446 Lord Walsingham on Asiatic Tortricidee. 



cell/' but relying on the costal fold for its separation from 

 both. Fern aid, who in 1882 instituted the subfamily Con- 

 chylince, started with Idiographis preceding Conchylis. 



The genus Phtheochroa, Stph. (type rugosana, Hb.), has 

 been rightly recognized as belonging to this subfamily, but to 

 this genus have been added two species which differ from it 

 in the possession of a costal fold — Duponcheliana, Dp., and 

 ama?idana 7 H.-S. I am unable to refer them to any other 

 genus than Hysterosia. Meyrick (HB. Br. Lp. 554-5) placed 

 the smaller species maculosana, Hw., by itself in the genus 

 Enpcecilia as having a costal fold and thoracic tuft, vein 7 

 of the fore wings running to the apex. I find that in macu- 

 losana vein 7 distinctly runs to the termen, which justifies its 

 inclusion in the genus Hysterosia, the type of which, inopiana, 

 Hw., does possess a posterior thoracic tuft, although Meyrick 

 unaccountably failed to observe it and described the thorax as 

 smooth. In any case the name Eupcecilia, Stph., is inad- 

 missible for maculosana, Hw., Westwood in 1840 having 

 cited angustana, Hb., as its exponent, thereby rendering 

 Eupcecilia a synonym of Euwanthis, Hb., Meyr. 



909 (1). Hysterosia syriaca, sp. n. 



Antennae, pale brownish, whiter towards the base. Palpi 

 porrect, extending twice the length of the head beyond it ; 

 white. Head and thorax white, with a brownish tinge. Fore 

 icings white, with a few silvery scales scattered around the 

 edges of the darker markings; these are of two shades of 

 brown and consist of a streak along the costa from the base, 

 covering the narrow costal fold and joining the upper extre- 

 mity of a broad transverse brown band, slightly indented at 

 the middle on its inner side and adorned with four or five 

 tufts of raised brown scales ; three costal spots beyond the 

 middle, the outer two merging in a transverse narrow brown 

 band reaching to the tornus and scarcely separated from a 

 dorsal blotch before the tornus ascending to the upper angle 

 of the cell ; two black spots mark the end of the cell and 

 along the termen is a chestnut-brown shade, broken into a 

 series of small marginal patches ; cilia white, mottled with 

 brownish grey, a darker shade running along their base. Exp. 

 al. 22-28 mm. Hind wings greyish brown; cilia whitish, 

 with a dark line near their base. Abdomen greyish brown, 

 with white cross-bands. Legs dirty whitish, peppered with 

 brown scales. 



Type, S (60832) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. Asiatic Tukkey — Halbb— Shar Devesy, 23-27 V. 

 1890 {Native Coll.). Five specimens. 



