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Species 2. — Anchylopera consobkina ' — Very similar to the preceding species, " and may be only the 

 female : the superior wings are narrower, and the silvery line across the middle is more arcuated and oblique." 

 ^•'- t' — Curtis, 1. c, by whom a specimen was taken in Coombe Wood. 



' Synonyme. — Anchylopera consobrina, Curtis, Brit. Ent. 376. 



Species 3. — Anchylopera unculanaJ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 2) — Measures about 7 lines in expanse; 

 fore winws somewhat caudate, ashy, with a large ustulated red patch common to both wings near the base, and 

 another near the tip of the costa of the same colour, but paler and triangular, the intervening space ashy with a 

 slender white edging ; the costa has some very short obscure silvery lineolsB, two more distinct converging 

 towards the apical margin, and partly inclosing an angular red space at the tip; hind wings dark brown. 

 Taken in woods near London, in June. 



J Synonyme. — Tortrix unculana^ Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 950. 



Species 4. — Anchylopera lundiana •'' — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 3) — Measures 7 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 caudated, pale ochreous, which colour extends obliquely towards the anal angle, fulvous towards the extremity, 

 with a golden-coloured very oblique striga, and a large ustulated chestnut patch at the base on the inner margin, 

 common to both the wings ; the costa beyond the middle is marked with some very short oblique silvery lineolEe ; 

 the apical margin is pale as well as the fringe ; the hind wings are brown. Taken in woods about the end 

 of May. 



^ Synonymes. — Pyralis Lundiana ¥tihT\cmz\ Haworth; DoDovan, pi. xl., 374, fig. 1; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 951. 



Tortrix Corylana, Hiibner. 



Species 5. — Anchylopera lyellana ' — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 4) — Measures 6i lines in expanse ; satiny, 

 pale cinereous ; collar and apex of the abdomen ochreous ; superior wings slightly variegated with pale ochre ; 

 on the costa are an oblique macula at the middle, three dots beyond, and a spot at the apex, dull ferruginous ; 

 on the interior margin is the usual large patch of a deep brown and subtrigonate ; nearer the anal angle a brown 

 crescent (bearing five black lines and dots), which leaves a grey oval macula at the anal angle. (Curtis.) Taken 

 at Kinnordy, in Scotland. 



' Synonyme. — Anchylopera Lyellana, Curtis, Brit. Ent., fol. 376 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 959. 



Species 6. — Anchylopera feactifasciana " — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 5) — Measures about 7 lines in 

 expanse ; fore wings pale brown, mottled with gray and strigose, with a dark broad fascia towards the base of the 

 wings, slightly incurved, and a second, often very much interrupted or broken, and oblique across the middle, of 

 reddish or fulvous brown ; the costa prettily spotted with brown and buff- white, having a dot near the apex 

 twice the size of the others ; within the apical margin is a row of brown dots not extending either to the apical 

 or anal angles, and occasionally obliterated ; the hind wings brownish. Taken near Brockenhurst, in the New 

 Forest, near London, and also near Ambleside. 



" Synonyme. — Tortrix fractifasciana, Haworth ; Stephens, llluat. H. 4, pi. 34, fig. 3 ; Wood, fig. 953. 



Species 7. — Anchylopera siculana " — (Plate LXXXV., Figs. 6, 7, 8) — Measures from 6 to 7f lines in 

 expanse ; fore wings very acutely produced at the tip and falcate, of a reddish-buff colour, with a whitish streak 

 extending from the base nearly to the apex ; another central, interrupted brown or black extending to the apex, 

 bordering on the preceding ; the costa from the middle to the apex is marked with numerous very oblique black 

 lineolse, bordered with whitish buff : the hind wings pale brown. Taken at Wimbledon Common, Coombe Wood, 

 &c., in May. 



° Synonyme. — Tortrix sicH/arao, Haworth ; Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, fig. 934. 



