j5g BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 16.— Peronea ckistana ^— (Plate XCIII., Fig. 2)— Measures 8i to 10 lines in expanse ; head, 



thorax and palpi snow-white ; fore wings dark-brown, with an elevated tuft of white scales, and a broad white 



bar along the inner margin ; adjoining the apical margin of the fore wings, especially towards the anal angle, are 



also a few minute elevated transverse white scales ; hind wings brownish. Taken in the woods in the south of 



England, in the autumn. 



2 SvNONYME. — Pt/ralis cristana, FtibTicms ; Hiibner; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1060. 



Species 17. — Peronea albipunctana " — (Plate XCIII., Fig. 3) — Measures 9 lines in expanse ; head, 

 thorax, and palpi snow-white; hind wings dark brown, with a central tuft of snow-white elevated scales and 

 a few white scales near the anal angle ; inner margin of the fore wings with a broad ochre-white dash ; hind 

 vyings brownish. Taken in the New Forest. 



■ Synonyme. — Peronea albipunctana, Haworth, MSS. ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1061. 



Species 18. — Peronea chantana — (Plate XCIII., Fig. 4) — Measures 8 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 with the base and costa, extending nearly to the tip of the wing, of a red-brown colour, the inner margin with a 

 broad attenuated streak of snow-white along the inner margin, and the disc with a patch of white scales, the 

 remaining apical portion of the wing of a liver-brown, with a straight subapical row of elevated scales ; hind 

 wings brownish ; head and thorax snow-white. Taken in the New Forest by Mr. Bentley. 



Species 19. — Peronea suBviTTANAb (Plate XCIII., Fig. 5) — Measures I0|^ lines in expanse; 



head, thorax, and palpi obscure white ; fore wings dark-brown, with a central tuft of snow-white scales, and a 

 short streak of the same colour at the base of the inner margin of the fore wings ; hind wings pale brown. 

 Taken in the New Forest in August. 



b Synonyme. — Peronea subvittana, Stephens, lUustr. 



Species 20. — Peronea insulana — (Plate XCIII., Fig. 6) — Measures 9i lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 liver-brown, with a large tuft of snow-white scales in the middle of the disc, and a few slight elevated dark 

 scales towards the anal angle, the inner margin with a dirty white dash, in which is an indistinct short dusky 

 vitta; hind win OS pale liver-brown ; head, palpi, and thorax snow-white. Taken in the New Forest, by Mr. 

 Bentley, in the autumn. 



Species 21. — Peronea divisana ^ — (Plate XCIII., Fig. 7) — Measures. 10 or II lines in expanse ; head, 

 thorax, and palpi brownish ; fore wings reddish-brown, with a broad straight blackish bar extending from the 

 base of the inner margin to the apical angle of the wing, and shaded off on the hind margin to the groundcolour 

 of the wing, and bounded on its fore margin by a white streak, which is gradually shaded off to the costa, which 

 is red-brown ; hind wings pale brown. Taken in the New Forest and in Kent in the autumn, but rare. 

 ' Synonyme. — Tortrix divisana, HUbuer ; Stephens, Illustr, pi., 34, fig. 1 ; Wood, fig. 1064. 



Species 22. — Peronea radiana'' — (Plate XCIII., Figs. 8, 9) — Measures about 10 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings pale brownish buff, the costa broadly lighter coloured, a slender brown streak extending from the base to 

 the apex of the fore wings, emitting various radiating streaks, extending to the apical margin, and running from 

 the base of the wings, where they become confluent ; hind wings pale brown. P. strigana of the " Catalogue" 



