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which was formerly placed by Mr. Stephens in the genus Ditula, 
but in his last work (Catalogue of British Micro-Lepidoptera, p. 
25) he makes it the type of a new genus, named Braohytscnia, a 
name meaning short marked or short barred, in allusion to the 
stripes upon its fore wings. And I propose to designate our in- 
seot Brachytccnia Malaria, or the short-barred apple Tortrix, 
whilst its larva will be most readily distinguished as the Many- 
dotted apple-tree worm. 
This moth (see plate 3, fig. 5) measures from 0.80 to 1.15 aoross its wings 
when spread. Its fore wings are ash-gray of a rather dark shade, but towards 
their outer margins ashy-white and sprinkled with a few black atoms. A ser¬ 
pentine black line towards their base extends fVom their outer nearly or quite 
to their inner edge, this linebeing broader and less flexuous near its outer end, 
and from this end a black streak on the outer edge of the wing reaches to the 
base, where it meets a black band which runs across the anterior part of the 
thorax. Parallel with this streak is another interrupted one, placed upon the 
base of the cubital vein. From the middle of the outer margin a straight black 
stripe extends obliquely towards the inner angle and ends abruptly near the 
middle of the wing. Slightly back of this a small triangular black spot is 
placed on the outer margin; and nearly half way to the tip is a second oblique 
black stripe, parallel with the first and nearly as long, and from its inner end 
a very zigzag and serpentine black line runs across to the inner margin. On 
the hind'part of the wing the middle veins are black, commencing at their 
forks, forming about four slender longitudinal lines. Near the centre of the 
wing’is often a round whitish spot having a black dot in its middle. The hind 
wings are dull whitish, slightly dusky towards their tips. Both pairs beneath 
arc silvery whitish thickly sprinkled with blackish points towards their outer 
sides, and on their hind edge is a black line which is slightly interrupted by 
the tips of each of the veins. The head and thorax are of the same ashy-whito 
color as the outer part of the fore wings. The head has an elevated transverse 
ridge or crest between the bases of the antennas and another below this upon 
the middle of the face, the space between these crests being occupied by a black 
band. On the hind part of the thorax the scales are also elevated, forming a 
semicircular crest. The antennae in the males are pectinated with two rows 
of short robust branches. Those of the female (fig. 5 o) have rows of ex¬ 
ceedingly fine short hairs along their insides. 
A species which is closely related to the one now described 
may be found in the forests early in the spring, before the leaves 
have put forth. It is of an ashy white color with a large three- 
sided black spot on the middle of the outer margin of the fore 
wings, from which it may be named 
The triangular-spotted tortrix, Brachytania Iriquetrana. Its ex 
panded wings measure 0.80. The shoulders or outer bases of the fore wings 
are occupied by a shdrt broad black stripe, and immediately back of this is » 
black transverse angular mark, shaped like the letter V, with its inner par 
more or less interrupted into two or three small spots. The triangular b ac 
