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and its posterior giving out a branch towards the dorsal margin, and 

 pointing to the apical margin. Beyond this, the subapical spot is 

 produced into a second fascia, widest on the costa, diminishing as it 

 reaches the opposite margin ; sometimes this fascia is interrupted 

 towards the middle, at the part where it narrows. Apical margin 

 fuscous. 



The only place at which this species is recorded to have been 

 captured is near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, where it was taken 

 about thirteen years ago- by W. W. Saunders, Esq., in July. It 

 has occasionally turned up since at the same place. Messrs. 

 Buxton and A. F. Sheppard have taken it in some plenty ; but 

 it is still rare in cabinets. This insect affects the Iris fcati- 

 dissima in the seed- capsules, of which plant the larva is said to 

 feed. On the Continent the larva is very destructive to the Vine. 



Genus XL CLEPSIS, GUENEE. 



Head small. Antennas setaceous, stouter and pubescent beneath 

 in the rf . Palpi twice as long as the head, stout, drooping, thickly 

 clothed with loose scales, which envelope the apical joint ; basal 

 joint stout, truncate; apical minute, straight, not so long as the 

 basal ; middle, stout, thickened towards the apex, more than three 

 times as long as the apical. Maxillae short. Thorax subglobose, 

 not tufted behind. Anterior wings in the tf : length rather more 

 than twice the width. Costa arcuated, obtusely so at the base. 

 Apex acute ; apical margin straight, oblique ; dorsal margin slightly 

 rounded. In the $ the length of the anterior wings is considerably 

 more than twice the width, and they are obtusely arched at the base, 

 but straight beyond. Apex produced ; apical margin concave, oblique ; 

 dorsal margin parallel with the costa. Posterior wings obtusely fal- 

 cate at the apex ; apical margin concave ; the dorsal margin in the 

 more rounded than in the tf . Abdomen slender in the c? , with a 

 large tuft at the apex ; stout and obtuse in the $ . 



This genus is established by M. Guenee, who located it at the 

 end of his 6th tribe Sciaphilidi, not however without doubt, as 

 in a foot-note he observes : " Genus vix Sciaphilidis adnume- 

 randum, sed ubi melius ?" The only species known, offers very 

 great resemblance to the true Tortrices, especially to our first 

 section of that genus, where the anterior wings of the $ are 

 semilanceolate (T. icterana and Viburnand) ; the palpi too are of 

 similar structure, and it is just possible that further observation 

 and knowledge of the larva may assign its real position in the 

 latter genus. 



1. rusticana, Treit. ? Alis anticis maris ochraceo-cinereis atomis 



