120 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 3. — Spilonota aqhana.''' — (Plate LXXXII., Figs. 4, 5) — Measures rather more than 2. of an inch 

 in expanse ; fore wings ashy white, with dusky clouds and a broad trigonate fascia at the base ; truncated 

 at the extremity, blackish or brown, and a small tooth-like pitchy or black spot towards the inner margin ; the 

 apical margin, especially towards the tip of the wings, pitchy red, or brownish ; and the costa with numerous 

 oblique pitchy lineoke ; hind wings brown. The caterpillar feeds on the rose ; it is fleshy brown, with black 

 dots and slender lines. The moth appears in June in gardens and woods. 



'■ Synonyme. — Tortrix aquana, Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 898. 



Species 4. — Spilonota trimacdlana. ' — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 6) — Measures a. of an inch in expanse ; 



fore wino-s brown, slightly clouded with black, especially at the base, with two large patches on the inner 



margin, and a third minute one forming a triangle with them towards the costa, aU clouded with ashy ; the 



costa obliquely lineolated ; hind wings brown, not shining. Taken at the beginning of July in hedges 



and woods. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix trimaculana, TiawoTth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 899. 



Species 5. — Spilonota comitana. J — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 7) — Measures from 6 to 7-^ lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings variable in the prevalent tint, being whitish, or pale buff, or ashy, and marked with numerous slender 

 dusky or ashy transverse striolse, and with a broad basal fascia and a triangular patch towards the anal angle of 

 brown, and a leaden patch near the apical triangle, in which are several minute transverse black dots ; hind 

 wings brownish or blackish. In some of the varieties there is an abbreviated fascia in the middle of the costa. 

 Taken about the middle of June in hedges and woods, and very common. The caterpillar feeds on the hornbeam. 



j Synonyme. — Tortrix comitana, KiiineT ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 900. 



Species 6. — Spilonota fcenella. "^ — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 8) — Measures firom 9 to 13 lines in expanse 

 fore wings chesnut-brown, with the apical portion ashy, with a broad hook-like white or buff fascia in the 

 middle of the wing, extending to the inner margin ; hind wings brown. Very rare. Taken in August at 

 Wisbeach, in Epping Forest, and in Kent, and Xorfolk. 



'' Synonymes. — PhalcBiia Tinea ftenella, Linuseus ; Haworth : 

 Stephens; Wood, fig. 901. 



Pyralis Scopoieana, Wiea. Verz. ; Fabricius. 



Phalcena Tortrix interrogationana, Donovan, 2 pi. 65, fig. 1. 

 Tortrix tilialana, HUbner. 



Species 7- — Spilonota pflugiana.' — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 9) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse; fore- 

 wintTS brown, and slightly clouded with ashy and black; the costa with small geminated buff lineolae beyond the 

 middle ; the apex itself with a round chesnut-coloured spot ; about the middle of the inner margin arises a broad 

 whitish fascia which runs halfway across the wing, and is but slightly nebulose ; and another nearly similar 

 occurs at the anal angle, separated from the former by a brownish irregular bar : hind wings brown and shining. 

 Found in woods in June. 



' Synonyme. — Pyralis Pflugiana, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 902. 



Species 8. — Spilonota str^miana.™ — (Plate LXXXII., Fig. 10) — Measures ^ of an inch in e.Tpanse ; 



closely allied to the preceding species but smaller, with the fore wings more chesnut or reddish, and clouded, 



with an abbreviated broad buff or ochraceous blotch towards the middle of the inner margin, and another 



similar to it at the anal angle, separated from each other by a brown space : hind wings brown and shining. 



Taken in June and July, and a widely-dispersed and not uncommon insect. 



" Synonymes. — Pyralis Striemiana,Va.\iimua; Haworth; Ste- I ToWrij iimjVana, HUbner. 

 phens ; Wood, fig. 903. J Phalana Tortrix bimaculana, Donovan, 13 pi. 459. 



