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brown, the middle of the wing having a broad straight bar of dusky brown dilated towards the inner margin, 

 and another nearly obsolete and abbreviated fascia towards the middle of the apical margin, not reaching to the 

 costa nor the anal angle ; the costa is marked with brown dots and lines beyond the middle. Common in places 

 where nettles abound, during the month of June. 



Synonyme. — Tortrix urlicana, Haworth ; Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1011. 



Species 5. — Seeicoris micaxa'' — (Plate LXXXIX., Figs. 5, 6) — Measures about 7 lines in expanse ; fore 



wings gray, varying to olivaceous, and irrorated with dark dots, with an irregular dark fascia at the base, and 



another broader one in the middle, dilated behind ; between these is a pale gray or silvery- white fascia, and 



beyond them a second, sometimes formed of a row of silvery spots ; near the apical margin is an abbreviated 



oblique fascia, the centre of the wing also sometimes with a silvery dot ; the custa, before as well as beyond the 



middle, dotted with blackish, and the fringe of the fore wings with a dark dot towards the anal angle. Taken 



in June, but not common. 



*» Synonymes. — Tortrix micana, Haworth ; Hiibner.' Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1015. 

 Sericoris obsolelana, Stephens. 



Species 6. — Sericoris alternana '^ — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 7) — Measures 7 lines in expanse; shining 

 ochreous gray ; thorax, and superior wings, freckled with black, the latter with nine pair of pale spots on the 

 costa, the base rather darker, the black spots forming irregular and broken transverse lines, a blackish fascia 

 across the centre, freckled with a few pale scales, having a longitudinal pale line across the middle; the apex 

 rather darkish colour, cilia with a black spot at the tip and middle, inferior wings fuscous. Smaller than 

 S. micana, Hiib., to which it is most nearly allied; the name is given from the alternate dark and pale spaces 

 on the upper wings. Var. j3 ; larger, superior wings more ochreous, the markings brown and less distinct, the 

 cilia immaculate. Curtis. Taken amongst heath in the Black Wood, Loch Eannoch, in the middle of July. 



■^ SvNONYME. — OrthoicEnia alternana, Curtis' Brit. Ent., f. 364A. ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1013. 



Species 7- — Sericoris undulana '' — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 8) — Measures 7 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 ashy-red, with three nearly straight dark brown fascite, obsoletely margined with silvery ; the first of these fascias 

 is towards the base, and is dotted with black, the second across the middle, interrupted across its centre, and 

 with its inner portion bifid, the third fascia is oblique and distinct, extending nearly to the anal angle; within 

 the apical margin, near the anal angle, is a brown spot ; the costa with four pair of whitish streaks, each pair 

 separated by a brown dot, fringe silvery, with a dark patch near the anal angle. Taken in woods in June, but 

 not common. 



^ Synonymes. — Tortrix undulana^ Wien. Verz. ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1014. 

 Pyralis rivellana, Fabrlcius. Tortrix conchana, Hiibner ; Haworth. 



Species 8. — Sericoris gramineana ^ — (Plate LXXXIX., Fig. 9) — Measures 7 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings ferruginous brown, with seven or eight pairs of whitish spots on the costa, with a somewhat silvery 

 serrated fascia, leaving a dark space at the base, apical portion of the same pale colour, leaving a dark and very c, o) j 

 serrated fascia across the middle ; the apex, three triangular spots on the costa, and an oblique lobe-shaped mark 

 rising from the posterior margin, and another near that angle, ferruginous brown ; inferior wings fuscous. Most 

 allied to, and the size of, cespitana, Hiib. Taken by Mr. Curtis, at the end of June, on grassy slopes, 

 ascending Arthur's Seat. 



« Synonyme. — Orthotania gramineana, Curtis Guide, and B. E. fo. 364, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1015. 

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