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BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 28.— Perone A ruficostanaJ — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 2) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings dull violaceous, the apical portion grayish, a mark of chesnut, edged with blackish on the front edge, 

 extending from the base nearly to the tip of the wings, with a minute tuft of bright ferruginous or fulvous scales 

 in the centre, and an interrupted subapical row of dusky spots ; inner margin yellowish- white ; head, thorax, 

 and palpi white. Taken in the New Forest in the autumnal months. 



> Synonyme. — Peronea ruficnstana, Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 16; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1062. 



Species 29. — Peronea alboflammana — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 3) — Measures 9 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings dark liver-brown, -with a small tuft of dark scales in the middle of the disc, and a few smaller ones scattered 

 towards the anal angle ; inner margin of the wing vi^th a broad attenuated bar of snow-white ; head, thorax, 

 and palpi also snow-white. Taken in the New Forest in the autumn. 



Species 30. — Peronea coronana '' — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 4) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 brunneous, with an irregularly twisted snow-white bar (sometimes very obscure) at the base, and another next 

 the anal angle, connected with the former by an oblique pale streak of the same colour, the costa of the fore 

 wings scabrous and much rounded, and the inner margin sometimes with a whitish streak ; hind wings whitish. 

 Taken at Coomb Wood and in the New Forest in the autumn. 



" Sykonymes. — Tortrix coronana, Thunberg ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1072. 

 Tortrix eximiana, Haworth ; Curtis. 



Species 31. — Peronea Btringerana ' — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 5) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings brunneous, varpng in the depth of tint, with a few dark elevated scales on the disc, and a broad 

 oblique pale ashy bar at the base, dilated behind, and united by a broad patch to a curved ashy-white mark near 

 the apical margin, this marking varying in intensity, the costal portion also vrith several oblique dark lineolee, 

 dilated at the costal margin ; hind wings ashy-brown. Taken in Kent and the New Forest in the autumn. 



* Synonyme. — Tortrix Byringerana, Hubner ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1073. 



Species 32. — Peronea umbrana ™ — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 6) — Measures from 8 to 10 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings grayish-red, more or less clouded or varied vrith brown shades and shiny, with a dusky irregular 

 streak from the base to the apical angle, the pale brown markings occasionally forming obscure oblique fascije 

 on the costal portion of the wing, the middle of the wing vrith a slightly elevated black patch of scales. Taken 

 in the New Forest and Surrey in the autumn. 



■^ Synonysie. — Tortrix umbrana, HQbner; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1063. 



Species 33. — Peronea leucoph.«:ana — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 7) — Measures 11 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 of a leaden-coloured brown, with a black streak, dilated at the base, extending from the base to the middle of 

 the disc of the wing, where is also another short black dash, the adjoining space being of a reddish tinge ; hind 

 wings pale silvery-brown ; head and thorax liver-brown. Taken in Nottinghamshire by Mr. Desvignes, but 

 very rare. 



Species 34. — Peronea subcristana ° — (Plate XCIV., Fig. 8) — Measures about 10 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings dark glossy brown, varied with deeper clouds, especially on the costa, which is marked with a dusky 

 blotch, and several dark dots beyond the middle, emitting slender oblique dark lines ; middle of the wing witli a 



