iw.] 153 



received was sent mo by the Ecv. A. E. Eaton in 1895. It seems re- 

 markable tliat so distinct and conspicuous a species should not have 

 been previously observed or described. 



479.-NEMATOIS, ITb. 

 4693 : 1. — Nematots alqeriensis, sp. n. 



Antennae dark purplish on (lie basal tliird, while beyond. 7'a//n black, with 

 a loose brush of golden yellow hairs projecf ing below and in front. Mead J 

 blackish in front of the eyes, with a Iniglit golden yellow fringe behind theui ; 

 ? head and face bright orange-yellow. Thorax dark purplish, tegulae shining 

 golden bronzy. Foreioings <? shining golden bronzy, shaded with cupreous beyond 

 the middle; a creamy whitish patch on the costa before the outer fourth, with 

 a smaller one on the dorsum a little before it, a patch of golden bronzy scales lying 

 at the outer and lower edge of the outer patch where the wing is otherwise 

 cupreous ; cilia golden bronzy along their base, shining pale golden yellowish 

 beyond. Exp. al. 21 — 22 mm. Hindivings ^ deep purple ; cilia yellowish white, 

 with a dark bronzy line along their base : ? cilia rich cupreous at their base, dark 

 bronzy beyond it. Abdomen S black : ? pale golden yellow. Legs $ hind tibiae 

 with long blackish hairs at their base, becoming pale yellowish posteriorly ; hind 

 tarsi pale yellowish, smeared with blackish ; ? pale golden yellow. 



Type, S (f>65l7) ; ? (5S92). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab.: ALGERIA— El-Guerrah, 27.V.1903 {Wlsm.); Constan- 

 tino, 7.VI.IS05, 11.VI.1891 {Eaton). Seven specimens. 



I first received this species from Mr. Eaton from Constantino, 

 taken in June, 1891, and was at once struck by the difference in the 

 colour of the hindwiiigs in tlie ^ and by the yellow abdomen in the 

 ? , which give it a very distinct appearance from that of Infreillellus, 

 F. I met with it myself on May 27th when waiting for a train at 

 El-Guerrah (the junction for Biskra nnd Algiers) a little to the 

 south of Constantino. 



Mr. Eaton met with this species commonly on M'9id and on the 

 top of Mansourah, at the edge of the forest, on Scahiosn maritima, 

 L., and made the following notes: — " Oviposition observed on the 

 14th June, 1894, about 2 p.m. The moth when laying eggs stands 

 usually on i:he outside of the capitule sideways or head upwards 

 (but sometimes on the top of the capitule) and thrusts the nude part 

 of the ovipositor cautiously between the involucels of the florets. 

 The egg is usually placed outside the floret, at the summit of one of 

 the furrows between the hairy ridges on the base of the fruit : but 

 one egg was found inside a floret, lodged securely between the in- 

 volucel and the sheath of the calyx. Larvae as well as eggs were 

 found iu the capitules examined, — some of them being plentifully 



