184 TORTRICINA. 



A. Anterior wings with a white or whitish blotch on 



the dorsal margin Species 1-3 



B. Anterior wings with the blotch slightly paler than 



the ground-colour Species 4, 5 



C. Anterior wings without a blotch on the dorsal 



margin Species 6, 7 



1. profundana, Schiff. Alis anticis ochraceo-cinereis ; fascia basi, 

 medio maculaque postica brunneo-ustulatis ; ad marginem dor- 

 salem macula trigona alba, nigro punctata ; posticis fuscis, basi 

 albicantibus. rf Exp. al. 8^-9-J- lin. 



Head fuscous, drab over the eyes. Face white, fuscous above. Eyes 

 purplish brown. Palpi white, the apex at the sides dusky. An- 

 tennae fuscous. Thorax : in front fuscous, on the vertex ustulated 

 brown, the crest ferruginous. Patagia : at the base drab, gradually 

 becoming ferruginous at the apex. Anterior wings dull, extremely 

 variable in colour, but usually with brown markings in shades, and 

 mostly with a light- coloured or white blotch in the middle of the 

 dorsal margin. The specimen before us has, at the base, a mottled 

 umber patch, palest anteriorly, most intense posteriorly and on the 

 dorsal margin, extending one-fifth along the costa, and one-third 

 along the opposite margin, its edge obtusely angulated in the middle. 

 Before the middle of the costa, and proceeding to the anal angle, is a 

 distinctly- defined golden-brown fascia, dilated in the middle, its 

 origin and termination being equally broad ; its anterior edge is ob- 

 tusely angulated, and interrupted towards the dorsal margin; its 

 posterior edge is angulated before and at the middle, streaked lon- 

 gitudinally near the costa, and across the centre, with deep umber. 

 In the apical region is a somewhat quadrate patch, deep umber 

 anteriorly, and softening into golden-brown at the apical margin. 

 The costa is marked throughout with produced geminated streaks ; 

 those before the central fascia are whitish, and reach a fuscous cloud 

 below them; those beyond are drab, and intersect an ochreous- 

 brown cloud at the apex ; the apical spot distinct, and umber- 

 coloured ; the anal angle suffused with pale brown ; and the dorsal 

 edge of the white blotch is freckled with umber. Apical scales pale 

 brown, freckled with umber. Cilia pale brown, alternated in the 

 middle of the margin with umber patches. Posterior wings clothed 

 with richly-coloured, coarse fuscous scales, paler at the base. Mar- 

 ginal scales darker fuscous, with pale bases. Cilia pale, speckled 

 with grey, with a fuscous tinge. Abdomen fuscous, the caudal tuft 

 ochreous-drab. $ Exp. al. 8-J 9| lin. 



A common and a very variable species, both in the ground- 

 colour, and in the intensity of the markings ; the former ranging 

 from drab to ochreous, olive, or fuscous ; the latter, through the 

 various shades of brown to deep umber ; the same character of 



