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In one or two specimens a minute dark dot, apparently a single scale, 

 rests at the outer end of the cell, and in one only a few similar scales 

 are scattered along the termen, without forming any continuous line. 

 Near hrevispinella, Z., but the average size smaller, and the palpi 

 distinctly shorter. The darker colouring of the subcostal area in 

 brevispineUa is not continued or repeated lielow the middle of the 

 wing as in neotes, which assumes therefore a more uniformly darkened 

 appearance. 



373-01 COESYEA Meyr. 

 CoESYRA Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. N.S.W. VII. 423 no. 51 (1883) : 

 IX. 763-90 no. 51 sp. 305-47 (1885). 



3321"1. CoESYEA SOLAE, sp. n. 



Antennae biciliate (Is) in the ^ , vfith slight basal pecten ; tawny fuscous, 

 with white annulations. Palpi rather stont, smoothly clothed, the terminal 

 joint not longer than the median ; white, sprinkled with tawny fiiscous. Head 

 and face densely clothed; white, with slight tawny sjirinkling above. Thorax 

 yellow, shaded with brownish ochreous. Forewings rather short and broad, the 

 costa moderately straight, apex obtuse, termen oblique ; yellow, shaded with 

 olive-brown, and much mottled beyond the base with a sprinkling of tawny 

 fuscous scales, especially in a broad median dorsal patch, of which the ground- 

 colour and margins are white ; this patch is produced upward and outward to 

 above the end of the cell where it is rounded off, but connected by scattered 

 tawny scales to the tornus, thence widely along the termen reaching the 

 commencement of the costal cilia in a small tawny fuscous patch ; the anterior 

 outline of this vmdulated marking is whitish throughout, encircling and 

 almost enclosing a rich olive-brown blotch just beyond the end of the cell ; cilia 

 yellow, with indistinct bars of tawny fuscous sprinkling. Exp. al. 11-12 mm. 

 Hindwings shining, whitish, much siiffused beyond the base and around the 

 margins with brownish grey ; cilia white, shaded with brownish grey towards 

 the apex. Abdomen blackish above, white beneath. Legs white, with blackish 

 sprinkling on the tarsi. 



Type (J (96731) ; ? (96732) Mus. Wlsm., British Museum. 



Hah.: Algeria : Hammam-es-Salahin, Salsola vermiculata , 29.1, 

 ex. 1-30.IV.1904 (Wlsm.) ; Biskra, 31.III.1904, 16.IV.1903 (Wlsm.) ■ 

 El-Kantara, 10-20.V.1903 (Wlsm.). Twenty-four specimens. 



This species is named after my able assistant, Ignatio Sola, whose 

 name has been mentioned in previous papers. We met with this in 

 some abundance among the remains of an old Roman settlement at the 

 mouth of the Gorge of Tilatou, where it was invariably beaten from 

 Salsola vermiculata. Sola found some empty pupa-cases attached by 

 webs to the stems of this plant from which there was Httle doubt that 



