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PLATE CCCLXXI. 



FIG. I. I. 



PHALiENA V-ALBANA. 



WHITE-V TUFTED TORTRIX-MOTH. 



LEFIDOPTEKA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : wings in ge- 

 neral deflected when at reft. Fly by night 



* TORTRIX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Anterior wings browniih, variegated with pale rivofe lines and tufted 

 dots, and a white flexuous V-like mark at the coftal margin. 



TORTRIX V-ALBANA. Marjll. M.S. Etlt, Brit. 



This is a charming little fpecies, and very far from common. The 

 ground colour of the anterior wings is pale fufcous, and the rivofe lines 

 that variegate it whitifli, with a tinge of teftaceous brown, or reddiih 

 difpofed chiefly in dots along the middle. But the moft confpicuous 

 mark, and by means of which this fpecies of tufted tortrix may be eafily 

 known, is the white coftal flexuous band in this middle of the anterior 

 wing which bears a ftrong refemblance to the letter V. The poflerior 

 wings are pale with numerous ihort dailies, or interrupted tranfverfe 

 darker lines. 



FIG. 



