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Species 5. — Peronea Bentleyana — (Plate XCII., Fig. 5) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 with the base and costa (extending nearly to the tip) of a leaden brown, the apical portion pale brown, mottled 

 with small darker patches ; inner margin with a rather narrow luteous patch ; disc of the wing with a large 

 blackish tuft of elevated scales, and also with smaller patches towards the base and anal angle ; the costal portioa 

 of the wiug slightly marked before the middle with very indistinct gray oblique fascia, and the apical margin 

 with a slender dusky streak, the apical angle of the wing also dark ; hind wings pale whitish brown ; head, 

 thorax, and palpi, very pale buff. Taken by Mr. Bentley, in the New Forest. 



Species 6. — Pekonea Vittana "i — (Plate XCII., Fig. 6) — Measures about f of an inch in expanse; 

 fore wings brunneous, darker beyond the middle, with a raised tuft of black scales in the centre, whence 

 extends a reddish dash obliquely towards tlie apex ; within the inner margin is a broad ochre-red streak, and 

 near the anal angle are several dark dots ; head and palpi ochre-red. Taken near London, and in the New 

 Forest. 



1 Synonyme. — Peronea KjHajja, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1051. 



Species 7- — Peronea spadiceana "■ — (Plate XCII., Fig. 7) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings with the base bright bay colour, and the apex dark brown, the two colours separated obliquely nearly 

 from the base of the inner margin to the extremity of the costa, passing near the middle through a black-brown 

 patch of scales, and with a few dark scales near the anal angle : head and palpi ashy. Taken in the same 

 locality as the last species, in the autumn. 



■■ Synonyme. — Tortrix spadiceana, Haworth : Stephens; Wood, Sg. 1052. 



Species 8. — Peronea brunneana* — (Plate XCII., Fig. 8) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 pale reddish-brown at the base, the apical half darker brown, the colours separated obliquely from the large 

 black central tuft of elevated scales ; near the anal margin are also a few dark dots and a faint ashy streak within 

 the inner margin ; head and palpi ashy. Taken in the same localities as the preceding, in the autumn. 



' Synonyme — Peronea hrunneana^ Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1050. 



Species 9. — Peronea Desfontainana ' — (Plate XCII., Fig. 9) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; fore 



wings brownish, darkest along the scabrous costa, the base very much rounded, and the middle slightly 



emarginate ; a broad fulvous golden vitta extends from the base to the middle of tlie wing, and is terminated by 



a large elevated fulvous fascicle of scales ; another very slender streak extends to the anal angle : hind wings 



whitish : head and palpi pale. Taken with the preceding. 



* Synonvmes. — Pyralis Desfontainana, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1054. 

 Tortrix sericeana, Hiiboer. 



Species 10. — Peronea consimilana " — (Plate XCII., Fig. 10) — Measures rather more than | of an inch 

 in expanse ; fore wings brunneous brown, from the base to the middle runs a tawny-orange dash terminated 

 by a fascicle of scales of rather darker colour, and two or three nearly obsolete dots near the anal angle; the 

 inner margin with an obscure ashy streak : the thorax, head, and palpi white. Taken with the preceding, but 

 not common. '^• 



° Synonyme. — Peronea consimilana, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1053. 



Species 11. — Peronea fdlvocristana'' — (Plate XCII., Fig. 11) — Measures about | of an inch in expanse; 

 fore winLTS with the costa and apical margin dark brown ; the basal portion with a broad orange brown dash. 



