Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Tortrieidae. 133 



1168. Laspeyresia pallifrontana, Z. 



Grapholitha (Semasia) pallifrontana, Stgr. & Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 258. 

 No. 1168 (1871) l ; Stgr. Ilor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XV. 2(30 (1879) 2 . 



llab. Europe 1 . Asiatic Turkey — Khudavenmkiar — 

 Brussa \ Sir as — Kerasdere a , Maidan, 10-2 IV 3 . Haleb 

 — Shar Devesy {Native Coll. 1893). 



11G8 (1). Laspeyresia diffieilana, sp. n. 

 Grapholitha difficilana, Bang-IIaas, Stgr. List, XLII. 25 (1888-9) MS. 



Antenna; blackish. Palpi somewhat erect ; white. Head 

 blackish above ; face white. Fore wings bronzy blackish 

 brown, with a leaden grey tinge at the base ; tour pairs of 

 short silvery white costal streaks, each pair terminating in 

 shining steel-blue, all except the last pair pointing obliquely 

 outward ; on the middle of the dorsum a longer pair of evenly 

 curved silvery white streaks, the first terminating in a small 

 blue spot on the cell ; arising from the tornus is a slightly 

 inverted bright iridescent steel-blue band, not quite reaching 

 the apex of the second pair of costal spots ; cilia whitish grey, 

 a dark fuscous line running along their base, but interrupted 

 below the apex by a white dot; underside whitish, with the 

 exception of the dark costal streaks on the outer half of the 

 wing, termen shaded with fuscous. Exp. al. 11 mm. Hind 

 wings : $ whitish at the base, apex and lower margin 

 broadly cupreous brown; cilia snow-white, a dark line along 

 their base, around the apex only; underside whitish, with 

 one or two dark costal streaks near the apex, termen shaded 

 with fuscous: ? somewhat more darkened than in the <$ . 

 Abdomen blackish, banded with white beneath. Legs, hind 

 pair silvery whitish, much shaded with greyish fuscous ex- 

 ternally, terminal joint of the tarsi fuscous, spurs white. 



Type, cJ (61611) ; ? (7277) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. Asiatic Turkey — Haleb— Shar Devesy {Native 

 Coll. 1893) ; Zeitun {Stgr.). Five specimens. 



This species is allied to pallifrontana, Z , and inter stinctana, 

 Clem. ; from the first it may be at once distinguished by its 

 more erect and whiter palpi and by the hind wings in both 

 sexes having a pale space at the base ; the latter distinction 

 also separates it from inter stinctana, but inter stinctana need 

 not be confused with pallifrontana, since that species is easily 

 recognized by the much wider separation of the first and 

 second pairs of costal streaks. 



