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BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 23, — Phycita abietella'' — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1472, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 26) — 

 Expands 10 to 12 lines; fore wings varied with black and hoary, the former colour forming transverse streaks, 

 a distinct whitish streak before, and another, more flexuous, beyond the middle, edged with black within, and 

 between them is a central whitish dot ; apical margin dotted with black ; hind wings dirty white. Colney 

 Hatch, New Forest, and Devonshire, in June. 



^ SvNoNVME. — Tinea decuriella^ Hiibner ; Curtis. 



Species 24. — Phycita ROBORELLAb — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 27) — Expands 1 inch ; 

 fore wings dark purplish-grey, stained in various parts with rusty ; before the middle of the wings is a nearly 

 transverse gray stripe, and a more oblique slender black, rather wavy line, followed on the inner margin of the 

 wing by a gray space ; at a little distance beyond the middle is an irregular dark eye-like mark, with a gray 

 centre, and beyond this a slender blackish transverse streak, angulated inwardly towards the costa, and outwardly 

 edged with gray ; apical margin with a row of black dots ; hind wings golden-brown. Common near London 



and elsewhere in June. 



1 Synonyme. — Tinea spissicornis, Fabricius ; Haworth, &c. 



Species 25. — Phycita legatella — (Hubner, &c. ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 28) — Expands 11 lines; 

 closely allied to the preceding species, of which it is most probably only a variety, having the wings of a more 

 uniform gray-brown tint, entirely destitute of the rusty or purple tinge, and with the markings almost obsolete. 

 Common near London. 



Species 26. — Phycita cristella — (Hiibner? Haworth, &c.) — Expands 1 inch; fore vyings purplish- 

 red, slightly clouded with gray, with two brownish curved streaks, edged with whitish, one sub-basal and the 

 other sub-apical ; hind wings brownish. Common in hedges near woods at the end of June. 



Species 27. — Phycita fusca — (Haworth ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 29) — Expands 1 inch ; fore wings 

 sooty black, with a black patch beyond the middle towards the costa, and another on the costa near the apex, 

 indicating an almost obsolete streak across the wing, angulated towards the costa ; apical margin with a row of 

 black dots ; hind wings dusky buff, with darker veins and margin. Taken from fir-trees in June, and described 

 from Mr. Bentley's collection. 



Species 28. — Phycita tristrigella— (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1473, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 30) — 

 Expands 1 1 lines ; fore wings brown, with three flexuous whitish streaks, the first sub-basal, the second 

 very oblique and sub-central, and the third, towards the apical margin, between the first and second and 

 second and third streaks, is a blackish cloud, the latter one towards the costa ; apical margin with a row of 

 wedge-shaped dusky dots ; hind wings deep brown. Darenth Wood in June, but very rare. 



Species 29. — Phycita palumbella — (Wien. Verz., Wood, fig. 1474, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 31) — 

 Expands 12 to 13 lines ; fore wings narrow, ashy, with paler clouds in front ; before the middle is a ferruginous 

 or rosy fascia, edged with black ; in the middle is a black crescent, and beyond this a second rose-coloured fascia, 

 edged with a curved black line within ; apical margin with an interrupted black line ; hind wings whitish. Taken 

 in woods and forests in June. 



