jg2 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 14. — Anchtlopera cuspidana " — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 15) — Measures 5^ lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings with the tips slightly hooked, brown, with a large dark brown patch terminating obliquely near the 

 middle of the inner margin, but not extending to the costa, which is greyish, with minute black dots ; at the 

 middle of the costa arises a long, slender, very oblique brown dash, which extends to the apical margin below 

 the apex, inclosing an elongated brown patch, bearing about eight whitish streaks, of variable length, running 

 obliquely, but those near the tip being semicircular ; behind this space the wing is silvery gray, having a 

 semicircular brown patch in the middle of the disc, and a smaller brown dot at the anal angle, the fringe at the 

 tip bears a brown patch, followed by two white streaks ; hind wings pale greyish brown. Taken at Riddlesdown, 

 near Croydon, about the beginning of August, by J. W. Douglas, Esq. 



° Synonyme. — Cochylis cuspidana^ Treitschke ; Douglas, in Entomologist, p. 385, (but not of Stephens), 



PHILALCEA, Stephens, Curtis. ANTICLEA, Stephens, (olim.) 

 These insects have the palpi porrected obliquely, and bent upwards, vyith the scales forming an elevated mass 

 almost concealing the tip of the apical point ; the spiral tongue is very short, the antennae setaceous, the 

 forehead with a tuft of scales ; the fore wings elongate, with the tip sometimes falcated, the disc pale, with black 

 or other dark clouds or fascia. The caterpillars with six pectoral, eight abdominal, and two anal feet. 



Species 1. — Philalcea kamella' — (Plate LXXXV., Figs. 16, 17) — Measures about -J of an inch in expanse: 

 fore wings cream-white ; the costa with slender oblique, black, lineolae through its whole length, the apical angle 

 produced and slightly hooked, and occupied by a large fulvous-chestnut patch marked with black and white 

 lineolae, the inner margin also bears a number of small dark patches, one in the middle larger than the rest, and 

 the anal angle is broadly occupied by a large patch of silvery, leaden-coloured, and black scales, with a white 

 external margin ; hind wings grayish-brown. Taken in hedges in June. Darenth. 



^ Synonymes. — Phalcena Tortrix ramella, Linnseus ; Curtis ; 

 Godart, pi. 253, fig. 2. 



Pyralis Imtana, Fabricius. 



Tortrix' harpana, Hiibner; Haworth ; Stephens, (111.); Haust., 4, 

 pi. 37, fig. 1 ; Wood, fig. 961. 



Species 2. — Philalcea nigromaculana " — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 18) — Measures | an inch in expanse; 

 fore wings snowy white with the tips ashy-brown, clouded and spotted with black ; the costa vrith several black 

 minute dots, and with a small spot before and another behind the middle ; the inner margin with two large black 

 spots, the first before the middle, angulated and duplicated, and the second larger near to the anal angle, and 

 acutely conical, adjoining which is a patch marked with ashy and white waved lines ; hind wings darkish-brown. 

 Very widely dispersed, occurring in Ireland and Scotland, as well as in various parts of England, about the end 

 of July, but very rare. 



" Synonyme. — Tortrix nigremaeulana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 962. 



Species 3. — Philalcea albana " — Measures 6i lines in expanse ; fore wings snowy-white, slightly clouded 

 with ashy, the tip ashy-brown, an ashy spot before the middle of the wing formed of three approximating black 

 strigsB, and another black conical spot near the anal angle ; hind wings whitish, with the tips dusky. Taken in 

 Yorkshire and Kent about the end of June. It appears to be only a pale variety of the preceding. 

 * SYvoTnuE.— Tortrix albana, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 963. 



Species 4.— Philalcea n^vana^ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 19)— Measures from 5 to 61 lines.in expanse ; 

 fore wings, with the base, broadly livid black, occasionally streaked with white ; nearly across the middle of the 

 wing is a broad white oblique fascia, dilated behind, and bearing a minute black dot ou the inner margin ; the 



