386 Bulletin de la Société Royale Entomologique d'Egypte 
ma in der of the antennae black. Proboscis with brown 
scales, the sides of the middle third paler. Palpi black 
with a few pale scales nea:r the middle and towards 
the tip. 
Wings with the upper fork-cell less than twice 
as long as its stalk. 
Wing length about 3.2 mm. 
The Fourth-Stage Larva (Figs. i 3 , i 4 , and i 5 ). 
Head yellow, rather wider than long, widest 
through the front of the eyes. Antennae rather large, 
the shaft below the tuft pale except at the extreme 
base, with numerous small spicules. Tuft of about 
3 o - 35 weakly plumose hairs at or slightly before 
two thirds. The shaft beyond the tuft abruptly nar¬ 
rowed and black. The two sub-terminal bristles nearly 
as long as the hairs of the tuft; terminal appendages 
a bristle slightly longer than the subterminai ones, a 
bristle of about one-third the length of the latter, and 
a small digit. 
Outer post-antennal tufts of six or seven hairs, 
weakly plumose, reaching almost to the base of the 
antennal tuft. Mid post-antennal hairs each a long 
scarcely visibly pubescent hair, either simple, or di¬ 
vided into two from near the base; the inner pair each 
a single fine simple hair, scarcely two-thirds the 
length of the anterior hair. Mental plate with five teeth 
on each side of the central one, the third from the 
apex the largest, the fifth very small. 
Thorax and abdomen yellowish brown; the eighth 
abdominal segment with numerous scales in a semi¬ 
circular patch; each scale with a terminal and lateral 
