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costa beyond the middle with minute faint whitish streaks placed in pairs, the anal angle with a large whitish 

 patch emitting a short branch towards the disc of the wing ; tip of the wing with a round brownish spot and a 

 white dash. Taken in the Kentish woods in June. 



y Synonvme.— ror^rix nffii'orao, Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, fig. 964. 



Species 5. — Philaloea sociana ^ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig 20) — Measures rather more than ^ an inch in 

 expanse; fore wings black or blackish from the base nearly to the middle, followed by a snowy-white fascia, then 

 another often abbreviated dark fascia extending from the middle of the costa, the apical half of the wing ashy- white, 

 the margin itself darker ; the apical angle with a brunneous patch ; hind wings brown. Taken in woods, &c., 



in June. 



* Synonymes. — Tortrix sociana, Hawortli ; Stephens ; Wood, 6g. 965. 



Species 6. — Philalcea ajkenana^ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 21) — Measures about ^ an inch in expanse ; 

 very variable ; fore wings varied \^-ith white, blackish-brown, and ashy, the base dark, the middle of the costa 

 with a reddish dash placed upon a small flexuous ashy transverse mark, beyond which is a dark longitudinal dot 

 nearly in the middle of the wing, the apical margin also bears a conspicuous brunneous round spot, imperfectly 

 edged with black, and ou the disc near the tip is a small black dot. In some specimens the wings are of a more 

 ashy colour without the white, and sometimes they are entirely dark brown with the markings black. Taken 

 in August at Darenth Wood and elsewhere. 



■ Synonymes. — Tortrix amosnana, Hiibner. ( ? ). 

 Tortrix incarnana, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 966. ($.); Hiibner ! 



Species 7- — Philalcea patkulliana b — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 22) — Measures \ an inch in expanse ; fore 

 wings hoary, clouded with ashy, with the base black, and with a very slender transverse minute black streak in 

 the apical part of the wings towards the tip : hind wings whitish. Taken in woods in March, among dried 

 leaves. 



'' Syhonyme. — Pyralis PaykuUiana, Fabricius ? Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 967. 



Species 8. — Philalcea fimbriana]_<^ — (Plate LXXXV., Figs. 23, 24) — Measures about ^ an inch in 

 expanse ; very variable ; fore wings white, with fine lineolie, and clouds of black, the inner margin more ashy, 

 the apex with a brown spot, the inner margin with a black lunule rather before the middle, and another beyond 

 of brown near the anal angle, the inner angles of each directed towards the tips of the wings. A singular variety 

 occurs with the fore wings black, the costa broadly wliite with abbreviated blackish strigse and dots ; the tip with 

 a round brunneous spot imperfectly edged with white and black ; all the intermediate varieties, however, occur. 

 Taken in birch woods, in June. 



'^ Synonymes. — Tortrix fimbrianat Thunberg ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 968. 

 Tortrix sesguilunana, Haworth. Phexopteris triquetrana, Godart, (Hiibner?) 



Species 9. — Philalcea bilunana '' — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 25) — Measures i an inch in expanse; fore 



wings buff whitish, slightly clouded with ashy, the costa slightly marked with dusky streaks ; the inner margin, 



before the middle, is marked with an oblique black semi-lunate spot, the tip directed towards the apex of 



the wings : there is also an obscure ashy patch near the anal angle ; the apical angle being destitute of the 



round brunneous spot of the preceding species : the hind wings whitish. Taken in the crevices of the bark of 



birch trees, in woods, at the beginning of June. 



* Synonymes. — Tortrix bilunana, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 969. 

 Phoxopteris cretaceana, Duponchel. 



