94 THE ENTOMOLOGIS?’S RECORD. 
run as follows :—‘ Phalaena tortrix (reticulata), wings yellowish-rust 
colour, reticulated, with a curved fuscous marginal spot. It is some- 
what smaller (than the preceding species called Tortria maculata), 
basally broader than usual, of yellow-brown colour on the forewings 
which have many brown lines longitudinally and transversely, and on 
the costal margin, just in the middle, a dark brown spot, like an angle- 
hook of which the lowest branch is, however, quite slender and little 
recognisable in contrast to that broad one.* The hindwings are 
whitish as well as the body and the legs. It resembles Phalaena 
Tortrix modeeriana.” . 
To my mind this description applies to that form of the species in 
which the costal spot is for a short distance outwardly oblique and 
rather broad with the margins parallel, it is then bent inwardly and 
dwindles away in the centre of the wing. This form we know as 
ctliana, Hb. Here we have the angle-hook with the upper part broad 
and distinct, the jenem breiten (=that broad one), while the lower part 
is little noticeable. This description cannot apply to the V form 
which we e¢all contaminana, for the lower part of the V could not be 
described as slender and little recognisable, nor does the V answer to 
‘“macula curva.” Again here we have three branches, while in 
reticulata there are only two, a broad one and an indistinct one. 
Schéyen’s words put into Latin would read, “ Alis ferrugineis, fusco 
reticulatis, fascia media abbreviata obliqua costali saturatiore.” All 
these words I have taken from Haworth’s description of ciliana. 
There seems no reasonable doubt that Strém’s reticulata is that species 
which we have so long known as contaminana, Hb., and that it 
represents the form known as ciliana, Hb.—Atrrep SicuH. | 
Stephens Sys. Catalogue [1829], contains the following which 
were subsequently included in his J/lus. in [1834]. 
Tortrix rhombana. Sys. Cat., vol. ii., p. 189. (Haw. 418; Hub. 
Tort., 173.) 
Tortrix contaminana. (Hib. Tort., 1422; Harris Expos. 94, 
xxvill. 2-3; Haw. Prod., 82. aylosteana.) 
Tortriz ciliana. (Haw. 419; Hub. Fort., 171; Don., xi. [xii. in 
error] 40, pl. 374, 2, obscurana; Harris. V. M., 49.) 
Leras contaminana. Treitschke. Schm., viii. 250. [1880.] 
‘“As an introduction to almost all the following species of this 
family it is necessary to make a general statement here, that they vary 
extremely in definition of colour and markings, more than any other 
Tortrices. A sufficiently large number of specimens put me in the 
position of changing many existing names as varieties with much 
assurance, or of passing them over. 
“In contaminana we find a good illustration of the above remark. 
This species is deep yellow and brown, in which coloration it much 
resembles plumbana. Or red yellow when it resembles our corylana. 
(Here belongs Hiibner’s ciliana.) Then it appears dull yellow and 
suffused with lead colour grey, like Hiib. 142.  Fimally there is a 
variety very distinct from all of these; it is brown gray, like the next 
Species aquilana, and only differs clearly on head and thorax from the 
+ eee : 
* Schoyen uses the word ‘‘ jenem.”’ 
