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triangular dark ashy patch varied with lighter spots along the costa, reaching nearly to the tip : hind wings 

 whitish ash. Taken at Greenhithe, Kent, in September, but very rare. 



** Synonyme.- — Tortrio' Loffiima, VC'ieu. Verz. ; niibner; Stcpliens; Wood, fig. 1091. 



Species 46. — Peronea Schalleriana •■ — (Plate XCV., Fig. 7) — Varies from 7 to 9 lines in expanse; fore 

 winfs hoary or pale brownish; the disc, especially towards the base, bearing a few elevated black scales, and the 

 middle of the costa marked with a large obtuse triangular rusty red patch, varying in the extent of its colour ; 

 hind wines hoary brown. Taken in woods and gardens about the beginning of September, and rather 

 abundant. 



* SvNONYME Phaltena Tortrix Sckniieriana, hlunaius \ Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1085. 



Species 47. — Peronea rdpana ^ — (Plate XCV., Fig. 8) — Measures 8 lines in expanse ; fore wings rusty 

 red, or reddish, delicately irrorated with dusky scales, and some elevated black dots towards the base near the 

 inner margin, the middle of the costa with a large triangular blackish patch. Taken in woods and gardens in 

 September. 



' Synonyme. — Pr/ralis rufana, Fabricius ; Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1086. 



Species 48. — Peronea asperana ^ — (Plate XCV., Figs. 9, 10) — Measures 7 or 8 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings with the basal part snowy-white, varying to ochraceous, the apical half brown or blackish, extending 

 obliquely from the middle of the costal margin nearly to the anal angle, the disc of the wing with elevated scales 

 near the middle and apex, and a bundle of white scales placed before the middle of the wing, and connected with the 

 inner margin ; or with the tuft of scales black, and the inner margin ashy ; hind wings brown. Taken rather 

 commonly in woods and gardens iu July and August. The fine variety represented in fig. 10 has the apical half 

 of the wing concolorous with the base, the dark part being reduced to a triangular patch on the costa. 

 B Sy'nonyme. — Pyralis asperana, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1088. 



Species 49. — Peronea borana'' — (Plate XCV., Fig. 11) — Measures 7 or 8 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 ochraceous, with a dusky or black patch of elevated scales placed near the inner margin, and which extends 

 nearly to the base, another spot three times as large, and irregularly bilobed on the disc, arising on the costa 

 near the middle, and extending nearly to the apex, where it is deflexed along the apical margin, but less strongly 

 coloured, vanishing before the anal angle ; hind wings pale brown. The fore wings vary in being darker 

 coloured, with the apical portion redder. Taken in woods and forests in August. 



^ Sysonyme. — Pyralis borana, Fabricius : Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1090. 



Species 50. — Peronea variegana ' — (Plate XCV., Figs. 12, 13) — Measures from 7 to 8^ lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings glossy, with the basal portion white or gray, and the apical part reddish-brown, varied with dull red 

 and brown, divided obliquely from the basal portion ; all the wing more or less varied with darker clouds, and 

 also bearing black elevated scales, arranged into fascise in the dark part of the wing. The species is, however, 

 extremely variable, the pale part of the wing being occasionally ochraceous-reddish, and even blackish, as in our 

 fig. 12; near the base of the wing towards the inner margin is also a dark tuft of elevated scales, the shade 

 extending to the margin itself; hind wings ashy-brown. Common in woods, hedges, and gardens, about the end 



of July. 



' Synonymes. — Pyralis varifgana, Fabricius; Haworth ; Stepliens ; Wood, fig. 1089. 

 Toririx cristajia, Hiibner. 



