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the long median joint dark uniber-brown on the outer side and beneath, the terminal 

 joint naked, slender, pale yellow. Head and Thorax pale yellow-ochreous. Fore- 

 loings reddish brown, with pale yellow-ochreous markings, consisting of a streak 

 along the costa from near the base, widening outward and dilated downward before 

 the middle, forming an axe-shaped patch narrowly margined throughout except on 

 costa with black scales ; beneath it is a broader streak of the same colour extending 

 from the middle of the base to the middle of the dorsum, obtusely angulated up- 

 ward above the fold at about its middle and narrowly margined with black scales, 

 except along its lower edge, where it leaves an elongate patch of the brown ground- 

 colour along the dorsum ; beyond these streaks is an inwardly oblique fascia of the 

 same colour, much attenuated above the middle at about the end of the cell, but 

 widening upward and downward to the costa and dorsum respectively, its inner 

 edge narrowly margined with black scales ; cilia reddish brown, fading to pale 

 cinereous on their outer half. Exp. al., 15 mm. Eindioings and cilia fuscous. 

 Abdomen rust-brown towards the base, greyish fuscous posteriorly. Legs greyish 

 fuscous, hind tarsi banded with pale ochreous. 



Type, S (71931). Mus. Wlsm. 



Rab.: SPAIN— Salamanca— Bejar, \ 1-^11.1^02 {Chapman). 

 Two specimens. 



Thia species, for which I am greatly indebted to Dr. Chapman, is 

 abundantly distinct from any hitherto described. 



3384 : 1. — BOEKHAUSENIA lAGATHELLA, Sp. U. 



Antenna distinctly annulate with black and white, basal joint white tipped with 

 black. Palpi black, a few white scales along the upper side of the median joint, 

 the terminal joint with a broad white ring at its base, its apex also white. Head 

 black above, front and sides white. Thorax yellow-ochreous, with fuscous shading 

 anteriorly. Forewings yellow-ochreous, a fuscous shade extending along the costa 

 from base to beyond middle, terminating at an inwardly oblique sinuous white line 

 descending from the costa ; this costal shade emits from its lower edge, at about 

 one-sixth from the base, an outwardly oblique narrow blackish fascia attaining the 

 doi-6um at one-fourth, this is outwardly margined by a white hne ; before the tornus 

 is a chestnut patch sprinkled around its edges with black scales and margined along 

 its inner edge at its upper extremity by a slender white line, which almost touches 

 the white margin of the costal shade above it ; on the outer third of the wing 

 there are no markings ; cilia yellow-ochreous ; underside fuscous, cilia yellow- 

 ochreous. Exp. al., 12 — 15 mm. Hindwings rather shining leaden grey; cilia 

 pale brownish grey. Abdomen leaden grey, whitish beneath. Legs grey ; hind tarsi 

 blackish, with three or four white annulations. 



Type, S (87655). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : MOROCCO — Tangier, 12.IV.— 18.V.1902 ; Tetuan, 

 27.V.1902. Eleven specimens. 



This species is probably nearly allied to mercedella, Stgr., from 

 Spain, but differs in the position of the markings, and of the white 

 lines. The group to which it belongs is that represented hj pokornyi, 

 Nkrl., borkhausenii, Z., and icterinella, Mn. 



{To be continued). 



