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Species 16. — Lozotce.ma xylosteana " — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 6) — Varies from 7 to 10 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings retuse ; the apex slightly produced ; pale testaceous, with a grayish shining tinge ; inner margin, near 

 the base, with an oblique dark chesnut bar, extending towards the middle of the disc of the wing, followed by 

 an oblique broader bar of the same colour, running in the contrary direction, and greatly dilated behind, and 

 throwing oft' a branch to the costa ; a submarginal brown striga, and the tip of the wing also brown ; the brown 

 bars edged with pale shining ashy. Variable in depth of colour and markings. The caterpillar feeds on the 

 honeysuckle, oak, whitethorn, &c. ; and the moth appears about the end of June, in woods. 



*SyNONYMES. — PhaltBiia Tortriw ^yhsteana,h\i\nseus; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 863. 

 Tortrix characterana, Hubner. 



Species 17- — Lozotcexia roborana^. — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 7.) — This handsome insect measures from 9 

 to 11 lines in expanse ; and has the fore wings but slightly produced at the apex, ochreous-red, with a large 

 rich brown patch near the base of the inner margin ; a large oblique mark in the middle of the wing, of the 

 same colour, and a subapical costal patch attenuated behind, and extending to the middle of the apical margin ; 

 three dark patches edged with shining ashy-white lines. Taken in woods, at the beginning of July ; the cater- 

 pillar feeding upon oaks. 



y Synonymes. — Tortrir rohorana^ Hubner; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 864. 

 Tortrix xylosteana, ^, Treitschke. 



Species 18. — Lozotcenia obliquana " — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 8) — Varies from 8 to J-', lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings of a pale fulvescent ashy tint, with a nearly straight fulvous fascia near the base, obsoletely margined 

 with pale buff; a second oblique one across the middle, extending nearly to the anal angle, outwardly 1 -dentate 

 and margined with bufi" ; and between the front of this and the apex is a costal fulvous patch ; the tip itself ji, /f i)^ 

 often with a burnt-brown spot ; hind wings brown, with the apical and costal portions fulvous. The fulvous 

 fasciae are sometimes very obscure, and the disc very pale. Very rare : taken in the woods of Kent and Surrey. 

 I possess Haworth's specimen of this species. 



' Sy-nonyme. — Pyro/is oWijuono, Fabricius ; Harris; Aureliau, pi. 41 ; Ha worth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 865. 



Species 19. — Lozotcenia costana ^ — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 9) — Measures from 8 to 12 lines in expanse, 

 fore wings straw-coloured ; the base, especially towards the costa, ashy ; a gray fascia running from the middle 

 of the costa to the anal angle, being much darker towards the costa, and a blackish spot towards the extremity 

 of the costa : along the apical margin are from 2 to 5 blackish dots ; hind wings pale buff; those of the female 

 more dusky. Taken in various places round London, in -June ; but rare. 



* Synonymes. — Pyraiis costana, Fabricius; Hawortb ; Stephens; 

 Wood, fig. 866. 



Tortrix gnomana, Hubner. 



Phttlana Tortr. Betiilana, Donovan, xi., pi. 369, f. 2. 

 Tortrix spectrana, Treitschke. 



Species 20. — Lozotcenia biustulana'' — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 10) — Measures 8 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings " ochry-yellow, with a faint streak at the base, a large blotch at the anal angle, arising from a slender 

 streak on the costa, and another blotch at the apex of the costa, of an ustulated brown ; cilia ochreous ; posterior 

 wings whitish ash." (Stephens, loc. cit.) Supposed to have been captured in the west of England. 



'' Sy-nonyme — Lozotcenia biustulana, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 867. 



Species 21. — Lozotcenia Modeeriana ' — (Plate LXXX., Fig. 11) — Measures | inch in expanse; fore 

 wings yellowish or straw-coloured, with an obsolete fulvous spot near the base ; an oblique ashy fascia across 

 the middle of the wing, becoming narrower and interrupted towards the costa, the extremity of which last has a 



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