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one at the base of the fold and one along the upper edge of the 
outer half of the fold, another at the lower edge of the discal cell 
beyond the middle, almost joining a more slender one beyond it, 
which nearly attains the termen; on the middle of the costa is a 
short oblique greyish-fuscous shade; cilia greyish, tending to 
ochreous along their base at the tornus, with slender darker lines 
running through them. Underside shining pale greyish; ¢ with 
a conspicuous tuft of jet-black hairs arising near the base of the 
dorsum. LEvp. al. 13 mm. 
Hind wings shining, somewhat iridescent, bluish grey: cilia 
greyish ochreous. Underside shining pale greyish. 
Abdomen greyish, inclining to ochreous at the base. 
Legs pale greyish ochreous, with faintly spotted hind tarsi. 
Type, 3 Q. 
Hab. 8.W. Arabia—Aden (8 specimens, Yerbury, Nurse) ; Africa 
—Algeria (one specimen, Coll. Ragonot). 
Larva in seed-pods of Acacia edgworthti—excl. 7-23, III. 
(Yerbury) ; Acacia farnesiana (Ragonot ‘No. 1137, Wlsm. 1894”). 
I first received an example of this species for examination from 
my late friend Monsieur E. Ragonot, who called my attention to 
the peculiar tuft of black hair-scales on the underside of the fore 
wing of the ¢. He had received it from Algeria bred from Acacia 
farnesiana, but I am not aware that he had published any descrip- 
tion of it before his death, although I told him that I quite agreed 
with him in regarding it as a new species. 
ELACHISTIDA. 
Lavirna, Crt. 
LAVERNA GAMBIELLA, Wlsm. 
Laverna gambiella, Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 117, 
pl. v. 54 (1891). 
Hab. W. Africa—Gambia!; S.W. Arabia—Aden, 12 IV. 1895 
(Nurse). 
Scyturis, Hb. 
=§ Buratts, Tr. 
SoyTHRIs ocHEHA, Wlsm., sp. n. 
Antenne pale ochreous. 
Palpi pale brownish ochreous. 
Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous. 
Fore wings and cilia unicolorous pale brownish ochreous, the 
latter becoming slightly paler at the tornus. 
Hind wings cinereous ; cilia brownish ochreous. Exp. al. 13mm. 
Abdomen greyish. 
Legs pale greyish ochreous. 
Type, 2. 
Hab. Aden, 21 IIT. 1895 (two specimens, Nurse). 
Allied to Butalis subeburnea, Wlsm. 
