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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XCII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Peronea profunaDa (the rusty button). 



,, Fig. 2. Peronea semiuPtana (the half scorched), 



„ Fig. 3. Pcrouea striana (the brown button). 



„ Fig. 4. Peronea substriana (the striped button). 



„ Fig. 5. Peronea Bentleyana (Bentley*s button). 



„ Fig. 6. Peronea vittana (the streaked button). 



^, Fig. 7. Peronea spadiceana (the bay-shouldered button). 



„ Fig. 8. Peronea brunneana (the brown button). 



,, Fig. 9. Peronea Desfontaiuana (the Desfontainian). 



Insects. — Fig. 10. Peronea consirailana (the pale bay button). 



„ Fig. 11. Peronea fuWocristana (the tawny-crested button). 



„ Fig. 12. Peronea albovittana (the white streaked button). 

 „ Fig. 13. Peronea fulvoviltana (the tawny-streaked button). 



„ Fig. 1-1. Peronea cristalana (the barred button). 



The whole of the insects figured in this plate arc from specimens 

 in the cabinet of Mr. Bentlcy. The [dant is Anagallis arvensis, com- 

 mon Pimpernel. H. N. H. 



PERONEA, Curtis. ASPERAN^, Haworth. 

 The palpi are elongated, deflexed, and thickly squamose, compressed, and with the middle dilated above, 

 the antennae are rather thickest in the middle, and subserrated beneath ; the fore wings rounded at the base of 

 the costa, with the tip slightly hooked, and the disc with elevated tufts of scales, one of which is often more 

 conspicuous than the rest, and forms a large central button ; the fore tibicE and femora are not furnished with 

 a brush beneath, and the thorax is slightly crested behind. The species are rare, and either very numerous, 

 or excessively variable. Bj' those, however, who, from the extent of their collections, seem the best able to judge 

 of the question, the number of species is admitted, and indeed still acquires augmentation. They are chiefly 

 found in the autumn, frequenting trees covered with lichens and mosses. 



Species 1. — Peronea profanana ° — (Plate XCII., Fig. 1) — Measures about | of an inch in expanse; 

 fore wings ferruginous gray, the costal margin with the base, middle, and apex, ustulated brown ; a little before 

 the middle is an elevated discoidal patch of ustulated brown scales, in addition to which are several minute 

 contiguous rugose dots, and another, rather more distinct, at the apex : hind wings and thorax brown. Taken 

 in the woods of Kent and Surrey, and in the New Forest, in September. 



° Synonyme. — Pyralis prnfannjta, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Donovan, 12, pi. 377, fig. 3 ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1047. 



Species 2. — Peronea semiustana— (Plate XCII., Fig. 2) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 with the entire base, and also the costa (nearly to the extremity), of a leaden black colour ; the posterior and 

 apical half of the wing being of a reddish brown, varied with small darker patches, and with a large black tuft 

 of scales in the middle of the disc, and several smaller elevated black scales towards the base and anal angle, the 

 latter forming a curved line of spots parallel with the apical-margin ; tip of the wing also with a leaden-coloured 

 pointed patch ; towards the base of the costa, in some specimens, is an indistinct oblique gray fascia : hind wings 

 pale brown; head, palpi, and thorax dirty white. Taken in the New Forest, and elsewhere, by Mr. Bentley. 



Species 3. — Peronea striana ° — (Plate XCII., Fig. 3) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 dark brown, with two minute snow-white dots on the costa near the tips ; and another large central discoidal 

 brown tuft with several other minute subapical elevated brown dots ; within the inner margin runs a broad ashy 

 striga ; the head and palpi snowy white. Taken in woods in July, but rather uncommon. 

 ° Synonyme. — Tortrix striana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1045. 



Species 4. — Peronea substrianaP — (Plate XCII., Fig. 4) — Sleasures rather more than | of an inch in 

 expanse ; fore wings dark grayish brown, not clouded, with a large black tuft in the middle, whence extends 

 a rusty dash towards the costa obliquely ; and an obsolete ashy streak within the inner margin ; thorax brown : 

 head and palpi ashy. Taken at Birch Wood, and in the New Forest, in August, 



P Synonvmf,. — Peronea subslriana, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1049, 

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