1907.] 147 



abiionn.ility or error, is a synonym of Sfenoptilia. I recently 

 received a series from the Khasi Ilills, Assam, and these led to my 

 makinj^ the investigations which have resulted in the present note. 



Tlioniliaiiger, Miirlborough : 



May 22)id, 1907. 



ALGERIAN MICROLE FIDO PTERA. 



BY THE RT. IIOX. LORD WALSIJ^GHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 {Continued from page 129). 



HrPONOMEUTIDAE. 



372:! : I. — COLEOPHOUA PROTECTA, sp. 11. 

 Antennae white, verj distinctly iinmilated with black ; clothed with yellowish 

 white hair-scales at the base. Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond it ; 

 white. Head white. Thorax yellowish white. Foreioingx lemon-ochreous, 

 gradually shading to bright yellowish brown above the fold, this colour intensified 

 toward the apes ; costa narrowly snow-while throughout, rather more widely along 

 the costal cilia ; cilia pale rosy grey. Exp.aL, 10—12 mm. Eindwings rosy grey ; 

 cilia pale browjiish grey. Abdomen ochveous. Legs whitish. 



Ti/pc, 6 0177OG) ; 2 (97GG0). Mus. WIsm. 



Hah. : ALGERIA — -Biskra, Larva AcaiithylUs traffacauthoides, 

 XTI~II, exel. 4-lLin.lS97 {Eaton) ; 28.11— 2LIV.1903 (Wlsm.) • 

 llammam-es-Salahin, Larvae 15.1, excL 11.111— 24.IV.1901 ; 2-24. 

 IV.1904; 14.V.1903 {Wlsm.) ; El-Kantara, 23.V.1903 (Wlsm.). 

 Twenty-seven specimens. 



The case, formed of leaflets of AcanthijUis iragacanthoides, is 

 yellowish white, and is fixed obliquely to the food-plant, which is 

 somewhat irregular in shajje, with successive layers of the leaf folded 

 round it, and is conspicuous only when after feeding it attaches 

 itself to the long naked thorns which protect the plant against all 

 animals, including camels. 



3765 : 1. — CuLEOPUORA PRINCIPIELLA, Sp. 11. 

 Antennae stonc-wliite, faintly annulate with fuscous. Palpi porrect, divergent, 

 stone-white; the median joint streaked externally with brownish ochreous, a scale- 

 tuft projecting at its apex nearly as far as the end of the terminal. Head and 

 Thorax pale stone-grey. Forewings rather bright brownish ochreous, the costa 

 narrowly pale whitish ochreous throughout, a short streak of the same along the 

 outer half of the cell, and another below the basal half of the fold, the dorsum also 

 narrowly whitish ochreous ; the dorsal streak is sligiitly furcate at its apex ; cilia 

 pale brownish ochraceous. Exp. at., 11 — 12 mm. Hindwings dull reddish grey ; 

 cilia the same, but paler. Abdomen leaden grey above, stone-white beneath, 



laterally, and dividing the segments ; anal tuft stone-white. Legs pale cinereous. 



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