﻿206 



JOHN HARTLEY DURRANT — NOTES ON 



these and other localities, with exact data, are much wanted. The species most 

 nearly allied to gossypiella is Gelechia malvella, Z. (2593 Stgr-Kbl. Cat. Lep. 

 Pal. 2, p. 144), which occurs in Central and Southern Europe, the larva feeding 

 in the seeds of Althaea and Malva, 



LAVERNIDAE. 



Pyroderces, HS. 



Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm. 



n. SJVL,=gossypiella, Wlsm. 



Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 119-20, pi. 6, f. 58 

 (1891). 1 



Stagmatophora gossypiella, Wlsm., Ann-Mag. NH. (7 S.) 18, p. 178-9 

 (1906). 2 



Pyroderces gossypiella, Morstatt, Die Pfianzer (Zts. Land-Forst. Deutsch, 

 Ost-Afr.) 8, 253 (1912)! 3 



Types S Q, simplex, Wlsm.(c? 950 ; Q 1049); gossypiella, Wlsm. (tf 400,016) 

 Mus. Wlsm. BM. 



" Antennae whitish fawn-colour, spotted with brownish fuscous above. Palpi 

 divergent, recurved, slender ; pale fawn-colour, apical joint slightly longer than 

 the second, touched with fuscous above the middle and before its apex. 

 Haustellum long, clothed with shining white scales throughout. Head fawn- 

 colour ; face slightly paler. Thorax fawn-colour, paler posteriorly ; with a 



Fig. 2.— Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm. £ (400,02G G-hezireh, Egypt), x 12. 



shining metallic iridescence on the under side. Forewings fawn-colour, with 

 a slender outwardly curved transverse whitish streak at one-fourth from the base, 

 preceded by some fuscous scales, which tend to form a basal patch ; some 

 shining whitish scales with a lilac iridescence are continued from its lower end, 

 along the dorsal margin to the base, and extend also outwardly along the dorsal 



