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April, 1898.1 73 



I first met with the larva in company with my friend Monsieur A. 

 Constant on the rocky coast at St. Aygulf, near St. Eaphael (Var), on 

 April 2ith, 1896, feeding in the pith of the stems of Grithmum mari- 

 timum ; subsequently I found the larvae in Corsica, near Ajaccio, in 

 the beginning of May, and at Bastia towards the end of the same 

 month. The imago appeared from the French larvae on August 13th, 

 those from Ajaccio emerging on October 8th and 10th. There are 

 two specimens in Zeller's series oi francillana collected in Sardinia by 

 Staudinger, which must be referred to this species. 



E5ssler notes in his brief description of hilbaensis that the first 

 fascia is uninterrupted, whereas, in the Corsican form, although trace- 

 able throughout, it is partially broken below the costa. 



LOZOPERA MAUEITANICA, Sp. n. 

 AntenncB pale brownish-grey, with some primrose scales above. Palpi very pale 

 primrose, externally entirely suffused with bright chestnut. Head and thorax very 

 pale primrose. Fore-wings pale primrose, with a noticeable strong chestnut streak 

 along the base of the costa, and two broad oblique rich chestnut fasciae sprinkled 

 over their surface with silvery scales ; the first commencing in a triangular spot on 

 the middle of the costa, decidedly widened on the lower half of the cell, and again 

 somewhat widened on reaching the dorsum at one-third, the dorsal space between 

 this and the second fascia is less than half the width of the costal space and the 

 second fascia, more oblique than the first, is slightly narrowed above the dorsum with 

 a strong bulged excrescence (the margins of which are clearly defined) outward 

 above the tornus, above this the fascia is somewhat widened before reaching the costa 

 near the apex, but not on the costa itself, one or two small chestnut spots occur about 

 the middle of the termen ; cilia very pale primrose. Under-side dark greyish-bi'own, 

 a dark spot in the costal cilia before the apex ; cilia paler than on the upper-side. 

 Exp. al., 16 mm. Hind-wings tawny brownish-grey ; cilia whitish-cinereous, a 

 slight shade running through them near their base. Under-side brownish-grey. 

 Abdomen dark grey ; anal tuft paler. Legs whitish-cinereous, tarsi mottled with 

 brownish-grey. 



Type, ^, Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : MoEOCCo, Mogador, III, 1885 (J. H. Leech), unique. 



The species may be said to approach lilhaensis, Rsslr., in appear- 

 ance, but is easily distinguished by its paler colour, by the more 

 abundant silvery speckling on the fasciae, and by their greater width 

 and the abrupt termination of the outer fascia on the costa before 

 the apex — the structure of the genital armature being also entirely 

 distinct from that of all other allit^d species. 



I regret that I am unable to figure the genitalia of this species 

 owing to lack of space, but as I still possess two more species, one 

 from Algeria (Rev, A. E. Eaton) the other from Chang Tang (China), 

 I may hope to do so on some future occasion. 



