee's jDardon) 

 more resembles a note of interrogation (?) than anything 

 else I can think of. 



There are plenty of other characters, but these will be 

 amply sufficient to separate the two species. 



Halonota grand^vana, Zeller (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 vol. ix. p. 272). 



This fine large Tortrix was brought forward as British 

 by Mr. C. G. Barrett, who, by the aid of well-marked 

 Alpine specimens received from Prof. Zeller, has made a 

 careful description of it in the ninth volume of the Entomo- 

 logist's Monthly Magazine. 



GrandcBvana expands from an inch to an inch-and-a-half, 

 is broad- winged, of an ashy colour, much irrorated with 

 pale-brown streaks and dots, and has the costal and hind 

 maro-ins spotted with pale brown. A single example of it 

 was captured on the wing by Mr. C. Eales, of South Shields, 

 in July, 1872. This specimen measures only an inch across 

 the wings, and is consequently below the average size of the 

 insect. 



GrandcBvana seems to be widely distributed throughout 

 west Europe, occurring in the Alps, north and west Germany, 



