3Q0 Meyi'ick, Micro-Lepidoptera from Tunis. 



apex, and a suffused dark fuscous dot on tornus, apex and termen 

 betvveen those suffused with ochroous-yellow: cilia light fuscous, base 

 on termen and costa suffused with light ochreous-yellowish. Hindwings 

 with 4 and 5 stallied; fuscous: an elongate hyaline spot beneath cell 

 at base; cilia pale fuscous. 



Two specimens, in June. Allied to marionella. 

 Pterolonche pulverule?ita Zell. Seven specimens. 

 Fleurota pyropella Schiff. Two specimens. 

 Pleurota algeriella Bak. Two specimens. I consider macrosolla 

 Reb. is only a yellower variety of this. 

 Pleurota argodonta nov. spec. 



(j. 21 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen shining whitish. Antennal 

 ciliations 1. Palpi with second Joint dark grey mixed with ochreous 

 and white, lower edge dark fuscous, hairs of upper surface white, 

 terminal Joint half second, dark fuscous, posteriorly whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 

 rounded; yellow-ochreous, on dorsal half paler ochreous-yellowish; a 

 silvery-white costal streak from near base to ^Z^, towards base 

 attenuated and with costal edge dark fuscous mixed with ochreous, 

 posteriorly attenuated and suffused; a silvery-white median streak 

 throughout, broad on anterior half, rather narrow on posterior half, 

 with an acute projecling streak from middle along fold to near tornus: 

 cilia whitish-ochreous, becoming whitish towards tips. Hindwings grey; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, basal third suffused with grey. 

 One specimen, in May. 

 Pleurota bicostella Cl. Pour specimens. 

 Ethmia bipunctella Fab. One specimen. 

 Etlimia sexpuncteüa Hüb. One specimen. 

 Coleophora suhcastanea Wals. One specimen. 

 Plutella maculipennis Curt. One specimen. 

 Tineola crassicornella Zell. Three specimens. 

 Nemotois latreillella Fab. Seven specimens. The ^ examples 

 have the cilia of hindwings ochreous-whitish, with basal third dark 

 fuscous; in the European form these cilia are normally rather dark 

 fuscous; in Maltese examples they are in an intermediate condition, 

 partially suffused with white. In one 6 the white spots of forewings 

 are obsolete, and in another nearly so. 



