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si/aiys fit better into tlie genus! fli/poptn than in l)'/spessa, hat this is a unestioR 

 which would lead much further than any possible scope of this article ; it would 

 necessitate a monographic review and revision of the whole families ('ossidnc and 

 Zeuzeridae, including the question of whether the alteration of vein 11 in the hind- 

 wing in the Co5Sz«?ae really places them among theTineiuae in the Microlepidoptera 

 while its condition in the Zeiizerklae leaves the latter among the Dlacrolepidoptera. 

 In my personal opinion the families i'o^aidai^ Zeu^erlihie, llcpinlidae and M/no- 

 j)terijgi(lac form separate suborders of the order Lepidoptera and cannot be placed 

 in any of the families into which that order is divided. I);/spassa jordaiia car. 

 saJiarae Luc. (= Cossiis sakarae Luc.) is a c? and agrees perfectly with the ? I caught 

 in 1000 at Kef-el-Dor. It is therefore only a grey aberration of Df/apessa .fiian'.f, 

 and must stand as follows: Di/.-^pesxa Kii/ins ab. salwrae Luc. A ? sent by Victor 

 Faroult from near Bou-Saada is very grey, and agrees much better with Lucas' 

 description than even mine, though the figure agrees better with the Kef-el-Dor 

 specimen. As, however, all the recorded Algerian specimens are ? ?,it is most 

 probable that mkarae is only the S of xaavis after all. 



PYHATJDAE. 

 CBAMBINAE. 



10(1 Surattha strioliger sp. no v. 



1 c?, 1 ?, Arefidji, north of Ouavgla; 2 SS, half-way between Tonggourt and 

 Ouargla. 



tj. Head greyish cream-butF; antennae strongly pectinated, shaft creamy white, 

 liectinations black; thorax wood-brown, tegulae and patagia greyish cream-buff; 

 abdomen greyish brown-buff. Forewing : buffish sandy grey nervures cream- 

 colour ; a subbasal black streak above and a basal one below vein 1, a subbasal 

 and postmedian broad transverse brownish cloud composed of intraneural striae ; 

 on enter half intraneural streaks of blackish scales. Hindwing yellowish semi- 

 hyaline grey, abdominal area more creamy yellow. 



? has clouding and intraneural streaks and striae darker. The Arefidji S 

 has forewings all cream-buff and very few striae and streaks. 



Length of forewing : S 14 — 16 mm., ? 14'o mm. 



107. Eromene ramburiella lutiella Caradja. 

 1 i , Oued Nea. 



108. Eromene bella raddella Caradja. 

 1 f , Igosten, Tidikelt. 

 Both these Eromenes were desrribed in lOlO from Biskra. 



PHYCITINAE. 



lno. Myelois nivosella Rag. 

 1 ?, half-way between Tonggourt and Ouargla : 1 r?, half-way between Onargla 

 and F>l-Golca. 



11 'J. Nephopteryx cleopatrella Hag. 

 1 ?, Bordj Chegga; 3 (?cJ, 3 ? ?, Kcf-el-Dor. 



