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small spots obliquely placed beneath costa near base, a cloudy, somewhat obliqu*-. 

 bar extending from costa beyond one-third to the fold, a small erect spot on anal 

 angle, and a narrow streak along hind-margin ; cilia white, irrorated with black. 

 Hind-wings pale grey ; cilia whitish, slightly ochreous-tinged. 



Biskra ; a series obtained one evening from some sheltered shrubs 

 near the river bank. 



Gelechia eeemaula, n. sp. 



(J $ . 11-12 mm. Head and thorax brownish, face white. Palpi internally 

 whitish, externally black, with apex and a sub-basal band of both second and ter- 

 minal joints brown (appearing white when worn). Antenna? brownish, obscurely 

 annulatcd with black. Abdomen grey, sides whitish. Legs blackish, ringed with 

 white, hairs of posterior tibiae white. Fore-wings elongate-lanceolate ; ochreous- 

 brown, mixed with reddish-ochreous, and irrorated with whitish-ochreous and black ; 

 a Harrow, cloudy, oblique, black bar from costa before one-third to fold, dilated 

 posteriorly in disc; a small black spot in disc before middle, a black dot obliquely 

 beyond this on fold, and another in disc beyond middle ; an ochreous-whitish spot 

 on costa at three-fourths, and a short, somewhat oblique, ochreous-whitish streak 

 from inner margin opposite it, not meeting ; apical area beyond this much suffused 

 with black, and very obscurely spotted on margins with ochreous-whitish : cilia pal-e 

 whitish-ochreous, basal half irrorated with black, and limited by a fine black line. 

 Hind-wings one, apex one-third as long as breadth of wing, hind-margin somewhat 

 projecting on vein 5, cilia If ; light grey, thinly scaled towards base, darker towards 

 apex and hind-margin : cilia whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged. 



Biskra ; beaten in plenty from a common thorny desert shrub, 

 and also three specimens bred from larvae feeding in spun shoots of 

 the same plant. The description is taken from the bred specimens ; 

 those taken on the wing are usually worn, when the black scales largely 

 disappear, and the insect becomes much lighter and more ochreous- 

 looking. The species belongs to the group separated by Heinemanu 

 under the name Lifa, but not truly distinguishable from Gelechia ; it 

 may be said to be intermediate between maculiferella and ohsoletella, 

 probably nearer the former, but a much more uniformly coloured 

 insect, without white markings. 



Q. ohsoletella, F. R. — three specimens at Biskra, amongst what I believe was 

 an Atriplex ; they do not appear to differ at all from English types. G. sp. — one 

 specimen from Biskra of an indeterminate species allied to ohsoletella, but more 

 strongly marked. 



Psecadia bipunctella, F. — Coustantine ; one at light, and a second on a fir stem. 



GilcOPHOEA X3NIA3, ». sp. 



? . 11 mm. Head whitish-grey. Palpi grey, sprinkled with dark grey and 

 wliitish. Antenna? grey. Thorax light grey. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dark 

 grey, apex of joints and hairs of posterior tibiae grey-whitish. Fore-wings lanceo- 

 [late; hght grey, with scattered dark grey and whitish scales; an elongate white 

 [suffusion in disc from one-fourth to three-fourths ; a minute black dot in disc beyond 



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