74 [April, 



LOZOPEEA TOENELLA, Sp. n. 



(PI. II, fig. 4). 



AntenncB brownish-grey. Palpi pale straw-whitish, strongly shaded with chestnut- 

 brown on their outer sides. Head straw-wliitish above. Thorax whitish-strami- 

 neous, the base of the tegulee chestnut-brown. Fore-iuings whitish-stramineous, 

 shining with a primrose gloss, the base of the costa narrowly stained with chestnut- 

 brown and with two pale chestnut-brown oblique transverse fasciae parallel with the 

 termen ; the first commencing at the middle of the costa (where it is slightly pro- 

 duced inwards), is narrowed but not bi'oken beneath, and reaches the dorsum at about 

 one-third ; the second, arising before the tornus, is dilated outwards to the tornus, 

 thence attenuated upwards and slightly enlarged again on the costa and costal cilia— 

 a few silvery scales are visible around the margins of these fasciae ; cilia concolorous 

 ■with the fore-wings, slightly shaded with chestnut-brown at the base near the tornus. 

 Under-side dark brownish-grey ; cilia pale primi-ose-yellow. Exp. al., 14 — 19 mm. 

 Hind-wings dark grey, with a slight tawnly gloss ; a distinct broad grey shade 

 along the base of the shining whitish-cinereous cilia. Under-side leaden-grey ; cilia 

 rery pale grey. Abdomen dark grey ; anal tuft pale primrose. Hind legs whitish- 

 cinereous. 



Type, cJ, Mus. WIsm. 



Hah. : Corsica, Corte, 17, V. Italy, Pratolino, IV, 1893. 

 France, Cannes, III, 1897 (Chapman). Germany, Jena (Schlager), 

 Zell. Coll. 



Seven specimens taken flying among UmbellifercB to the north o£ the 

 town of Corte where no Orithmum grows ; had I at the time recognised 

 the differences which separate them fYOva francillonana, a larger num- 

 ber would have been secured. I had previously met with tornella at 

 Pratolino, where a single specimen occurred in April, 1893, and have 

 also seen a specimen taken by Dr. Chapman at Cannes in March, 1897. 

 There are four specimens of this species in the Zeller Collection from 

 Jena, sent by Schlager as ^^Jiagellaiia ?" — one of them is a unicolorous 

 variety having no trace of the fasciae. 



This species differs from francillonana, F., in the fasciae being less oblique and 

 more precisely parallel, and in the lower extremity of the outer fascia being enlarged 

 to cover the tornal angle, not merely sending out a short spur shove it. It differs 

 also in its paler, more washed out colouring, which does not possess the rich primrose 

 suffusion of that species ; the hind-wings are decidedly greyer, not exhibiting a 

 brownish tinge, moreover, the basal line in tlie cilia is much more distinct and strongly 

 marked, while the cilia themselves are slightly greyer, and the abdomen is decidedly 

 darker than in average specimens oi francillonana. As compared with heatricella it 

 differs in the moi'e parallel and paler fasciae, in tlie diffusion of the lower extremity 

 of the outer fascia to the tornus, and in its extension on the costa towards the apex, 

 also in the darker under-side of the fove-wings and in the chestnut spot at the base 

 -of the tegulae. 



