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BRITISH MOTHS 



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terminatintj obliquely but before reaching the anal angle, with two black dots on the -middle of the hinder 

 maririn of the dark base, and a third at the apex ; extremity of the wings white, clouded with ashy ; costa 

 slightly streaked vrith black. Taken in woods, in June and July ; but not very common. 



" Syhonymes. — Pyralis tripunctana, (Fabricius ?) Hawortli ; i Tortrix variegana, Hiibner. 

 Stephens ; Wood, fig. 888. ! Phal<ena Cynosbana, Donovan ; (but not of Linnseus, &c.) 



Species 4.— Antithesia Pruniana^ — (Plate LXXXI., Figs. 15, 16)— Measures 7^ lines in expanse; 

 fore win^s blackish, obsoletely clouded with black, ashy and pitchy, with a broad white fascia towards the 

 extremity of the wings, interrupted in the middle by a black spot, and with three conspicuous black dots on the 

 costa ; apical margin dusky : hind wings brown. Taken in woods and gardens in June, the caterpillar feeding 

 on the sloe, birch, &c. It is green, with black dots. 



y Synonyme. — Tortrix Pruniana, Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 890. 



Species 5. — Antithesia pullana '^ — (Plate LXXXI., Fig. 17) — Measures rather more than ^ an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings smoky black, varied at the base with darker marks, and with a black central fascia, 

 t^*-"-^'""-^ and apical margin of the same colour ; hind wings pitchy black. Taken near London in June. 



" - ' Synonyme. — Torlrir pullana, ll:iWon\\ ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 891. 



Species 6. — Antithesia Grevillana ^ — Measures 8 lines in expanse ; fore wings grayish black, long and 

 narrow, " variegated with interrupted black transverse lines and spots ; a large space at the apex white, forming 

 two claws on the internal margin, with a long, gray, oblique line, arising at the posterior angle, and furcate at 

 the extremity ; the apex black, with white dots, forming two oblique stripes ; cilia black ; inferior wings 

 yellowish-fuscous, palest at base."^ — Ctirtis, op. cit. Taken in Sutherlandshire in July. 



• Synonyme. — Penlhina Grevillana, Cuitis; Brit. Ent, pi. 567 ; Wood, fig. 889. 



Species 7- — Antithesia margin^usta ^ — (Plate LXXXI., Fig. 18) — Measures rather more than i- an inch 

 in expanse ; fore wings black, with the base obsoletely tinged with ashy towards the apex, with an ochraceous 

 fascia, in the middle of which is an ashy patch on which are six or eight very minute black dots placed close 

 together ; hind wings whitish, with the margin brown. Taken in the woods in July, but rare. 



'' Synonyme. — Tortrix marginana, Hawortli ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 892. 



Species 8. — Antithesia oblonoana " — (Plate LXXXI., Fig. 19) — Measures about 7 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings oblong, black towards the base, clouded with ashy, and with a whitish ochraceous fascia beyond the 

 middle, in the middle of which is sometimes an insulated ashy-brown patch ; hind vrings deep brown. Taken 

 in woods in July, but rare. 



■^ Synonyme.— Tortrw oblongana, Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 893. 



Species 9. — Antithesia Gbntian.«;ana *• — (Plate LXXXI., Figs. 20, 21) — Measures 8 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings rather narrow, brownish, very much mottled with brown and gray patches, black dots, and small 

 whitish dashes ; beyond the middle a paler fascia extending to the anal angle, dotted with rusty-brown on the 

 costa, and bearing a short submarginal streak formed of black dots ; the margin itself brown : widely dispersed 

 but very rare. My specimen is from Sir P. "Walker's Collection. The caterpillar feeds on the Teazel, and is 

 whitish, with a black head and neck. The moth appears in August. 



"■ Synonyme. — Tortrix GenZiaJiffiona, Hiibner; Hawortli; Stephens; Wood, fig. 894. 



