396 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIV. 1017. 



117. Phragmatobia faroulti Rothsch. 



Phragmatobia faroulti Rothschild, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. p. 233. No. 5 (1911) (Bou Saada). 

 The type specimen, a very perfect (J, has remained unique to the present 

 day. Mr. Oberthiir omits this entirely from his Faune, as usual, I suppose, 

 because he considers it non-existent, o^ving to its not having been figured. 



1 (3 Bou Saada, May 1911, Faroult. 



118. Phragmatobia breveti (Oberth.). 



Trichosoma breviti Obprthiir, Bull. Sor.. Entom. France, 1882. p. cisxiv (Tlemoen). 



We have taken this ourselves on three occasions ; it is nowhere very com- 

 mon but appears to be most numerous at Bou Saada. The ? appears to be 

 unknown. 



1 Ain Sefra, May 1913, W. R, and E. H. 

 53 Bou Saada, April 1911, Faroult. 



1 Biskra, March 1909, W\ R. and E. H. 



2 El Kantara, March 1911, W. R., E. H,, and Faroult. 

 2 Aflou, September 1916, Faroult. 



One of the Bou Saada specimens has the hindwings yellow instead of pink, 

 and the forewings are suffused with yellow ; I propose the name ab. flava ab. 

 nov. for it. 



In the British Museum is 1 Bou Saada c.x Tring Museum. 



119. Phragmatobia powelli (Oberth.). 



Trichosoma poiwlli Oberthiir. Bull. Soc. Entom. France, 1910. p. 333 (Geryrille). 



Mr. Oberthiir, in his Etudes Comparees, Fasc. XIII. p. 9, is now of opinion 

 that this insect is only an aberration of P. breveti. I have only seen one speci- 

 men of poiceUi, a S captured by Dr. Nissen at Ain Sefra in May 1913, when we 

 were there together. It is so unlike any of the 55 specimens I have of breveti 

 that for the present I prefer to keep it separate. 



Mr. Oberthiir considers these three insects and tlic following to belong to 

 the genus Ocnogyna = Trichosoma ; but their ncuration undoubtcdlj' places 

 them in PJaagmatobia . The question of the abortive wings of ? powelli I think 

 we may disregard, as in the genus Cymbalophora, which is a very well charac- 

 terised and circumscribed genus, pudica, powelli. diva, and oertzeni have $$ with 

 fully developed wings ; while rivularis and haroldi have ?? with abortive wings. 



120. Phragmatobia occidentalis (Roth.sch.). 



Mcurtas breveti occidentalis RotlischikI, Noi-it. Zoo/, vol. xvii. p. 119. No. 845a (1910) (Mazagan). 



This species differs from P. breveti in its much stouter build ; in the fore- 

 wings having much fewer spots and frequently a complete subterminal curved 

 transverse black band, and in the hindwings being duller and browner and 

 having a heavier subniarginal band of black patches. Some specimens, how- 

 ever, are more spotted than others. 



3 Mwhoila, near Mazagan, Morocco, VV. Riggenbacli. 

 23 Mazagan, January— October 1902-1903, W. Riggenbach, 



