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the tip acute ; near the anal angle is a suhocellated spot, with an interrupted silvery iris, and three short, 



interrupted black lineolae in the place of the pupil : hind wings dark brown. Taken in fields near woods, 



but not common. 



' SvNONYMEs. — Carpocapsa fulvana, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 986. 

 Tortrix pupillana, Haworth ; but not of Linnccus, &c. 



Species 15. — Carpocapsa strigana ; Curtis. — Similar to C. fulvana, but smaller, and pale ochreous ; the 

 superior wings are much shorter and less lanceolate. 



Species 16. — Carpocapsa cana " — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 4) — Jleasures 8 or 9 lines in expanse. Very- 

 similar to C. fulvana, but differs in its hoary colour, with fulvescous clouds, the costal striolcB being more silvery, 

 and behind the middle of the wing runs a paler longitudinal dash inclosing a short fulvescent streak ; the 

 suhocellated spot near the anal angle is more silvery and less interrupted, and the three pupillated lineolas less 

 broken ; the hind wings are brown, with the base paler. A widely dispersed but not common species. Taken 

 in June and Julj' in pastures. 



^ Synonyme. — Tor^f w cana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 987. 



Species 17- — Carpocapsa Scopoliana ■'^ — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 5) — Measures 7 to 9 hues in expanse ; 

 fore wings rich chestnut brown ; the costa broadly pale, luteous brown, alternately streaked with somewhat 

 rufous and pale oblique lineola, one of the rufous lineolffi in the middle of the costa more distinct ; a dark 

 longitudinal dash runs along the middle of the wing, and the middle of the inner margin is marked with a pale 

 patch, and within the anal angle is another smaller and suhocellated patch with an obscure silvery iris, and two 

 or three minute black dots for the place of the pupil : the hind wings are dark brown. Very variable in the 

 colour of the wings, and in the greater or less distinctness of the characteristic markings. Taken in June in 

 various localities. 



" Synonyme. — Tortrix Scopoliana, Haworth ; Stephens ; M'ood, fig. 988. 



Species 18. — Carpocapsa rufana '' — (Plate LXXXVII., Fig. 6) — Measures 9 lines in expanse; "fore 

 wings narrow, deep, immaculate, tawny red, the costa pale ; on the hinder margin near the anal angle is a very 

 obscure, somewhat ocellated silvery spot, with three fulvescent lines in the middle ; cilia pale tawny : hind 

 wings brown. Found at Darenth, in July." — Stephens. 



y SvNONYME. — Carpocapsa rufana, Stephens; Wood, fig. 989. 



Species 19. — Carpocapsa maritima ^ — Measures 6 lines in expanse ; fore wings very pale gray, the costal 

 portion almost white at the base ; along the inner margin is a browner patch terminating on the disc in a darker 

 dot ; the costa beyond the middle is white, with numerous slender, dark, oblique lineolas ; the apex of the wing 

 is marked by a small, oblique, dark streak, terminating the pale costal portion : near the anal angle is a white 

 blotch surrounded by a silvery ocellus, bearing some minute black dots on its circumference towards the base and 

 apex, and a slight black streak on its anterior margin : hind wings pale, shiny, grayish brown. Taken on the 

 Sea Wormwood, near St. Osyth, in Essex. 



Ohs. — Mr. Curtis doubtingly adds the Tortrix Germana of Hiibner to this Genus. 



* Synonyme. — Carpocapsa maritvna. Dale's MSS. ? Douglas, in Entomologist, p. 385. 



BACTRA, Stephens ; Curtis. APHELIA, Stephens (Catal.) 

 The palpi are porrected and densely clothed with scales, forming a very dilated mass, concealing the terminal 

 joint ; the antennae are setaceous ; the head thickly squamose ; the fore wings long, narrow, and lanceolate, vdth 



