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Species 6. — Pseudotomia petiverella, '^ — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 7)- — Measures about v an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings fulvous brown, having a large semi-lunate, pale, golden-coloured blotch in the middle of 

 the inner margin ; the disc beyond the middle with various more or less obsolete, golden, leaden-coloured and 

 pale strigae ; the costa beyond the middle streaked with golden and leaden colour ; the fringe leaden-coloured 

 and shiny : hind wings blackish. It varies in being rather smaller, with the pale mark in the inner margin, and 

 the posterior costal strigae more or less obliterated. Taken in woods about the beginning of June. 



= SvNONVME. — Phalcena Tinea Peticeretta, Linnaeus ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 919. 



At./7'.i- Species 7- — Pseudotomia lunulana,'' — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 8). — Measures 7 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings brown, with a simple, silvery, semi-lunate spot in the middle of the inner margin, and numerous 

 whitish hneolEe beyond the middle of the costa ; the anal spot is silvery, with black streaks, and the hind vrings 

 dark brown. Taken in Hampshire, in June. 



•^Synonymes, — Tortrix lunulana, Wien. Verz. ; Stephens (Illustr.) ; Wood, fig. 920. 

 Pseudotomia concinnana, Stephens, (Catal.) 



Species 8. — Pseudotomia simpliciana,'^ — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 9). — Measures 7 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings obtuse, pale brown, with abbreviated, short, pale lineolee on the costa beyond the middle ; in the middle 

 of the inner margin is an obscure, yellowish, triangular patch, placed rather obliquely ; and towards the anal 

 angle is a patch composed of three very minute, black, transverse dots : hind wings brown ; fringe of all the 

 wings, in certain lights, silvery and glossy, the anterior ones especially, with the notch-hke mark. Taken in -June. 

 ' Synonvme. — Tortrix simpliciana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 921. 



Species 9. — Pseddotomia jacqitiniana,' — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 10). — Measures 7 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings golden-fulvous, with a large semi-lunate patch of obscure golden colour in the middle of the inner 

 margin ; the costa beyond the middle streaked with oblique, slender, fulvous lineolse ; the apical margin with 

 three very minute black dots placed transversely near the anal angle, as in the preceding species : hind wings 

 pitchy black. Variable ; being sometimes smaller, with the fore wings fulvous-brown, with golden-ashy fringe, 

 and the hind wings black. Taken in woods in June. 



f Synonyme. — Pt/ralis Jacguiniana, Fahricius ; Haworth ; Stepliens ; Wood, fig. 922. 



; ., Species 10. — PsEnDOTOMiA strigana," — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 1 1 ) . — Measures about ^ an inch in expanse ; 

 fore wings somewhat retuse, and narrower than in the allied species, fulvous, with scarcely any clouding, and 

 with very short, ferruginous, yellowish, and dusky silvery, oblique lineolae beyond the middle of the costa ; with 

 three very minute, black, transverse dots placed in the apical margin, near the anal angle : hind wings brownish ; 

 fringe, in certain positions, golden and shining. Varies in having the >vings chesnut-brown, with the three 



minute dots and costal marks nearly obliterated. Taken in woods in June. * 



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8 Synonyme. — Pyralis strigana, Fabric! us ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 923. 



Species II. — Pseudotomia atropurpurana,*^ — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 12). — Measures nearly A an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings glossy, blackish purple, without spots ; fringe white, shining with silver in certain positions ; 

 hind wings brown or brownish, with a broad costal margin of white attenuated towards the extremity of the 

 wings. Taken at Coombe Wood in July. 



^ Synonyme — Tortrir atropurpurana, Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 924. 



Species 12. — Pseudotomia nigricana,' — (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 13). — Measures rather more than | an 

 inch in expanse ; all the wings pitchy black, shiny ; the fore ones with the costa black, with numerous oblique, 



