212 [September, 



paler markings are somewhat plainly indicated on tlie dark undei'-side. Exp. al. 

 10 — 13 mm. Hind-wings very dark brownish fuscous, the costa whitish ; cilia 

 varying from white to brownish, with a strong brown line running through them 

 near their base. Abdomen blackish. Legs dark brown ; tarsi with four whitish 

 bands. 



Tj/pe, S (87178) Tangier, Mns. Wlsm. 



Hah. : MOEOCCO— Tangier, 11.II.-9.1II.1902. [S. France? 

 ex Mns. Peyr.] Eighteen specimens. 



A large series of males taken at various dates, flying with salv/ma, 

 Stgr., over Qitercus coccifera at Tangier. This form was less common 

 than salrana when this species first appeared, but afterwards became 

 equally abundant. It partakes so much of the colour and pattern of 

 salvana that I had at first regarded it as a variety throwing up the 

 white dorsal patch, but I was probably misled into this theory by 

 always meeting them together ; and having regard to the fact that 

 albufjinana, Gn. (= f/alUcolana, Z.), and omygdalana, Dp. (== lo- 

 harzewshii., Nwki.), have been associated together as mere varieties it 

 is not difiicult to recognise a strong parallelism between salvana and 

 amygdalana on the one side, and cocciferana and nlhuginana on the 

 other. If any collector should succeed in breeding alhuf/inana from 

 ova of amyf/dala)ia., or ince versa, I should at once sink cocciferana 

 under salvana. My choice of the name cocciferana is made to avoid 

 any possible confusion, for although I am unable to discover any 

 previous publication of this name, it stood in de Peyerimhoff's col- 

 lection for the species here described. I have an original specimen 

 (5230) received through the late M. Ragonot under this name, but 

 without indication of locality. It was probably found in the South 

 of France. 



P. cocciferana is closely allied to alhioqinana, Gn., but is at once 

 distinguishable among other characters by its dark palpi, which form 

 a strong contrast to the longer palpi of the other species which are 

 white and only black tipped. 



2254 : 1. — Pammene obnata, sp. n. 



AntenncB and Palpi black. Head and Thorax black, the latter with a purplish 

 sheen on the tegulse. Fore-tvings purplish black at the base, rich coppery beyond 

 the middle, the two shades separated from each other by a broad, outwardly 

 angulated, ricli purple fascia before the middle ; bcyong this is a curved or slightly 

 angulated fascia of the same colour crossing the coppery area and this again ia 

 succeeded by a shorter and less conspicuous purple line before the apex, a small 

 purple spot lying below the costa neai'ly at the apex ; a few yellowish ochreous 

 scales form an inconspicuous line of costal spots on the outer tliird of the wing 

 (these are confluent on the under-side) ; cilia brassy metallic, with a black line 



