( 1~^" ) 



27. Timora striata Stdgr. 



1 S, lialt'-vviiy between Ouargla and El-Golea ; 1 ? , nortli of El-Golea. 



We first collected this lieautifnl species on the way to El-Uncd at Bordj Ferjan 

 in 1909. 



2b. Euxoa hodnae ((iberth.). 



2 tJ(?,2 ? ?, Bordj fUiegga. 



Was described from tlie centre of the " Hauls I'hUeaux," but apiiears to occur 

 all along the edge of the desert as well. Hather rare everywhere. 



29. Euxoa spinifera llidMi. 



1 ? , Bordj Saada ; 1 ? , South Oned Mya. 

 A widesjiread I'alaearclic noctnid. 



'•in. Euxoa radius (Haw.). 



1 ?, Bordj Ciiegga; I cf, 1 ?, Kef-el- Dor. 



A must variable insect in size, colour, and niarking. 1 bavi; a large series 

 of it from Victor Faniult from Bou Saada. ^Ve ours(dves have t alien il at Biskra, 

 and a few elsewhere. 



:il. Euxoa mauretauica (Bang-llaasj. 



1 ,?, 2 ? ? , Ghardaia ; 1 ? , Oued Nea. 



This is a most extraordinary moth, and no one at first siirht would believe 

 that two siiecimens of the oiijiosite extremes could be the same s])eeies, hardly even 

 the same genus; but the fine series of one hundred s])ecimeiis sent I'mni Bou Saadu 

 l)v Victor Faroult shows every intorgradation from sooty jdum violet with heavy 

 markings to pale sandy yellow with [ira<:tically no marking at all. 



:J2. Agrotis imperator Bang-Haas. 



1 r?, north of El-Golea; 1 cJ, 1 ? , Oued el-Far, south of Fort .Miribel : 11 <JS, 

 8 ? V, South Oued Mya; 1 J", 1 ?, Ain Gnettara. 



This magnificent s)iecies was only described and jmblished this autumn (/n«, 

 vol. .\xvi. p. 142, 1912). I had no idea the insect was undescribed, as 1 had 

 received it under this name from its author in 1919 ! I I 



It was described from Biskra sjiecimens, but 1 have never taken it there 

 myself; though, besides the two author's cotypes mentioned above, I have three 

 from Biskra, bought in 1911 from Faroult. I have, in 1911 and 1912, received 

 many from the latter from l?on Saada, Tilrhempt, Khenchela, etc. 



They differ somewhat in the width and degree of black ctdour of the two discal 

 transverse lines, very few of the more southern specimens eijualling in this respect 

 the Biskra and Bou 8aada ones. 



This species is nearest to Aj/rotis mclatiara Koll. 



HADEKINAE. 



33. Discestra vacina (Pting.). 



2 (?(?, Bordj Saada ; A S S , Bordj Chegga. 

 Originally described from Central Asia, 



