
Bulletin 
of the 
Liverpool Museums 
UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. 
Edited by H. O. Forbes, LL.D., Director of Museums. 

Vo.. III. AUGUST, Igoo. Nae 

The Expedition to Sokotra. 
X. Descriptions of the New Species of 
Micro=Lepidoptera. 
By THE Rr. Hon. THE Lorp WatsincHaM, M.A., LL.D, F-.R.S. 
Pyralidina. 
Pterophoride. 
Agdistis, He. 
(1) Agdistis minima. 
Antenne brownish cinereous. Palpi very short, closely appressed to the 
face, the terminal joint scarcely visible at the end of the rather thickly clothed 
median joint ; whitish cinereous. Head and Thorax whitish cinereous. Fore- 
wings whitish cinereous, thickly dusted with blackish scales along the costal and 
dorsal thirds, on the costa before the apex are three slight aggregations of the 
black scaling forming scarcely noticeable costal spots ; the usual elongate semi- 
transparent triangle reaches to within one-third of the base, and is brightly 
iridescent ; cilia whitish cinereous, speckled with black scales along their base. 
Exp. al. 12-14 mm. Hind-wings with a noticeable elongate mat of black scales 
near the base on the underside, terminating in a comb of separate black hair- 
scales along the lower margin of the cell ; brownish grey, much speckled with 
black scaling along the dorsum’, slightly iridescent towards the costa ; cilia 


* Some inconvenience occasionally arises in describing Lepidoptera from the fact 
that no single term has hitherto been used to express the angle so frequently formed 
on the dorsum of the fore or hind-wings in the direction of the base. On the hind-wing 
A 
