72 [March, 1898. 



Ferula (noticeably in the He Ste. Marguerite, S. France) in great 

 abundance, but I have no evidence that the tvwe francillonana has been 

 taken elsewhere on the continent. 



This species was first described by Fabricius in 1794, and was 

 originally mdiVaedi francillnna in honour of " Dom. Francillon." It will 

 be obvious that this name is not orthographically correct, and should 

 be lengthened to francillonana, a form adopted by Westwood (Br. 

 Moths, II, ]77) : such " clipping " was not uncommon in the time of 

 Linnaeus and Fabricius, e. g., christiernana (Christiernin), geqffrella 

 (Geoffroy), oliviella (Olivier), &c. 



LOZOPEBA BILBAENSIS, Rsslr. 



(PI. ri, fig. 2). 



Gonchylis francillana, F., + hilhaensis, Rsslr., Stett. Ent. Ztg., 

 XXXVIII, 372 (1877) .(1^ Goclylis francillana, F., + hilhaensis, See- 

 bold, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat , VIII, 119 (1879).(2) 



Antenna greyish-cinereous. Palpi pale ochreous, shaded with brownish at the 

 sides externally. Head and face pale ochreous. Thorax brownish-ochreous, the 

 tegulae pale ochreous. Fore-wings very pale ochreous, suffused and faintly mottled 

 with brownish-ochreous ; with two oblique brownish fasciae, the first arising on the 

 dorsum at one-foui'th and reaching nearly to the middle of the costa, but partially 

 disconnected by evanescence below the costa from a slightly inverted bi'ownish shade 

 thereon, the second arising from the dorsum before the tornal cilia and reaching the 

 costa before the apex, where it is outwardly produced, is slightly angulated outward 

 near its dorsal origin, but runs parallel with the termen above the angle ; cilia very 

 pale ochreous, with a slender brownish-ochreous line running through them near 

 their base (sometimes so faint as to be scarcely distinguishable). Under-side dark 

 brownish-grey ; cilia pale primrose-yellow. Fxj). al., 13 — 16 mm. Sind-wings 

 shining tawny-grey ; cilia shining whitish-cinereous, with a pale grey shade 

 running through them near their base. Under-side leaden-grey ; cilia very pale 

 grey. Abdomen dark greyish, anal tuft whitish-cinereous. Legs whitish-cinereous. 



Hah. : K Spain, Bilbao,(i.2) VIII.(i.2) g. France, St. Aygulf, 

 excl. 13, VIII, 1896. Corsica, Ajaccio, Bastia, excl. 8—10, X, 1896. 

 Sardinia (Staudinger), Zell. Coll. Larva in stems of Crithmum 

 maritimum, IV — V. 



I had at first regarded this species as merely a variety of Z/Ozopera 

 Jrancillonana, F., but the uniformity existing between specimens from 

 Corsica and those from the opposite French coast, combined with the 

 more plainly apparent mottling of brownish-ochreous between and 

 beyond the brown fasciae as well as near the base, and moreover the 

 fact that these fasciaj tend to converge towards the dorsum even in a 

 greater degree than \n francillonana, convinced me that it was worthy 

 of special recognition. 



