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BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 10. — Philalcea sdbocellana '^ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 26) — Measures rather less than ^ an inch 

 in expanse ; this bears considerable resemblance to P. ramella, but is smaller, and has the fore wings retuse at 

 the tip, with the tips not produced ; they are whitish, with the base ashy, and irrorated with black ; the middle 

 of the wings whitish, the extremity blackish, with a large subobsolete leaden or silvery patch with small black 

 dots, and edged with white ; the costa obliquely lineolated with black, and the tip with a brunneous spot edged 

 with black : hind wings brown, with the fringe silky, and pale bulF. Taken about the beginning of July, in 

 hedges ; the caterpillar feeds within the leaf of the sallow, about the middle of September. 



' SvNONVMES. — PhalcBna Tortrix subocellana, Donovan, xii. pi. 381, fig. 1 ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 970. 

 Phoicopteris campoliliana, Duponchel, pi. 251, fig. 1. 



Species 11. — Philalcea asseclana*^ — (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 27) — Measures about i an inch in expanse; 



fore wings more obtuse than in the last-described species, which this mvich resembles; but it is rather larger, and 



differently coloured ; fore wings whitish, with bluish scales ; beyond the middle brown with a suboceUated 



silvery spot inclosing some black lineolse placed transversely ; the entire margins ashy, and near the tip is a round 



pitchy spot ; the ashy costa marked with black lineolse beyond the middle : hind wings brown. Taken in the 



Kentish woods in July. 



f SynonYiMes. — Tortrix asseclana, Hubner ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 971. 

 PhalcBna Tortrix succedana, Wien. Verz. ; Duponchel ; Curtis. Tortrix decorana, Haworth. 



Species 12. — Philalcea Mitterbacheriana " — (Plate LXXXV., Figs. 28, 29, 30) — Measures 6 or 7 lines 

 in expanse ; very variable ; fore wings wliitish, buff, brownish, reddish brown, or dark brown, and more or less 

 suffused and streaked with brown ; rather before the middle is a rectangular conspicuous pale white fascia, and 

 another oblique one beyond the middle, the latter more obsolete and interrupted, and also more or less dotted 

 with silver, the intermediate space darkest, and beyond this fascia are often two or three minute black dots ; the 

 costa prettily strigose with white lin eolse ; at the tip of the wing is a round rufous-brown spot : the hind wings 

 are brown. The ground colours of the wing and the strength of the markings are very variable, scarcely two 

 specimens agreeing together. Found in plenty throughout the summer. 



s Synonymes. — TortriT Mitterbacherianaf Wien. Yerz. 't Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 972. 

 Phalcena Tortrix trimaculana, Donovan, xi. pi. 369, fig. 1. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXXXVI. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Roxana arcuana (the arched ). 



,, Fig. 2. Carpocapsa pomonella (the codling moth). 



3. Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 4. Carpocapsa splcudana (the splendid). 

 ,, Fig. 5. Carpocapsa grossana (the smoky marble). 

 ,, Fig. 6. Carpocapsa aspidiscana (the spotted). 



,, Fig. 7. Carpocapsa Woeberana (the Weberian). 



8. Caterpillar. 9, 10, 11. Chrysalis. 

 ,, Fig. 12. Carpocapsa Rheediella (the Rheedian). 

 ,, Fig. 13. Carpocapsa uUcetana (the light-striped edge). 



Insects. — Fig. 14. Carpocapsa hypericaua (the yellow-striped edge). 

 15. Caterpillar. 

 ,, Fig. 16. Carpocapsa Leplastriana (the Leplastrian), 



,, Fig. 17. Carpocapsa perlepidana (the beautiful crescent). 



,, Fig. 18. Carpocapsa juli.ana (Bentley'e marble tortrix). 



Plant. — Fig. 19. Hypericum pulchrum (St. John's wort). 



All the insects figured on this plate are from Mr. Bentley*s cabinet, 

 except Carpocapsa aspidiscana, which is from Wood's figure. 



EOXANA, Stephens. 

 The palpi, in the elegant insect which is the type of this genus, are compressed, bent upwards, with a sub- 

 clavate mass of scales, which, however, leave the terminal joint exposed ; the antennae are slender ; the head 

 tufted on the crown ; the fore wings deflexed during repose ; the apical margin slightly rounded ; the disc dark- 

 coloured, and bearing several slender silvery striga. 



