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NEW MAURETANIAN MOTHS. 



By the Hon. W. ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



BOMBYCES. 

 1. Lymantria nisseni sp. nov. 



9 . Head and antennae yellowish grey-brown ; thorax grey-bvown powdered 



with black ; abdomen yellowisli grej'-brown. Forewing yellowish grey-brown, 



powdered with black scales, a black streak below, and one in cell, a discocellular 

 black ring, two postmediaa transverse zigzag black lines, and fringe chequered 



faintly with black. Hind wing pale j'ellowish grey-brown, outer half powdered 



with black scales, a discocellular stigma and submarginal baud indicated by stronger 

 and denser black powdering. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Hab. Khenchela, Algeria, June 28, 1911 (Victor Faroult). 1 ?. 



NOCTUIDAE. 

 2. Agrotis nisseni sp. nov. 



? . Palpi black-brown ; head, antennae, and thorax pale wood-brown ; abdomen 

 pale yellowish wood-brown.— — Forewing wood-brown, somewhat clouded with 

 rufous in median area; a sooty subbasal, transverse, hair-like, convex line, a black 

 spot beyond it, and two autemedian transverse, sooty, irregular hair-lines, the 

 two stigmata large and somewhat faint, appearing only in outline; two postmedian, 

 transverse, sooty hair-lines, the outer composed of dots ; between the latter and the 

 margin a transverse line of lilack coalescent spots. — — Hindwing brownish grey, 

 fringe rosy brown. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. 



Hab. Aiu Draham, Tunisia (V. Faroult). 1 ? . 



3, Antitype discalis sp. nov. 



S. Head wood-buif; antennae serrate, pale yellowish brown; thorax wood- 

 bull', powdered with grey ; abdomen grey, slightly powdered with butf, and tuft 



dull buff. Forewing bright wood-buft', with a large wedge-shaped patch of dark 



sooty grey occupying nearly entire disc of wing, and running to base in costal 

 area ; this patch is edged with black dots, and there is a wide indistinct grey 



submarginal band. Hindwing creamy white, with central curved indistinct 



brown line. 



Length of forewing : 2(1 mm. 



Hab. Batna, Algeria, September 1910 (V. Faroult). 1 S. 



4. Antitype hagar sp. nov. 



This species is allied to .4. rebecca Stgr. 



(?. Palpi and head greyish wood-brown ; antennae very strongly serrated, 

 orange wood-lirown ; thorax greyish wood-brown ; abdomen pale yellowish wood- 



