TORTRICINA, 147 



8|-9 lines in expanse in the rf, and from 11-12 lines in the $ . 

 They were taken in the month of July in the salt marshes on 

 the banks of the Thames near South end a locality where a 

 species is likely, among so much humidity, to attain to extra- 

 ordinary dimensions. 



3. furfurana, Haw. Alis anticis griseo-mfescentibus, nebulosis 

 maculisque irregularibus brunneis ; posticis cinereis. <J Exp. al. 

 6-8 lin. 



Head ochreous, paler in front. Face ochreous above, paler below. 

 Eyes black ; palpi drab or fuscous above and at the sides, paler be- 

 neath and between. Antenna? fuscous. Thorax dull brown. ' Pa- 

 tagia slightly paler. Anterior wings ochreous brown, clouded with dull 

 brown markings, which are darkest at the base, and from the middle 

 to the apex with a dark elongated mark at the anal angle, impinging 

 on a very indistinct ocelloid patch. Costa and dorsal margins macu- 

 lated with brown, the markings on the former more in the shape of 

 streaks. Apical scales fuscous with drab bases. Cilia straw-colour 

 with a grey tinge. Posterior wings dull fuscous. Marginal scales 

 pale grey with straw-coloured bases. Cilia straw-colour. Abdomen 

 and caudal tuft dark fuscous. Exp. al. 6|8 lin. 



A rare species, and subject to much variation in the intensity 

 of its markings, as well as in size ; readily distinguished from its 

 congeners by the mottled appearance of the anterior wings. 



The imago appears in May and June, and has been captured 

 in Kent and in Devonshire, Probus in Cornwall, as well as other 

 places in England. Mr. Bentley obtained his specimens from 

 the reeds surrounding the freshwater lake at Napton Lee, in 

 Devonshire, at the end of June (see Westwood and Humphrey's 

 ' Bristol Moths/ ed. 1. p. 139). It occurs also at the Lea Bridge 

 Marshes, near London, and in the vicinity of Edinburgh ; like- 

 wise at Gal way in Ireland. 



Genus V. ARGYROTOZA, STEPHENS. 



Antenna very pubescent beneath. Palpi twice as long as the 

 head, porrected upwards, remote, thickly clothed at the apex of the 

 middle joint; basal joint drooping, pyriform, truncate; apical slender, 

 cylindric, much longer than the basal ; middle ascending, moderately 

 stout, thickened beyond the centre, not three times the length of the 

 apical. Maxilte stout, as long as the palpi. Thorax moderately 

 robust, ovate. Anterior wings scarcely twice so long as broad. 

 Costa regularly arcuated. Apex acute ; apical margin truncate, 

 oblique; dorsal margin slightly rounded; venation normal. The 



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