332 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXIV. 191 7. 



1 South Oued Mya, May 1912. E. H. and (". H. 



2 Biskra, March 1908-1911, W. R. and E. H. 

 2 El Kantara, March 1908, W. R. and E. H. 

 2 Souk Ahras, April 1914, W. R. and K. J. 



IC. Haemorrhagia tityus tityus (Linn.). 



Sphinx tityus Linnaeus, Sysl. Nat. edit. x. p. 493. No. 24 (1758). 



Wc never found this species, and the Tring Museum possesses no Maure- 

 tanian examples. 



17. Haemorrhagia fuciformis hiciformis (Linn.). 



Sphinx fuciformis Linnaeus, Syst. Xat. edit. x. p. 493. No. 28 (1758) (Europe). 



We found this species at Hammam R'ihra, where Hilgert caught a fine 

 specimen in May 1911. In our "Revision of the Sphingidae," NoviT. Zool. 

 vol. ix. Suppl. p. 455 (1903), we give among the localities for this species "North 

 Africa," but so far as I have been able to ascertain the only Mauretanian 

 examples available for examination are my two from Haraniam R'ihra, for 

 Mr. Oberthiir only quotes our " North Africa." 



2 Hammam R'ihra, May— June 191.V1916, W. R., E. H., and Faroult. 



The British Museum has no Mauretanian examples of any of the last four 

 species. In the Intern. Entoni. Zeitsch. Stuttg. vol. xxiii. p. 105, Dr. Seitz gives 

 a list of 11 Sphingidae as occurring in Algeria, of which the only one we at 

 Tring have no definite records of is Hippotion osiris Dalm. : as this occurs 

 sporadically and at long intervals in Spain, there is no reason to doubt its occa- 

 sional occurrence in Mauretania. Dr. Seitz then proceeds to state that the 

 occurrence of H. fuciformis, P. porcellus, C. vespertilio, and Proserpiniis proser- 

 pina Pall, in Mauretania rests on erroneous identifications. As we have seen, 

 H. fvciformis and P. porcellus colossus are natives of Algeria, and I see no reason 

 why Proserpinus should not be discovered there as well ; but I do not beheve 

 that C. vespertilio, which is a high Alpine species extending from Switzerland 

 to Persia, will be found within our limits. There is, however, a lot of lepidoptero- 

 logically unexplored mountain country both in Algeria and Timis, and nearly 

 the whole of Morocco is virgin ground ; so that many and great surprises no 

 doubt await us. In his article Mr. Meade-Waldo records Acherontia atropos, 

 Tangier, September 1901 ; Amorpha populi austauti, ab. incarnata, Tangier ; 

 Celerio lineata livornica, April and May 1901, Tangier ; Hippotion celerio, Tangier, 

 September 1901 ; and Macroglossum stelkdarum, very common everywhere. 



Mr. de Joannis records Celerio lineata livornica as taken at the Oued 

 Kadamellet (north of Air), September 1905, by M. R. C'hudeau. 



ZYGAEITIDAE. 



[Zygaena Javonia-loyselis group. 



Mr. Oberthiir, in Fasc. XII. pp. 222-223 of his Etudes Comparees, in discussing 

 the three forms of the tr I folii group found in Algeria, is of opinion that modern 

 lepidopterists have united too many forms under the specific entity Irifolii, and 

 that when the genitaha have been carefully studied we shall find that the group 

 of forms placed under the specific entity Zygaena trifolii Esp. will prove to 



