556 TORTRICINA [COMMOPHILA 



black and mixed with silvery -white, with a ferruginous -red 

 apical spot. Hindwings pale grey, darker-strigulated. 



England, local ; C. Europe ; 6. Larva purplish, incisions 

 light green head yellow-brown ; plate of 2 black : in berries 

 of JRhamnus catharticus ; 7, 8. 



3. C. schreibersiana, Frol. 12-15 mm. Head yellow-ochreous. 

 Forewings with tufts slight; dark fuscous, black-mixed, with 

 leaden-metallic striae ; basal blotch with edge sharply angulated 

 near costa, and a costal spot beyond middle bright yellow- 

 ochreous, striated with silvery -whitish, and marked on costa 

 with black. Hindwings dark fuscous. 



Suffolk, Cambridge, Hunts, local ; C. Europe, WC. Asia to 

 N. Persia ; 5, 6. Larva in bark of elm ; 8, 9. 



6. ANISOTAENIA, Stph. 



Thorax with posterior crest. Forewings : 7 to termen. 

 Hindwings : 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 closely approximated 

 towards base. 



The single species constituting this genus is a singular insect 

 of undefined type and rather uncertain affinities, but may prob- 

 ably be regarded as an early form of this family. 



1. A. ulmana, Hb. 12-16 mm. Forewings dark fuscous, 

 more or less strigulated or mixed with blackish, with some 

 obscure leaden-metallic spots ; an irregular white rather oblique 

 antemedian fascia, in $ slender, often interrupted or reduced to 

 one or two variable spots, in $ rather broad, entire ; sometimes 

 two or three small white spots on costa posteriorly. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous. 



Britain to the Clyde, N. and W. Ireland, rather common ; 

 C. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva in folded leaves of Ranunculus 

 ficaria ; 4. 



7. CLYSIA, Hb. 



Thorax smooth. Forewings : 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen. 

 Hindwings : 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Also contains only a single species, which has seldom been 

 noticed in this country. The peculiar variability of the larval 

 habit seems to call for further investigation. 



1. C. ambiguella, Hb. 12-15 mm. Head whitish. Forewings 

 whitish-ochreous, clouded and strigulated with darker ochreous; 

 costal edge dark fuscous anteriorly ; a broad dark grey ante- 

 median fascia, mixed with blackish and in disc with ferruginous, 

 much narrowed dorsally ; dorsum dotted with blackish ; some 



