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spots extending to the tip of the wings ; hind wings pale brown, or blackish, paler at the base, fringe white. 

 Common in hedges in July. 



e Synonyme. — Tortrix maculosana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1133. 



Species 2. — Eupcecilia dubitana ' — (Plate C, Fig. 3) — Measures 6 or 7 lines in expanse ; fore wings 



clouded with chalybeous and black, with two broad fasciaa marked with white and oohreons yeUow, one before 



and the other beyond the middle ; inner margin with a dark patch in the middle, and the apical margin and 



fringe bluish black ; head and palpi snow-white. Taken in the north of England, and at New Lanark, in 



Scotland, in July. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix dubitana, HUbner; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1138. 



Species 3. — Eupcecilia augustana s_(PIate C, Fig. 4)— Measures from 4 to 6 lines in expanse ; head, 

 thorax, and fore wings ochraceous, white and glossy, with darker clouds, with a straight dark fascia across the 

 middle, considerably waved on the outside, and with the apical margin also dark brown, which colour is, 

 however, considerably attenuated towards the costal margin ; hind wings whitish, with a brownish fimbria in 

 the male, brown in the female, fringe white. Taken in woods in July. 



s Synonymes. — Tortrix augustana, Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1134. 

 Phalana faseiella, Donovan, xiii., pi. 452. 



Species 4. — Eupcecilia nana •>_ (Plate C, Fig. 5) — Measures from 3i to 5^ lines in expanse; fore 

 wings ochraceous, white with darker shades, with the base and costa as far as the middle of the wing ashy ; 

 a broad brown central fascia, in which are one or two ochraceous dots, the inner margin also, as well as a striga 

 or slender sub-apical fascia, of brown, extending from the costa ; beyond this the remainder of the wing and 

 fringe are ochraceous and nearly immaculate ; hind wings brown, with whitish fringe ; the female is darker 

 coloured. Taken in woods in July. 



^ Synonyme. — Tortrix nana, Hawotth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1136. 



Species 5. — Eupcecilia pygm^ana' — (Plate C, Fig. 6) — Measures 4 lines in expanse ; fore wings ashy, 

 ochreous, considerably clouded with black, and irrorated with ashy, especially in the middle and along the 

 extremity of the costa ; hind wings black or blackish, fringe brown. Taken at Darenth Wood in July, 

 but rare. 



^ Synonyme. — Tortrix pygmiBana., Haworth; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1136. 



Species 6. — Eupcecilia permixtanaJ — (Plate C, Fig. 7) — Measures from 4 to 6 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings orange-red, with darker brown streaks, and with a transverse paler spot on the costa before the middle of 

 the wing, which terminates in a triangular black patch on the inner margin, and beyond the middle of the wing 

 is a large grayish-black fascia ; hind wings white, vnth a dusky border or entirely black, according to the sex ; 

 fringe pale yellow. Taken in June in Woods. 



' Synonyme. — Tortrix permixtana, Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1137. 



Species 7. — Eupcecilia sodaliana '' — (Plate C, Fig. 8) — Measures a little more than 6 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings varied with snow-white and cinereous, with several costal black spots and dots, and with a black 

 fascia rather before the middle of the wing ; interrupted in the middle, and a second somewhat incurved and 

 slightly waved, and brown towards the apical margin ; hind wings brownish. Very rare ; taken by Mr. 

 Stephens, at Ripley, in July. 



^ Synonyme. — Tortrix sodaliana, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1139. 



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