272 TORTRICINA. 



scales glossy, mottled with chocolate-colour, iron-grey, and white, 

 palest towards the anal angle. Cilia very glossy, fuscous, with a 

 violet tinge. Posterior wings pale grey, with a subdued gloss, and 

 merging into pale fuscous at the apex. Marginal scales fuscous, 

 with pale bases. Cilia glossy, drab. Legs fuscous, the posterior 

 pair palest. Abdomen clothed with long scales, dull chocolate-brown ; 

 the caudal tuft ochreous. $ Exp. al. 6^7 lin. 



A very variable species, both in colour and in the intensity of 

 its markings. 



The imago appears in June and July, occurring on Moors and 

 Heathy places. It has been captured in Kent, Sussex, Devon- 

 shire, Cornwall, Lancashire, in the New Forest, and in the north 

 of England ; also in the vicinity of Dublin. 



The larva feeds on Myrica Gale, the Sweet Gale. 



9. littoralis, Curtis. Alis anticis rufo-cinereis aut subochraceis 

 fusco-strigatis ; fascia basi, altera medio maculaque apice irregular! 

 brunneis ; costa punctis apicalibus ; posticis griscis, apice fusces- 

 centibus. 3 Exp. al. 7-7 lin. 



Head and face dusky drab, sometimes ochreous. Eyes black. 

 Palpi longer than the head, above and at the sides dusky brown ; 

 drab between and beneath. Antennae grey, alternated with fuscous. 

 Thorax in front iron-grey, mixed with whitish scales on the vertex ; 

 some shining, whitish scales behind. Patagia iron-grey at the base ; 

 the apex whitish. Anterior wings dull cream-colour, approaching 

 pale ochreous, with rich brown fasciae and markings. At the base is 

 a patch, extending one-fifth along the costa, and about one-third 

 along the dorsal margin, palest at its origin, but its colour darkest 

 and most defined posteriorly, on the dorsal margin ; its edge is ob- 

 lique, and finely undulated to beyond the middle, where it forms an 

 obtuse angle. At the middle of the costa originates a clearly- defined 

 fascia, narrow at its commencement and termination, with its ante- 

 rior edge first considerably convex, then equally concave ; the poste- 

 rior border dilates and undulates to the middle, and then recedes in 

 the same manner, forming a sharpish truncate angle. In the apical 

 region is a defined, squarish, pale patch, with a roundish similar- 

 coloured spot on the apex. The costa and dorsal margins are finely 

 spotted with umber, and on the former, beyond the middle, are 

 three or four broadish quadrate spots, darkest on the margin. The 

 pale portions of the wing more or less clouded or streaked with 

 brown. Apical scales dusky ochreous, with a row of intense umber 

 spots. Cilia dull, dusky ochreous, with drab bases, and becoming 

 whitish at the anal angle. Posterior wings pale at the base, clothed 

 with coarse, pale, fuscous scales, on a whitish ground. Marginal 

 scales fuscous, with drab bases. Cilia whitish or pale straw-colour, 

 slightly grey at the apex. Abdomen greyish, fuscous ; the caudal 



