AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 



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prettily streaked with brown and silver : in the middle of the inner margin is a slender, silvery, semi-lunate 



mark, in which is a very slender brown striga ; this lunule is followed by a black patch which terminates in a 



subocellated spot, with an interrupted golden iris, and with four oblong black dots forming a transverse pupil ; 



the fringe in certain positions is golden and very glossy : hind wings brownish. A widely dispersed but rare 



species. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix perlepidana, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 983. 



Species 11. — Carpocapsa Jdliana ' — (Plate LXXXVI., Fig. 18) — Measures 7 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings gray at the base, with patches of brown extending from the costa into the disc of the wing ; the space 

 near the extremity of the costa buff, with oblique blackish lineolae ; near the base of the inner margin is a small 

 conical blackish spot, followed by a large white space ; towards the anal angle is a large maculated patch varied 

 with silvery scales and black transverse lines, and resting on a ferruginous base ; the apical margin also 

 ferruginous ; hind wings brown, with a golden tinge. Taken in Suffolk and at Killarney, by Mr. Curtis; also 

 in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst, by Mr. Bentley, in July. 



' Synonyme. — Philalcea Juliana, Bentley ; Curtis; Biit. Ent. pi. 583 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1678. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXXXVII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Carpocapsa stelliferana (the Starry Tortrix). 



„ Fig. 2. Carpocapsa pupillana (the Wormwood Tortrix). 



„ Fig. 3. Carpocapsa fulvana (the fulvous-sealed). 



„ Fig. 4. Carpocapsa cana (the hoarj-sealed). 



„ Fig. 5. Carpocapsa Scopoliaoa (the Scopolian). 



„ Fig. 6. Carpocapsa rufana (the red-sealed). 



„ Fig. 7. Bactra egenaua (the dusty drab). 



„ Fig. 8. Bactra pauperana (the spotted drab). 



„ Fig. 9. Bactra egestana (the lesser drab). 



Insects. — Fig. 10. Bactra fuscana (the brown drab). 



„ Fig. II. Ablabia expallidana (the pale drab). 



„ Fig. 12. Bactra Uliginosana (the darkling drab). 



„ Fig. 13. Ablabia quadripunctana (the dotted drab). 

 Plant. — Pyrus domestica (True-service tree). 



All the insects figured in this plate are from the cabinet of Mr. 

 Bentley, except C. stelliferana, from the fig. of Mr. Curtis of an insect 

 in his cabinet. 



Species 12. — Carpocapsa stelliferana ' — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 1) — Measures ^ an inch in expanse ; 

 " yellow, cinereous, shining ; superior wings with ten whitish spots on the costa, none at the base, two or three 

 producing silvery lines ; a whitish spot on the interior margin, and another nearer the middle ; an indistinct 

 silvery oval near the posterior angle containing" three black dots ; inferior wings whitish at the base." — Curtis. 

 Taken in Perthshire, and elsewhere, in the north of England. 



' Synonyme. — Carpocapsa stelliferana, Curtis ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 984. 



Species 13. — Carpocapsa pupillana " — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 2) — Measures about 8 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings white, slightly shaded with brownish towards the costa and along the inner margin ; before the 

 middle of the wing is an oblique, blackish, abbreviated fascia ; another, rather broader, runs across the wing 

 from the middle of the costa to the anal angle, where it branches off into an arch extending nearly to the apical 

 angle and inclosing a glossy, ocellated patch composed of numerous small black dots ; the costa beyond the 

 middle is slightly spotted with brown, and the apex itself is brown, with two small white dots : hind wings 

 dark brown. Variable, the dark markings being sometimes obliterated. The caterpillar feeds on wormwood, 

 amongst which the moth occurs, especially on our coasts, in June. 



" Synonymes. — Phalcena Tortrix pupillana, Linnaeus ; Fabricius ; Stephens, Illustr. 4, pi. 34, fig. 2 ; Wood, fig. 985 ; but not of Haworth. 



Tortrix absinthiana, 'H.^iha^'i; Haworth. 



Species 14. — Carpocapsa fulvana " — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 3) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings somewhat fulvous ; the costa marked with numerous short, oblique, whitish, and fulvous striolee, and 

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