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fi'oin about one-third, tapering to a point in tlio cilia above the apex ; a second 

 silvery white streak from tlie base running along the fold and rather suddenly 

 attenuated beyond its middle ; a tliird, much shorter streak, between the points of 

 the other two, running to the tcrmcn below the apex, there is also a silvery spot at 

 the Hexus ; a greyish brown streak follows the lower edge of the silvery costal 

 band, attenuated to an acute point from the apex inward toward the base — this is 

 dusted with a scattered overflow of yellowish scales from the space below it ; cilia 

 at the apex brownish, below it yellowish, along the termen pale brownish grey. 

 lixp. al. 14—16 mm. Hindwlii/^s iridescent, shining, dark grey; cilia brownish 

 cinereous. Abdomen yellowish white. Legs white. 



Tj/pe, ? (96G02) ; ^ (14032). Mtis. Wlsm. 



Ilab. : ALGERIA — J]iskra, Larva Acaiitl/j/l/is frat/acKiifkoides, 

 24.XIL1896, excl. 1897 (Eaton) • IIainiiiani-es-8alabin. Larva 19.1V., 

 excl. 25. VI. 1903 {Whm.) ; 11. IV. 1904 {Wlsm.). Three specimens. 



Allied to ecJiiiielhf, Stgr. (3770), and carfilcK/inella, Chr. (3707), 

 but the white costal streak shows no yellow intermediate space 

 between itself and the costa as in carHhujiucUa. It is of a yellow 

 colour (less yellow-ochre than echinella) , and the short intermediate 

 silvery streak is straight, not bent as in cchinella and cartlhujinella, 

 moreover, the silvery white dorsal streak does uot extend beyond the 

 flexus. 



The case carries two lateral, semitransparent, thin, shell-like 

 shields at the apex in which two dark spots are visible, giving the 

 appearance of eyes in a swelled head ; with this exception the case is 

 brownish ocbreous, smooth, polished, and very slightly wavy, some- 

 times widening upward from a scarcely oblique mouth with the apex 

 recurved, or hook-like, when the shields which conceal it are removed. 



3820 : 1. — COLEOPHORA AltOKNTEONIVEA, sp. n. 

 Antennae silvery white ; with a long projecting white tuft at the base. Pa/pi 

 short, slender, smooth, porrect ; white. Head and Thorax silver3' white. Fore- 

 wings shining silvery white, without markings ; cilia the same ; underside dull 

 reddish grey, the costa, apex, and cilia white. JSxp. af. 20 mm. Ilindtcings pale 

 brownish grey, distinctly white along the middle and on the basal half of the 

 dorsum ; cilia white ; underside white, shaded with reddish grey towards the base- 

 Abdomen yellowish white, with a double row of blackish spots on the four median 

 segments. Legs shining white. 



Type, ^ (8GG9). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGERIA— Le Tarf, 2.VII.1890 {Eaton). Two speci- 

 mens, taken on " rough pasture near the school ; after sunset till 

 7 p.m., among Cynara cardunculus " (Ein.). 



The rather streaky whitened appearance of the upper side of the 



