98 TORTRICINA. 



gnawed pith and white silk. In its younger states it feeds in a 

 kind of covered way ; when full grown it is 7 lines long, of a 

 bright pink colour, paler beneath. The head is black, heart- 

 shaped, shining. The shield, black, shining, with the fore margin 

 pale, divided by a dorsal line. The anal segment has a black, 

 shining, oval plate, and six elevated spots preceding it. The in- 

 tervening segments each with eight brown, oval, shining, elevated 

 spots, each bearing a single hair springing from their centres. 



5. Brunnichiana, Schiff. Alls antic-is cinereo-fulvis nebulosis ; 

 macula media marginis dorsalis trigona straminea ; costa strigis 

 geminatis albicantibus ; posticis nigro-brimncis. <$ Ex. al. 

 7-9 lin. 



Head fuscous, paler behind. Face paler than the head. Eyes 

 black. Palpi tawny, slightly paler beneath. Antennae fuscous. 

 Thorax and patagia dull brown, with an ochreous tinge ; the latter 

 slightly paler at the apex. Anterior wings dull, cream-colour. The 

 whole of the wing, except the costal markings and the dorsal blotch, 

 suffused with dull ochreous, mottled with fuscous ; at the base the 

 costa is alternated with dull ochreous and fuscous, and beyond the 

 middle it is marked with four cream-coloured geminated streaks, 

 with lustrous blue wavy lines below them. The apical spot is distinct, 

 and below it are one or two cream-coloured marks. The dorsal 

 blotch is cream-colour ; its anterior margin sharply defined, and its 

 posterior edge somewat angulated, and usually with a faint mark on 

 the margin. Between this blotch and the ocelloicl patch is a dark 

 liturated spot ; the ocelloid patch itself is oval and distinct, con- 

 sisting of two pale lustrous blue clouds, with a row of black spots 

 between, on a pale ground. Apical scales mottled brown, with 

 ochreous tips. Cilia ochreous, slightly paler at the anal angle. 

 Posterior wings and marginal scales rich purplish brown ; the bases 

 of the latter straw-colour. Cilia rich straw-colour. Abdomen umber, 

 the caudal tuft ochreous. 5 Exp. al. 8-9 lin. In colour somewhat 

 darker than the rf , and with the markings assuming a more decided 

 character. 



A very common insect, variable in size, and particularly in the 

 intensity of the colour of the anterior wings. Its ordinary 

 dimensions are those of H. cirsiana, and the colour ranges from 

 pale drab to fuscous. It resembles H. tetragonana, but is larger, 

 usually paler in the anterior wings, and the blotch on the dorsal 

 margin larger and more quadrate. The variety quadrana is the 

 ordinary Scotch form of this insect, which is usually smaller, and 

 always much darker than the deep-coloured English specimens. 



The imago appears from June to August, commonly among 

 Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara), and also in other places where that 



