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the front edge of the second segment yellowish-red ; it 

 feeds on various trees, oak, hazel, etc., in August and 

 September. 



The perfect insect appears in May and June ; and 

 may be occasionally beaten from bushes in the daytime. 



The allied but scarcer Chloephora quercana is readily 

 distinguished by its larger size (the expansion of the 

 wings is about If inch), and the brighter green anterior 

 wings are only traversed by two oblique pale yellow 

 lines ; it occurs round London, the larva feeding on oak. 



The smaller Earias clorana (of which the expansion 

 of the wings is rather less than an inch) has no transverse 

 lines, but a broad whitish streak along the cost a of the 

 fore-wings from the base to beyond the middle ; other- 

 wise the fore-wings are of a brilliant green. The white 

 hind- wings distinguish this at a glance from the common 

 Green Tortrix (T. viridana), independently of the white 

 costal streak of the fore-wings. E. clorana frequents 

 osier beds, and the larva may be collected freely in the 

 terminal shoots of osiers in August. 



TORTRICINA. FAMILY I. TORTRICID^E. 

 ANTITHESIA CORTICANA. 



(Plate XIV., Fig. 1.) 



This very pretty species occurs in several localities 

 in the south of England; it used to be common at 

 Bulwich Wood, and also occurs at West Wickham Wood, 

 Epping Forest, etc. 



The expansion of the wings is about j inch. The 

 fore-wings have the basal two-thirds blackish, but with 

 two large white blotches on the costa, one at the base 

 nnd the other before the middle, and from the middle of 



