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Show 278 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, Grapholitha pharaonana, Ld.Wien. ent. Mon. iii. p. 339 (1859)iv. p. 157-8 (I860)4. Grapholitapharaonana, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. xxvii. p. 266 (1863)5. Larva in galls on Tamarix articulata, XII.1 Imago. II.1, 20 II. (Yerbury). Hab. Egypt-Cairo', Alexandria2; S.W. Arabia-Shaik Othman (Yerbury). The specimen collected by Col. Terbury has the hind wings slightly darker than in Egyptian specimens. GELECHIADJ. SITOTROGA, Hein. SlTOTROGA CEREALELLA, Oliv. Sitotroga cerealella, Oliv.; Stgr. & W k . Cat. 296, no. 2009 (1871). Hab. Europe, N. America, Australia, Canaries. S.W. Arabia- Aden, 18 III. 1895 (Nurse). GELECHIA, Hb. GELECHIA MOLITOR, Wlsm., sp. n. Antennae meal-white, faintly annulated. Palpi somewhat flattened, closely clothed, recurved laterally to above the head; apical joint shorter than thes econd, gradually tapering but not slender; meal-white. Head and thorax meal-white. Fore wings elongate, lanceolate towards the apex; meal-white with some indication of a darker shade above the base of the fold, a slight greyish shade spot at the end of the cell and some very faint greyish shade spots around the term en at the base of the costal and terminal cilia, which are also meal-white. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hind ivings somewhat iridescent, greyish white; cilia mealy white. Abdomen mealy whitish. Legs mealy white. Type, d. Hab. Aden, 12 IV. 1895 (one specimen, Nurse). ANARSIA, Z. ANARSIA ACACIA, Wlsm., sp. n. Antennas greyish. Pcdpi brownish fuscous externally, but with the anterior margin hoary white. Head hoary whitish. Ihorax greyish. Fore wings hoary greyish, with numerous short longitudinal streaks of greyish fuscous intermixed with lighter and darker shades of the ground-colour ; of these the more conspicuous are |