TORTRICINA. Ill 



A rare species in cabinets. It was first added to our list by 

 the late Richard Weaver, who took it in Scotland ; it has since 

 been taken by other collectors. 



2. distinctana, Bentley MSS. Alls anticis aureo-brunneis nebulis 

 saturatioribus ; ante medium striga, pone altera ad costam bifida, 

 argenteis ; posticis fuscis. tf Exp. al. &J-6 lin. 



Head drab, darker behind. Face drab, paler below. Eyes black. 

 Palpi as long as the head ; drab, with the bases inclining to ochreous. 

 Antennaa pale fuscous, drab at the base. Thorax dusky drab. Pa- 

 tagia brownish at the base ; at the apex drab. Anterior wings very 

 pale drab, with a lustrous appearance, with broad patches, and fasciae 

 of rich golden brown, mixed with umber. At the base is a streaky 

 patch, which extends one-third along the costa, palish towards its 

 origin, with a sharply- denned border, slightly undulate and convex. 

 At the middle of the costa commences a wide clearly-defined fascia, 

 dilating at the centre, and attaining the dorsal margin, being twice 

 as wide there as at its outset ; its anterior edge indented towards 

 the costa, and its posterior extending near to the anal angle. The 

 apical region is occupied by a patch, more or less interrupted on the 

 costa by pale produced streaks. The ground-colour of the wing 

 appears between the principal markings in the form of two transverse 

 silvery strigae ; one towards the base, simple, the other towards 

 the apex, bifid on the costa. Apical scales dark umber, with paler 

 bases. Cilia darkest towards the apex, fuscous, with broad shining 

 drab bases. Posterior wings : surface clothed with coarse fuscous 

 scales upon a whitish ground, gradually becoming darker to the apex. 

 Marginal scales fuscous, the bases paler. Cilia dusky, inclining to 

 straw-colour. Abdomen fuscous ; the caudal tuft drab. $ Exp. 

 al. 5^-6 lin. 



This is a very distinct species, and has hitherto been mixed 

 up in our cabinets as a variety of C. Hyrciniana, which it much 

 resembles ; it is, however, easily separable from it : first, by the 

 anterior wing being less streaky ; secondly, by the streaks them- 

 selves being more defined ; thirdly, by the first two costal streaks 

 beyond the middle uniting and being produced uninterruptedly to 

 the anal angle. Fig. 14 of pi. 99, in Westwood and Humphrey's 

 ' British Moths and their Transformations/ vol. ii., gives a good 

 idea of this insect. 



There is no recorded locality for the original specimen in the 

 Bentleyan (Mr. Edwin Shepherd's) cabinet ; but all the recent 

 specimens that we have seen or heard of were taken by Messrs. 

 Hodgkinson, Allis, and Gregson, from some Scotch fir-trees at 

 Braithwaite, near Windermere. 



