1903. I 213 



running along their base. Exp. al. c? 9 — 10; ? 11 — 12 mm. Hind-wings bright 

 yellow-ochrcous, sliadecl towards the apex with fuscous, and with two black dashes 

 lying parallel on either side of the outer branch of vein 1, and nearly reaching the 

 margin of the wing (these are only formed in the (J),the limbua is also shaded 

 with fuscous ; cilia bright yellow-ochreous, with a slight shade- line near the base. 

 Abdomen and Legs dark fuscous, the latter with a few ]iale tarsal spots. 



Type, (^ (S714S) ; ? (87149). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. : MOKOCCO— Tangier, 6-9.111.1902. Thirteen speci- 

 mens. 



This species is nearly allied to rhtdiella, CI., but differs in the 

 distinct purple bands of the fore-wings, and in the bright yellow 

 ochreous colour of the hind-wings. It also approaches closely to 

 pupurenna, Cnst., which although somewhat similar in the colouring 

 of the fore-wings, has always dark hind-wings ; it is probable, how- 

 ever, that the food-plant is the same, a series of thirteen specimens, 

 showing no appreciable variation, except between the sexes, having 

 been all taken among Arbutus unedo on the hills above Tangier in the 

 beginning of March. 



2197 : 1. — ^EUCELIS MALCOLMI^, Sp. U. 



= GraphoUta, n. sp. ?, Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., VIII, 233 (1872). 



AntenncB hoary cinereous. Falpi and Head hoary whitish cinereous. Thorax 

 cinereous, faintly speckled with pale greyish fuscous. Fore-wings narrow, elongate, 

 widening outward, costa straight, apex rounded, termen oblique, scarcely at all 

 sinuate ; whitish cinereous, with more or less pale brownish and pule greyish fuscous 

 suffusion ; the costa with a series of oblique streaks throughout, these ai'C fuscous at 

 their origin, fading to brown, the intervening spaces somewhat geminated, whitish, 

 becoming silvery outward in those beyond the middle, the one before the apex 

 somewhat inverted and produced to the silvery outer margin of the ocelloid patch 

 which has three or four transverse black streaks and is more widely bounded with 

 silvery behind ; an outwardly oblique cuneiform whitish patch lies on the middle 

 of the dorsum, ill-defined on its inner and outer edges and divided by indistinct 

 brownish or fuscous lines, its outer extremity reaching to the end of the cell ; a 

 few very indistinct darkish streaks lie on the dorsum before the middle and a narrow 

 blackish marginal line precedes the silvery grey cilia. Exp. al. 10—13 mm. 

 Hind-ivings greyish white at their base, much shaded with bronzy brown about the 

 apex and termen ; cilia dirty whitish, with a brownish shade along their base. 

 Abdomen brownish cinereous ; shining yellowish white beneath. Legs whitish, 

 with faint tarsal spots. 



Type, ^ (87107) ; ? (86586) ; Larva (87110). Tangier, Mus. 

 Wlsm. 



Rab. : SPAIN— Cadiz— San Fernando, 15.XII.1900; Cadiz, 

 14. V. 1902. GiBEALTAE, 2.II1.1901 ; Lavva Alyssmnmaritimum, 2.111. 

 excl. 5.IV.1901. MOROCCO— Tangier, 13.IV.1901 ; 28.XII.1901— 

 12.1.1902 ; Larva Malcolmia littorea, XII.1901. excl. 2.1— 18.11.1902. 

 Thirty-seven specimens. 



