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Species 1. — Acleris costimaculana ' — (Plate XCVI., Fig. 1) — Measures 7 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 pale buff, considerably irrorated ■with small blackish dots, and with a chesnut-brown semicircular patch on the 

 middle of the costa ; hind wings and body pale buff. Described from the collection of Mr. Bentley. 

 ' SvNONYME. — Acleris subtripnnctulana, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1092 ? 



Species 2. — Acleris aspersana"— (Plate XCVI., Fig. 2-3) — Measures from 5 to 7 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings luteous buff, slightly irrorated with brunneous ; the base of the costa also brunneous, followed by 

 several small dots of the same colour before the middle of the costa, where a curved broad streak of the same 

 colour arises, and extends to the apex of the wing, having a small pale patch on the costa, the apical portion of 

 the patch more distinctly marked with three or four darker oblique abbreviated dashes, along the apical margin 

 of the wing is also a slender line of brunneous ; hind wings shining, very pale brown. The smaller individuals, 

 probably females, are of a more uniform redder buff colour, but the surved dark costal mark is not entirely 

 effaced. Taken at Greenhithe, at the middle of August by Mr. Chant. Mr. Stephens, in his Illustrations, 

 regarded this as a variety of A. gnomana. 



" Synonvme. — Tortrix aspersana, Hiibner. 



Species 3. — Acleris gnomana ° — (Plate XCVI., Fig. 4, 5) — Measures from 6i to 8^ lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings subretuse, of a ferruginous red, or pale fulvous colour, more or less reticulated with darker scales ; the 

 middle of the costa marked with three rather darker patches, arranged in a triangle, which are, however, very 

 obsolete, and appear in certain lights as if impressed ; the reticulations are occasionally nearly obsolete, and the 

 costal marks sometimes scarcely visible, whilst at others they are united into a curved line. Found in woods 

 very abundantly from July to October, and sometimes also in the spring. 



° Stvonymes. — Phalcena Tortrix gnomana, Linnaeus; Hawortli ; Stephens; Curtis; Wood, fig. 1093. 

 Tortrix Steineriana, Hiibner. Phalana Tortrix nolana, Donovan, XI., pi. 369, fig. 3. (var.) 



Species 4. — Acleris tripunctulana ° — (Plate XCVI., Fig. 6) — Measures 7 or 8 lines in expanse ; fore 



wings subretuse, ferruginous, pale reddish or hoary, with three distinct brown patches arranged in a triangle in 



the middle of the costa ; these patches are also occasionally slightly connected together ; hind wings whitish or 



brownish. Taken in woods from July to September. 



° Synonvmes — Tortrix tripunctulana, SsmoTth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1094. 

 Tortrix tripunctana, Hiibner, Curtis. 



Species 5. — Acleris bifidana p — (Plate XCVI., Fig. 7) — Measures 8 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 subretuse, ferruginous, with an oblique brown striga before the middle of the wing, followed by a central, 

 complete, somewhat sinuated fascia, extending towards the anal angle, and bifid or bifurcate towards the costa ; 

 hind wings whitish or pale brown. Taken in woods in September and October. 



p Synonymk. — Tortrix bijidana, Haworth, Stephens, Wood, fig. 1095. 



Species 6.— Acleris cerusana i— (Plate XCVI., Fig. 8)— Measures 6 or 7 lines in expanse ; fore wings 

 with the costa waved and roughly ciliated ; the disc cream-coloured, buff, slightly irrorated with ashy scales, 

 some of which are more or less raised, and the middle of the costa with three large blackish or brownish patches 

 placed in a triangle ; the head and thorax are also pale buff. Taken in the south of England, especially the 

 New Forest, but rarely, at the end of July amongst elms. 



1 Synonyme. — Tortrix cerusana, Riibnei ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1096. 



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