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MTCROLEPWnPTKRA. 

 TINEIDAE. 



Catabola, gen. n. (Dint.), {KaralBoXi) = a beginning.) 



Tyjie : Tincohi hixltmrUa Rbl. 



Antennae = 1, tliick, joints short, basal joint widened, withont jiecten ; labial 

 jiiilpi moderate, porrect, densely scaled, median joint with a few apical setae; 

 uiaxillaiy palpi, hanstelliim, and ocelli obsolete; head and face roughly tufted; 

 thorax with aj)pressed scales. Forewing ovate-lauceolate, dorsum slightly im- 

 pressed at vein 1 ; nenration : eleven veins, 8 absent (coincident with 7 or 0) ; 7 — 9 

 stalked, 7 to costa ; 2 — 4 about ecpiidistant, 4—5 short-stalked, media to below 0, 



II from before middle, 1 basal ly furcate. Hind wing ovate-lauceolate; neura- 



tion : eight veins, all separate, the distances between each evenly diminishing 

 from 2 — 6, media to above f>, (i nearer to o than to 7 ; abdomen flattened ; legs, 

 hind-tibiae hairy above. 



Slide : 6 (116999) Mus. Wlsm. B.M. 



The face is excavate between the eyes, but this is probably characteristic of 

 the cJ only. 



Allied to I'romaaia Chrtn., SUithmopoHtu 'Vlsm., and Mulacifntis Meyr. 

 (Drnt.). 



l.")S. Catabola biskraella (Hebel). 



1 6, South Uued Mya. 

 Described from Biskra. 



Ilns been recorded from Biskra by Mev. A. E. Eaton, au<l from Hammam-es- 

 Sahihiu, near Biskrii, by Lord Walsingham. 



169. Episcardia lardatella Ld. 



1 ?, north of Ain (Jnettura ; \ 6 , South Oued Mya. 



Described from Syria in 1858, this species has been recorded from Lauibessa, 

 Auri's Mountains, by Chretien in 1904, and by Joannis from Tunisia in 1911. 

 It iuis also been got by the R«v. A. E. Eaton at Biskra in May 1M94 ami 

 April 1895. 



TOB.TBICIDAE. 



101). ? 

 1 (?, Oued Nfa; in ton IumI condition for identification. 



6EI.ECHIADAE. 



liil. Oecocecis guyonella Gu. 



Dr. Hartert brought home a large number of galls of this species collected 

 in .luup between Elalia and Touggourt on Limoniastruni guyonianum. 1 

 collected them myself in I9U8 at Biskra, and there are specimens from the same 

 jilace collected by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. At the time of writing (November 1, 

 1912) the galls collected by Dr. Hartert contain full-grown living larvae. 



