152 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 3. — Sarrothripus dilutanus '' — (Plate XCI., Fig. 12) — Measures 11 or 12 lines in expanse; 

 fore -wings pale ashy-gray, with a small costal spot at the base ; another, thrice as large, and longer, in the 

 middle of the costal margin, of red, at the bottom of which is a spot in the place of the anterior ■ stigma of 

 the Noctuidae ; between this dot and the apical margin, is an obsolete dentated striga of black dots, and on the 

 margin itself a row of minute black dots ; hind wings pale brown. Taken in the woods of Kent and Surrey, 

 and also in Norfolk, in August. 



' Synonyme. — Toririx dilutana, HUbner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1043. 



Species 4. — Sarrothripus Lathamianus ' — -(Plate XCI., Fig. 13) — Measures 10| lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings pale testaceous, with the base and apex marked with several elevated black spots, and a squamose, 

 elevated, ferruginous spot in the middle ; head and palpi above snow-white. Taken in the Kentish "Woods, in 

 August. 



' Synonymes. — Phaltena Tortrix Laihamiana, Gmelin ; Stewart : Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1042. 

 Phalana Tortrix Ilicana, Donovan, 10, pi. 357, fig. 2, (but not of Fabricius). 



Species 5. — Sarrothkiptts IlicanusJ — (Plate XCI., Fig. 14) — Measures from 9 to 11 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings brown, or ashy-brown and glossy, and slightly waved, especially towards the base ; before the middle 

 are two approximating brown spots, followed by a single central black dot ; towards the anal angle are also two 

 or three approximating brown dots, and the apical margin itself has a row of minute brown spots ; the hind 

 wings are ashy. Taken in the woods of the south of England, about the beginning of August. 



J Synonymes. — Pyralis IHcanus^ Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stewart; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1044. 

 Tortrix punctulanus, Hiibner. 



Species 6. — Sarrothripus Afzelianus'' — (Plate XCI., Fig. 15) — Measures from 9 to 11 lines; fore 

 wings testaceous, brown and glossy, with a black fascia at the base, a trigonate black patch in the middle of 

 the costa, and also with a few elevated black dots on the disc. Found in woods ; occurring sometimes in March, 

 and also probably through the autumn and winter. 



' Synonyme. — Phal. Tortrix Afzeliana, Gmelin ; Stewart ; Haworth : Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1045. 



Species 7- — Sarrothripus ramosanus' — (Plate XCI., Fig. 16) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings brunneous, inclining to cliesnut, with a dark longitudinal black line down the centre, branched at 

 the base and on its inferior margin, above which, towards the centre, is a black spot ; near the apical margin 

 is a row of ocellated dots, the anterior ones being more or less obsolete, and another row of dots along the margin 

 itself. Taken in the Kentish woods in July ; but very rare. 



' Synonyme, — Toririx ramosana, Hiibner; Curtis' Brit. Ent. pi. 29 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1046. 



Species 8. — Sarrothripus stonanus " — (Plate XCI., Fig. I7) — Closely allied to the preceding, but 

 rather larger, with the branches of the longitudinal black stripe longer, and the disc with a waved brown 

 streak. Also taken at Birchwood. 



■» Synonymes. — Sarrothripus stonanus, Curtis' MSS. 

 Sarrothripus ramosanus, var., Stephens' 111. Brit. Ent. 



