126 [June, 



Type, ? (96GM) ; $ (96648). Mus. Wlsm. 



Kab.: ALGERIA — Biiskra, 7-21. TIT. 1003 ; Hammam-es-Sala- 

 bin, 12-16. V.1903, 3-19.IV.1904. 



I took eit^hteen specimens of this curious insect at Biskra in the 

 month of March, and at Hammam-es-Salahin in May ; at the latter 

 place it was undoubtedly attached to Limoniastrum guyonianum, for I 

 smoked and beat it from this and no other plant. A free-feeding 

 larva precisely resembling in colour the leaf of Liinoiiiastruin, and 

 somewhat tapering towards the extremities, would I think have pro- 

 duced this insect, had f not unfortunately failed to rear the three or 

 four specimens obtained. Both larva and moth are undoubtedly 

 scarce, I only met with three specimens this year. 



HYPONOMEUTIDAE. 

 354 : 1 (=304).— ALLOCLITA, Stgr. 

 3074 : 1. — Alloclita fkancoeuriae, sp. n. 

 Antennae simple (two strong bristles indicate a fugitive pecten at their base) ; 

 white, delicately barred with black above. Palpi erect, median joint smooth, 

 terminal of equal length, moderately stout and acuminate ; white, the median joint 

 speckled before its apex, the terminal broadly suffused with black. Head pale 

 brownish red ; face ochreous. Thorax pale brownish red, mixed with some ochreous. 

 Foi-eivings white, profusely dusted with greyish fuscous ; a short ochreous basal 

 patch darkening to brownish red at its outer edge, is narrower on the costa than on 

 the dorsum, with a projecting angle on the fold ; about half the wing-length is a 

 dark ferruginous brown patch, its base resting on the fold, from which it is projected 

 outward toward the end of the cell, where there is a round pale reddish ochreous 

 spot ; a faint reddish ochreous tinge crosses the wing at one-third from the base, 

 end the termen is more distinctly pale reddish ochreous throughout, the fuscous 

 speckling reappearing strongly at the apex and along the base of the hoary whitish 

 cilia, which are mixed with pale greyish fuscous. Exp. al., 15 — 17 mm. Ilind- 

 wings shining, yellowish white ; cilia pale sti'aw yellow. Abdomen ochreous. Legs 

 alternately banded witli greyish fuscous and white. 



Type, ^ (96473) ; ? (96451). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hal. : ALGERIA— Biskra, 23.11.1895 {Eaton), 1-23.III.1903 

 (Wlsm.) ; Hammam-es-Salahin, 12. Ill — 7. IV. 1904. Larva Francoe- 

 uria crispa, 19. IV. excl. 18.VIL1903. Twenty-eight specimens. 



Several specimens taken at light at Biskra, March, 1903, and a 

 single $ subsequently bred in July from a larva found in April bur- 

 rowing under the woolly bark of the stems of Francoeuria crispa ; 

 after eating out the inside of the leaves it makes sand-galleries 

 attached to the crown of the root. This species varies in the in- 

 tensity of its colouring, in some which are darker than the type the 

 greyish fuscous speckling is so dense as to change the ochreous 



