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ENDOTRICHINiE. 



(28a,) Endotricha jordana, n, sp. (Stgr. MS.) 



^ Head, thorax and abdomen pale reddish-brown to fuscous- 

 brown ; some whitish scales between antennte, the 2nd segment 

 of alxlomen with darker dorsal band. Forewing reddish to fuscous- 

 brown ; the costa with series of semi-annulate white spots ; the basal 

 area to the antemedial line and the area beyond the subteriuinal line 

 darker brown ; the lines white, the antemedial somewhat excurved 

 l)elow costa, then oblique, the subterminal excurved at middle then 

 sinuous to tornus ; cilia dark at base, paler at tips, white from Itehnv 

 apex to vein 5. Hindwing whitish irrorated with some dark scales 

 and with diffused dark antemedial band ; a fine postniedial line 

 slightly angled outwards at middle ; the terminal area from just be- 

 yond the postinedial line grey-brown sometimes tinged with purplish- 

 red ; cilia dark at base, whitish at type. 



Expanse 16 millim. 



Type in Coll. Staudinger. 



Hab. Syria, Jordan R., Dead Sea. 



PYRA^LINiE. 



(2.) * Ulotricha algerialis, n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 18.) 



Forewing with vein 8 absent. 



(^ White ; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints banded with 

 rufous ; frons and vertex of head marked with rufous ; antennae 

 ringed with black ; thorax mixed with pale olive-brown ; abdomen 

 with rufous segmental liaes the anal tuft tipped with rufous. Fore- 

 wing with some pale olive at base, then irrorated with fuscous and 

 olive scales to the antemedial black line which is slightly bent in- 

 wards to costa ; the medial area suffused with pale olive leaving the 

 ante- and postniedial lines defined by white, irrorated with some 

 black scales and with some rufous suffusion below end of cell ; the 

 postniedial line excurved at middle, the terminal area and cilia 

 irrorated with rufous and dark brown forming streaks on the veins ; 

 a terminal black and line through the cilia. Hindwing pure white. 



5 Hindwing with the terminal area rather broadly suffused with 

 brown forming streaks on the veins ; a terminal punetiform line. 



Expanse ^ 18, $ 24 millim. 



Type in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Hab. Algiers, Biskra. 



