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PSEUDOTOMIA, Stephens. ZEIRAPHERA, pars, Curtis. 

 The generic name of this numerous group has been given to it in allusion to the remarkable appearance 

 which the apical margin of the fore wings exhibits near its extremity, of a pale line, having the appearance of a 

 cleft or notch, in the fringe; the wings themselves are more elongated than in the Spilonota), although, like them, 

 they have a pale blotch in the middle of the inner margin ; the palpi are porrected horizontally, clothed with a 

 triangular mass of scales, of which the terminal joint of the palpi forms the extremity, being however scarcely 

 visible. 



Species 1. — Pseudotomia obsccbana, " — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 1). — Measures ^ an inch in expanse; 

 fore wings dark browm, with darker clouds, and a square white spot in the middle of the inner margin divided 

 into two parts by a dusky line ; the costa, towards the extremity, with a few short whitisli streaks placed 

 irregularly ; along the apical margin is a slender black lino : hind wings brown. Taken near London. 



* SvNONYHE. — Pteudolomia obicurana, Slcpheni ; Wood, (ig. 914. 



Species 2. — Pseudotomia pbatebnana, ^ — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 2). — Measures about ^ an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings rather long and grey, with two nearly straight, rather obsolete, ashy-silvery fasciaa, the 

 first before, and the second rather oblique, beyond the middle ; the costa with some rather indistinct lines of the 

 same colour : towards the anal angle is a small tirown dot, and two or three darker ones towards the hinder 

 margin : hind wings ashy, with a brown border. Taken in the spring at Coombe Wood. 



' SvNONYHEe. — Tortrix fraternaiLa, IJawoith ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 91.5. 

 Torlrix strobilana, Iliibncr, but not of Ilaworth. 



Species 3. — Pseddotomia atromaroana, ''■ — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 4). — Measures about ^ an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings ashy, clouded with brown, with a whitish patcli in the middle of the inner margin, in 

 which is an ashy striga, and two obsolete, very short, interrupted silvery strigas near the extremity of the wings 

 the costa with black and white streaks : hind wings brown, with the base paler, and the apex dusky ; it varies 

 in having the patch on the inner margin white; the silvery striga) more or less obsolete, and the costa broadly 

 margined with black, especially towards the anal angle. Taken in oak woods in .June. 

 ' Synonyme. — Tortrix atrf/maryana^ Ilaworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 91'». 



Species 4. — Pseudotomia strobilella, '' — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 5). — Measures 4 or 5 lines in 



expanse ; fore wings pale brown, with a broad, nearly obsolete, silvery streak near the base, another more 



distinct and angulated across the middle, and a third interrupted near the extremity of the wing, in the middle 



of which is a spot or transverse black mark, and occasionally two or three black minute dots near the anal angle ; 



the middle of the inner margin also with a short, divided, whitish blotch, and the costa with several short, silvery 



lineolse : hind wings dusky. Taken at the end of May, in fir plantations. 



* Synoky«e«. — I'haltena Tinea ttrobilella, lAtinKxa ; Hawortb ; Stepfacna ; Wood, fig. 917. 

 Torlrix argyrana, Kiibncr. 



Species 5. — Pseudotomia sequana, '' — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 6). — Measures about 5 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings ashy, with angulated, yellowish, and silvery striga) beyond the middle of the wing, and a large 

 silvery blotch in the middle of the inner margin ; the costa towards the extremity with several short white 

 lineolae, and with three very small black dots near the anal angle placed transversely : hind wings pitchy. 

 Taken in woods about the beginning of June. 



'' SvNOMYNE. — Tortrix aeijuana, VSihriet ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 918. 



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