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Species 10. — Antithesia Salicella <" — (Plate LXXXI., Fig. 22) — Measures 9 to 11 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings with the anterior margin and the apex beautifully mottled witli brown, black, white, and shining 

 steel patches ; hinder margin white, extending nearly to the anal angle, and marked at the base with a dark dot, 

 the following space very slightly clouded : hind wings dark brown, witli pale fringe. The caterpillar feeds on 

 various kinds of willows ; it is robust and pale-brown, with a black head. The moth is found about the end of 

 July and in August, on the trunks of willows and sallows, but is not common. 



Synonymes — Phaltena Tinea Salicella, hinnxas ; Rocsel, pi. 95, 1 — 4; Wilkes, pi. 10 ; Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 895. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXXXII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Spilonota nubiferaua (the clouded white). 



,, Fig. 2. Spilonota cynosbatella (the black cloaked). 3. 



The Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 4. Spilonota aquana (the brown cloaked). 5. The 



Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 6. Spilonota trimaculana (the triple blotched). 

 ,, Fig. 7. Spilonota comitana (the cream' short-cloaked), 

 ,, Fig. 8. Spilonota foenella (the white foot). 

 ,, Fig. 9. Spilonota Pflugiana (the Pfliigian). 

 ,, Fig. 10. Spilonota Straemiana (the Strsemian). 

 ,, Fig. II. Spilonota rusticana (the tawny blotch back). 



Insects. — Fig. 14. Spilonota Costipunctana (the lesser blotcli back). 

 ,, Fig. 15. Spilonota argyrana (the silver blotched back). 

 ,, Fig. 16, Spilonota quadrana (the Highland blotch back). 



,, Fig. 17. Spilonota tetragonana (the four-angled blotch 



back.) 

 ,, Fig. 18. Spilonota nigricostana (the black -edged marble). 

 ,, Fig. 19. Spilonota ustulana (the scorched blunt wing). 

 ,, Fig. 20. Heusimene fimbriana (the brown bordered). 



The whole of the insects in this plate are from the cabinet of Mr. 

 Bentley, with the exception of S. Quadrana, Costipunctana, and Ar- 

 Fif. 12. Spilonota trigemiuana (the tliree spotted). \ gjTana, from the figures in Wood. The caterpillars are from Hubner. 



Fig. 13. Spilonota sticticana (the brown blotch back). I H. N. H. 



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SPILONOTA, Stephens. SPILONOTA, Pars, Curtis. 

 These insects have the palpi very broadly compressed ; the spiral tongue short ; the antennae filiform, 

 pubescent beneath ; the abdomen tufted in the males ; the fore wings deflexed when at rest ; rather linear, with 

 the costa arched, and the apical margin obliquely truncate ; the base and extremity, as well as the costa, being 

 generally dark-coloured, and the innerraargin with a white blotch, whence the generic name. Mr. Curtis 

 unites with these the genus Poecilochroma of Stephens, which has also the inner margin of the fore wings 

 marked with a pale blotch. 



Species 1. — Spilonota nubiperana. ^ — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 1) — Measures nearly ^ of an inch in 

 expanse; fore wings bone- white, slightly clouded with ashy, with a broad longitudinal bar of dull black i'i-i-JUi^ t'! i^ 

 running from the base to the middle of the wing, extending along the costa, and bearing in the middle of the '-^P-^- 

 wing two round black dots, one of which is in the middle of the inner margin of the bar, and the other at its 

 apex towards the inner margin ; hind wings brown. Taken in the middle of June in hedges in Kent, &c., but 

 very rare. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix nubiferana^ Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 896. 



Species 2. — Spilonota cynosbatella. s — (Plate LXXXII., Figs. 2, S) — Measures from 7i" to 10 lines in 

 expanse ; fore wings whitish, with a broad black fascia at the base, which extends along the costa as far as the 

 middle of the wing, where it is dolabriforni, and behind which are two or three gray or lead-coloured patches, 

 forming an interrupted oblique bar ; the apical margin itself more or less brown, in the middle of which are three 

 or ioMX minute transverse black dots ; hind wings brown. Taken in gardens in July and August. The cater- 

 pillar is flesh-coloured, with a black head (with pale spots) and neck, and a dusky dorsal line. 



S Synonymes. — Phalcena Tinea cynosbatella, Linnseus ; | Tortrix ocellana, Hiibner, 

 Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 897. | Pyralis luxana, Fabricius ? 



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