Crambina, Pterophorina and Alucitina. 459 
margin broadly reddish; the first of the two pale transverse lines 
is very faint, the second is rather more distinct ; posterior wings 
whitish, somewhat transparent. 2. 
As large as a large elutella, and closely allied to that species, 
but with the costa of the anterior wings almost straight, and only 
a little curved posteriorly. The dark brownish, or smoky-brown, 
ground colour of the anterior wings is, at the base, and for a con- 
siderable breadth along the inner margin, paler and somewhat 
reddish. The two pale transverse lines are very faint, and are 
placed nearer to one another than in elutella; they are placed 
also rather in a different direction. The whitish posterior wings 
form a striking contrast to the dark colour of the anterior. 
One female from the plains of Jordan. 
EMATHEUDES* PUNCTELLA, Treitschke. 
Semnia punctella, Heinemann, lib. cit. p. 1993; Anerastia 
punctella, Zell. Isis, 1847, 768, et 1848, 590; Chilo punc- 
tellus, Treitschke, ix. 2, 268; H.-S. fig. 85. 
Both sexes taken in Palestine. 
MELIssOBLAPTES BIPUNCTANUS, Zeller, 
Isis, 1848, p. 598; Heinemann, ld. cit. p. 205. 
The female specimens captured in Palestine differ from ours by 
the first transverse line of the anterior wings being more distinct, 
but the difference is not such as to induce the idea of a distinct 
species. 
PreroPHorus ArRIDusS, Zeller. 
Linnza Entomologica, vi. 366. 
In the plains of Jordan. 
ACIPTILUS ISCHNODACTYLUS, Treitschke. 
Treitschke, ix. 2, 223; Zeller, Linn. Ent. vi. 396. 
One female of the variety b. 
From the plains of Jordan. 
* A new generic name is necessary, since Semnia already occurs amongst 
the true Pyralides. 
