202 [December, 



SPANISH AND MOORISH MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY THE RT. HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., P.R.S., &c. 

 (Continued from page 268). 

 3331 : 1. — A.LABONIA HERCULEELLA, Sp. n. 



= Harpella * staintoniella (Z. ?), Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., XVII, 247- 

 8 (1881) 1. 



Antennoi biserrate, biciliate (2J), brownish fuscous. Palpi projecting more 

 than four times the length of the liearl in front, median joint roughly clothed on 

 both sides ; dull ochreous above, fuscous beneath. Head fuscous above, pale ochreous 

 at the sides. Thorax greyish fuscous ; tegulae and a streak on either side pale 

 ochreous. Forewings brownisli ochreous to three-fifths from the base, with shining 

 metallic steel-grey lines, one along the costa, abruptly diverted downward at the 

 middle of the wing, a second above the fold obliquely diverted downward, at its 

 apex becoming confluent above the dorsum with the apex of a third metallic streak 

 arising at the base below the fold and following the fold to nearly half the wing- 

 length ; the space below this latter streak is shaded with brown and sprinkled with 

 fuscous scales, as is also the lower edge of the middle streak ; at three-fifths an 

 oblique whitish ochreous costal streak of even width running obliquely inward 

 terminates in a steel -grey metallic band, joining it to a smaller whitish ochreous 

 triangular dorsal spot slightly anterior to it, the space between them and the apex 

 and termen is brown freely sprinkled with narrow whitish ochreous scales ; cilia 

 brownish grey, with a few whitish ochreous scales along their base. Exp. aJ., 14 — 

 17 mm. Uindwings rather shining brownish fuscous ; cilia paler brownish fuscous. 

 Abdomen brownish fuscous, tinged with ochreous on the second segment, and with 

 some shining steel-grey across the third and fourth segments as well as at the sides. 

 Legs rather shining ashy grey. 



Ti/pe, ^ (87651). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab.: MOEOCCO— Tangier, 18.IV.— 18.V.1902. Four speci- 

 mens, a]lc?(J. PORTUGAL --Picota, IGOO — 1700 ft, 20. V. 

 (Uaton) \ 



This species is quite distinct from stainfoniella^ Z., and geaffroy- 

 ella, L., and the differences are referred to in Stainton's description 

 of a single specimen taken in Portugal [Ent. Mo. Mag., XVII, 247- 

 8 (1881)]. He fails to note, however, that the downward extension 

 of the metallic costal streak almost reaches, and in three of my speci- 

 mens quite touches, the metallic connection between the costal and 

 dorsal spots. I have no specimen of either of the other two species 

 in which this peculiarity occurs. The narrow and obliquely placed 

 costal spot is also a good separating character, and the whole insect 

 possesses a generally duller appearance than those of this genus 

 already known. 



2331 : 2. — Alabonia chapmani, sp. n. 

 AntenncB biciliate (2j), white, with black annulations. Palpi pale yellow above, 



