1907.] 195 



to fUslodge. T snceeecled in smokinti; a good series of specimens from 

 detached low shrubby plants on the two small hills near the hotel, 

 but was unable to associate it with any ]>articular food- plant and 

 unfortunately did not secure a $ . 



1639 : 3. — TORTRICOBES CHAPMAN!, Sp. 11. 



Antennae mimitely setulose in the (J; greyish fuscous. Palpi short, scnrcely 

 projecting beyond the head, median joint moderately clothed, terminal joint short, 

 de))ressed, not roughened ; pale greyish fuscous. Head greyish fuscous. Thorax 

 boue-oclireous, shaded with fuscous. Foretvings elongate, lanceolate, slightly bulged 

 on the costa near the base and beyond the middle, apex acute, scai-cely depressed, 

 termen slightly sinuate, very oblique, tornus almost obsolete ; bone-whitish, smeared 

 with ochrnceous, sometimes intensified in a transverse fascia beyond the middle 

 (especially in the 9 ) ; sparsely sprinkled throughout with easily detached, slightly 

 raised black scales, these have a tendency to indicate the line of the post-median 

 fascia, as well as an oblique subterminal line ; cilia bone-ochreous, with two faint 

 shade-lines running through them. Exp al. ? 11 — 14, $ 14 mm. Hindwin/js 

 slightly broader than the forewings, apex somewhat acute and depressed, termen 

 stronu'ly sinuate ; grey; cilia whitish cinereous, sometimes with a faint shade-line 

 near the base. Abdomen grey, tending to bone-ochreous posteriorly, whei-e it is 

 somewhat roughened above. Legs bone- whitish. 



^?/pe, c? (71933) ; ? (71934) Sicili/. Mus. WIsm. 



Hah.: SICILY— Monte Venere, 2900 ft, Taormina, Larva, 

 flowers of Anemone, b.IV., excl., 19.VIII — 15.TX.1905 {Chapman). 

 ALGERIA — Constantine, 30.X — 8.XI.1894, 2.XL1895 {Eaton). 

 Twenty-nine specimens. 



The species is variable in the deo;ree to which the pale ground- 

 colour, always more apparent along^ the middle of the wing, is 

 obscured by the ochreous, or even sometimes dull glaucus, shading. 

 It differs from impar, Stgr., and tortricella, Hb., in its uniformly 

 smaller size, in its sharper and more pointed forewings, and in its 

 much darker hindwings. I am indebted to Dr. Chapman for eighteen 

 apecimons bred from flowers of Anemone, at Taormina (Sicily) in 

 August and September 1905. I received also eleven specimens from 

 the Eev. A. E. Eaton, taken on M'Cid in November 1894 and 1895, 

 with the note that " The moth is common among withered herbage 

 here and there on parts of the slopes that are not cultivated, and 

 rests with its head upwards. Its colour harmonizes vi'ell with that of 

 the dead stems and leaves. Failed to ascertain whether it is attached 

 to AtraclyJis gummifera (a dwarf or sessile thistle) or on an abundant 

 Oniithogalum, or smaller herbs ; but I am inclined to give the Atrac- 

 tylis the benefit of the doubt — with the Ornithogalum second." 



(To be continued). 



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