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Type 2. Oxypteron impar, Sttrr. (Stgr. 1870). 



OxTPTEHON, Stf^r. Berl. Ent. Zts. XIV. 27G-7 (1870) ; Stcrr-Wk. 

 Cat. Lp. Eur. 241, No. 107 (is7l) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. IT. 93, 

 No. 282 (1901). 



The discovorv of additional spocies shows that the structural 

 characters of Oxi/pferon impar, Stpjr., when compared with those of 

 Tortricodrs tortricelln, 1Tb , nre insufficient to justify <jeneric sepnr;itiiiii. 



1689 : 1. — TonTRICODES POLTTA, ."?/). «. 



Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi projecting lialf the length of the head beyond 

 it, ; fuscous. Head and Thorax, fuscous. Forerohiq.i sharply pointed, the very 

 oblique lermen scarcely sinuate ; uniformly bronzy fuscous, in some specimens 

 varying to a yellower or more brassy tint, but always mon^ or less sinning ; there 

 is a pale band along the costa from the base, occupying the whole space above the 

 cell, but attenuate outward and terminating at about three-fifths, this streak is 

 distinctly paler than the ground-colour; cilia bronzy fuscous, with a slight .shade- 

 line running through them near their base. J<?j:p. al.,^C^—2^ niiii. Hindiv'nuix 

 fuscous; cilia shining, cinoreons. .-///r/ojwpH fuscous, /yer/.v bronzy. 



Type, $ (97787). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALaERT.A-Philinpeville, in.X.T905. Eour specimens. 



A lartrer species thnn cliapmani, and easily reco<^nised by the 

 invariable broad pale streak from the base of the costa. The 9 

 is at present unknown. 



1G89 : 2. — TOKTHTCODES EREMICA, Rp. V . 



Antennae brownish cinereous, banded above with fuscous. Palpi not pro- 

 jecting beyond the bead ; brownish fuscous. ITeadnnd 7V/«rrt.r brownish ocliraceous. 

 Forewings sharply pointed, but the terinen not sinuate; whitish cinereous, over- 

 flowed from base to middle, and partially beyond the middle to the apes, with pale 

 bluish grey, sometimes tending to greyish fuscous; the costa paler from base to 

 middle, and some intermediate patches, notably one before the tornus, and one 

 adjacent to the termen, pale ochreous, a few ochreous scales also about the fold, 

 this oclireous colour being accompanied by a few minute dots of black scales, which 

 (as in chapmani) appear to be fugitive ; cilia pale cinereous, with a slender shade- 

 line near their base. Exp. at. 11 — 13 mm. Hindwingn pale greyish fuscous ; 

 cilia pale cinereous, a darker shade-line near their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous. 

 Legs pale cinereous. 



Type, c? (97516). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGERIA — Biskra, 28TI.1894 {Eaton)- Hammara-es- 

 Salahin, 18.1.1906, 5— 15.TI1.1904 {Wlsm.). Nineteen specimens. 



This species differs from chapmani in its uniformlj'^ smaller size, 

 in its paler hindwini);s, nnd in the whiter, less ochreous colouring of 

 the forewings, which are also much less sprinkled with black dots. 

 It occurred not uncommonly at Hammam-es- Salahin, but is difficult 



