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characterized species of British Moths. 111 
On the authority of Zeller, Mr. Doubleday has changed my 
name for “prodromana,” vide “ Hiib. Caterpillars, Tortrices 4, 
Genuine B, ¢, fig. c,” and on referring to the plate where the 
moth is figured with its wings closed, I am not satisfied that it 
represents my insect: it has simple antenne, it is much lighter 
than any I have seen, and the shoulder-marks are different : 
nevertheless it may represent the female. 
4, Genus 950, 23. Spilonota tetragonana, Step. 1 took a spe- 
cimen 11th July, 1842, on a hedge bounding a wood going to 
Woolmer Forest from Selborn. 
5. 26. Spilonota sylvestrana, Curt., was first discovered by 
Mr. Dale at Bournemouth, and from the 23rd June to the Ist 
July we found it there in 1846, It mhabits the Pinasters on the 
cliffs, and we beat it into our nets in the daytime. It has been 
distributed amongst entomologists by the name of “ duplana” of 
Hiibner, pl. 36. f. 229 & 230, to which it is not unlike, but much 
smaller: it also resembles the small dark varieties of S. comi- 
tana, Hiib. 
It is gray: head grisly and crested; palpi horizontal, very 
scaly, second jot rhomboidal, apical not apparent ; basal jomt 
of antennze stout ; they are closely annulated with black: wings 
deflexed in repose; superior oblong, tip rounded ; gray, trans- 
versely but irregularly striped with brown and chestnut, one-third 
of the base and a space towards the posterior margin darker, at 
the centre of this is a brownish-ochreous orbicular but not well- 
defined patch ; the costa is spotted gray and dusky ; the cilia are 
grisequs with a black line at the base: under-wings pale golden- 
brown ; cilia tinted, with a darker line: the under-side is of an 
uniform pale golden-brown, the costa slightly spotted: hinder 
tibize stout, with a pair of spurs below the middle, a little longer 
than the apical pair: expanse from 6 to 63 lines. 
6. 27. Spilonota (Sideria) achatana, W.V.; marmorana, Hib.; 
Curt. Brit. Ent. pl. 551. The 12th July, 1848, I beat four out 
of blackthorns by Pole Hill, near Uxbridge. 
7. Genus 955, 5. Anchylopera Lyellana, Curt. Brit. Ent. 
fol. 376, having been first added to our British fauna by Sir 
Charles Lyell, who took it in June at Kinnordy in Forfarshire, I 
named it after my friend, but it seems to have been described 
previously by Treitschke under the name of Phoxopteryx myrtil- 
lana, and has been since figured by Duponchel, vol. x. pl. 2538. 
f. 4. 
8. 8. A. diminutana, Haw.; cuspidana, Treit. I have taken it 
the middle of August at Mickleham in Surrey, and Mr. Dale 
finds it at Lulworth in Dorsetshire. 
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