^X characterized species of British Moths. Ill 



On the authority of Zeller, Mr. Doubleday has changed my 

 name for " prodromanaj' vide " Hiib. Caterpillars, Tortrices 4, 

 Genuinse B, c, fig. c," and on referring to the plate where the 

 moth is figured with its wings closed, I am not satisfied that it 

 represents my insect : it has simple antennse, it is much lighter 

 than any I have seen, and the shoulder-marks are different : 

 nevertheless it may represent the female. 



4. Genus 950, 23. Spilonota tetragonana. Step. I took a spe- 

 cimen 11th July, 1842, on a hedge bounding a wood going to 

 Woolmer Forest from Selborn. 



5. 26. Spilonota sylvestrana, Curt., was first discovered by 

 Mr. Dale at Bournemouth, and from the 23rd June to the 1st 

 July we found it there in 1846. It inhabits the Pinasters on the 

 cliffs, and we beat it into our nets in the daytime. It has been 

 distributed amongst entomologists by the name of " duplana " of 

 Hiibner, pi. 36. f. 229 & 230, to which it is not unlike, but much 

 smaller : it also resembles the small dark varieties of S. comi- 

 tana, Hiib. 



It is gray : head grisly and crested ; palpi horizontal, very 

 scaly, second joint rhomboidal, apical not apparent ; basal joint 

 of antennse stout ; they are closely annulated with black : wings 

 deflexed in repose ; superior oblong, tip rounded ; gray, trans- 

 versely but irregularly striped with brown and chestnut, one-third 

 of the base and a space towards the posterior margin darker, at 

 the centre of this is a brownish-ochreous orbicular but not well- 

 defined patch ; the costa is spotted gray and dusky ; the cilia are 

 griseous with a black line at the base : under-wings pale golden- 

 brown ; cilia tinted, with a darker line : the under-side is of an 

 uniform pale golden-brown, the costa slightly spotted: hinder 

 tibise stout, with a pair of spurs below the middle, a little longer 

 than the apical pair : expanse from 6 to 6 J lines. 



6. 27. Spilonota (Sideria) achatana, W.V. ; marmorana, Hiib.; 

 Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 551. The 12th July, 1848, I beat four out 

 of blackthorns by Pole Hill, near Uxbridge. 



7. Genus 955, 5. Anchylopera Lyellana, Curt. Brit. Ent. 

 fol. 376, having been first added to our British fauna by Sir 

 Charles Lyell, who took it in June at Kinnordy in Forfarshire, I 

 named it after my friend, but it seems to have been described 

 previously by Treitschke under the name of Phoxopteryx myrtiU 

 lanay and has been since figured by Duponchel, vol. x. pi. 253. 

 f. 4. 



8. 8. A. diminutana, Haw. ; cuspidana, Treit. I have taken it 

 the middle of August at Mickleham in Surrey, and Mr. Dale 

 finds it at Lulworth in Dorsetshire. 



