210 [September, 



hesitate to distinguish it at first sight ; this opinion is confirmed after 

 careful study. The larva will almost certainly be met with on 

 Dorycnium. 



2171 : 2. — Laspetresia. blackmoreana, sp. n. 

 = QraplwJita succedana (Frol. ?), Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., VIII, 232 

 (1872) 1. 



AnfennfB dull cream-whitish. Palpi, Head and Thorax cream-white. Fore- 

 toings cream-white, with six or eight oblique pale rust-brown costal streaks from 

 one-third to near the apex, the terminal and tornal portion of the wing shaded 

 with rust-brown mixed with scattered lines of black scales before, within and some- 

 times above, the ocelloid patch which is bounded on either side by shining metallic 

 steel-white bands, the outer one broken in its middle ; before the middle on the 

 dorsum arises a slender outwardly curved line of mixed rust-brown and black 

 scales, its apex extending across the fold to the cell ; the pale ground-colour of the 

 wing is very faintly mottled about tlie base and dorsum ; cilia creamy, a line of 

 black dusting along their base, the outer half also dusted witli black. Exp. al. 

 14 — 16 mm. Hind-wings pale brownish grey ; cilia shining brownish wliite, a 

 brown line running along their base, and sometimes a narrow one along their middle. 

 Abdomen brownish grey. Legs whitish, tarsi faintly spotted. 



Tyjye, ? (87337) ; <$ (S7335). Mus. AVlsm. 



Rab. : MOROCCO -Tangier, 4-20.1.1870. (Blackmore) i, 

 9.IV.— 9.V.1902 (Wlsm.). Seven specimens. 



This species is nearly allied to succedana, Schiff., Frtil., but is 

 paler, more creamy, inclining 1o ochreous, the dark outer shading 

 being rust-brownish, and not so distinctly in contrast to the ground 

 colour as in that species. The average size is j^erhaps slightly larger, 

 and there is a uniformity of character and appearance throughout 

 the series which should certainly prevent confusion except in the case 

 of much-worn specimens of either species. 



L. hlacJcmoreana occurs on the sand-hills at Tangier among Re- 

 tama monospermn, and was referred to by Stainton in his account of 

 Blackmore's collection as " Orapholita succedana, Frolich. Four 

 specimens taken amongst broom on the sandhills, January 4th to 20th, 

 1870, may, perhaps, be referable to southern forms of this species ; 

 they look, however, very different from our English uJicetana,'' from 

 which, however, he did not venture to separate it. 



2214 : 1. — Laspeyresia intacta, sp. n. 



Antenn(B black. Palpi fawn-ochreous, black at the apex. Head very dark 

 fuBCOUs. Thorax blackish. Fore-wings blackish, with some slaty blue iridescence 

 towards the base ; four partly geminated ochreous costal streaks on the outer half, 

 terminating in steel-blue lines, the first dilated, diffused and curved, reaching 



