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transverse fuscous streaks ; an angulated greyish-fuscous fascia near the base, narrowly mar- 

 gined with darker fuscous, a rather oblique greyish-fuscous central fascia also narrowly dark- 

 margined, and an apical patch of the same colour reaching nearly to the anal angle. Hind 

 wings pale greyish fuscous, with whitish grey cilia. The male is slightly larger, with the fasciae 

 more distinct and conspicuous. Type S . Expanse of wings 19 millims. 

 Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman^s collection. 



Robinson gives Virginia and Massachusetts as localities. I have two females bred from 

 larvae found hanging from shoots of fir at the beginning of August 1871 on Mount Shasta, 

 California, which emerged at the end of the same month ; one is now in the British Museum. 



Lophoderus triferanus. (Plate LXIII. fig. 9.) 



Cacoecia triferana 5 , Walk. Cat. Lejo. Het. xxviii. p. 313. 



Cacoecia velutinana c? , Wallc. Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 314 ; Orote Sf Boh. Tr. Am. Ent, Soc. vol. ii. p. 83. 

 Tortrix lutosana c? , Clem. Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. v. p. 138 ; Bob. Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 279, pi. vi. f. 59. 

 Tortrix (Lophoderus) lutosana, Zell. Verh. z.-h. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 225. 



Tortrix incertana 5 , Clem. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. v. p. 138 ; Boh. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 278, 

 pi. vi. figs. 57, 58 ; PacJc. Mass. Board Ag. 1870. 



Palpi extending about the length of the head beyond it; the apical joint short, exposed; 

 these, together with the head, dull reddish ochreous : antennae scarcely pubescent. Fore 

 wings — vidth the costa arched towards the base, apex not produced, apical margin convex — 

 pale reddish towards the base, with a brownish-fuscous irregular-shaped elongate spot ex- 

 ternally pale-margined at the base of the dorsal margin ; a wide, oblique, central fascia, deep 

 brownish red, margined on both sides by a narrow shining pale line, and having an inden- 

 tation on its inner side above the middle ; a brownish-fuscous triangular costal spot beyond 

 the middle is preceded by a purplish shade, and followed by a shining silvery patch adjacent 

 to the apical margin, reaching to the anal angle and containing a few ochreous and fuscous 

 scales : cilia shining reddish ochreous. Hind wings pale greyish fuscous ; cilia paler. In 

 the male C velutinana, Walk. {T. lutosana, Clem.), which is somewhat smaller than the female, 

 the central fascia is narrower and more deeply indented on its inner edge below the costa ; 

 the basal patch is more constricted below the middle, and the costa is somewhat less arched 

 towards the base. Type $ . Expanse of wings 15 millims. 



North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. Robinson gives Massachusetts, New 

 York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio as localities. 



Prof. Zeller (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 237), after giving most careful comparative 

 descriptions, expresses the opinion that T. lutosana, Clem., is not specifically distinct from 

 T, incertana, Clem., and that the two together are not distinct ivoro. politana. Haw. Grote 

 and Robinson {I. c.) point out that C. velutinana. Walk., is the same as triferana, Walk. 

 A careful comparison of Walker^'s types shows that his triferana is the form described as incer- 

 tana by Clemens, and that his velutinana is equivalent to lutosana. Messrs. Grote and 

 Robinson are therefore in accord with Professor Zeller in regarding these two as forms of 

 the same species. 



