950 LOllI) WALSINGHAM ON THE [NoV. 26, 



and 4 of the fore wings short-stalked, differs in its ochreous, rather 

 than whitish, or greyish, colouring ; in its paler and more ochreous 

 hindwings, and in the absence of a dark shade along the outer 

 side of the median joint of the palpi, which are also somewhat 

 more slender in apjpearance. 



27. (347) EPIDOLA Stgr. 



52. (3019) Epidola stigma Stgr. 



Epidola stigma Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 244 no. 93 (1859)'; 

 Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 141, 152 no. 32 (1869) - ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 

 II. 162 no. 3019 (1901) ^ 



Hah. S. EUROPE — Corsica : Punta Parata, Frankenia 

 pidverulenta, 7. YI, excl. 1. IX. 1899 {Wising; Ajaccio, @ Criih- 

 mum maritimum, 10. YI, excl. 7. IX. 1899 {Wlsm.) — S. Spain ^'^ : 

 Chiclana, Quercus coccifera, lY, excl. YI {Stgr.) ^"~ ; Coto, 

 Granada, Cisius, Helianthetmom, lY-Y. 1901 (Wlsrii.). 

 X. AFRICA— Morocco : Tangier, 29. II. 1902 {Wlsm.) ; Cape 

 Spartel, on palings, 14. lY. 1902 (Wlsm.) — Algeria: Con- 

 stantine (Stgr.). Canaries — Teneeife : Santa Cruz, on rocks, 

 30. I- 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.). 



I found, at different dates, six cases of this species on the rocks, 

 above the Hotel Quisisana at Santa Cruz, but failed to rear any 

 of them, repeating my previous experience as to the difficulty of 

 breeding it. From more than a hundred cases, collected at Granada, 

 not a single specimen emerged ; but the few cases previously found 

 in Corsica all produced the moth in due course. I am quite at a 

 loss to account for the failures. Similar cases are made by species 

 of the Australian genus Ocystola Meyr. [Oecoj^horidae). 



II. BLASTOBASIDAE. 



28. (351) BLASTOBASIS Z. 



Prof. Rebel recorded the occurrence of Blastohasis roscidella Z. 

 in the Canaries [Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 90 no. 177 (1894)], 

 on the strength of a specimen (61060) received from me in 1893. 

 This was one of a series of seven specimens (61058-64) taken in 

 Tenerife, by the late Mr. J. H. Leech, in Apiil 1885, and is now 

 recognised as Scythris fasciaiella Rgt. (3536), vide no. 86, p. 973. 



53. (3054) Blastobasis phycidella Z. 



Oeco2yhora (Scythris) 2)hycideUa 7i. Isis 1839. 193 no. 35 \ Blasto- 

 hasis j)hycidella Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 309 no. 2303 (1871)-; 

 Mill. Cat. Lp. Alp- Mar. 346 (1875) ^ Hrtm. MT. Miinch. Ent. 

 Yer. lY. 33 no. 2303 (1880)*; Srhgn. Kleinschm. MBrndbg. 

 221-2 no. 305 (1886)^; MP-FT. Xat. Sic. YIIL 187 (1889) '^ 

 Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXYIL 59 (1891)'. Blastohasis ? phyci- 



