g [January, 



Type, ? (96400) ; $ (96401) ; Larva (97305). Mas. Wlsm. 



Rah.: ALGERIA— Biskra, 16.1V.1895 (Eaton), 28.III-3.IV. 

 1903 {Wlsm.); Hammam-es-Salahiii, 13-16.IV.190t ; Larva Traga- 

 num nudatum, HI— IV. excl , 29 IV. 1904, 8-14.V.1903. Twenty-two 

 specimens. 



The larva was found from March 13th to April 4th on Traganum 

 nudatum, forming sand-galieries near the base of the stems ; the moth 

 was bred in April and May. Most nearly allied to alhidella, Stn. 

 (Stgr.-Ebl , 3537), which should be numbered 3523 : 1, and removed 

 to the neighbourhood of dissimilella, H.-S. 



3523 : 3.— SCYTHEIS PLUMBEOaRISEA, Sp. 11. 



Antennae, Palpi, Head, and Thorax pale bi'ownish oclireous. Foreiuings pale 

 brownish oclireous, almost entirely suffused, except along the margins, with leaden 

 grey; cilia pale brownish cinereous. ISxp. a^., 12 — 1 1 nun Hindwings shining, 

 pale rosy-grey ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen pale brownisli oclireous. 

 Legs pale oclireous, the tarsi slightly suffused with leaden grey. 



Type, ? (96520) ; S (89398) ; Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGERIA— Biskra, 3-6.IV. 1895, 21. V. 1891 {Eaton), 

 7.I1I— 30.IV.1903 {msm.); Ilammam-es-Salahin, 12.1V-I.V. 1904 

 {Whin.). Twenty-two specimens. 



Varying slightly in the tendency of the ochreous colouring to 

 encroach on the darker portion of the fore-wings. In the hind-wings 

 veins 4 and 5 are stalked. 



3523 : 4. — kSCYTHRIS TALPELLA, Sp. n. 

 Antennae leaden grey. Palpi short, slender, recurved, smooth ; leaden grey, 

 with a few whitish scales. Head and Thorax leaden grey. Forewings dull leaden 

 grey, sprinkled with white scales, these somewhat concentrated in a twice-interrupted 

 streak along the fold, and along the outer half of the eosta ; cilia greyish brown. 

 Exp. al., 11 mm. Hindwings pale grey; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen 

 pale leaden grey. Legs pale brownish grey. 



Type, S (97309) ; ? (96243). Mus. Wlsm. 



Rah.: ALGERIA— Ilammam-es-Salahin, 15.111.1904; Biskra, 

 14-25. IV. 1903. Four specimens. 



Allied to plumheogrisea, Wlsm., but smaller and darker. V^eins 

 4 and 5 of the hindwings are stalked. 



3523 : 5. — SCTTHKIS ERMINEA, Sp. n. 



Antennae brownish white. Palpi white. Head white, with a black spot in 

 front. Thorax white, with a black spot posteriorly. Forewings white, thickly be- 

 strewed with elongate jet-black spots, of which the outlines are not hard nor clearly 

 defined, some of them being partially joined together by intermediate black scales j 



