isiti.] 50 



A FORTNIGHT IN ALGERIA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY E. MEYUICK, B A., F.Z.S. 



{Conchided from p. 13). 



CONCHXLIS CniONOPA, «. sp. 



<? . 10 — 11 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs, white; 

 thorax with a well-developed crest ; anterior legs indistinctly banded with fuscous. 

 Fore-wings elongate, rather narrow, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa hardly arched, 

 apex obtuse, hind-margin slightly rounded, oblique ; snow-white, irregularly sprinkled 

 with whitish-ochreous, and with faint, obscure, whitish-ochreous markings ; a series 

 of small spots along costa, partially very finely sprinkled with blackish ; an undefined 

 basal patch ; a rather narrow straight median fascia parallel to hind-margin, inter- 

 rupted beneath costa, marked with some scattered black scales in disc ; an undefined 

 transverse streak before hind-margin ; a series of minute groups of fine black scales 

 along inner and hind-margin ; cilia white, tips whitish-ochreous, base spotted with 

 groups of fine black scales. Hind-wings and cilia snow-white ; veins 3 and 4 closely 

 approximated at base. 



? . 9a mm. Head, &c., as in ^ . Fore-wings shaped as in cJ , but apex more 

 pointed, hind-margin more oblique ; white, with two tolerably defined narrow pale 

 ochreous fasciae, somewhat bent in disc and interrupted below costa, first before 

 one-third, second beyond middle ; a pale ochreous spot on costa before apex ; no 

 black scales ; cilia white. Hind-wings as in $ . 



Biskra ; four specimens (3 ^^ , I ? ), all obtained by searching at 

 the roots of the same individual plant (a little shrubby desert plant, 

 unknown to me). Hence I have no doubt that the sexes are correctly 

 referred to the same species, in spite of the remarkable differences in 

 marking of the fore-wings. The species belongs to the straminea 

 group, but is very distinct from any known to me. 



Ptocheuusa osseella, Stt. — Philippeville ; five specimens. These are a small 

 and pale form, and perhaps slightly narrower-winged than English types, but there 

 is no other difference ; the quite peculiar neuration is identical. 



Apodia doliodes, n. sp. 



$ ? . Ifi — 17 mm. Head in $ whitish, in ? whitish-fuscous. Palpi long,' 

 whitish, second joint dark fuscous except at apex, terminal joint sometimes with a 

 dark fuscous longitudinal line in front. Antennae fuscous, in $ serrate, ciliations f . 

 Thorax light fuscous. Abdomen grey, apex in $ whitish. Legs dark fuscous, apex 

 of joints whitish, liairs of posterior tibia? pale greyisli-oclireous. Fore-wings elongate- 

 lanceolate; ligiit fuscous, more or less densely irrorated with whitish and darker 

 fuscous ; a cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, subelongate dot in middle of disc, and a 

 second before three-fourths ; cilia pale wliitish-fuscous, with two ill-defined fine 

 dark fuscous lines, sub-basal and median. Hind-wings hardly 1, apical projection 

 half as Ipng as breadth of wing, hind-UKirgin somcwhsit projecting on vein 5 ; grey ; 

 cilia pa'e ochrcous-greyish. 



Philippeville; three specimens. An obscure-looking insect su- 



