1907.] 7 



rower than the forewings ; dark tawny fuscous, with long dull smoky grey cilia. 

 Abdomen brownish fuscous, banded with whitish cinereous at the sides. Legs pur- 

 plish fuscous, with broad whitish cinereous bands on the tibiae and tarsi. 



Type, (S (96576) ; ? (96577). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. : AL(5ERTA.— Hammam-es-Salahiii ; Larva Limoniastrum 

 (Bubania) feei, 3.IV. cxel., 15.1V— 2.VI. 1903. Five specimens. 



Larvae and pu[)ae in loose webs at the base of the stems and on 

 root-crowns of Limoniastrum feei. The young larva begins by mining 

 down the leaf. 



3i78 : 2. — SCYTHRIS ANTHRAOODES, Sp. %. 

 Antennae testaceous. Palpi short, slender, projecting ; dark testaceous. Kead 

 and Thorax testaceous, mixed with fuscous. Forewings testaceous, evenly sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous scales, sometimes tending to coalesce ; at the tornus is a rather 

 square black patch, occupying half the width of the wing, followed at a little 

 interval by a black angular streak embracing the apex, the space between these 

 being somewhat paler than the general ground-colour and becoming almost ochreous 

 on the cosla ; cilia pale hoai-y testaceous, with a dark greyish fuscous shade running 

 through them in their outer half. Exip. al., 8-9 mm. Hindioings tawny greyish, 

 the scales appearing somewhat fugitive and disclosing the transparent texture of the 

 wing, especially in a small, narrow, fenestrum at the middle of the base ; cilia 

 tawny grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous, anal tuft paler. Legs blackish, with pale 

 hind tarsal annulations. 



Type, ? (97189) ; ^ (97190). Mus. Wlsm. 



Sab. : ALGERIA— Biskra, 1-28. III. 1895 {Eaton) ; Hammam- 

 es-Salahin, 25.111. -26.1V. 1904 {Wlsm.). Fourteen specimens. 



In the ? the dark scaling is more distinctly speckled, the ground- 

 colour appearing somewhat whiter, while the abdomen is distinctly 

 pale ochreous on its anal half and beneath. 



■ 3523 : 2. — SCTTRHIS EUCHARIS, Sp. n. 



Antennae stone-whitish. Palpi stone-whitish, the median joint shaded ex- 

 ternally with fuscous towards its apex. Read and Thorax pale brownish cinereous. 

 Forewings stone-whitish, sprinkled throughout with blackish scales, with faint 

 brownish ochreous lines along the fold and margins of the cell ; the black speckling 

 is dense in a small patch before the middle, which reaches from the lower edge of 

 the cell, also in a small spot at the end of the cell, it is otherwise evenly distributed, 

 but does not extend into the pale brownish cinereous cilia. Exp. al., 15 mm. 

 Hindioings pale brownish grey ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs 

 pale brownish cinereous. 



Larva stone-grey, with longitudinal, ochreous, dorsal stripes and a broad, paler, 

 lateral stripe ; spots black. Head and pronotal plates honey-brown, the latter 

 blackish posteriorly, suture white. Legs brownish olivaceous. Long. (infl. 21.III.), 

 16 mm. 



