166 [J^y. 



since by the late Mr. Howard Vaughan and others. Doubtless some 

 of these are scattered through many collections under the name of 

 ruhrotihiella. 



The genuine A. rubrotibiella, F. R., has the fore-wings decidedly broader from 

 the base and much more squared behind ; tlie liind margin being almost perpendi- 

 cular and Ihe anal angle conspicuously filled out. Colour shining pale red-buff ; 

 first line very straight, black, inwardly edged witli white, having rough raised black 

 scales along the black line, but none outside it ; the discal dots black but extremely 

 small, and the second line very faint and obscure. The shape of the fore-wings is 

 its most striking character, and is well shown by German examples. I have but 

 one British specimen. It was taken many years ago near Portsmouth by Mr. Mon- 

 creaff. I know of no other British examples, but this one is unmistakeable. 



The character of the red tibice seems to be common to the group. 



A. tumidella is a well known species, as common as A. consociella in southern 

 woods. Its fore-wings are broad and ample, more so than in either of the other 

 species, not expanded behind as in A. rubrotibiella, but broadly clouded with rich 

 orange-red and crimson on a purplish-grey ground. 



Tremont, Peckham Rye, S.E. : 

 June, 1903. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP BATRACHEDRA 



ASSOCIATED WITH SPIDERS IN SOUTH AFRICA. 

 BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



389. BATKACHEDRA, tStu. [Lep.] 



3562 : 1. — Batrachedra. stegodtphobius, sjj. n. 



AntenncB pale ochreous, with narrow blackish bars above to beyond their 

 middle, three broad equidistant blackish bands around their outer half. Palpi 

 pale ochreous, with black spots above before the outer ends of the median and 

 terminal joints. Head and face blackish, with some ochreous scales above the 

 eyes. Thorax blackish, touched with ochreous posteriorly and on the tegulse. 

 Fore-wings pale brownish ochreous, the costa dusted with black in a narrow line 

 along the basal half which becomes diffused and widened about the middle of the 

 wing, but is interrupted before the apex where the black dusting recurs profusely, 

 extending over the cilia and produced backward in a streak to the end of the cell; 

 dorsal cilia blackish ; underside blackish with a pale spot in the cilia before the 

 apex. Eo;p. al. 7 — 8 mm. Hind-wings and cilia smutty grey. Abdomen blackish 

 grey above, ochreous beneath. Legs alternately banded with black and ochreous. 



Type, S (9170) ; ? (9168). Mus. Wlsm. 



Larva : white, the contents of the crop and intestines showing through, 

 •without markings, their position being indicated by whitish bristles. Head honey- 

 yellow ; prothoracic plates with the posterior outer angle rounded off, the others 

 rectangular, suture very narrow, dark olive-grey becoming blackish along the 



