J 82 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 7- — Depressaria characterosa p — (Plate CII., Fig. 8) — Measures 8 or 9 lines in expanse ; fore 

 ■wings brown, with a purplish tinge, slightly clouded with a darker colour ; the costa beyond the middle spotted 

 witii black, and tlie disc with a dark mark like a ? placed longitudinally ; hind wings whitish-brown. Taken 

 near London and Dover in tlie autumn. 



P Synonyme. — Depressaria characterosa, Hawortli; Stephens ; "Wood, fig. 1169. 



Species 8. — Depressaria cardfella '^ — (Plate CII., Fig. 9) — Measures ^ an inch in expanse ; fore 

 wings testaceous-red, with dusky atoms, and slightly brighter veins radiating to the costa ; near the middle of 

 the wing are two minute black dots, and another more distinct towards the apex : hind wings pale ochreous ; 

 head and front of the body yellow. The caterpillar feeds on Centaurea cyanus, and the moth appears in July, 

 but is very rare. Brockenhurst, New Forest. 



•1 Sy'N'ony'mes. — Tinea carrf«tf//a, Htibner ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1170. 



Species 9. — Depressaria pulverella — (Ochsenheimer, Fischer and our Plate CII., Fig. 10) — Measures 9 

 lines in expanse ; fore wings buff, with a rosy tinge ; finely irrorated with minute blackish scales ; a dark patch 

 near the middle of the wing, preceded by two very minute black and white dots, and followed by a single white 

 one ; apical margin with a row of minute black dots; hind wings whitish, silky. Described from Mr. Bentley's 

 collection. 



Species 10. — Depressaria Spakmanniana ^ — (Plate CII., Fig. 11) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; 

 fore wings pale yellowish-buff, the disc with two small black or brown dots rather wide apart, placed longitu- 

 dinally, and the apical margin with a few dark dots, and often with a brownish cloud towards the anal angle ; 

 hind wines paler and immaculate. The caterpillar feeds on a species of Centaurea, and the moth appears in 

 August. 



' Synonymes. — Pyralis Sparmanniana, Fabricius ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1172. 

 Tinea flavella, Hiibaer. Depressaria Jiavosa, Haworth. 



Species 11. — Depressaria immaculana' — (Plate CII., Fig. 12) — Measures 8 lines in expanse; "fore 

 wings pale yellow or lemon colour, totally immaculate, with a few very minute black atoms ; hind wings 

 yellowish-ash, with a faint purplish tinge. Taken in July, in the New Forest, near Brockenhurst." — Stephens. 



' Synonyme. — Depressaria immaculana, Sle^liens ; Wood, fig. 1174. 



Species 12. — Depressaria Yeatiana" — (Plate CII., Fig. 13) — Measures nearly f of an inch in expanse; 

 fore wings gray, with a central spot and two dots of black approximating together obliquely ; along the apical 

 margin are four or five blackish dots: hind wings whitish. Taken in various parts of the south of England in 

 the autumn. 



" Synonymes. — Pyralis lea^iana, Fabricius ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 1173. 

 PhaltBna albidana, Donovan, si., pi. 377. fig. 2. 



Species 13. — Depressaria ocellana''' — (Plate CII., Fig. 14) — Measures rather more than f of an inch 



in expanse ; fore wings with the apical margin rounded, and dotted with black, the disc ashy-grey, slightly 



irrorated, and the costa spotted obscurely with dusky, the middle of the disc with a sanguineous red mark like 



an S , in which posteriorly there is a minute white dot, and two minute black ones at its base ; the inner 



margin towards the base with a dusky curved mark ; hind wings pale brownish. Taken in July and August in 



woods and hedges. 



* Synonymes Pyralis ocellana, Fabricius; Stephens ; AVood, fig, 1175. 



Tenea Signella, HUbncr. Depressaria signosOy Hanurth 



