ee 
96 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
radial cell I can find no reason to think that all the #2 
here recorded (after Saunders’s MS.) as minor and radialis 
do not belong to the same species. Their agreement in 
antennal characters, degree of clouding in the wings, ete., 
outweighs (I think) the difference of neuration, which in 
Astatus spp. generally is often erratic. And if they be 
identical, I suspect they are the ff of Saunders’s mznor, 
rather than of his radialis. But further, I do not feel 
certain that the former species is really Kohl’s minor, of 
which I possess several specimens named by the author. 
The ¢ antennae, to my eye, are not identical with those 
of minor, Kohl (det. ipse), the joints beneath being less 
convex and more simply so (not at all sinuate in the 
middle!). Also the ventral pilosity appears distinctly 
longer. They seem to me more to resemble the # of a 
Spanish species kindly sent to me by Sefior Mercet, 
under a name which I refrain from quoting as I am not 
sure that it is yet published. 
As to radialis 2, I feel pretty sure that it is really (or 
rather was when described) a “new” form. Whether it will 
prove to be more than a local variety of some species already 
described from other districts, is another question. Several 
of the characters which are commonly utilised in defining 
the species of this difficult Genus are, to my mind, likely 
to prove unreliable. Even such comparatively well-de- 
fined species as bodps and stigma are exceedingly variable, 
not only in colour-characters, but in neuration, size, and 
even sculpture; and many of the existing descriptions are 
based entirely on characters of this kind.] 
ASTATUS LAETUS, Saunders 
1 2. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 19. v, 97. A. E. E. 
ASTATUS FUMIPENNIS, Saunders 
1 9. Biskra, on Ammi visnaga, 25. v, 97. A. E. E. 
The above two species are both described in Trans. Ent. 
Soc. ¢.c. 
NOTOGONIA NIGRITA, Lep. 
1 @. Biskra, visiting Moricandia arvensis, 10. x, 97. 
A. E. E. 
1 9. Hussein Dey (Alger), 4. iv, 93. A. E. E. 
1 9. Biskra, “near the Barrage, on the neighbouring 
