OXIGRAPHA LITERANA, L. 159 
Unfortunately in the figures the longitudinal fulvous bands 
show very faintly. The example figured has the black markings 
very strongly developed. These markings vary in strength in 
ab. fulvoliterana as they do in the type form. 
Ab. fulvomaculana, n. ab. 
I give this name to an aberration which is in all respects 
similar to the preceding, with the exception that the longitudinal 
fulvous bands are broken up into blotches, which have portions 
of the green ground-colour showing between them. It is well 
figured by Hubner, ‘ Tort.,’ fig. 90 (as literana). 
I cannot find that any other author has treated of this 
aberration, which is apparently rare. My series of four examples 
came from the New Forest. 
I have not given a figure of this aberration, the fulvous 
blotches not showing by the half-tone process. 
Ab. tricolorana, Haw. (Plate I, fig. 5.) 
Synonymy.—T'ricolorana, Haw., Lep. Brit., p. 411, No. 54 
(1803) : Stephens, Cat., p. 188, No. 7096 (1829) ; Curtis, Guide, 
p- 73 (1829); Rennie, Conspect., p. 179 (1832) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., 
p- 440, No. 3 (1838); Stephens, Haust. iv, p. 165 (1834) ; Godart 
et Duponchel, Hist. Nat., 1x, p. 128, and pl. 242, fig. 2a (squamana) 
(1834) ; Wood, Ind. Ent., fis. 1101 (1839) ; Westwood, Brit. 
Moths, pl. 96, fig. 13, and p. 164 (1845) ; Staudinger, Cat. Lep. 
Kur., p. 94 (1861) and p. 284 (1871); Snellen, Vlinders, p. 176, 
No. 7 (literana and tricolorana) (1882) ; Staudinger, Cat. Pal. 
Lep., ii, p. 82 (1901); Barrett, Brit. Lep., x, p. 216, and pl. 451, 
fic. 3b (1905); Spuler, Schmett. Eur., p. 242 (1908); Kennel, 
Pal. Tort., p. 88 (1908) ; Wagner, Lep. Cat., par. x, p. 69 (1912). 
Original description—Tortriz tricolorana (the  tri-coloured 
green) alis cinereo-viridibus, lineolis atomisque atris, striaque 
furcata ruga. Tortrix irroranae varietas ? Hub., Schmett, tab. 15. 
Habitat. Quercetis, at rarissime. Imago, f. Sept. Hxamplaria 
perpauca solum vidi. Expansio alarum 9% lin. 
Discriptio. T. squamanae nimis affinis, ale antice cineree, 
tinctura viridi, atomis undique parum sparsis nigris. Costa 
antice, lineolis transversis undulatis, postice, punctis numerosis 
atrio. Discus literis nebulisque validis itidem atris. Stria rufa 
extendit—a basi per marginem posticum, et ramulum exserit 
basin versus, oblique ad medium cost. Postice fuscescentes. 
This very beautiful form, as before mentioned, comes near to 
ab. fulvoliterana, but it is distinguished from it by the greyer 
ground-colour and thick sprinkling of black dots on the superiors. 
It is not by any means abundant, but can hardly be called rare— 
at any rate in the New Forest. I should consider it the most 
abundant of the forms with fulvous markings. I have a fine 
