196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
nearly three times as long as broad. Costa slightly but 
regularly arcuated, apex rather produced, anal angle rounded. 
Colour shining brownish grey, dusted with ochreous, parti- 
cularly towards the hind margin. The costa, which is very pale 
grey from near the base, has about seven black geminations, the 
first four or five being very obliquely placed. The first streak of 
the third gemination is much produced, and may generally be 
traced as a curved line across the wing to the anal angle; the 
second streak of this gemination also runs with the first to the 
anal angle, but almost from the costa it changes to a lustrous 
leaden blue. The fifth gemination is much produced towards the 
hind margin, its second streak being lustrous leaden blue, and 
joining another blue streak, which comes from the. costa nearly 
parallel with the hind margin. On the disk are two or three 
parallel longitudinal black lines, and another along the fold to the 
anal angle. Towards the hind margin are a few short, transverse, 
irregular, black stfeaks. Cilia smoky grey. Posterior wing— 
apex obtuse, slightly produced; anal angle rounded. Colour pale 
grey, with long, slightly paler cilia. Abdomen long and slender, 
grey. In the female the posterior wings are dark brownish grey, 
with paler cilia. Expands 6 lines. 
The insect may be distinguished at a glance by the elongate 
anterior wings, pale costa, and longitudinal streaks, from any 
other British Tortrix. It occurred locally, near Deal, in the 
early part of July, amongst Ononis spinosa and Onobrychis sativa, 
and I thought at once it was something new. After exhausting 
all our works on the subject, I showed them to Mr. H. T. 
Stainton, with whose kind assistance it proved to be the above 
species. It is described and figured by Herrich-Schiffer in his 
‘Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa’ 
(iv., p. 253), 257. He places it in his Subgenus xxix., Grapho- 
litha, Tr., Dup., which includes such insects as Stigmonota 
leplastriana, Catoptria microgrammana, C. albersana, Semasia 
weeberana, Opadia funebrana, &c. By Heinemann it is 
mentioned, ‘Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands, &e.’, ii, 
180, as occurring about Ononis spinosa. In Staudinger’s 
‘Catalog der Lepidopteren, &ec.’, it stands under the genus 
Grapholitha, Tr., section D, Semasia, H.-S., in company with 
Catoptria citrana, C. wimmerana, C. hypericana, Stigmonota 
coniferana, Coccyx strobilana, &e. The Grapholitha of these 
