On new Algerian LepiJo/itiva. 2'M 



To rone notab ill's, sp. ii. 



$ . Palpi white below, dark brown above. Head and 

 body above dark libicine brown. Tliorax below white. 

 Abdomen below crimson, ventrally shaded with yellowish 

 white towards base. Fore wings lilacine brown, the veins 

 ^vith darker points; a tine dark brown anteniiHlial line, ont- 

 curved on costa, incurved, ol;lique, to middle of inner 

 margin ; a dark brown medial spot on costa and a fine 

 fuscous line across discocellular and straight to inner margin, 

 preceded bv a broad dark brown shade from vein 3 to inner 

 margin and followed by a similar shade containing some 

 whitish scales on inner margin, and extending above vein 3 

 towaids apex, not quite joining a dark brown oblique shade 

 from costa to outer niargin ; a terminal lilacine line from 

 vein 3 to tornus, preceded by a dark brown shade. Hind 

 wings: the base and inner area dark brown; a black fascia 

 on discocellular and a crimson spot beyond it from veins 4-7, 

 its inner edge straight, its outer edge rounded ; a broad 

 black shade from apex to inner margin near angle, leaving 

 the outer margin from vein 6 to anal angle broadly crimson. 

 Fore wings below yellowish; a black shade across end of 

 cell, expanding outwardly at vein 3, and reaching sub- 

 median ; a large yellow spot beyond cell followed by black 

 spots from 7-3, divided by crimson streaks ; the costa 

 shaded with crimson from beyond middle to near apex ; 

 some terminal fuscous-giey sliading. Hind wings below 

 crimson, with darker spots on veins ; a broad marginal 

 yellow shade from vein G to anal angle. 



Expanse 40 mm. 



Hub. Tuis. 



XXII. — Some new Alacrian Lepidoptera. 

 By the Hon. Walter 'Rothschild, Ph.D. 



Family Noctuidee. 

 1. Eublemma farouhi, sp, n. 



(J , Legs and palpi very pale wood-brown; antennas 

 white, with brown pectinations; head and tliorax white; 

 abdomen creamy white. Fore wing creamy white, an inter- 

 rupted orange-brown transverse band one-fourth from base, a 



