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destroyed by parasites was very large. I collected these qalls at 

 intervals froui February to the beginning of June, when the larvae 

 appeared, so far as I could judge, to be full-fed, and it was a great 

 disappointment to me that during the following mouths they did not 

 produce a single specimen of the perfect insect. At the beginning 

 of 1903 I again met with the same galls at Gibraltar, and determined 

 to pay a special visit to the place on my return from Algeria in June, 

 when again I collected a good supply and brought them to England ; 

 from these nothing was produced, and on examination the larvae were 

 found more or less shrivelled, although some were yet alive in .August. 

 I then wrote to Mons. H. Vaucher, a resident at Tangier, to whom 

 I had sliown the galls collected in the previous year, asking him to 

 send me some. After much unsuccessful search he rediscovered 

 them and sent me three galls, which I received on August 2Sth, 1903 

 with the ultimate result that on September 25th a perfect specimen 

 appeared to set my mind at rest as to the mystery which surrounded 

 these obviously unknown larvae. A cri[)pled $ subsequently emerged 

 on October 26th. 



This species is considerably larger than Stogmatophora sumpfiio- 

 sella, Ldr., and has the subterminal white costal spot considerably 

 larger than the two preceding spots,; moreover, it shows no second 

 dark ring on the terminal joint of the palpi. 



3613 : 2. — Stagmatophoea beata, sp. n. 



Antennae blackish, with whitish annulations, one of which, at the outer end of 

 the basal joint, is more conspicuous than the others. Pa/pi reacliiiig above tlie 

 crown ; white, with a blackish ring at the base, a faint bronzj ring near the apex of 

 the median, and two black rings around the terminal joint. Head milk-white. 

 Thorax bronzj black. Forewings bronzj black, with three white costal patches ; 

 the first, narrow, oblique, at about one-sixth, connected at its apex with an out- 

 wardlj-curved series of three patches of bright golden raised scales, one above tlie 

 fold, the other two below it; the second white patch, scarcelj wider than the first, 

 is also connected with patches of raised bright scales, the first extending bejond its 

 apex, the others nearer to the base, confluent, and reaching to the dorsum ; the 

 third white patch, in the commencement of the costal cilia, is wider and more con- 

 spicuous than the others, and is not connected at its ajiex with the patch of raised 

 golden scales, which slightlj precedes it on the dorsum ; there is a small golden 

 spot at the extreme apex ; cilia smokj blackish, becoming paler and more brown on 

 the dorsum. Exp. al. 20 mm. Hindiiuni/s shining, jiale leaden grej ; cilia 

 brownish grej. Abdomen brownish ochrcous toward the base, grejish fuscous 

 posteriorlj, the segments indicated bj whitish lines. Legs dark smokj fuscous, 

 banded with white at all the joints and at tiie origin of the spurs. 



Ti/pe, (J (88702). Mus. Wlsm. 



