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longitudinal fascia internally bearing a small tooth, and with three small spots towards the apex of the wines, all 

 white ; near the apex is an angulated, rusty-brown, transverse double line ; apical margin dotted with black. 

 A very common species throughout the summer. 



Species 12. — Crambus angustellus — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1496; and our Plate CXVI., Fio-. 12) — 

 Expands 9 or 10 lines ; fore wings slightly hooked, narrow, pale ashy-brown, with a broad streak on the costa, 

 an abbreviated, discoidal, longitudinal one, and three spots towards the apex, all white ; near the apical martrin 

 is an angulated whitish line, edged on each side with rusty-brown ; apical margin with several pale brown dots ; 

 hind wings ashy-brown. Common during the summer. 



, Species 13. — Crambus hortuellus — (Hiibner, &c.; Wood, fig. 1497; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 13) — 

 Expands 10 to 11^ lines ; fore wings retuse, luteous-orange, darkish on the costa, with brown streaks variable 

 in intensity between the veins, and with a transverse, subapical, angulated, slightly silvery streak, and brassy 

 gold fringe ; hind wings ashy-brown. Common in the summer. 



Species 14. — Crambfs cespitellus '' — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1498 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 14) — 



Expands 10 to 11 lines; fore wings retuse, pale, with the costa brownish, with two transverse brown streaks, 



one in the middle, oblique and waved, and the other more distinct and darker, with a silvery margin ; fringe 



golden-brass ; hind wings brownish-white. Common in the summer, more especially in the New Forest. 



•^ Synonymes. — Tinea strigella^ Fabricius. 

 Tinea chrysonuchella, Wien. Verz. 



Species 15. — Crambus montanelius — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1499; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 15) — 

 Expands 8 lines ; fore wings retuse, brown, with longitudinal radiating streaks, intersected near the apical margin 

 by a silvery angulated line ; apical margin with two black dots ; fringe golden-brown ; hind wings brown. 

 Taken on mountains in the north of England, in July. 



Species 16. — Crambus marginellus — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1500; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 16)— 

 Expands 8^ lines ; fore wings retuse, shining straw-coloured, brown, or pale ochreous ; apical margin rather more 

 dusky, with three black dots; fringe shining golden ; hind wings pale brown. Taken in July, near London. 



Species 17. — Crambus latistrius ' — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1506 ; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 17) — 

 Expands 12 to 15 lines ; fore wings narrowish, brown, palest on the inner margin, with a longitudinal, broadish, 

 silvery streak, entire and rather dilated beyond the middle ; hind wings brown. Taken in Kent, Norfolk, and 



the New Forest, in June. 



' Chilo Leachellus, Zinck. g. Sommer. 



Species 18. — Crambus pinetelltts '' — (Linnseus; Donovan, Vol. 8, PI. 263, fig. 1; Wood, fig. 1507; 

 and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 18) — Expands 10 to 12 lines; fore wings orange-clay-coloured, with a very broad 

 triangular silvery bar along the middle of the wing, divided by an oblique deep orange brown line, which is 

 carried round the outer portion, and with a faintly angulated subapical striga ; hind wings pale brownish. 

 Taken in chalky districts in June, but not common. 



. k Synonymfs — Tinea conchella, Hiibner. 



PhalcEiia virginella, Scopoli. 



Species 19. — Crambus chrtsonucuellus ' — (Scopoli, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1508; and our Plate CXVI., Fig. 

 19) — Expands lOi to Hi lines; fore wings obtuse, ashy, with brownish atoms, and with olive brown 

 powdered longitudinal streaks, a slightly dentated ferruginous striga in the middle, and an arched white line 



