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fascia of smoky brown across the wings, beyond the middle, which is occasionally bifid at the costa, and 

 extendintr to the anal angle, the tip of the wing also with a darker patch : hind wings and fringe deep black. 

 The ground colour of the wings and the strength of the markings are very variable. Taken in hedges, woods, 

 &c. in June, and very abundant. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix nubilana, Hubner; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1006. 



Species 12. — Cnephasia perfuscana ' — (Plate LXXXVIII., Fig. 15) — Measures 7 lines in expanse; 

 antennae slender and reddish ; fore wings black or deep brown, shining, immaculate, or with a very few almost 31;/' 

 indistinct darker markings : hind wings brownish, fringe ashy-brown. Mr. Stephens thinks this may be only a 

 variety of the last species, in company with which it is taken. 



' Synonyme. — T'ortrix perfuscana, Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1007. 



Species 13. — Cnephasia formosana" — " Pale fuscous, thorax and superior wings rosy chestnut, the latter 

 with a considerable number of waved transverse pale shining lines as far as the middle, beyond which are two 

 more compound ones, with several shorter on the costa, and a row of spots of the same colour at the base of the 

 cilia ; abdomen ochreous at the apex. Similar to 0. nubilana in size and colour, but the superior wings are a 

 little less obtuse, tlieir colour is very different, and the bar across the middle formed by the waved lines is 

 narrower and more irregular." — Curtis. Locality unknown. 



° Synonyme. — Orthotmnia formosana, Curtis, fol. 364. 



Species 14. — Cnephasia littoralis^' — (Plate LXXXVIII., Fig. 13) — Measures 7^ lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings narrow and somewhat lanceolate, pale shining stone-coloured gray, with minute patches of fulvous brown 

 scattered over the wings, especially towards the base, near to which is a short fulvous brown bar on the inner 

 margin, and a broader and more irregular one, of the same colour, beyond the middle of the wing, extending to 

 the costa, which, beyond the middle, is marked with three or four conspicuous brown dots ; the apical portion of 

 the wing with a nearly semicircular patch of fulvous brown, bearing a silvery gray streak on the margin, not 

 extending to the tip of the wing, nor to the anal angle ; hind wings silvery brownish-gray, with pale fringe. 

 Taken on the southern coast of England, by Messrs. Dale and Curtis. 



'Synonyme. — Cnephasia littoralis, Cnrtis's Guide. 



Species 15. — Cnephasia cinerana^'' — (Plate LXXXVIII., Fig. 16) — Measures about 9 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings broad ovate, with the costa much arched, especially in the middle, of a very pale ashy colour, with a 

 yellowish brown tinge ; near the base is an abbreviated, rather narrow, rather darker fascia running from the 

 costa half way across the wing, with a slender darker edging, and with a larger somewhat triangular patch in 

 the middle of the costa, which extends in an obsolete manner to a patch near the anal angle ; the apical portion 

 of the wing rather darker, and separated from the paler disc by a semicircular series of short brown streaks ; 

 hind wings pale and shining, with the outer angle slightly darker. Taken by Mr. Bentley, in Dartmoor 

 Forest, near Ashburton, Devonshire, in June. 



" Synonyme. — Cnephasia cinerana, Bentley's MSS. 



