440 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



rian National Museum, Budapest ; paratypes in the Hungarian National Institute 

 for Plant Hygiene (Zoological Dept.). 



Szelenyi (1941 : 126-130) has given a very detailed description of globulariae. 

 In his key to species (ibid : 124-125) he distinguishes globulariae from meridionalis 

 Masi by the following characters : in globulariae the postmarginal vein is a little 

 shorter relative to the marginal vein (ratio of m to pm 1-62 : 1-91 instead of 

 1-63 : 2-01) and the stigmal vein is slightly longer relative to the marginal (ratio 

 of m to s 1-91 : 1 instead of 2-01 : 1) ; the antennae are uniformly black, instead 

 of brown with darker rings ; the tibiae are blackish brown and only the extreme 

 tips of the mid and hind tibiae are obscurely brownish, in meridionalis the tibiae 

 are brownish, becoming gradually paler distad, the hind tibiae having their distal 

 third yellowish white ; the fore wings are hyaline, in meridionalis slightly yellowish ; 

 and the length of the body is less (female 2-8-3 mm., male 2-5-2-9 mm. ; in 

 meridionalis 4-5 mm. and 2-5-3 mm. respectively). These differences, although 

 small, probably do indicate that globulariae is a valid species. 



Hungary. 



Biology. Reared from flower-heads of Globularia willkommii Nym., in which 

 the Lepidopteron Stagmatophora albiapicella H.-S. lives ; there are apparently 

 two generations, which emerge in spring and summer. Szelenyi (1941 : 126-127) 

 gives further details of the biology of globulariae, including a description of the 

 larva. 



Norbanus giordanii (Ferriere) comb. n. 



Picroscitus Giordanii Ferriere, 1952a : 166-167, <$ $. 



Type material. Syntypes, Italy, Barena near Chioggia, i.vii.1944 ; He Campana, 

 4.viii.i946 ; Marghera, 19.lv. 1947 in halophile zone, 20. vi. 1947 in Salicornietum ; 

 Moranzani, 12. v. 1947 in Salicornietum ; S. Giuliano, 7.^.1947 in Scirpetum, in 

 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Venice, and in coll. G. Soika. 



Italy. 



Biology. Unknown. 



Norbanus albicrus (Masi) comb. n. 



Picroscytus albicrus Masi, 19346 : 17-18, $. 

 Picroscytus albicrus Masi ; Szelenyi, 1941 : 125. 



Type material. Holotype $, Cyprus, Limassol, August (G. A . Mavromoustakis) , 

 in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa (not seen). 



The female of this species should be recognizable by its entirely white hind 

 tibiae. 



Cyprus. 



Biology. Unknown. 



