1904.] 2(>5 



01) a terebinthiiie shrub in the limestone region of Auvergne, apparently Pemphi- 

 gus corniculariits, Pass. Mr. Norman H. Joy, the black varietj- of Bledius taurux, 

 Q-erm., taken at Wells, Norfolk, August, 1904; B. feinoralis, Gyll., from Woking- 

 ham, Berks, a species that had not been recorded from the British Isles for over fifty 

 years; Polydrusus .ve/'/'ce«.<(, SchalL, from Hampshire; Neuraphes caritiatu^, 'Mu\i., 

 from Bradfield, near Reading ; a small form of Di/schirius poUtus, Dej., taken by 

 Canon Fowler at Bridlington, and himself at Wokingham, and a Rhizotrogus 

 (? species) taken in some numbers flying by day near Streatley, Berks, August, 1904. 

 Dr. F. A. Dixey, some preparations of the scent of male Pierine butterflies, and 

 read a note descriptive of the same. Mr. H. J. Turner, living examples of the 

 larva of Phorodesma smaraydaria which he had met with in some numbers on the 

 Essex marshes while searching for Coleophorid larvse. He also contributed notes 

 on the life histories, and living larvas and cases of Coleophora therinella, C. alti- 

 colella, C. fuscocuprelUi , C. artemisiella, C. mieniacella, C. argeritula, C. Inripen- 

 nella, C. cn-xpititieUa, C. laricella, and C. vibicella, the latter species, although 

 generally distributed on the continent, only recorded from a few English localities. 

 Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow read a paper on " Sound Production in the Lamellioorn 

 Beetles." Pi-of. Christopher Aurivillius, F.M.Z.S., communicated a paper on "New 

 Species of African Striphnopteryyidw, Notodoutidx, and C'krysopolomidw in the 

 British Museum." Mr. A. H. Swinton communicated a paper on " The Drougiits 

 and Weather, and Insect Increase and Migration." .Mi\ E. Ernest Green commu- 

 nicated a paper on " Some New Mosquitoes from Ceylon," by Frederick V. Theobald, 

 M.A. — H. Rowland Bkown, Hon. Sec. 



ALGERIAN MICRO LE PIDO PTE R A. 

 BV THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.I)., r.R..S., Xu. 

 {Co» tinned from jiaye 223). 



25S-1- : 2. — Gelechia eeubescens, sj). n. 



Antennae greyish ochreous. Palpi strongly clothed, with divided brush be- 

 neath ; whitish ochreous. Head pale ochreous. Thorax rosy ochreous ; the tegulae 

 pale olive-grey. Foretvinys whitish ochreous, suffused along the costa, as far as 

 two-thirds from the base, with bright rosy i"ed ; between these two colours is a band 

 of olive-grey, running as far as the end of the cell, with two rectangular projections 

 thrown downwards into the paler space beneath it, these being darker, more inclin- 

 ing to fuscous, than the upper portion of the streak with which they blend ; at the 

 end of this streak is an oblique blackish spot, preceding a space of the whitish 

 ochreous ground-colour, narrowly margined at its lower edge with brownish fuscous ; 

 on the flexus is a narrow short black streak, on the pale costal third are two small 

 aggregations of brownish fuscous scales within the basal third, and three larger 

 aggregations on the costa and costal cilia in the outer third, two similar groups of 

 scales occurring in the cilia below the apex ; cilia pale ochreous. Exp. al., 17 — 18 

 mm. Hindwings rather iridescent, grey, with a brownish tinge ; cilia shining 

 yellowish grey. Abdomen bright yellow-ochreous. Ley-<i whitish, the tarsi with 

 pale brownish fuscous bands. 



