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BRITISH MOTHS 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXXXIX. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Sericoris quadrimaculana (the blotched drab). 



,, Fig. 2. Sericoris striana (the straight-barred). 



,, Fig. 3. Sericoris fasciolana (the small barred). 



„ Fig, 4. Sericoris urticana (the barred nettle). 



,, Fig. 5, Sericoris tuicana (the silver dotted). 6. A com- 

 mon variety. 



ff Fig. 7. Sericoris altemana (the alternate barred), 



,, Fig. 8. Sericoris undulana (the silver striped). 

 ; ,, Fig. 9. Sericoris graraineana (the great barred). 



,, Fig. 10. Sericoris cespitana (the meadow barred). 



,, Fig. 11. Sericoris politana (the red barred gray). 



,, Fig. 12. Sericoris pulchellana (the dark barred gray). 



Insects. — Fig. 13. Sericoris fuligana (the smoky barred). 



Fig. 14. Sericoris subsequana (the faint silver stnped). 



Fig. 15. Sericoris myrtillana (the bilberry). 



Fig. 16, Sericoris aurofasciana (the gold barred). 



Fig. 17. Sericoris bifasciana (the double-barred orange). 



Fig. 18. Sericoris furfiirana (the mottled bran). 



Fig. 19. Sericoris marmorana (the marbled dog's tooth.) 



Plant. — Fig. 20. Silene inflata (the inflated catchfly). 



The insects figured in this plate are from specimens in the cabinet 

 of Mr. Bentley, "with the exception of fasciolana, pulchellana, and 

 furfurana, from the plates in Wood, " Index EntomoV'' 



SERICORIS, Treitschke. ORTHOT^NIA, pars Curtis. 

 The species of this genus have the fore wings rather broad, with a rather broad, irregular, and often broken 

 dark bar on the pale ground across the middle of the wing, being more oblique towards the costa, and with a 

 less distinct one placed obliquely, near the middle of the apical margin ; the palpi are short and densely squamose, 

 but with the apical joint acute and exposed, the body long and tufted at the tip in the males, and the females 

 generally smaller than the opposite sex. 



Species 1. — Sericoris quadrimaculana " — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 1) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; 



fore wings subtruncate on the apical margin, of a pale ashy colour, with a reddish tinge, with several patches 



of brown on the disc, placed longitudinally, the first small before the middle, the second twice as large, angulated 



and placed nearly in the middle, the third crescent-shaped near the apical margin, and a fourth towards the anal 



angle ; the costa obsoletely spotted with brown ; the hind wings reddish-brown. The female is darker, and 



wants the reddish tinge. Taken in June near fir trees in Kent, Norfolk, and Surrey. 



' Synonymes. — Tortrix quadrimaculana, H.a.von\i ; Stephens; 'Wood, fig. 1008. 

 Tortrix antiquana, Hubner ; Curtis. 



Species 2. — Sericoris striana ^ — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 2). — This very variable insect measures from 6 

 to 10 lines in expanse ; of a testaceous or darker brown colour, obsoletely reticulated with darker brown, and 

 occasionally almost atomose, with a strong straight dark brown fascia across the middle, obsoletely bidentate 

 on the outer edge, and another smaller near the apical margin, interrupted towards the costa ; hind wings brown. 

 In some specimens the wings are darker coloured, with the markings nearly obliterated except the strong central 

 bar. Taken in hedges and woods about the middle of June, and very common. 



y Synonymes. — Tortrix striana. Wien. Verz. ; Stephens; (Illustr.;) 

 Wood, fig. 1009. 



Piiralis fasciana, Fabricius ; Stephen's Catal. ; Haworth. 

 Tortrix rusticana, Hubner. 



Species 3. — Sericoris fasciolana ^ — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 3) — Measures nearly 9 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings cinnamon gray, scarcely reticulated, and with a slightly oblique broad brown fascia, somewhat 

 angulated across the middle, rather broader towards the inner margin, the apical margin with a dark shade of 

 brown, forming a triangular patch ; hind wings brown, darkest on the outer margin. Very rare; locality 

 unknown. 



* Synonymes. — Tortrix fasciolana, Hubner; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1010. 

 PhaliBna Tortrix bilituranaf Donovan, x., pi. 371, f. 2. 



Species 4. — Sericoris urticana ''— (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 4) — Measures about a of an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings ashy-gray, pale, and irregularly nebulose,with the base and several nearly straight fasciae of 



