1907], 9 



none of these spots actually touch the costa, although three or four assume the form 

 of length-streaks parallel to it ; others are ranged obliquely across the middle of 

 the wing, nearly to the flexus, others again parallel to the termen, which is itself 

 also narrowly hlack-pcaled ; costal cilia white, apical cilia smoky, dorsal cilia pale 

 brownish cinereous. Ejcp. a/., \0—12 mm. Sindwings pale brownish grey ; cilia 

 yiale brownish cinereous. Ahdomen pale grey. Legs whitish, the tarsi smeared 

 with smoky grey. 



Type, $ {QQ^IS) ; ? (96336). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGERIA— Biskra, 6. 1V.1891 {Eaton), 31.TII-30.IV. 

 1903 {Wlsm.)- Hamiiiam-es-Salahin, 16-18.IV.1903 {Wlsm.); El- 

 Kantara, 22.1V— 25. V. 1903 {Wlsm.). Thirty-two specimens. 



3523 : 6. — SCTTHRIS CAMELELLA, Sp. 11. 

 Antennae greyish, basal joint pale brownish ochreous. Palpi., Head, and 

 Thorax pale brownish ochreous. Foretuings pale brownish ochreous, mottled with 

 black, of which there is a conspicuous oblique spot, on the middle of the dorsum, 

 diffused upward and outward in a smoky shade containing two darker streaks, one 

 on the cell, the other below the costa beyond its middle, a similar shade occurs 

 below the costa before the middle ; there is also a conspicuous black spot below the 

 fold at one-fourth from the base ; cilia at the apex pale brownish ochreous, below 

 it dark smoky grey, appearing almost blackish in some lights. Exp. al., 9 — II mm. 

 Hindwings pale leaden grey; cilia rather smoky, dark brownish ochreous. Ahdo- 

 men pale leaden grey. Legs pale brownish ochreous, terminal joints of the tarsi 

 smoky. 



Type, S (89974) ; ? (89972). Mus. Wlsm 



Rah.: ALGERIA— Biskra, excl. 8.1V.1895 {Eaton), 7-19.IV. 

 1903 {Wlsm.). Five specimens. 



The species appears to be somewhat scarce, as I met with very 

 few examples, and can at present say nothing about its habits. It is 

 distinct from anything with w^hich I am acquainted. Mr. Eaton bred 

 a single specimen from " a cocoon which was found in the angle of a 

 string-course of one of the pillars of the colonnade of an hotel " at 

 Biskra. 



3538 : I. — ScTTHRis compsias, sp. n. 



Antennae brownish grey, the basal joint white. Palpi porrect, slender, white, 

 tipped with brownish grey. Head dirty white, with a yellowish brown tinge. 

 Tliorax dirty white, mottled with pale brownish grey. Forewings white, speckled 

 and smeared with brownish grey, shading to greyish fuscous in an outwardly angu- 

 lated transverse fascia before the middle, and in an irregularly scattered oblique 

 band of spots l^eyond the middle, with a few scales of the same dark colour about 

 the apex ; cilia brownish grey, with some white scales overlapping their base. 

 Fxp. al., 9 — 10 mm. Hindwings shining, iridescent rosy grey ; cilia bronzy grey. 

 Abdomen greyish ; (J with conspicuous, long, recurved anal claspers. Legs greyish 

 white, with small darker tarsal spots. 



