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1«. wariouis korbi Stand. 

 AUtiinarl,,,! knrhi Stauci, Kid. Zfit. Stetl, pp. 179-80 (1S83). (Spain.) 



\6. warionis syriaca Standf. 

 Alburrachia korbi rar. si/riaca Standf., Iiix, ii. p. 2G6 (1889). (Svhia.) 



2. baui Standf. 

 Albanvrhia Uuii Standf., Iris. ii. pp. 'JGC, 257 (l«8;i). (SvKIA.) 



In two of Dr. Hartert's ? ? as well as in my own <S the discal band is entirely 

 absent, bnt in the two other ? ¥ it is plainly present, only in its apical part it is 

 almost obsolete, while the posterior half is less developed than in wai'ionis korbi. 



The genus Albnrracina is now placed by lepidopterists at the end of the 

 Li/mantriidric. 



LASIOCAMFIDAE. 



25. Chilena hilgerti sp. nov. 



2 ? ?, Otied-el-Abiod, north of In-Salah. 



This new species is allied closely to ij/ira Warr., and its ]iosition is ne.\t to 

 ohliqiiata King. 



?. Palpi and head pale cream-buff; antennae sandy yellow; thorax and 

 abdomen greyish cream-white. Forewing cream-colour, with a cinnamon shade 

 becoming paler on terminal third of wing, nervures darker, a j)ale greyish shadow 

 line from ape.x to inner margin one-fourth from tornus, a raised white median 

 stigma. Hindwiug greyish cream-white, nervures yellowish. 



Length of forewing : 24 — 29 mm. 



Type : No. 957, 13. 4. 1912. This is nearest to obliijiuttii King., but differs in 

 the total absence of the rusty markings on hindwings and abdomen. 



In connection with this species I should like to remark that in several copies 

 on PI. I. of his Etudes, Liv. vi., Mr. Oberthiir gives a figure of what appears to be 

 a large white Lasiocampid moth, and says in the te.xt it is a figure of his Bombi/x 

 hitcK.s, which he describes as a small species of a uniform golden yellow all over. 

 This is a direct proof of what I said at Oxford, at the Entomological Congress, that 

 however desirable figures were, an accurate description was of greater importance, 

 for any author was liable to be betrayed by the inaccuracy of his artist or colonrist : 

 lutea cJ ? is again figured in Etudes, Liv. xii. 



[On April 13th we camped in the bed of the Oned-el-Abiod — a river-bed with 

 much "drin '" and a few bushes of Zizi/phus lotus, surrounded by sand blown on to 

 a rocky j)lain. There we caught one specimen. On our return journey we camjied 

 there again on the 2oth in exactly the same spot, and we then got the second one. 

 No otlier specimens were seen, but the night of the 13th was very windy, and the 

 25lh yielded altogether only a few specimens. I am glad to see this species named 

 after my companion. — E. H.] 



y()CrU]J>AE. 



AGROTIITAE. 



26. Chloridia nubigera (Herr.-Sch.). 



1 S, north of AVn (iuettara; 1 ?, Oned Nea. 



1 have two of this rather dowdy-looking species from Victor {'"aroidt from 

 Khcnchela, and Dr. .Jordan and I took it there this year. Dr. Nissen got one this 

 year at Guelt-es-iStel. 



