NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXIV. 1917. 405 



150. Barias albovenosana Oberth. 



Eariat albox'tnosana Oberthiir, Elud. Lipid. Comp. Faac. XIII. p. 27. pi. cdxxxvi. ff. 3707, 376S 

 (1917) (Lambdze). 



151. Earias chlorion Rambur. 



Farias chlorion Rambur, Cat. Synt. Lipid. Andnl. livr. ii. pi. xv. f. 6 (1866) (Andalusia). 



1 agree with Mr. Oberthiir in considering this quite a distinct species from 

 insulana Boisd. 



2 Biskra, 1911. 



152. Hylophila africana Warr. 



Hylophila ajricanaVftiTTeniaScMz^GrosaschmM. Erde, vol. iii. p. 298. pi. 53 m. (1913) (Ain Draham). 

 1 ^, 1 ? Ain Draham (cj July 1911, Faroult),l$ M. Bartel. 



This species was quite overlooked by Mr. Oberthiir, or else he thought the 

 locality erroneous. Mr. Warren never saw the S. 



HEPIALIDAE. 



153. Hepialiscus algeriensis de Joan. 



Hepialiscus algeriensi" de Joannia, Bull. Soc. Entom. France, 1903, p. 223 (St. Charles, Philippe- 

 ville) ; Ann. Soc. Entom. France, pi. 2. f. 8. 



We have never been in Algeria when this insect and the following appear. 

 124 Ain Draham, September — October 1911, Faroult. 



154. Hepialus tunetanus Oberth. 



Hepialus tunetanva Oberthiir, Etud. Entom. Comp. Fasc. XIII. p. 29. pi. cdxxxvi. f. 3771 (1917) 

 (Ain Draham). 



3 Ain Draham, September 1911, Faroult. 



COSSIDAE. 



155. Cossus cossus (Linn.). 



Phalaena cossus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. edit. x. p. 504. No. 40 (1758) (Sweden). 

 We never found this insect in Algeria. 



1 Lalla Marnia, May 1914, Faroult. 

 1 Oued Hamidou, June 1912, Faroult. 



156. Cossus aries Piingl. 



Cossus aries Piingler, Iris, vol. xv. p. 145. pi. VI. £. 22 (J (1902) (Palestine). 



We took the first specimen of this great rarity at Tilghempt in 1911, where 

 Faroult again found it the following year. It seems widely spread, being re- 

 corded from Palestine and Egypt as well as from Tunisia and tlie Provinces of 

 Constantine and Alger. It is evidently a desert and Hauts Plateaux insect and 

 is generally found in the neighbourhood of terebinth trees, though it evidently 



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