128 fJ"»®' 



7, PI. Ill, 12 (1870)0); Stgr.-Wk., Cat. Lp. Eur., 304, No. 2199 

 (1871) (2); Stgr.-Ebl., Cat. Lp. Pal., II, 165, No. 3092 (1901) (3). 



Antennae white. Palpi white, smeared along the outer side of the median 

 joint and on the lower half of the expanded brush with greyish fuscous. Head and 

 Thorax silvery white. Foretoingit shining, silvery white, with a slight rosy tinge, 

 especially toward the dorsum ; a broad pale bronzy brown band, below the eosta 

 from the base to the apex, gradually reduces the width of the silvery costal space 

 above it, and a few bronzy brownish scales are found along the termen before the 

 silvery white cilia which assume a greyish tinge outwardly. Exp. al., 22 — 26 mm. 

 Hindwinga and cilia rosy grey. Ahdomen and Legs pearly greyish. 



{Gaenotype, ? (96679) ; ^ (96680). Mus. Wlsm.] 



Hah.: GREECE (1-3) — Attica, ^IVd)— ALGEEIA - Biskra, 

 20.III— 13.1 V. 1903; Haminam-es-Salaliin, 2-13 IV, 16.V.1903, 19- 

 21.IV.1904 ; El-Kantara, 4.V.1903. Thirty specimens. 



Common on the hills behind the hot springs and on the plain 

 preceding them. In some specimens the dorsal half of the forewing 

 is suffused with bronzy scales, sometimes concentrated towards the 

 base. Both sexes are alike in markings. 



Perhaps nearest to hicostella, CI., but a much more brilliant 

 species, and in some respects intermediate between it and macrosella , 

 Rbl. I did not meet with var. aiirata, Stgr., which is probably a 

 distinct species. 



3114 : 1. — Pletjkota hastipormis, sp. n. 



Antennae ashy grey. Palpi hoary whitish, with a dark greyish brown streak 

 along the outer side of the median joint ; terminal joint rather short suberect. 

 Head and Thorax hoary white. Forewings rather short, sharply lanceolate ; hoary 

 ■white, dusted with brownish grey scales, except along the eosta where a pure white 

 streak reaches from the base into the commencement of the costal cilia, and below 

 it where a broader grey streak runs from the base to a little above the apex ; a small 

 fuscous dot lies at the end of the cell, and some dark brownish grey scales form a 

 line along the outer half of the dorsum and on the termen preceding the pale 

 brownish cinereous cilia. Exp. al., 10 — 12 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale brownish 

 cinereous. Abdomen brown-grey. Legs pale brownish cinereous. 



Type, ^ (96702). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. : ALGERIA— El-Kantara, 8.IV— 5.V.1903. Thirteen 

 specimens. 



Common at El-Kantara among Artemisia herha-alha. 



Closely allied to semicanella, Cnst., and protaseUa, Stgr., differing 

 from the former in the presence of a dark spot at the end of the cell 

 and from the latter in the absence of the two dark spots towards the 

 base. 



(To be continuedj. 



