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followed by a very oblique fascia across the middle of the wing of the same colour, angulated and broken near 

 the costa, and edged with silvery, and beyond it another fascia extending from the costa near the preceding to 

 the anal angle, darkest at its extremities, and sometimes much broken ; the apical margin slightly spotted with 

 silvery white ; hind wings brown, darkest on the margin. Taken amongst fern and elsewhere in June, and 

 very widely dispersed, but not common. 



'■ SvNONYMES. — Pyralis Baumanniana^'Fahmms; Haworlh ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1154. 

 Pyralis Harlmanniana, Hiibncr (variety). 



XANTHOSETIA, Stephens. 

 This genus derives its name from the yellow or yellowish-red tints of most of the species ; the palpi are long 

 and porrected, moderately clavate, with the terminal joint very minute and nearly concealed ; the antennae are 

 pubescent beneath in the males, the head tufted on the crown, the thorax not crested, the fore wings rather 

 elongate, with the costa ratlier rounded, as is also the apical margin ; the apical angle rather acute, the disc, 

 near the apex, with a curved dark streak. 



Species 1. — Xanthosetia zcegana ^ — (Plate CI., Fig. 11) — Measures from 9 to 11 lines in expanse; fore 

 wings bright yellow, with the basal part of the costa, a spot in the middle of the wing towards the inner margin, 

 and a lar<Te orbicular mark, at the extremity of the wing, of rusty red ; fringe dark golden red. Taken in 

 wrassy places at the beginning of August, but not common. 



■* Synonyme3. — Plialaina Tortrix Zoigana, Linnceus ; Fabricius ; Hiibner ; Donovan, 3, pi. 106, fig. 2 ; Haworth ; 



Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1155. 



Species 2. — Xanthosetia Ferrdgana '' — (Plate CI., Fig. 12) — Measures 8 or 9 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings ferruginous, with a brown spot near the middle of the inner margin, the apical portion of the wiug brown, 

 with a large hemispherical ferruginous spot ; hind wings deep brown. Taken in Norfolk, Kent, and the New 

 Forest, in August. 



'■ Tortrix ferrugana, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1156. 



Species 3. — Xanthosetia hamana <^ — (Plate CI., Fig. 11) — Measures 9 to nearly 12 lines in expanse; 

 fore wings, head, antennse, palpi, and tuft at the extremity of the body, sulphur-yellow, the fore wings with a 

 minute brownish dot near the middle of the inner margin, followed by a raised rusty streak from the anal angle 

 nearly to the middle of the disc, where it is bent outwards ; the costa is also marked with rusty brown towards 

 the base and apex ; hind wings pale ashy-brown. Taken in grassy places about the beginning of August. 



' SvNONVMEs. — PhalcBna Tor^ru' Aamanff, Linnaeus ; Huhner ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1157. 

 Pyralis Zoeyana, var. B. Fabricius. 



Species 4. — Xanthosetia diversana '^ — (Plate CI., Fig. 14) — Measures from 8 to nearly 12 lines in 

 expanse ; fore wings yellow, more or less distinctly marked with ferruginous dots and strigas, namely, the costa 

 at the base, and a spot in the middle, whence generally arises a streak, which runs to the inner margin, being 

 slightly bent inwardly at its extremity ; near the extremity of the wing is an angulated mark, which, when the 

 wings are closed, forms a ferruginous cross, the apex and disc of the wing also spotted with rust, these markings 

 varying considerably in intensity ; hind wings brown, with the fringe ashy. Taken in grassy places at the 

 beginning of August. 



^ SvNoNYME. — Toririx diversana, Hiibner; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1158. 



