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March, 



Two g captured, one, April 24th, near Lisbon, at Olivaes ; and 

 the other, June 12th, at Ponte de Morcellos. 



Sciapliila Wahlbomiana ', L., var. communana, H.-S. — One, May 9th, 

 at Almodovar ; and another, May 16th, on the hill S.E. of Silves. 

 They have both a leaden-grey ground colour, the markings are hardly 

 darker and but faintly outlined. 



Cochylis respirantana, Stgr. 

 Al. exp. 15 mm. Fore-wings rather elongate, the costa straight, the apex acute ; 

 the ground colour is pale yellowish-white, somewhat silvery and crossed by numerous 

 irregular olive-yellow patches or spots, in which are more or less numerous fuscous 

 scales, especially in the $ . These spots form ill-defined, interrupted curved bands, 

 the most distinct of which arise from the inner margin, one nearly in the middle, 

 another from the anal angle, and the third along the hind margin. The costa is 

 spotted with fuscous to the middle. The fringes are pale yellowish. Beneath, the 

 fore-wings are blackish-brown, save the fringes, which are yellowish. 



The hind-wings are fuscous above and paler on the under-side ; the fringes are 

 white. Head, thorax and palpi pale yellowish above and olive-yellow on the sides* 

 The antennae are pale brown, simple in the ? and pubescent in the $ , 



This new species, which has lately been published by Dr. Stau- 

 dinger (Horse Eossicae, 1880, xv, Sep. abd. p. 88), resembles dubrisana 

 very much (next to which species I would place it) in its markings, 

 but differs by its colour, size, shape, and the absence of reticulations 

 on the hind-wings, which are similar in colour in both sexes. 



Dr. Staudinger has received it from Amasia, and has also taken it 

 this year at Chiclana in Andalusia. 



One $ , May 16th, on a hill S.E. of Silves.* 



Penthina (Sericoris) lacunana, Dup. — One, June 6th, at Cea. It 

 has the median band much blacker than usual, and in the middle of 

 the band the round spot is conspicuously light. A second example 

 was captured in the same locality, but instead of the ground colour 

 being olivaceous, it is reddish-fuscous like cespitana, with numerous 

 lines and markings dark brown. 



• I may mention here another Portuguese Cochylis, of which I have a specimen taken at 

 Braganza by M. Manuel d'Oliviera. 



Cochylis punctiferana, n. sp. Al. exp. 7 mill. Fore-wings much suffused with brownish-grey, 

 leaving but little of the whitish ground colour. The base, a rather broad fascia, which begins on 

 the costa nearly in the middle, going straight down to the median vein, then slanting towards 

 the base and ending straight on the inner margin from the dorsal vein, and a large triangular 

 spot on the inner margin before the anal angle, are dark greyish-brown. Between the fascia and 

 the spot on the inner margin is a narrow white space. At the end of the median vein there is a 

 very distinct round blackish dot surrounded with whitish ; above on the costa is a small brown 

 spot, beyond which there are two others forming a semicircle, below which there is a pale 

 brownish cloud parallel with the hind margin. Before the apex is another small brown spot, and 

 the fringes, which are white, are distinctly chequered above and beneath with large brownish 

 spots at the base and extremity. The under-side is blackish-brown, spotted with dark brown on 

 the whitish costa. 



The hind-wings are dark brownish-grey above and lighter beneath, the fringes white. 



This new species I place between coagulana, Christ., and reversana, Stgr., but the large size 

 of the triangular anal patch and the discal spot distinguish it easily from all the allied species. 



