152 THE HOLMIAN TORTRIX MOTH. 



common one, as is its congener, the Holmia.n 

 ToRTRix (pictyopteryx Holmiana), which, much 

 res embles the preceding species, but has on the 

 edge of the upper wings a white triangular patch 

 surrounded with a blackish grey belt. 



"We now come to another family of Tortrices, 

 the Penthinidse, and take as our example a 

 member of the typical genus. This is the pretty 

 though soberly-coloured Moth shown on Plate XI. 

 fig. 8 {Penthina cynosbana). All the Moths of 

 this genus are exceedingly variable. The indi- 

 vidual specimen now before us has the white 

 patch at the end of the wings much larger than 

 is the case with the specimen from which the 

 figure was drawn, and the C-shaped mark which 

 is so conspicuous in the figure is very small and 

 ill-defined in my specimen. The dark portion o^ 

 the wing is brown dappled with black, and the 

 under wings are simply pale brown. 



For examples of the family Spilonotidae, we 

 take two examples, both belonging to the typical 

 family, the first of which is the Cream Short 

 CLOAK (Spilonota ocellana), a pretty though no' 

 brilliantly coloured ]\Ioth. It is extremely vari- 

 able, the markings, though consisting simply of 



