368 Lord Walsinghani on Asiatic Toitricidse. 



In Morocco, Algeria, Tripoli, and Tunis E. europceus is 

 represented by the distinct E. algirus, the distinguishing 

 characteristics of which have been so well pointed out by my 

 friend Mr. W. E. de Winton (op. et loc. cit.). Mr. de Winton 

 has identified with this hedgehog a single specimen from 

 Andalucia, and regards its occurrence in Spain (should there 

 have been no mistake as to the labelling and origin of the 

 specimen) as an interesting extension of the range of a North- 

 African mammal to Europe. I have recorded * the existence 

 of a similar doubtful skull of another North-African mammal, 

 EUomys tnumhyanus (Pomel), from Nortli-west Spain. 



LI. — Asiatic Touthicidjs. 

 By the Rt. Hon. LoRD VValsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.RS. 



The Tortricidce of Asia present several points of interest to 

 the students of European Tineina through the great resem- 

 blance exhibited by many of their number to species with 

 which we are already well acquainted. Although at present 

 the amount of material available is scarcely sufficient to 

 justify any general conclusions, it is apparent that there is 

 in this case, as in parallel instances on both sides of the 

 Equator, a strong tendency to what may be called bands of 

 alliance running east and west within the range of certain 

 degrees of latitude; and that although these bands throw out 

 some few projections to north or south in exceptional 

 instances, such projections are more intimately connected 

 with the question of elevation and temperature than with 

 that of mere geographical distribution. Through the very 

 generous help of my friend Mr. J. II. Leech, I am in 

 possession of valuable series of many Chinese, Japanese, 

 Corean, and Himalayan species collected by himself and 

 hitherto undescribed. These series he has most kindly 

 supplemented by collections made by Mr. and Mrs. Pratt in 

 Central China, by Mr. Pratt in Asiatic Turkey, by Mr. Man- 

 ley in Japan, and by natives in China, Jnpan, and Asiatic 

 Turkey. The acquisition of the collection of Tineina and 

 PterophoridcB made by the late Mr. H. J. S. Pryer has 

 afforded me some insight into the extension of European and 

 North-American as well as Asiatic continental and Malaysian 

 forms into the Islands of Japan. The alliance of the Tor- 

 tricidce of Japan with those of Western Europe is perhaps 

 even more strongly marked than that of the intermediate 

 Asiatic specie.«, but perhaps the larger j)roportion received 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hiat. March 1899, p. 227 (footnote). 



