•230 BRITISH MOTHS 



rather curved beyond the middle ; the basal and apical parts of the wing duller coloured, the latter with a very 

 faint subapical striwa, and a row of minute black dots ; hind wings brown. Borders of woods, in June. 



Species 9. — Phycita tdmidana " — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; Wood, fig. 1459 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 12) — 

 Expands from 7\ to lOi lines ; fore wings clouded with gray and ferruginous, with a transverse brown striga near 

 the base, edged internally with white ; beyond the middle of the disc are two blackish dots, and a very flexuous 

 whitish subapical striga, bordered on each side with rusty brown ; hind wings deep brown. Woods and forests, 



in June. 



" SvNONTME. — Tinea verrucella,}lubneT, &c. 



Species 10.— Phycita fascia— (Ha worth," &c. ; Wood, fig. 1460 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 13)— 

 Expands 9 lines ; fore wings reddish-ash, with a red patch at the base, and a very broad, brownish-red, or 

 pm-plish fascia in the middle, edged with brown, and bearing a palish space towards the costa, in which are two 

 black dots. Epping Forest, &c., in June. 



^ Synonyme. — Phycis sunvelia, Zinken g. Sommer. 



Species 11. — Phycita advenella — (Zinck. g. Somm., &c. ; Wood, fig. 1461 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 

 14) — Expands 8 lines ; fore wings red at the base, then a nearly straight, but rather oblique, blackish streak, 

 edged inwardly with white, and another more flexuous beyond the middle ; the intermediate space chesnut- 

 brown, and clouded with pale grayish-bufif ; apical portion red-brown. Woods and forests, in June j but rare. 



Species 12. — Phycita marmorea — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1462 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 15) — 

 Expands 9 lines ; fore wings ashy, with a straight, red, central streak, outwardly white, and another slender and 

 waved towards the apical margin ; the intermediate space with a black waved fascia, furcate towards the costa, 

 and outwardly edged with white ; the disc with a dusky crescent ; hind wings brownish. Woods, in June 

 and July. 



Species 13. — Phycita porphyrea — (Curtis ; Wood, fig. 1463 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 16)— Expands 

 8i lines ; fore wings varied with bay and dove-coloured, with a very oblique white streak towards the base, 

 followed by a triangular dark patch on the costa ; on the disc are two brown dots, and beyond these a subapical, 

 waved, pale streak, which becomes white at the costa, edged with ferruginous brown ; hind wings brown. 

 Epping and New Forest, in June. 



Species 14. — Phycita consociella — (Hiibner, &c. ; AVood, fig. 1464 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 17) — 

 Expands 8 lines ; fore wings clouded with darky-ashy and purplish-brown, with a transverse, slightly curved, 

 rather broad, blackish streak near the base, edged within with white ; two small dots on the disc beyond the 

 middle, and a subapical dusky streak, edged with pale brown ; hind wings gray. Coombe Wood, end of June. 



Species 15. — Phycita Khenella ■ — (Schifi'ermiiller, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1465 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 

 18) — Expands 9 or 10 lines; fore wings dove-coloured ashy, with a wide, transverse, brown fascia before the 

 middle, with a short, very oblique, white streak from the costa on its inner margin ; in the middle of the disc ai-e 

 two dark dots, and beyond them the wings are reddish-brown, with an obscure, whitish waved striga ; hind 

 wings gray- brown. Darenth Wood, Ripley, &c., at the end of July. 



' Synonyhe. — Tinea palumbella, Huhntr. 



