332 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI IflH. 



lOT. Margelana lithoxylea (Bang-Haas). 



Uypomecia lithoxylea Bang-Haas, Iris, vol. xxvi. p. Vol. pi. vi. f. I'.l (1912) (Batna). 

 1 S, dated October 27, 1913, was received from Victor Faronlt. 



168. Centropodia inquinata (Mab.). 



Hadena iiiquivafa Mabille, Bull. Soc. Entom. France 1888. p. 43 (Gabes, Tunis). 



Victor Faronlt sent me 72 specimens of this species from October 1912-1913. 



109. Pseudohadena chenopodiphaga erubescens >Stdgr. 



Pgewlohatldin ehcnopodipltagu var. enibescejin Staudinger, Cut. Lep. Pataeani. ed. iii. p. 170. No. 

 _lG49a(1901) (Biskra). 



1 received from Faronlt 10 specimens dated April, May, October, and November 

 1913, and we onrselves captnred 3 in April 1912. 



l~0. Luperina pseudoderthisa sp. nov. 



Has a general snjjerticial resemblance to a Dertliisa. 



(J. Antennae brown ; head and thorax cinnamon strongly sprinkled and inter- 

 spersed with dark wood brown ; abdomen greyish cream white, anal tnft pale 

 pinki.sh cinnamon. Forewing dark wood brown variegated with grey and 

 cinnamon ; a row of pale cinnamon dots on costa ; orbicnlar stigma reduced to 

 a cinnamon dot in a black ring ; reniform large, greyish cinnamon and white ; 

 a gridiron, on lower half of basal third of wing, composed of three arrow- 

 marks joined by tine lines black ; inside this gridiron is a cinnamon streak ; post- 

 discal and snbterminal sinuate fine lines whitish, passing into pale brown towards 

 costa. Hindwing milk white. 



¥ larger, triangle on forewing less prominent, orbicular large, joined to reniform 

 by cinnamon band, snbterminal line strong and angled at vein 5. 



Length of forewing, c? 14-16 mm., ? 16-18 mm.; e.Kpanse, S 32-38 mm., 

 ? 38-42 mm. 



2 cJ(?, 3 ¥ ?, September and October 1912-13, forwarded by Victor Faronlt. 



171. Trigonophora meticulosa (Linn.). 



Phalaena meticulosa Linnaeus, Sijsl. Nut. ed. x. p. 613 (1758) (Europe). 

 Victor Faronlt sent me 3 specimens taken in May 1913. 



172. Eriopus latreillei (Dup.). 



Nocttia latreillei Duponchel, Hist. Xat. Lepid. Frunre vol. vii. p. 327 pi. 120 f. 2 (1827) (France). 



1 6. October 16, 1913, Faronlt. 



173. Bryophila pallida Beth. -Baker. 



Bryophila /raudatricula var. pallida Bethune-Baker, Trans. Entom. Sac. 1894 p. 37 pi. 1 f. 4 

 (Alexandria). 



Sir George Hampson has put this down as a synonym of rcceptricula Hiibu. 

 = strigula Borkh., but it is, I am convinced, a perfectly distinct species. 



2 (?(?, 1 ¥, August and September 1913, Faronlt. 



