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Species 16. — Phycita pinguis — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1466 ; Curtis, pi. 233 ; and our Plate CXV., 

 Fig. 19) — Expands about 11 lines ; fore wings dull pale-ochreous, freckled with black; a very large black cloud 

 between the base and middle of the wing, within which is a slender, pale-waved streak, and beyond the middle 

 is another pale waved line, edged with black within, and more suflFused towards the apical margin, which has a 

 row of six or seven minute black spots ; hind wings paler with a dark border. Near Chelsea, and in the Green 

 Park, by Mr. Marshall, at the beginning of July. 



Species 17- — Phycita hostilis — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1467, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 20) — Expands 

 1 inch ; fore wings brownish, the base somewhat ferruginous, towards the middle is a broadish brownish- waved 

 dark fascia, including a pale streak, the space beyond this is slightly clouded, and bears a brown lunule near 

 the costa, followed b)' another dark fascia, in which is a pale waved streak, angulated near the anal angle, the 

 apical margin with an interrupted brown line ; hind wings brown. Darenth Wood and Ripley, in June. 



Species 18. — Phycita Formosa — (Haworth ; Wood fig. 1468, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 21) — Expands 10 

 lines ; fore wings ashy-red, the base purplish, a deep black, slightly waved, nearly central fascia narrowed behind, 

 and inclosing a pale waved line on the inner margin, beyond this is a short black streak, rather oblique, and 

 towards the apical margin is another waved black streak, bearing a ])ale one : apical margin dotted with black ; 

 hind wings brown. Darenth Wood, about the beginning of July, on the white-thorn. 



Species 19. — Phycita stigmatella — (Plate CXV., Fig. 22) — Expands 11 lines; fore wings gray- 

 brown ; the costa widely gray from the base to the middle of the wing, where arises a waved, slender, trans- 

 verse white streak ; another, more angulated, is placed half-way between it and the apical margin, the inter- 

 mediate space being grayish-black, with some black, stigma-like marks in the middle ; the inner margin brown ; 

 apical margin gray, with a row of black dots, preceded by a slender, brownish-waved stripe ; hind wings 

 and body pale brown. Taken at Coombe Wood, and communicated from Mr. Bentley's cabinet with the 

 above name. 



Species 20. — Phycita obtusa — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1469, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 23) — 

 Expands 9^ lines ; fore wings dusky black and atomose, sometimes with a reddish tinge, a flexuous whitish 

 transverse streak towards the base, a short one arising from the middle of the costa, and a third oblique and 

 waved near the apical margin, which bears a row of brown dots ; hind wings whitish-ash. Darenth Wood, June, 

 but very rare. 



Species 21. — Phycita obscora — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1470, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 24) — Expands 

 9 lines ; all the wings deep brown, the fore ones with dark atoms, and with an obscure ashy dot, encircled with 

 black, beyond the middle, followed by an almost obsolete whitish waved line ; apical margin with dusky dots. 

 Taken near London, in June, but very rare. 



Species 22. — Phycita oenatella^ — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; Wood, fig. 1471, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 25) 

 — Expands 9 to 10^ lines ; fore wings brownish, clouded with black and white, and with several longish black 

 spots and dots placed together behind the middle, occasionally preceded on the costa by a chesnut-coloured patcli, 

 and beyond this is a white streak, edged within with brown ; apical margin white, with black dots ; inner mar riu 

 also dotted with black. Woods and forests, in June. 



' Synonyme Tinea cristella ? Hubner ; Hawortli, &c. 



