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A NEW EUROPEAN SPECIES OF PTEROPnORID.E. 

 Br E. MEYRICK, B.A., F. RS. 



In August, 1900, T spent :i fortnight at Saas-Ft'e, in the Vahiis, 

 Switzerland, and in a former volume (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii, 217) 

 I described anew Pteropliorld then obtained, Platyptilialeucorrhtjncha. 

 I have now discovered that I possess another new species of Plrro- 

 2>1iorid(£ taken on the same occasion. 



StENOPTILIA ZA.LOCKOSSA, 11. Sp. 

 (? ? . 18 — 21 111111. Head ami thorax liglit brovviiisli-ochrcoits sprinkled «ilh 

 white, with a white line above eyes. Palpi pale bvownish-oulireous, upper and 

 lower edges while. Anteniiaj grej. Abdomen pale brownish-oehreoiis, with a 

 white line on each side of back, and two beneath. Legs pale browish-ochreoiis 

 externally, white internally. Fore-wings cleft from about J, segments moderately 

 broad, tolerably acute, termen straight, very oblique ; light brownish-ochreous, 

 paler along dorsum, more or less sjirinkled with whitish, and strewn with blackish 

 scales about fold and in disc posteriorly, tending to indicate longitudinal streaks ; 

 a small roundish s])ot of blackish irroration in disc at \, and one at base of cleft ; 

 cilia light brownish-ochreous mixed with whitish towards base, white on costa 

 towards middle of first segment, with a dark fuscous basal dot at apex of second 

 segment, another less marked below it, and sometimes one at lower angle of both 

 segments. Hind-wings cleft firstly from below middle, secondly from !, first 

 segment moderately dilated, pointed, second moderate, long-pointed, acute, third 

 slender ; grey, sprinkled with dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Saas-Fee, G,000 — 7,000 feet, in August ; four specimens, on an 

 open mountain-slope, covered with various flowers ; the species would 

 probably be attached to a gentian or allied ])lant. Exceedingly 

 similar to 8. hipunctidactyla, but easily and certainly distinguished 

 by the patch of white costal cilia ; the a|)ex of the first segment of 

 fore-wings also appears more acutely jiointi'd, the cilia more produced 

 and longer at apex, and the costa of this segment obviously less 

 arched. S. zophodactyla is distinguished from it by possessing three 

 blackish dots at the base of the terminal cilia of the first segment of 

 fore-wings (as well as three on the second segment) ; the central dot 

 of these three is not possessed by any nearly allied, species of the 

 genus except zophodactyla, and is a reliable test for that species. 

 S. zaJocrossa is so like these two species that perhaps other Alpine 

 collectors may find they have it mixed with one or other of them, but 

 I have no doubt of its distinctness. 



S. zophodactyla is a very widely distributed species, occurring in 

 India and Australia as w'ell as Europe ; canalis, Walk., is a synonym 

 of it, and Doxosleres, Meyr., founded on this species but based on 



