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Species 5.— Carpocapsa Wosberana "=— (Plate LXXXVI., Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)— Measures 61 to 8 lines 

 in expanse ; fore wings fulvous, varied with numerous brown, golden, and silvery lineolfe on the costa, and with 

 darker strigae and fascise (more or less rectangular) on the disc ; towards the anal angle is a subocellated patch, 

 imperfectly edged with gold, and with black transverse strigse ; the fringe varied, with fulvous and black ; the 

 hind wings black, or blackish-brown, with pale fringe. The caterpillar is pale dirty-greenish, with a red head, 

 and feeds beneath the bark of the plum, which it thus loosens, and causes the tree to decay. It forms irregular 

 cocoons of a fulvous colour. Mr. Spence found it in apple orchards, plentifiilly. The perfect insect appears 

 in June. 



■" Synonymes. — Pyralis Wteberana, Weiner Verz. ; Pabricius ; 

 Haworth ; Stephens; 'W^ood, fig. 977. 

 Tortrix unguicana^ Turton. 



Tortrix ornatana, Hlibner. 

 PhaltEna Tinea unguicella, Linnaeus. 



Species 6. — Carpocapsa Rheediella ° — (Plate LXXXVI., Fig. 12) — Measures 6 or 7 lines in expanse; 



fore wings brunneous ; beyond the middle fulvous ; the dark base terminated by an oblique dark brown fascia 



margined with gold, rising to the anal angle of the wing ; beyond this are two oblique golden abbreviated strigae 



running from the costa, and a third interrupted, which passes from the costa to the inner margin, behind three 



black dots placed transversely near the anal angle ; hind wings brown, with the outer portion paler. Taken in 



June, in woods round London, the New Forest, &c. 



1 Synonymes. — Phalcena Tinea Rheediella, \jmn^M%\ Donovan, 1 ror^Hx aurana, Hiibner. 

 xii., pi. 377, fig. 1 ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 979. I Tortrix albersana, Hiibner. 



Species 7- — Carpocapsa Ulicetana ° — (Plate LXXXVI., Fig. 13)— Measures 6 or 7 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings pale ashy ; the costa streaked with fulvous and whitish lineolae extending into the disc ; towards the 

 anal angle is a black spot, edged behind with an interrupted silvery annulus, preceded by two or three brown 

 dots placed within an obscure, sub-fulvous patch : hind wings brown. Very variable in the ground colours of 

 the wings. Taken in March and again in August, in hedges, and in the neighbourhood of furze bushes on 

 commons. 



" Synonymes. — Tortrix Ulicetana, Haworth; Curtis. 

 Tortrix lanceolana, Hiibner ? Stephens ; Wood, fig. 980. Tortrix Zachana, Hiibner. 



Species 8. — Carpocapsa Hypericana P — (Plate LXXXVI., Figs. 14, 15) — Measures ^ an inch in 



expanse ; fore wings yellowish-fulvous coloured, the costa beyond the middle bearing slender, elongated, dusky 



lineolse, and some silvery ones behind ; towards the anal angle is an obscure, silvery ocellus, almost obliterated, 



with two or three very minute black dots placed transversely : hind wings brown. Taken in woods in May and 



June ; but rare. 



P Synonyme. — Tortrix Hypericana, tluhnet ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 981. 



Species 9. — Carpocapsa Leplastriana "—(Plate LXXXVI., Fig. 16) — Measures from 5^ to 7 lines in 

 expanse; fore wings " transversely streaked with very fine black waved lines; about 16 white marks on the 

 costa, descending obliquely in ochreous lines, alternating with five or six dull silvery ones ; several double 

 whitish lines arising at the interior margin, two at the middle lengthened and arched ; near the posterior angle 

 is an oval silvery ring, the centre ochreous, bearing three black dots or lines ; inferior wings brown, with a 

 yellowish rosy tinge." — Curtis. Taken near Dover, at the beginning of July. 



1 Synonyme. — Carpocapsa Leplastriana, Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 352 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 982. 



Species 10. — Carpocapsa perlepidana ' — (Plate LXXXVI., Fig. 17) — Measures 5 or 6 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings ashy-fulvous, varied with brown, but towards the base on the inner margin, brown ; the costa is 



