oyn [December, 



Hah. : ALGERIA— Hammam-es-Salahin, IS.IV ; El-Kantara, 

 24.IV— 11.V.1903. Twenty-three specimens. 



Always found among stems and root-crowns of a species of 

 Teucrium. (poimm, L. ?) The description is made from a well- 

 marked example, paler forms occur in which some of the lines are 

 obsolete. 



Allied to formosella, Hb., but larger, the hindwings are much 

 paler, and the markings much less conspicuous. 



348 : 1.— ERE MICA, gn. n. 

 ('epT^/xtKT; ^ living in a desert). 

 Type, (J, Eremica saharae, Wlsm. 

 Antennae (^) rather stout, simple, subserrate. Ocelli absent. Haustellum 

 moderate, scaled. Maxillary Palpi short, convergent. Labial Palpi recurved, 

 terminal joint shorter than median ; median joint witli appressed scales. Head mo- 

 derately smooth. Thorax smooth. Forewings rather narrow, lanceolate, apex 

 rounded : Neuration 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex ; 2, 3 and 4 connate 

 from angle of cell {or 2 and 3 stalked, connate with 4 ; or 11 veins, 2 and 3 coincident, 

 connate with 4) ; 5 and 6 straight ; discoidal receding backward above 5 ; media 

 weak. Hindwings (1) rather broadly lanceolate, apex rounded ; cilia (2) : JSeura- 

 tion 8 veins ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 3 and 4 stalked ;-5 almost straight, slightly approxi- 

 mated to 4 ; discoidal receding backward above 5. Abdomen somewhat flattened. 

 Legs : hind tibiae hairy. 



Allied to Symonoca., Hb., but differing in vein 2 of the forewings 

 arising at angle of cell connate with 4. The neuration is described 

 from two denuded specimens, in one (89992) veins 2, 3 and 4 of the 

 forewings are connate in one wing, while 2 and 3 are stalked in the 

 other wing ; this specimen has 6 and 7 stalked in one hindwing, while 

 in the other wing 6 and 7 are joined by a cross-bar, 6 being continued 

 on towards the base for about the same distance as a free vein. In 

 the other specimen (89996) there are only 11 veins in the forewings, 

 veins 2 and 3 being coincident in both wings. 



3021 : 1. — Ebemica. sahaeae, sp. n. 



Antennae dull yellowish white, indistinctly banded with pale grey. Palpi 

 dirty whitish. Read and Thorax dirty whitish, dusted with pale brown. Forewings 

 dull yellowish white, minutely dusted (almost suffused) with pale brownish ; a pair 

 of partly connected spots at one-third, placed obliquely on the disc and fold 

 respectively, are followed by a pai'allel pair at the end of the cell, all these are 

 darker than the brown dusting around them, and are mixed with a few black scales, 

 these occurring also about the base of the dirty whitish cilia. Exp. al., 10 — 11 mm. 

 Hindwings dark brownish grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Legs dirty yellowish 

 white, with faintly spotted hind tarsi. 



