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shining silvery white scales intorniixed between and npon tlie faseifs ; two obliqne 

 and nearly parallel rust-brown fascise, the first arising from before the middle of 

 the dorsum, slightly narrowed at the lower edge of the cell, bulging outward on 

 the cell, partially interrupted below the costa and terminating in an elongate spot 

 at the middle of the costa, from which to the base the costa is narrowly shaded 

 with rust-brown ; the outer fascia, of equal width, arises before the tornus and 

 terminates on the costa before the apex, it is slightly narrowed opposite to the end 

 of the cell and runs nearly parallel to the termen throughout, these fasciae are 

 slightly mottled with darker brown and silvery grey scales ; cilia yellowish white, 

 with a slender yellow line running through them near their middle ; under-side 

 brownish, with silvery cilia. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hind-ioings, c? without subcostal 

 fold and hair-pencil ; shining pale brownish grey ; cilia whitish ; under-side greyish 

 white. Abdomen yellowish ochreous. Leys brownish grey. 



^I/P^' S (86145) ; ? (8748G) ; Larva (87490). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab.: SPAIN— Gkanada- Granada, 18-19.VI. 1901. MO- 

 ROCCO, Tangier, 19.IV— 9.V.1902, Larva in stems of Oanm verti- 

 cilhttum, 12.III.excl. 4 — 18. V. 1902. Fourteen specimens. 



Larva dull greenish ; head black ; pronotal plates olive-greenish, posteriorly 

 piceous ; thoracic legs piceous. 



A small species which has so much the appearance of a Loxopera 

 that no one would ever think of separating it from that genus except 

 by a study of its neuration (veins 7 and 8 of the fore-wings being 

 separate, not stalked). In the absence of the slight costal fold and 

 hair-pencil in the hind-wing of the S i* differs from at least the 

 majority of the exponents of Phnlonia, lib. This character has been 

 much overlooked, and its value in generic limitation is therefore at 

 present of doubtful importance. 



1787 : 1. — Phalonia ptjellana, sp. n. 



AntenncE pale brownish grey. Palpi white, pale ochreous on the outer-side. 

 Head white. Thorax pale ochreous. Fore-wings whitish ochreous, much suffused 

 with pale brownish ochreous, especially on the basal third, on the central fascia, 

 and about the terminal portion of the wing ; the fascia, which is somewhat obscurely 

 indicated, arises narrowly on the dor8um»jbc-fore the middle and tending obliquely 

 outward becomes sinuate across the middle of the wing, ending in a rosy-pink 

 suffusion with a few fuscous scales on the costa to which it is bent back above the 

 middle ; a pale rosy suffusion is traceable all along the costal third of the wing and 

 becomes more intense towards the apex, the brownish ochreous shading being 

 slightly interrupted by paler scales opposite to the middle of the termen ; cilia pale 

 brownish ochreous ; under-side greyish, with a rosy suffusion about the apex. Exp. 

 aZ. 9— 10 mm. Hind-ioings pale greyish ; cilia shining whitish ; under-side shining 

 pale bluish grey. Abdomen pale grey ; anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs whitish. 



Type, S (87365) ; ? (87374). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. : MOROCCO— Tangier, 11-16.V.1902. Eleven specimens. 



