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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE CXIV. 



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Porrectaria gallipennella (the cock's feather). 



Porrectaria lineolea (the red-specked). 

 Porrectaria albicosta (the white-ed^ed). 

 Porrectaria leucapennella (the lead-coloured). 

 Porrectaria argentula (the silvered). 

 Aphelosetia auritella (the eared). 

 Aphelosetia cygnipennella (the swan's feather). 

 Aphelosetia semialbella (the half white). 

 Aphelosetia triatomea (the treble-atomed white). 

 Aphelosetia floslactis (the cream-coloured). 

 Aphelosetia rufocinerea (the red brindled). 

 Aphelosetia oleella (the smnll shining brown). 

 Aphelosetia lucidella (the lucid). 

 Aphelosetia rufipennella (the red feather). 

 Aphelosetia fulvescens (the tawny), 

 Aphelosetia marginea (the bordered straw). 

 Batia lambdella (the tawny crescent). 

 Batia lunaris (the lesser tawny crescent), 

 Batia formosella. 

 Batia lutarella (the clay), 

 Batia saturatella (the dark clay). 

 Batia Panzerella (the Panzerian). 

 Batia flavifrontella (the yellow head). 



Insects. — Fig. 24. Achroia alvearia (the honey). 



Fig. 25. Galleria cereana (the honeycomb). 



Fig, 26, the caterpillar. 



Fig. 27. llythia sociella (the pale-shouldered). 



Fig. 28. llythia anella (the twin-spot). 



Fig. 29. Senta flammea (the flame). 



Fig. 30. Senta sericca (the silken). 



Fig. 31. — — the caterpillar. 



Fig. 32. Eudorea Portlandica. 



Fig. 33. Eudorea cembrella (the large gray). 



Fig. 3-4. Eudorea subfusca (the drab gray). 



Fig. 35. Eudorea dubitalis (the hoary gray). 



Fig. 36. Eudorea pyralella (the yellow stigmaed gray). 



Fig, 37. Eudorea tristrigella (the three- streaked gray). 



Fig. 38. Eudorea pallida (the pale gray). 



Fig. 39. Eudorea lineola (the striped gx'ay). 



Fig. 40, Eudorea murana (the wall^fray). 



Fig. 41. Eudorea resinea (the resin gray). 

 All the insects figured in this plant are from the cabinet of Mr. 

 Bentley, with the exception of 6, 9, 15, 21, 27, and 28, from exceed- 

 ingly accurate figures in Wood's Index. 



The caterpillars are from Hiibner and Roesel, 



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Species 7- — Porrectaria gallipennella — (Hiibner ; Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1411, and our Plate CXIV., 

 Fig. 1) — Expands 6i to 7 lines ; fore wings fulvous or rufescent, with the costa, inner margin and principal 

 longitudinal vein occasionally slenderly streaked with white beyond the middle of the wing ; hind wings rufo- 

 fulvescent, with fulvous fringe ; the fore wings are occasionally whitish-fulvous, with the veins and fringe reddish. 

 Taken in grassy places in woods in June. 



Species 8. — Porrectaria lineolea — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1412, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 2) — 

 Expands 6 lines ; fore wings whitish straw-coloured, with the veins marked with interrupted reddish or red 

 streaks; the fringe more or less reddish. Taken near London, and in Surrey and Kent, in June. 



Species 9. — Porrectaria albicosta — (Haworth ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., plate 687; Wood, fig. 1413, and our 

 Plate CXIV., Fig. 3) — Expands 5^ to 6 lines ; fore wings rather hooked at the tip, ochreous, rather darker 

 towards the tip, with an entire narrow white margin, a white line reaching from the base to the anal angle, and 

 another on the disc, not extending to the base ; hind wings pale ashy, fringe pale yellowish-brown. Taken in 

 June on nettles, &c., in the same places as the former. 



Species 10. — Porrectaria leucapennella — (Hiibner ; Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1414, and our Plate CXIV., 

 Fig. 4) — Expands 4^ to 5i lines; fore wings very acute, whitish leaden coloured, varying to white, with the 

 costa narrowly white ; the veins whitish, but variable in the strength of the colouring. Taken in woods in June. 



Species 11. — Porrectaria argentula — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1415, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 5) — 

 Expands 4^ to 5^ lines ; fore wings silvery white, with the costa whiti.sh, and the veins streaked with ochre- 

 brown ; hind wings and fringe brownish. Taken in woods round London in June. 



Ob$, — Porrectaria vibicipennella Hiibner, &c., has been forwarded to us by Mr. Weaver (by "whom it was discovered in Worcestershire), 

 together with some other novelties, but unfortunately too late for admission into our plates. 



