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XV. On the Tortricidce, Tineidce, and Pterophoridce
of South Africa. By LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A.,
F.Z.S., &c.

[Bead June 1st, 1881.]

THROUGH the courtesy of Mr. Koland Trimen, Curator
of the Natural History Museum at Capetown, South
Africa, I have had an opportunity of examining the
Micro-Lepidoptera collected by Mr. W. D. Gooch, of
Spring Vale, Victoria County, Natal, chiefly in the
neighbourhood of Spring Vale, but partly in the
vicinity of D'Urban. Mr. Trimen informs me that
they form part of a large collection of Lepidoptera-
Heterocera, made by Mr. Gooch during the years 1873
to 1879, and lately acquired by the Trustees of the
South African Museum.

To enable me to identify such as have already been
characterised it has been necessary to refer to all the
descriptions of South African species published up to
the present time.

Very little has as yet been done to make known to
entomologists the Micro-Lepidoptera of South Africa.
Only about 78 species of Tortricidce and Tineidce have
been described by different authors as occurring in that
district.

Professor Zeller, in the 'Linnaea Entomologica,'
vol. v. (1851), described Nemophora crinigerella; and in
vol. vi. (1852), two species of Pterophoridce.

In the 'Handlingar Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps
Akadamien,' 1852, the same author described one new
genus, Eccopsis, and six new species of Tortricidce,
exclusive of Nycteolidce, but including the genus
Choreutis, Hub., five new genera, and thirty-one new
species of Tineidce and Pterophoridce, all from Mr.
Wahlberg's collection.

Mr. Stainton, in the Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., n. s.,
vol. v., pp. 220 — 223 (1860), described five new species
of Tineidce from Natal.

Mr. Walker, in the years 1863 to 1866, in his
* Catalogue of Lepidoptera-Heterocera in the British

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'220 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

Museum,' vols. xxviii. to xxxv., described two new
genera and six new species of Tortricida, with six new
genera and twenty-seven new species of Tineidce and
Pterophoridce from Natal and the Transvaal.

In 1875 Herr Pastor Wallengren, in the ' Ofversigt
Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For.,' 1875, Arg. 32, pp. 127—130,
described five new species of Tineidce and one new
Alucita; and, in the same year, Messrs. F elder and
Eogenhofer figured eight species as new in the ' Eeise der
Fregatte Novara.'

Thus the whole number of South African species in
the above-named groups (including also the Alucitida),
which have been distinguished up to the present time,
amount to 92 only, and this number must be somewhat
reduced, as I propose to show in the course of the
present paper, by the necessary rectification of their
synonymy.

The examination of Mr. Gooch's collection has been
very instructive ; not only has it been found to contain
many new and interesting forms, but the necessary
study of the work already done has made me acquainted
with the typical species, upon which no less than eleven
genera have been founded, although four of these cannot
rightly be retained. It is much to be regretted that
many of Mr. Gooch's specimens are not in sufficiently
good condition to warrant their description, and that for
this reason it has been necessary to pass over much new
material which might otherwise have been made avail-
able to increase our very limited acquaintance with these
local forms.

The following, so far as I am able to ascertain, is a
complete list of described South African Tortricida,
Tineidce, Pterophoridce, and Alucitidce, up to the present
time. It will be found to include descriptions of several
new specific and some new generic forms from Mr.
Gooch's collection, with the addition of a few species
from my own cabinet, and two from the British
Museum.

I have endeavoured to make the list somewhat more
useful by pointing out the synonymy of the genera and
species wherever sufficient evidence has been found to
enable me to determine it, as well as by making a few
notes upon the typical specimens in the collection at the
British Museum where Mr. Walker's descriptions have
seemed to require additions or corrections.

Tineida, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 221

TOETEICID^.
CACCECIA, Hiibner.
C ' Caccecia reciprocana.

Teras reciprocana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.
295.

In Mr. Gooch's collection are two female specimens,
which, although differing in the intensity of their
markings from the typical example described by Mr.
Walker> I cannot consider to be specifically distinct.
The bad condition of the original type prevents any
very accurate comparison, but there remain upon it
even yet some slight traces of those darker markings,
the absence of which might otherwise have appeared to
distinguish it from the two which are now before me. In
one of these, on the pale testaceous surface of the fore
wings, are to be found — first, an outwardly angulated
fascia on the basal fourth of the wing interrupted above
the middle; secondly, an outwardly angulated median
fascia attenuated but not interrupted above the middle ;
thirdly, a shade along the apical margin starting
obliquely outwards from the commencement of the
outer third of the costa, angulated below the middle
and confluent along the dorsal margin with the median
fascia : all these markings are of a darker or more
fuscous testaceous shade than the ground colour of the
wing. In the second example these markings are
almost entirely obsolete, except upon the costal margin.
I should consider this specimen as forming the connect-
ing link between the type of the species and the one
above described.

The male will probably be found to have a costal fold,
as the structure and appearance of the three females
before me are in all respects those of the genus Caccecia.

Taken at light in November. Spring Yale.

Caccecia ? capitana. ^V *V
Tortrix capitana, F. & K., Eeise d. Nov., pi. cxxxix.,

figs. 48, 49.
" Afnnis Ter. reciprocance, Walk."

This species seems to differ in the absence of trans-
verse markings on the fore wings from any which are

222 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

represented in the British Museum or in Mr. Gooch's
collection.

C^ Cacoecia adustana, n. s. (PL X., fig. 1). '' «*

Capite palpis antennis et thorace brunneo-cervinis.
Alis anticis (costa ante apicem emarginata) dilute sub-
ochraceo-cervinis ; fascia irregulari, postice reduplicata,
macula costali post-medium, costa extrema has inter-
jacente, et ciliis marginis apicalis, fusco-purpureo
suffusis ferrugineo dilute sublituratis. Posticis dilute
albido- str amineis .

Head, palpi, thorax and antennae fawn-brown, the
palpi projecting scarcely more than the length of the
head beyond it. Fore wings (with the costa slightly
emarginate before the apex, the apical margin slightly
indented) pale ochraceous fawn-colour, with a conspicuous
irregular purplish fuscous fascia, commencing before the
middle of the costa, tending outwards to the upper edge
of the cell, whence it is reduplicated ; the inner branch
running obliquely to the dorsal margin, slightly angu-
lated on the fold ; the outer branch biangulate, one angle
being at the end of the cell and one on its lower edge,
whence it proceeds obliquely outwards to the outer half
of the dorsal margin ; there is a rather triangular
purplish fuscous costal spot beyond the middle, faintly
prolonged by a few brownish scales in the direction of
the anal angle, and the extreme edge of the costa itself
is purplish fuscous, except at the base and apex. Cilia
purplish fuscous. The spaces round and about the dark
markings and between the forks of the central fascia are
more or less suffused or blotched with ferruginous-
brown, blending into the paler ground colour of the
wing. Under side pale straw-colour, except the dark
purplish cilia. Hind wings and cilia pale whitish straw-
colour. Expanse, 24 mm.

In Mr. Gooch's collection are two specimens, both
females, taken at light in October at Spring Vale.

LOZOTJENIA, Herrich-S 'chaffer.
C - Lozotania capensana.

Teras capensana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.

295.
Teras meridionana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,B. M., xxviii.

295.

Tineida, and Pteroplioridce of South Africa. 223

This species is represented in Mr. Gooch's collection
by four males and two females, in somewhat better
condition than Mr. Walker's original types which are in
the British Museum. Having quoted as synonyms the
two names supposed by Mr. Walker to have been given
by him to two distinct species, I feel that no apology
will be required for reprinting at full length the Latin
diagnosis of each as it appears on the same page of his
Catalogue : —

"53. Teras capensana.

"Mas. — Pallide cervina; alee anticse acutse, strigulis
plurimis transversis fuscescentibus ; posticae pallide
cinerese."

" 55. Teras mcridionana.

" Mas. — Pallide cervina ; alee strigulis plurimis trans-
versis indistinctis obscurioribus ; anticae acutse ; posticse
albido-cinerese."

The English descriptions which follow are almost as
nearly parallel word for word as the Latin. I may add
that a careful examination of the typical specimens still
further confirms the evidence of their identity. The
only appreciable difference between them is stated by
Mr. Walker thus: — T. capensana, ''length of the wings
8 lines"; T. meridionana, "length of the wings 9 — 10
lines". The same difference of size occurs between
some of Mr. Gooch's specimens. This species seems to
belong without doubt to the genus Lozotcenia, Herrich-
Schaffer, as defined by Heinemann.

Taken "at light on grass." Spring Vale. October,
November, and April.

Lozotcenia dorsiplayana, n. s. (PL X., fig. 2).

Capite antennis et alis anticis subrufescente testaceis.
Alis anticis, costa arcuata fascia subobsoleta a medio
costse versus angulum analem oblique projecta ; ante
earn plaga dorsali elongata quadrangular! sordide albida
tenuiter substriata ; fascia abbreviata ante apicem ;
margine apicali cum ciliis aliquot obfuscato. Posticis
saturate ochraceo-cinereis.

Head rather reddish testaceous ; palpi projecting
about the length of the head beyond it, subrostriform.
Fore wings with the costa rounded, reddish testaceous,
with an indistinct oblique fascia from the middle of the

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224 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

costa, tending obliquely outwards towards the anal
angle, preceded by a dingy whitish elongate quadran-
gular dorsal patch, which touches its inner edge, and
contains a few slender streaks of the darker ground
colour coming from the dorsal margin. Beyond the
central fascia, about half-way towards the apex, is an-
abbreviated oblique fascia of the same colour. The
apical margin and cilia are slightly darker clouded.
Hind wings very pale cinereous-ochreous. Expanse —
male, 17 mm. ; female, 23 mm.

One male and two females in Mr. Gooch's collection.

CV Lozotania diluticiliana, n. s. (PL X., fig. 3).

Capite antennis palpis et alis anticis testaceis, medio
costse extremse dilutiore subochraceo ; fascia mediali
obliqua macula costali triangulari et margine apicali

grsecipue in dimidio superior e subpurpurascenti fuscis.
iliis dilutissime stramineis. Alis posticis dilute griseo-
fuscis, ciliis pallidioribus.

Head testaceous ; antennae simple, together with the
rather short abruptly attenuated palpi also testaceous.
Fore wings testaceous, with an oblique darker (almost
purplish fuscous) central fascia more distinct towards
the costal margin, clearly defined on its inner edge, but
becoming blended with the paler ground colour out-
wardly, especially below the middle of the wing; a
rather triangular costal spot half-way between this and
the apex, as well as the apex itself, are of the same
colour, which also very narrowly overspreads the apical
margin, especially on its upper half. Cilia very pale
straw-colour. Hind wings diluted greyish fuscous, with
paler cilia. Expanse, 14 mm.

One specimen in the British Museum from South
Africa, presented by Mr. Eoland Trimen.

Lozotcenia elegans, n. s. (PL X., fig. 4).

Capite cum palpis bis longioribus porrectis ochraceo-
griseis. Alis anticis dilute ochraceo-griseis olivaceo
subreticulatis ; fascia obliqua et macula costali ante
apicem triangulare olivaceo -fuscis. Posticis dilute
fuscescenti-griseis, puncto costali ante apicem fusco, et
linea in medio ciliorum pallidiorum fuscescenti-grisea.

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 225

Head, thorax, palpi and antennae pale yellowish grey,
the palpi extending twice the length of the head beyond
it, the second joint rather coarsely scaled, tapering
outwardly towards the short obtuse apical joint. Fore
wings with the costa rather prominently arched near
the base, the apical margin slightly oblique, somewhat
emarginate about the middle, pale yellowish grey,
minutely streaked and slightly spotted with olivaceous
scales, giving them a rather reticulated appearance ; an
olivaceous fuscous outwardly oblique fascia from before
the middle of the costa ; an elongate triangular costal
spot before the apex, and a slight shade near the base of
the dorsal margin of the same colour. Hind wings dull
greyish, with a slight fuscous costal spot near the apex,
and a dull greyish line along the middle of the paler
cilia. Expanse, 15 mm.

As compared with the American Lozotania peritana
(Smicrotes peritana, Clem.), it can only be distinguished
by its larger size, longer palpi, and slightly less ochreous
colour ; the costa is also more arched towards the base.

Four specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection.

Taken at light at Spring Vale in November, and in
the Botanic Garden at D 'Urban in September and
October.

SYNDEMIS, Hiibner.

- Syndemis saburrana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.

Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 83, 84.

Sciaphila saburrana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxviii. 345.

.^ COMPSOCTENA,

Compsoctena primella (PL X., fig. 5).

Compsoctena primella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.

Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 86—88.
Tissa inquinatalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.,

pp. 513, 514.
Tluipara natalamt, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,

pp. 995, 996.
Galaria subauratana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,

xxxv., p. 1806.
This species is represented in Mr. Gooch's collection

226 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

by six specimens, and is probably not uncommon in
South Africa.

Professor Zeller, in 1852, founded for it the genus
Compsoctena, and placed it among the Tineidce.

Mr. Walker, in 1863, re-described it, from a specimen
received from Mr. Trimen, under the new generic and
specific names, " Tissa inquinatalis," pointing out very
clearly its essential characters, but failing to recognise
it as the insect previously described by Zeller. I have
carefully examined Mr. Walker's typical specimen, which
he placed among the Tineida.

Among the addenda to his Catalogue, vol. xxx.,
p. 995, he characterised the new genus Thapava,
of which the description agrees in every essential
particular with that of the genus Tissa, except that
whereas of Tissa he writes "antennae subpectinatse," he
describes those of Thapava as " pectinatae," the 'latter
being more decidedly correct. I have been unable to
find Mr. Walker's type of Thapava natalana, the only
species placed by him in this genus, which he referred
to the Tortricida, but his description of it is fairly
accurate as applied to a somewhat dark variety of the
species before us, and I have no doubt that this species
was intended to be indicated. The missing type was
received from Natal in Mr. Gueinzius' collection.

Lastly, in vol. xxxv. of the same Catalogue, p. 1806,
Mr. Walker creates another new genus, Galaria, Walk.,
and remarks of the one species, which he accurately
describes under the name of Galaria subauratana, that
it " has some affinity to the Tineida" although he now
places it again, as I venture to think with good reason,
among the Tortricidce.

The two typical specimens which I have carefully
examined, together with those in Mr. Gooch's collection,
belong undoubtedly to the same species as the specimen
labelled by Mr. Walker, " Tissa inquinatalis," and are also
part of Mr. Gueinzius' collection.

I will not add anything to the already too copious
re-description of this curious and interesting insect. It
is very nearly allied to a North American genus,
Synnoma, Wlsm., of which figures and description are
to be found in Part IV. of the ' Catalogue of typical
specimens of Lepidoptera-Heterocera in the British
Museum,' and which was there placed among the
Tortricidce as allied to Exapate, Hub., a genus which

Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 227

has itself been placed both in the Tineidce and in the
Tortricidce by different authors. Compsoctena differs
from Synnoma in neuration, the apical vein of the fore
wings not being forked as in that genus.

All the specimens which have come under my notice
at present have been males, but it is probable that the
females, as in Synnoma and Exapate, have smaller
wings and larger bodies than the males. It would be
interesting to know whether it agrees with the allied
North American genus in the gregarious habits of its
larvae.

There are six examples in Mr. Gooch's collection.
His note upon them is, " Umzinto Beach; in bush.
September."

• Compsoctena connexalis.

Tissa ? connexalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.
514.

This appears to belong to the same genus as the
preceding, but is undoubtedly a distinct species.

CONCHYLIS, Treitschkc.

- Conchylis trimeni, F. & K., Keise d. Nov., pi. cxxxvii.,
fig. 51.

There are four specimens of a large species of
Conchylis in Mr. Gooch's collection, which, although in
very bad condition, I should have no hesitation in
referring to the species, figured by Felder and Eogen-
hofer, under the above name. A description must be
deferred until better examples have been obtained.

This species was taken at light at D 'Urban and at
Spring Vale, in September, October, and November.

, Concln/lis a frit-ana, n. s. (PL X., fig. 6).

Capite et palpis ochreis. Thorace brunneo-fusco.
Alis anticis dilutissime ochraceo-albidis ; plaga basali
ante costam finita, fascia ultra-mediali versus angulum
analem postice diffusa, macula costali ante apicem,
punctis marginalibus in costa, et margine apicali, cum
ciliis, brunneo-fuscis ; strigulis dilutioribus interja-
centibus ; posticis dilutissime cinereis-fuscescenti sub-
reticulatis.

Head brownish ochreous. Palpi, projecting fully the

228 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

length of the head beyond it, brownish ochreous, some-
what paler on their inner sides, the apical joint touched
with fuscous ; antennae pale fuscous ; thorax brownish
fuscous. Fore wings scarcely emarginate below the
apex, very pale whitish ochreous, with a distinct brownish
fuscous basal patch covering rather less than a fourth of
the dorsal margin, gradually widening towards the costa,
but not reaching it ; a conspicuous brownish fuscous
fascia beyond the middle, more clearly denned on its
inner than on its outer edge, and with a slight projection
on its inner side within the lower half of the cell; it is
slightly wider on the dorsal than on the costal margin,
and is indistinctly diffused outwardly below the middle
in the direction of the anal angle ; a diffused brownish
fuscous costal patch lies between the fascia and the
apex, and at the apical margin is a series of small
dentate spots of the same colour, followed by a slender
pale line along the extreme margin. Cilia brownish
fuscous, with a slight pale line along their middle ; a
slight ochreous shade lies immediately below the base of
the costa, running parallel to it along the upper edge of
the basal patch. The costa itself is brownish fuscous at
the base, with spots of the same colour unequally distri-
buted throughout its length, being smaller and more
frequent before the middle than beyond it. On the pale
portions of the wing between the dark markings are
some rather indistinct brownish fuscous dots and
streaklets, of which three arising on the dorsal margin
before the middle are the most conspicuous. Hind
wings very pale cinereous, spotted irregularly with
dilute greyish fuscous, giving them a reticulated
appearance. Cilia the same colour as the hind wings,
with a greyish fuscous line along the middle. Expanse,
16—18 mm.

Three specimens, of which one only is in good con-
dition, taken at light in October at Spring Vale. I have
also a specimen from Zululand.

SEBICORIS, Treitschke.

- Sericoris scabellana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 81.

Penthina scabellana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B.M., xxviii.
p. 377.

TineidcBy and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 229

ECCOPSIS, Zeller.

^Eccopsis wahlbergiana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 79, 80. Walk. Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii., p. 413.

A single female specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection
agrees with the description of this species, except that
the costal markings would perhaps be more correctly
described as olivaceous rather than ochreous ; but as I
am unable to compare it with the typical examples,
which are believed to be in the Stockholm Museum, its
identity must be regarded as somewhat doubtful. If
rightly identified it is especially interesting as repre-
senting a genus established by Professor Zeller for the
reception of this South African species, but more lately
adopted by other authors (Lederer, ' Wiener Entomo-
logische Monatschrift,' 1859, 111, p. 288: von Heine-
mann, ' Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der Schweiz,'
vol. i., pp. 138, 139 ; Staudinger and Wocke, ' Catalog,'
p. 251, No. 1027, &c.) to include latifasciana, Haw.
(venustana, Hiib.), a European species of very remarkable
structure, which appears to be undoubtedly congeneric
with the numerous North American representatives of
the genus Exartema, Clemens. As to the identity of
Exartema and Eccopsis, Zeller writes in two footnotes
(Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien. xxv. 268) :—

(1) " Wickler in d. Wien Zeitschr. 1859. S. 288,
Meine Gattung Eccopsis (Micropt. Caffr., p. 79), kann
es nicht sein, wenn ihr wirklich der Hautanhang fehlt ;
ich habe keinen bemerkt, und da ich kein Ex. der
Africanischen Art besitze, so wird das Stockholmer
Museum am ersten entscheiden konnen, ob ich ihn
iibersehen, oder mit Kecht unerwahnt gelassen habe."

(2) " So iibergenau auch Wilkinson die Liinge der
Tasterglieder mass und das Eliigelgeader untersuchte,
urn die schlechten Gueneschen Genera zu begriinden, so
hat er doch an der ihm ganz wohl bekannten Latifasciana
den Hautanhang nicht gesehen."

It may be useful to contrast some of the essential
points of the two descriptions.

Eccopsis, Zeller (Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852,
pp. 79, 80).

Char, essent. — " Alae posteriores elongates margine
postico in mare ante angulurn analem late excise

230 Lord Walsingham. on the Tortricida,

margine abdominali incrassato." Char, natur. — "Alse
anteriores latse, in femina acutiores quam in mare,
pictura sericoridis ; posteriores, anyusta, acuminatse
margine postico maris ante angulum analem late et
rectangulariter excise, margine interiore incrassato
rigido." " Distinguitur alis posterioribus et in mare et
in femina multo angustioribus magisque in apicem pro-
ductis, atque in mare juxta angulum analem late
excisis."

Exartema, Clemens (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1860,
p. 356).

"Fore wings with the costa regularly arched; tip
obtuse and rounded ; hind margin rounded, very slightly
oblique, disc with secondary cell. Hind wings rather
broader than the fore wings, obtusely angulated on the
hind margin opposite the median nervules ; inner margin
deeply and sharply excised, with a cylindrical appendage
along the inner margin from the base, the lower portion
of which is free."

The close resemblance of the specimen now before me
to the North American species of Exartema, both in form
and in ornamentation, is remarkable, and it would be
interesting to ascertain for certain if the hind wings of
the male exhibit any resemblance to the pecular structure
which distinguishes that genus; in which case only
could Herr Lederer be held to be justified in interpreting
the original description of Eccopsis as applicable to
venustana, Hub., which would probably justify also the
substitution by priority of that genus for Exartema,
Clemens.*

" Eccopsis fluctuatana, n. s. (PL X., fig. 7).

Capite thorace antennis et palpis grisescentibus. Alis
anticis costa fluctuata albidis, a basi ad finem cellulse

* Since writing the above I hare received, through the kind
assistance of Mr. W. F. Kirby, a slight sketch of the hind wing of
the original male specimen of Eccopsis wcihl-
bergiana, described by Zeller, for which I arn
indebted to Mr. C. Aurivillius, Assistant in
the Entomological Department of the State
Museum at Stockholm. Although the wing
is somewhat narrower and more tapering towards the apex than
those of the American species of Exartema, this sketch tends
strongly to confirm the view that the genera Eccopsis, Zeller,
and Exartema, Clemens, are identical.

Tineida, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 231

fusco adumbratis excepta plaga costali elongata ante
medium. Posticis brunneo-fuscis.

Head and thorax greyish ; palpi greyish, much shaded
on the end of the second joint and on the short apical
joint with fuscous. Antennae greyish. Fore wings (with
the costa slightly waved, the apex depressed, the apical
margin slightly oblique) whitish, with a strong fuscous
patch stretching over nearly two-thirds of their length,
having its outer margin oblique and somewhat irregularly
denned; an elongated patch of the whitish ground
colour running along the costal margin before the
middle, extending to the base, surrounded by the fuscous
shade, and containing some small fuscous costal spots
and streaklets, which are again repeated beyond the
middle. Towards the apex is an olivaceous costal shade,
and an inconspicuous olivaceous streak crossing from
the costa to the middle of the apical margin. Hind
wings brownish fuscous, their costal margin whitish.
Two females ; expanse, 19 mm.

" D'Urban and Spring Vale ; to light in garden,
September and November."

Having only two female specimens from which to
describe this species, it must be somewhat uncertain
whether I have rightly placed it in the genus Eccopsis.
The coloration is almost exactly that of a Penthina, but
the shape of the wings is remarkably similar to those of
the supposed Eccopsis ivahlbergiana, mentioned above, as
well as to those of many species of the North American
genus, Exartema*

APHELIA, Stephens.
£ ^ Aphelia lanceolana. .* ,v

Aphelia lanceolana, Hub., Wocke Cat., No. 1006.
Bactra stagnicolana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.

Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 84. .
Ancylolomia siccella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,

xxxv., p. 1750.

I find in Mr. Gooch's collection three specimens,
which do not appear to differ in any greater degree from
some of the European varieties of Aphelia lanceolana,

* See footnote on preceding page.
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232 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

Hub., than they differ from each other. Prof. Zeller
described his Bactra stagnicolana from a single specimen
in bad condition, as being "lanceolanae valde affine sed
distinction alis latioribus, margine postico minus obliquo ;
linea disci postici recta, non arcuata fractave." The
remainder of his description could be fitly applied to one
of the more distinctly marked varities which occur in
this country.

The characters relied upon by Zeller are not sufficiently
maintained in the three examples now before me to justify
me in regarding the African species as specifically distinct
from the common European form, which has also been
recorded from North America.

Mr. Walker has inadvertently placed this species
among the CramUdce, describing it under the name of
Ancylolomia siccella. His specimen agrees entirely with
English examples of A. lanceolana, which tends to
confirm the opinion that the African form is merely a
variety of this well-known species.

Mr. Gooch's specimens were taken at Spring Yale, in
bush ; December, March, and April.

GRAPHOLITHA, Treitschke.

^i^rapholitha spissana, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 82 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxviii., p. 388.

CARPOCAPSA, Treitschke.

Carpocapsa diremptana, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxviii. 409, 410.

The specimen in the British Museum, from which
Mr. Walker's description was taken, has much the
general appearance and structure of the genus Penthina,
but its condition is too bad to warrant a re-description,
although a good specimen of the species might easily be
recognised by comparison with it.

STEGANOPTYCHA, Stephens.
£ •'Steganoptycha infausta, n. s. (PL X., fig. 8).

Capite, palpis, antennis et thorace brunneo-fuscis
subgrisescentibus. Alis anticis elongatis acuminatis,

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 233

margine apicali obliquo, obscure brunneo-fuscis ; posticis
dilute fusco-griseis.

Head, palpi, antennae and thorax brownish fuscous,
with a slight greyish tinge ; the palpi projecting about
the length of the head beyond it; antennae simple.
Fore wings elongate-acuminate, with the costa slightly
rounded ; the apical margin oblique ; very slightly
indented below the pointed apex; unicolorous dark
brownish fuscous. Hind wings about the same width as
the fore wings ; pale greyish fuscous, cilia the same.
Abdomen missing. Expanse, 19 mm.

One male. At D 'Urban, taken at light.

PHOXOPTEKIS, Treitschke.
Phoxopteris natalana, n. s. (PI. X., fig. 9).

Alis anticis falcatis dilute argillaceis ; umbra ferruginea
externe prope apicem acuminata et strigulis costalibus
ante medium fuscis ultra medium dilute argillaceis ;
margine apicali peranguste fusco, ciliis argillaceis fer-
rugineo finitis. Posticis cinereis.

Head pale reddish ochreous ; palpi projecting about
the length of the head beyond it ; the apical joint and
the surrounding scales which project from the second
joint fuscous; antennas tinged with ferruginous. Fore
wings pale argillaceous, much shaded with ferruginous,
which forms an acute angle before the falcate apex,
leaving on the space above the anal angle a patch of the
plain ground colour : this ferruginous shade contains
above the middle of the wing and about the end of the
cell a longitudinal reduplicated and somewhat diffused
blackish fuscous streak, and below it two or three
slender diverging lines of the paler ground colour. , On
the costa before the middle are five or six small oblique
fuscous streaks, beyond the middle is a ferruginous
shade interrupted by a series of reduplicated pale streaks
each centred with a few dark fuscous scales at the base ;
the first of these streaks follows the upper edge of the
ferruginous discal shade from the middle of the costa
nearly to its extreme angle near the apical margin,
where it almost joins the point of the last streak nearest
to the apex ; a slender dark fuscous line indicates the
apical margin at the base of the pale cilia, which are

234 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

tipped with ferruginous. Hind wings pale cinereous.
Expanse, 15 mm.

One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

TINEID^E.

CHOREUTIS, Hiibner.

Choreutis bjerkandrella, Thnb., Wocke Cat., No. 1302.
Choreutis vibralis, Zell., 'Isis,' 1847, pp. 23—120.
Choreutis vibrana, var. 0. australis, Zell., ' Isis,' 1847,

p. 643.

Choreutis vibrana, var. #. Ephemerid, Entomol. x. 235.
Choreutis australis, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.

Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 85.

A single specimen in bad condition is in Mr. Gooch's
collection, taken at Spring Vale at light in October.
After careful comparison I am quite unable to separate
it from the common and well-known European species
from which Prof. Zeller at first considered his African
Choreutis australis to be distinguishable. The name
"australis" appears to be rightly included as a synonym
in the European Catalogue of Staudinger and Wocke.

ATYCHIA, Ochsenheimer.

Atychia quiris, F. & E., Keise d. Nov., pi. cxxxix.,
fig. 36.

PENESTOGLOSSA, Eogenhofer.
(Psilothrix, Wocke, nomen bis lectum.)

C — Penestoglossa capensis, F. & K., Eeise d. Nov., pi. cxxxix.,
fig. 31.

SEMIOSCOPIS, Hiibner.

Semioscopis ? trigonella, F. & E., Eeise d. Nov., pi.
cxxxix., fig. 39.

TIQUADBA, Walker.
Tiquadra goochii, n. s. (PI. X., fig. 10).

Capite squamis appressis cinereo-griseis. Antennis
fortibus. Palpis recurvis obtusis articulis secundo et
tertio fasciculatis. Alis anticis elongatis (costa arcuata,
apice et margine apicali rotundatis) canis cinereo-fusco

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 235

irroratis guttatis et fasciculatis. Alis posticis ovatis
cinereo-ochraceis, ciliis pallidoribus.

Head with appressed pale greyish fuscous scales,
paler in front and beneath. Antennae rather stout, not
ciliated. Tongue none ; ocelli none ; maxillary palpi
none. Labial palpi recurved, dingy whitish, touched
with cinereous on their outer sides, with the second
joint tufted beneath, the apical joint shorter than the
second and concealed in a tuft of coarse scales. Fore
wings elongate (with the apex rounded), dingy whitish,
thickly irrorated and speckled with cinereous and
fuscous dots, especially conspicuous towards the costal
and apical margins, with several groups of raised scales,
especially noticeable on the basal half. Hind wings
rather shining yellowish cinereous, with paler cilia.
Hind tibiae short, incrassated, densely pilose above
having the inner and outer spurs of very unequal length.
Abdomen missing. Expanse, 32 mm.

Taken in December at light, in Spring Vale.

The earliest description of any species of this genus,
so far as I am able to ascertain, is that of Tiquadra
inscitella, Walk. (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 519), from
Mexico, from which the African species above mentioned
differs only in its larger size, its somewhat wider fore
wings, and rather darker shade of colouring. They may
possibly be found to be not specifically distinct, although
coming from such widely separated localities. Oscella
aneonivella, Walk., from Venezuela, and Manchana
avitella, Walk., from Santa Martha, the types of which
I have examined, are also evidently congeneric.

Prof. Zeller (Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xiii., pp. 196—203)
has described four species also from South America,
establishing for their reception the genus Acureuta,
ZelL, pointing out that two species, figured by Messrs.
Felder and Kogenhofer (Keise d. Nov. pi. 138, fig. 46, and
pi. 139, fig. 50), placed by these authors in the genus
Scardia, Tr., belong to the same genus. The two figures
referred to evidently represent this very distinct and
remarkable form, which furnished Mr. Walker with
material for the formation of his three genera, Tiquadra,
Oscella, and Manchana ; but it is not within the scope of
the present paper to determine how many distinct species
have actually been described, or how many names should
rank only as synonyms.

236 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

The remarkable fact with which we are at present
concerned is that a species, differing in no essential
particular from the South American representatives of
the genus, has been found by Mr. Gooch in South
Africa ; and this is the more remarkable since it is
known to be associated there with Eustixis flavivittella,
Eccopsis wahlbergiana, Zell., and Compsoctena primella,
Zell., as well as with several species of Cryptolechia,
whose representatives in the New World are also so
nearly allied to them in structure and appearance.

I have received, through the kindness of Mr. H. Doer,
of Eio Janeiro, amongst other interesting Lepidoptera,
two specimens, which he considered to be male and
female of the same species, the female being evidently a
species of Tiquadra, the male(?) presenting the same
peculiarities as the next species, figured .and described
in this paper under the name Ischnopsis angustella. To
such a remarkable degree does it approach it that, on
finding the same two forms in Mr. Gooch' s African
collection taken in the same locality and within a few
days of each other, I was induced to make some further
enquiries into the sufficiency of the evidence from which
the suspicion of their relationship to each other had
arisen. Mr. Doer is unable to assure me on this
point ; and as both sexes of Tiquadra have been
noticed, both by Prof. Zeller and Mr. Walker, I have
been compelled to regard the supposition as erroneous,
although I have placed them provisionally in juxta-
position in systematic order. It is at least a very
curious double additional instance of similarity between
South African and South American Lepidoptera. Prof.
Zeller states that the larva of a species of this genus is
a case-bearer.

ISCHNOPSIS, n. g.

Caput latum ; antennae articulo basali infra ciliato.
Palpi labiales porrecti, acuminati ; articulo secundo
incrassato nee fasciculato ; haustellum nullum. Alee
anticse et posticse elongatae, lanceolatse et acuminates ;
posticse costa post-medium emarginata ; cilia longius-
cula. Tibiae posticse longse, supra et infra pilosse,
calcaribus valde insequalibus.

Head broad ; antennae with the basal joint fringed
below. Labial palpi porrected (not recurved), pointed ;

Tineidte, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 237

the second joint thickened, not tufted. Proboscis none.
Fore wings and hind wings elongate, lanceolate, acumi-
nate. Cilia very long. Hind tibiae long, hairy above
and beneath, with the inner spurs a good deal longer
than the outer ones.

C - Ischnopsis angustella, n. s. (PL X., fig. 11).

Capite sordide cano squamis appressis. Palpis et
antennis sordidis. Alis anticis dilute cinereis, griseo-
fusco in longitudine lineatis. Posticis dilute cinereo-
ochraceis antice infuscatis. Ciliis et tibiis posticis
dilutioribus.

Head dingy whitish, with appressed scales. Palpi
with the second joint slightly thickened, roughly scaled,
but not tufted; apical joint not half as long as the
second joint. Antennae simple, three-fourths of the
length of the fore wings ; the basal joint fringed beneath.
Fore wings elongate, acuminate, pale cinereous, with
indistinct slender lines of greyish fuscous throughout
their length. Hind wings pale cinereous-ochreous,
shaded anteriorly" with fuscous, elongate, acuminate,
the costal margin appressed towards the apex. Cilia
paler. Hind tibiae very densely pilose above. (?) Male.
Expanse, 28 mm.

Two examples in Mr. Gooch's collection, taken at
light at Spring Vale in January.

- EUPLOCAMUS. Latreille.

Euplocamus stupens, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad.
For., 1875, Arg. 32, pp. 127, 128.

' Euplocamus horridellus.

Tinea horridella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.
474.

This large and distinct species is represented in Mr.
Gooch's collection by nine specimens, varying greatly
in size, the largest reaching an expanse of 32 mm., the
smallest only 18 mm. I have a specimen in my own
collection, given to me by Mr. Druce, from Bedford,
South Africa. It is rather remarkable that so con-
spicuous an insect, and one which appears to be not

238 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

uncommon, should not have been contained in the
collections described by Prof. Zeller and Mr. Stainton,
but I have been unable to recognise it in any of their
descriptions. Its upturned palpi, with the second joint
roughly clothed with projecting coarse scales, separate
it from the true Tinece. It differs in this respect from
Tinea vastella, Zell., which was originally placed in the
genus Euplocamus (subgenus Scardia) by Prof. Zeller,
although not so by Mr. Stainton.

Taken in October, November, and December, at light,
in Spring Vale.

TINEA, Zeller.
Qx Tinea vastella.

Euplocamus (Scardia) vastellus,7ie[l.9 Handlingar Kong.

Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 88 ; Haliday, Nat.

Hist. Eev., vol. iii., Proc. Dublin Zool. Assn.,

December 21, 1856, p. 23, pi. i.
Scardia vastella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.

p. 463.
Tinea gigantella, Stainton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

n. s., 1867, vol. v., p. 221; Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 3rd ser., vol. v., part 8, p. cv. ; Wallengren,

Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For., 1875, Arg. 32,

p. 128; Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. li. ;

Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. xv., p. 133; Walk., Cat.

Lep. Het., B. M., xxxv., p. 1812.
Tinea lucidellaf Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xgh,

p. 474.

Two examples of this interesting species, varying in
the expanse of the fore wings from 28 to 32 mm., are
in Mr. Gooch's collection. I have received it also
through the kindness of Mr. H. Druce, whose specimens
were collected at Bedford in South Africa. Professor
Zeller's original description contains no allusion to the
habits of the larva, and I have had some difficulty in
tracing the evidence upon which the identity of this
species, with the horn-feeding larva of South Africa, has
been generally accepted.

Mr. Kirby has called my attention to what appears to
be the earliest mention of the habits of this larva in the
' Natural History Keview,' vol. iii., 1856, where, at p. 23
of the Proc. of the Dublin Zool. Association, I find the
following : —

Tineida, and Pterophoridtz of South Africa. 239

"Mr. Haliday made some remarks on two pairs of
antelope's horns, exhibited to the meeting by J. M.
Neligan, M.D. These horns — belonging, one pair to
Oreas canna (pi. i., fig. 3), the other to Koltis cllipsi-
prymnus — were brought home from the Gambia by
J. Fitzgibbon, Esq., M.D., who lately purchased them
from some natives in the market at Macarthy's Island,
being struck with their appearance, as they were
perforated by grubs enclosed in cases which projected
abundantly from the surface of the horns, although
these were taken from freshly-killed animals, the blood
not having dried up on them when brought to market."

When first examined by Dr. Neligan, at Dublin, they
contained "larvae plump and fresh;" but when Mr.
Haliday first saw them they were " shrivelled up."
The largest is described as " nearly an inch long, with
the body of a pale colour, without distinguishable
markings ; the head, the terminal segment, the legs,
the ring of the prothoracic spiracles, and the booklets
of the prolegs, dark chestnut, tending to black on the
head." The structure is described as "not inconsistent
with the probability that it belonged to some of the
Tineidce." " The most remarkable point was the
evidence that the horns had been thus infested while
the animal was yet living which bore them."

" The President showed some horns of the Gayal,
from University Museum, more extensively perforated
by a similar larva."

It will be observed that on this occasion no specimens
of the perfect insect were obtained.

On the 6th of November, 1878, Mr. Stainton
exhibited, at the meeting of this Society, specimens of
" a new horn-feeding Tinea (T. orientalis), reared from
horns from Singapore, allied to the well-known large
species from South Africa, of which the larvae fed in
the horns of living buffaloes and antelopes, and which
had been described by Zeller under the name of
Vastella, and subsequently by himself under the name
Gigantella" " Mr. Simmons, of Poplar, who found them
in his greenhouse, was quite at a loss to account for
their appearance, till Mr. Stainton suggested they were
horn-feeders, when he remembered a piece of horn
placed on a shelf and forgotten, but which, when
examined, showed evident traces of having been eaten,
and from which pupa-skins had been obtained."

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240 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

The description of Tinea orientalis was published with
full particulars in Ent. Mo. Mag., xv. 133.

On reading this report of the meeting I instituted a
diligent search for the description of the habits of
Scardia vastella, Zell. The only further allusion to a
horn-feeding Tinea larva which I could find was in the
Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. cv., where Mr. Stainton
"records a new habit for the larva of a Tinea. Mr.
Swanzy had shown him the larva-case of a Tinea which
was taken from the horn of a Kooloo, from Natal, and
there could be little doubt that the larva must have been
burrowing in the horn of the living animal." Mr.
Swanzy added, " that since Mr. Stainton's visit he had
found a living larva in the horn."

" Mr. Trimen had seen the skull of a harte-beest, the
base of which was eaten by what he had no doubt was
the larva of a Tinea."

Being unable to find any published reference of the
African horn-feeding larva to the species described by
Zeller and Stainton, I referred the question to Mr.
Stainton for his kind assistance. In a letter, dated
December 16th, 1880, which I gratefully acknowledge,
he writes : —

" I suspect that the identity of the horn-feeding Tinea
and T. vastella has never appeared in print. I enclose
you extracts from my correspondence with Zeller on the
subject ; he evidently then thought that Kogenhofer, of
Vienna, was going to write on the subject, which
possibly he never has done."

From these extracts I gather that in 1873 Professor
Zeller received from Herr Kogenhofer one male and two
females, with two larvae and one pupa of a moth, the
caterpillar of which lives in the horns of buffaloes at the
Cape, the specimens agreeing exactly with Scardia
vastella, Zell., and that he took them to be identical with
a species which is common at the Cape in rotten bones.

In a subsequent letter, discussing the geographical
distribution of the species, Prof. Zeller writes : —

" Somit bleibt Siidafrica das Vaterland, wenn die Art
nicht kiinstlich verpflanzt wird, was ich fur gut ausfiihrbar
halte ; nur wird der Aufenthalt wahrscheinlich nicht
anderswo sein konnen, als wo unverarbeitete Horner
von Wiederkauern aufbewahrt werden. Das die Eaupe
am gesunden Horn des lebenden Thieres vorkomme, ist
nur nicht recht wahrscheinlich ; ich nehme den faulenden

Tineida, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 241

Kopfknochen, wovon noch Eeste am Home sitzen, als
das eigentliche Futter an."

It is probable that this unpublished correspondence
was the cause of Mr. Stainton's suggestion to Mr.
Simmons, in 1878, that the large Tinea found in his
conservatory at Poplar was possibly a horn-feeder.

I have in my own collection a pair of horns of Kolus
ellipsiprymmis, given to me by the late Col. Harvey
Tower, which are bored by the larvae of this species, the
substance of the horn itself being visibly perforated in
several places up to one-fourth from the base ; the pupa-
cases protruded from the holes when I received them.
The small portion of the skull still attached to the
horns is not perforated, but has the appearance of
having been much exposed, conveying the impression
that the specimen may have been obtained by purchase,
rather than killed in the course of Col. Tower's hunting
expedition. I have also a very old pair of horns of an
Indian buffalo, perforated in the same manner.

I am informed by Lieut. -Col. the Hon. Wenman Coke,
who has shot very large numbers of various species of
horned animals in South Africa, that he has never seen
the horn of a living animal perforated by one of these
larvae, although almost every dead horn that has been
exposed to the open air is found to be attacked by them.
He has not observed any traces of similar larvae in the
neighbourhood of Zanzibar or Lake Nyassa, where he
has also hunted ; but it seems extremely probable that
it may also occur there.

Colonel Coke is most confident that the larva never
attacks a living animal; he assures me that had this
been the case it could not have escaped his observation.

Mr. Koland Trimen, to whom also I have spoken on
the subject, concurs in expressing great doubt as to the
correctness of the theory that the larva feeds in the
horns of living animals ; on the other side, we have the
strong evidence of Dr. Fitzgibbon ; and as the fibrous
substance of the horn undergoes little or no change at
the death of the animal, there seems to be no reason
why the moth should not deposit its eggs when the
living animal is at rest, nor why the larva should not
penetrate the horn ; but the question must be considered
to be " sub judice."

Mr. Walker has described this species under the name
of Tinea lucidella.

242 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

Mr. Gooch's specimens were " taken at Spring Yale in
December among trees."

Since writing the above I have been informed that some
specimens of this species have been reared in England
from the hoof of a horse lately brought from Zululand.
(Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. viii.)

Tinea abactella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.
476.

The specimen from which Mr. Walker's description
was taken is in such bad condition as to be utterly
unrecognisable.

Tinea incultella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.
1003.

T. purpurea, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. s.,
vol. v., p. 221 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxxv. 1812.

T.fuscipunctella, Haw., Wocke Cat., No. 1404.

T. abligatella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 476.

T. ignotella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx. 1003. |

Having carefully examined the typical specimens de-
scribed by Mr. Walker under the above names, I am
unable to separate them from the common European
T.fuscipunctella, Haw.

Tinea farraginella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad. 1852, pp. 90, 91 ; Walk., Cat. Lep.
Het., B. M., xxviii. 473.

T. damnificella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad. 1852, p. 91 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxviii. 473.

Tinea ? erinacea (PL XI., fig. 12).

Tinea erinacea, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.
475.

It seems desirable to add to Mr. Walker's description
some further observations founded upon a careful exami-
nation of this most curious insect.

Tincidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 243

The word " Mas " at the commencement of Mr. Walker's
Latin description is evidently a mistake, the specimen
being correctly described in English as a " Female,"
and as having its " oviduct exserted." It possesses such
peculiarities as might perhaps with good reason be
considered to distinguish it as the type of a new genus ;
but I shall confine myself for the present to a short
re-description of the single example in the British
Museum, which appears to differ in the character of its
ornamentation from any known Lepidopterous insect.

Head rough, pale cinereous ; palpi short, scarcely
projecting beyond the coarse frontal scales. Antennae
simple, nearly as long as the fore wings. Tongue not
visible. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Fore wings subovate,
elongate, with the apex slightly rounded, shining, very
pale yellowish cinereous, streaked with greyish fuscous,
the apex having a bright ferruginous tinge. About the
surface of the fore wings are scattered several pale
whitish straw-coloured tufts of elongate hair-like scales,
perhaps best described by the German " haar pinsel."
These are distributed as follows : — Four immediately below
the costal margin, of which one is about one-third from
the base, one about the middle, one rather beyond the
middle, and one on the apical third ; below these are two
at the end of the cell, one above the other, one on the
middle of the cell, and one immediately below and before
the apex ; about four others are ranged immediately
above the dorsal margin. Some of these hair pencils
are as much as two millimetres in length, and Mr.
Walker adds, from Mr. Gueinzius' MSS., " This moth
carries the bristles of the wings erect when alive." The
cilia are very long ; the hind tibiae clothed with long
hairs on both sides ; the ovipositor extruded to one-fourth
the length of the abdomen.

Blabophanes longella.

Tinea longella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xxviii., p. 479.
Blabophanes longella, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,
April, 1881.

Two specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection agree with
this Northern Indian species described by Mr. Walker,
except in the colour of their heads, which, as noticed by
Mr. Butler (I. c.), are more decidedly yellow.

244 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricid(e,

Mr. Gooch writes of this species : — " Spring Vale.
Bred in skins in the verandah. Came to light February."

Blabophanes speculella.

Tinea (Blabophanes) speculella, Zell., Handlingar Kong.
Svensk. Vetens. Akad. 1852, p. 89 ; Walk., Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 474.

Blabophanes rejectella.

Tinea rejectella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.

1003. (1*64; & L&fO -
? Blabophanes pellucida, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet.

Akad. For. 1875, p. 128.

Three specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection correspond
precisely with the type in the British Museum, which
seems to differ from Mr. Stainton's Tinea rutilicostella
in much the same particulars as those stated by Herr
Wallengren as separating his Blabophanes pellucida
from that species.

Blabophanes rutilicostella.

Tinea rutilicostella, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. s.,
vol. v., p. 221 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxxv. 1812.

NEMOPHORA, Hiibner.

~~ Nemophora (Nemotopogon) crinigerella, Zell., Lin. Ent.
v. 347 ; Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad.
1852, p. 92; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxviii. 497.
Mr. Gooch's collection contains one specimen.

--Nemophora elongatella, n. s. (PL XL, fig. 13).

Capite thorace et antennis cum alis anticis perelon-
gatis, dilute albido-cinereis puncto ad finem cellulae
punctisque, marginalibus sex costalibus septem apicali-
bus cinereis, aliis minoribus cum squamis concoloribus
undique dispersis.

Head, thorax, and antennae whitish drab ; the antennae
nearly three times the length of the fore wings. Fore

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 245

wings much elongated, fully four times as long as wide,
pale whitish drab, with a series of small cinereous mar-
ginal spots, of which six are costal, being placed gradually
closer to each other as they approach the apex, and
seven or eight others are on the apical margins reaching
round to the anal angle ; a spot of a similar colour lies
at the end of the disc, and several smaller cinereous dots
and scales are scattered more or less conspicuously
over the surface of the wing; hind wings scarcely
shining, very pale cinereous. Expanse, 19 mm.
Two males.

" D'Urban (West Park) ; in bush, afternoon, July."

- Nemophora turpiseUa, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxviii., p. 497.

Mr. Gooch's collection contains six specimens of this
species. I have also a specimen in my own cabinet from
Bedford, S. Africa, for which I am indebted to the kind-
ness of Mr. Herbert Druce.

The base of the costal margin of the fore wings is
distinctly brown, the " three irregular brown lines "
described by Mr. Walker forming oblique disintegrated
fasciae, tending outwards from the dorsal to the costal
margin. Hind wings brownish, much darker than in the
following species.

These came to light at Spring Vale in November and
December.

-

Nemophora alternipuncteUa, n. s. (PL XL, fig. 14).

Capite albo subfusco irrorato ; antennis quam alis
anticis ter longioribus albidis. Alis anticis albis, brunneo-
fusco profuse punctatis et maculatis. Striga angusta in
basi costae, rnaculis tribus costalibus tribus dorsalibus
alternantibus brunneo-fuscis. Posticis dilute sub-
ochraceo-cinereis dimidio postico ciliorum dilutiore.

Head white, speckled with fuscous. Antennae dingy
whitish, three times the length of the fore wings. Fore
wings rounded, white, profusely dotted with brownish
fuscous, with a narrow brownish fuscous streak along
the base of the costa, and three costal and three dorsal
brownish fuscous spots placed alternately, each dorsal
spot being placed before the corresponding spot on the

246 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

costa. The third dorsal spot near the anal angle is
slightly projected upwards, the second and third costal
spots somewhat elongate and inverted; a few fuscous
scales appear to mark an obsolete oblique fascia-like
streak between the first dorsal and'the first costal spots.
Hind wings very pale yellowish cinereous, the outer half
of the cilia being even paler. In one variety in my own
collection the first dorsal spot is joined to the first costal,
and the third dorsal to the second costal. Expanse,
18—19 mm.

One specimen in the British Museum from South
Africa, collected by Mr. Wilson.

^Nemophora trigoniferella, n. s. (PL XI., fig. 15).

Capite et thorace albis ; antennis annulatis. Alis
anticis albis, margine costali seneo-brunnea, apicali aureo-
flavo, linea in basi ciliorum brunnea; plaga majore
dorsali elongate triangulare seneo-brunneo, et strigulis
supra angulum analem cum aliis costalibus per lineam
argenteam connexis chalybeo-brunneis. Ciliis albidis
dimidio exteriore seneo-brunneo.

Head and thorax white ; palpi short and slender, not
reaching beyond the face. Antennse three times the
length of the fore wings, annulated, with the basal joint
thickened and hairy. Fore wings white, the costal
margin conspicuously shaded with golden bronzy scales ;
a large elongate clearly-defined bronzy-brown patch
commencing near the base of the dorsal margin, in-
creasing in width somewhat abruptly at its commence-
ment, then gradually, until it forms an acute angle above
and beyond the middle of the wing, and ends abruptly
somewhat beyond the middle of the dorsal margin, its
outer edge being scarcely oblique, the apical margin
golden yellow, with a bronzy-brown line at the base of
the cilia, and three or four bluish bronzy streaks pointing
inwards immediately above the anal angle, connected
with three bronzy brown costal spots by a silvery
metallic streak. Cilia whitish, tipped with bronzy brown.
Hind wings shining pale bronzy brown. Expanse,
16—17 mm.

Two males in Mr. Gooch's collection.

I should not have ventured to describe this species
from the two greatly damaged specimens in Mr. Gooch's

Tineida, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 247

collection had it not been so remarkably distinct from
any other known species in this or any allied genus,
and thus, I hope, easily distinguishable, in spite of some
probable imperfections in the description.

CEROMITIA, Zeller.

- Ceromitia Wahlbergi, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.

Vetens. Akad. 1852, pp. 93, 94 ; Stn., Trans. Ent.

Soc. Lond., n. s., vol. v., p. 222; Walk., Cat.

Lep. Het., B. M.,lS&, pp. 506, 507.
There are four specimens of this beautiful and distinct
species in Mr. Gooch's collection, taken in " October,
November, and December at light." I received it also
from Natal through the friendship of the late Colonel
Harvey Tower, Coldstream Guards.

ADELA, Latreille.

.. Adda . natalensis, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. s., C*M>rv*^v

vol. v., p. 221 ; Wlsm., P.Z.S. Lond., 1880, 78.
A. albicornis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.j
pp. 501, 502.

Three specimens of this species are in Mr. Gooch's
collection. As Mr. Stainton has remarked, it is very
distinct from any other known species of Adda.

- Adela ? electella.

Micropteryx ? electella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxviii., p. 495.

Mr. Walker's type of Micropten/x ? electella is glued to
a card with the wings laid back unspread. Its antennae
are rather longer than the fore wings, a character
which would at once suffice to separate it from the genus
Micropteryx, to which it certainly does not belong. Its
purple fore wings, with a distinct yellowish white trans-
verse fascia, remind one very strongly of Adela natal-
cnsis, Stn., but its much smaller size and the absence
of a pale costal spot distinguish it from that species,
even if it may be rightly included in the same genus.

I am not aware that the female of A. natalensis has
yet been observed, but, although the difference between
the sexes of the Adelidce are in some cases remarkable,

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248 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

there is no evidence at present to support a conjecture
that Adela * electella may prove to be the female of
A. nataleiisis; indeed, the great difference of their
respective sizes renders it at least improbable, but, in
view of their similarity, it is worthy of notice that the
specimen is mounted in such a way as to render it
apparently impossible to determine its sex, although
Mr. Walker considered it to be a male ; and moreover,
that his examples of A. albicornis, which (as I pointed
out in the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,'
London, February, 1880, p. 78), is a synonym of Adela
natalensisy Stn., were received in the same collection and
from the same locality as his Micropteryx ? electella.

HYPONOMEUTA, Zeller. t

Ilyponomeuta africamis, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
n.s., vol. v., p. 222; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxxv., p. 1824.

Hyponomeuta siilplumlellus, n. s. (PL XL, fig. 16).

Capite palpis et antennis plumbeis. Thorace plumbeo,
maculis quinque nigris in margine dispositis. Alis
anticis angustis elongatis subnitentibus punctis nigris
seriatim dispositis quinque sub costa ultra medium pro-
ductis quinque supra plicam et quinque supra mar-
ginem dorsalem minus extensis ; aliis minoribus ante
apicem singulis. Posticis plumbeo-cinereis quam anticis
vix latioribus.

Head, palpi, and antennae lead-colour, the face slightly
paler. Thorax lead-colour, with five black spots, two on
each side, and one at the back. Fore wings lead- colour,
slightly shining, with three rows of about five small
black dots, one below the costa reaching beyond the
middle, and one on each side of the fold reaching
scarcely beyond the middle, one or two smaller black
dots beyond the end of the cell. Hind wings slightly
wider than the fore wings, leaden grey (not black). Ex-
panse, 18 mm.

One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

This species is nearly allied to Hyponomeuta viginti-
punctatus, Eetz., but the fore wings are narrower and
more elongate, the spots smaller and not so numerous ;

Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 249

it is also somewhat similar in the arrangement of its
spots to Hyponomeuta fumigatus. Zeller. The most
noticeable points of Professor Zeller's description, which,
in addition to its larger size, seem to separate his
species from the one before us, are as follows : — " Alae
anterioresfumidsB sine ull<> uitorc," " alre posteriores multo
latwrcs" " nigne."

Hyponomeuta finnigatus, Zell., Handlingar Kong. u

Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 101, 102 ; Stn., ."EjSjfe
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. s., vol. v., p. 222 ;
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxxv., p. 1824.

Hyponomeuta strigillatus, Zell., Handlingar Kong.
Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 102 ; Walk., Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii., p. 531.

Hyponomeuta perficitellus. (PI. XL, fig. 17).
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii., pp. 531, 532.

Bepresented in Mr. Gooch's collection by a single
specimen. It agrees very closely with Professor Zeller's
description of the preceding species, H. strigillatus , in
which, however, some of the spots would appear to be
connected in the form of streaks. The " fovea pellucida
valde insignis " of the hind wings mentioned by Zeller is
particularly noticeable also in this species.

PSECADIA, Zeller.
Psecadia circumdatella.

Hyponomeuta circumdatellus, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,

B. M., xxviii., p. 532.
Psecadia circumdatella, Zell., Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss.,

xiii. 235.i"^~7
P. livida, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens, pU^""

Akad., 1852, pp. 103, 104 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,

B. M., xxviii., p. 537.

There are several specimens of different sizes in Mr.
Gooch's collection which, without doubt, belong to this
species. They were taken at light at Spring Vale in
October. Two of these are of a paler, more yellowish,
variety than the others, but cannot be considered distinct.
The species seems to be at least allied to the genus

250 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

Azinis, Walk., in which the abdominal margin of the hind
wing is considerably widened and extended.

.£*—— Psecadia languida.

Psecadia (Coptoproctis) languida, Zell., Handlingar
Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 105, 106.
P. languida, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.,
p. 537.

£ ^ Psecadia nifiventris.

Psecadia (Gymnogramma) nifiventris, Zell., Hand-
lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp.
104, 105.

P. nifiventris, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii..
p. 537.

EUSTIXIS, Hi'ibner.
£~ Eustixis Jlavivitella, n. s.

Capite flavo antennis flavidis articulo basali carnoso,
palpis brevibus ; haustello mediocre nudo. Thorace
flavo, postice carnoso tincto. Alis anticis roseo-carnosis.
Striga dorsali a medio basi ante angulum analem antice
oblique projecta flava. Posticis subroseis.

Head yellow ; palpi yellowish, touched with rosy pink.
Antennse yellow, the basal joint rosy flesh-colour. Thorax
yellow, tinged with rosy flesh-colour posteriorly, and on
the middle of the patagia. Fore wings bright rosy flesh-
colour, with a yellow streak commencing at the middle
of the base, leaving a small rosy space at the extreme
base of the dorsal margin below it, beyond which it
follows the dorsal margin nearly to the anal angle,
throwing up an outwardly oblique attenuated projecting
streak beyond the middle of the wing. Hind wings,
cilia, and abdomen rosy pink. Hind legs yellowish, the
first pair strongly tinged with rosy flesh-colour. Under
side of fore wings bright rosy red ; hind wings paler.
Expanse, 19 mm.

One specimen from Bedford, South Africa, given to me
by Mr. H. Druce. I find other specimens at the British
Museum, from the Cape, labelled "intactella" in Mr.
Walker's handwriting, but apparently undescribed by
him.

This is another remarkable instance of similarity
between African and American genera. The genus

Tineidce, and Pterophoridte of South Africa. 251

Eiistixis of Hiibner is easily recognisable by his figure of
the North American Eustixis pupula in the * Sammlung
exotischer Schmetterlinge Zutnige,' figs. 489, 490. This
species was subsequently described by Walker under the
name of Mieza subfervens, and placed by him among the
Lithosidce. Messrs. Grote and Eobinson (Cat. Lep.
N. Am., 1868), restored to it the generic name Eustixis,
under which it was figured by Stretch (' Zygsenidse and
Bombycidae, N. Am.,' PL vii., fig. 17), still among the
Lithosidce. Zeller then re-described it as Enaniia
psammitis, rightly regarding it as allied to the genus
Psecadia, among the Tineida (in the subdivision Hypo-
nomcutina). The African species, although specifically
distinct, is undoubtedly congeneric with those of North
America.

DEPRESSARIA, Haworth.
Depressaria trimenella, n. s. (PI. XI., fig. 19).

Capite subochraceo, capillis fuscis ; palpis sub-
ochraceis, artictilo apicali fusco bicincto, apice extremo
fusco. Alis anticis dilute ochraceis subbrunneo partim
suffusis. Plaga costali past medium versus apicem pro-
jecta nigricante, puncto nigro discali nonnunquam attin-
gente punctis parvis in costa et in margine apicali nigri-
cantibus. Posticis dilute cinereis.

Head and thorax pale ochreous, the raised scales on
the crest touched with fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous, the
second joint touched with fuscous on its outer side, the
apical joint with two fuscous rings, its extreme apex also
touched with fuscous. Antennae tinged with fuscous.
Fore wings pale ochreous, partly suffused with a pale
brownish shade, especially on the lower half of the wing
before the middle, at the extreme end of the cell, and
immediately above the anal angle. A large blackish
patch commences at the middle of the costa, and is
continued more than half-way to the apex, extending
nearly half across the wing, where it ends at its inner
angle in a conspicuous black spot, preceded by some
detached black scales (the spot is absent in the smaller
specimens). Before this patch are three or four blackish
spots on the costa, other smaller ones being distributed
around the apical margin. Hind wings pale cinereous.
Expanse, 11 — 20 mm.

Four specimens in the Gooch collection, one of which
was taken at light at Spring Vale in January.

252 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

~ Depressaria ? acerbella.

Depressaria acerbella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxix., p. 564:

The typical specimen has lost its body and palpi ; a
redescription of it would, therefore, be useless. It does
not appear to me to belong to the genus Depressaria, but,
for the reasons above stated, it would be rash to suggest
to what genus it might more properly be transferred.

ENICOSTOMA, Stephens
- Enicostoma coarctata, n. s. (PL XL, fig. 20).

Capite antennis et palpis obscure fusco-griseis, palpis
articulo secundo supra squamis elongatis subfasciculato,
fusco-griseis. Alis anticis fusco-griseis, punctis duobus
scabris ante medium uno in cellula, uno in plica nigris.
Posticis quam anticis vix dilutioribus.

Head, thorax, antennae, palpi, and fore wings dark
fuscous-grey, the palpi with the second joint thickened
on the upper side, with a somewhat appressed tuft of
long scales slightly more developed than in the allied
European species, Enicostoma lobelia, W. V. ; the apical
joint slender, acuminate, recurved. Fore wings narrower
than in E. lobelia, of nearly the same dark fuscous-grey
colour, but with only two raised dots of blackish scales,
one on the disc before the middle, the other on the fold
straight below it. In one specimen is a faint indication
of a third spot towards the end of the cell. Hind wings
and abdomen scarcely paler than the fore wings.
Expanse, 15 mm.

One specimen from Spring Vale.

CRYPTOLECHIA, Zeller.

Cryptolechia stramineella. (PL XL, fig. 21).
Cryptolechia stramineella, ZelL, Handlingar Kong.

Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 107.
Cryptolechia straminella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,

xxix., p. 745.

(Nee C. straminella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxix., p. 722.)

There are five specimens of this species in Mr. Gooch's
collection. It is especially interesting, as being the

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 253

typical species for which Professor Zeller originally
founded the genus Cryptolechia. The acute apex of the
fore wings conspicuously distinguishes it from the great
majority of American species which have since been
included in this genus by Zeller himself, as well as by
other authors. It may be well to trace the history of
the genus, which will amply account for the somewhat
cumbrous proportions to which it has now attained.

In 1852 (Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad.,
p. 106), in a paper entitled " Microptera Caffrariae,"
Professor Zeller thus characterised the genus Crypto-
Icchia : —

"Char, essent. — Alae latae, anteriores acutangidce.
Abdomen convexum, superne non marginatum, in mare
utrinque ciliatum, ciliis deflexis. Char, natural. — Capilli
depressi, in occipite interdum suberecti. Ocelli nulli.
Antennae setaceae, alis anterioribus breviores, in mare
pubescentes, vel ciliatae. Palpi maxillares breves, tenues,
acuti, conniventes. Palpi labiales recurvi ; thorace
longiores articulo secundo compresso, subtus laxe
squamato vel piloso terminali setaceo, Isevigato, acuto.
Haustellum breve. Abdomen convexum, superne non
marginatum, pilis lateralibus in mare longioribus pen-
dulis marginem rentrcdem formantibus. Alae latae an-
tcrionim apex acutus, angulus dorsalis distinctus, sed
rotundatus ; posteriorum margo posticus ante apicem
convexus ante angulum analem non sinuatus."

Subsequently, in the ' Linnaea Entomologica,' vol. ix.,
pp. 353, 354, he re-characterised the genus Cryptolechia
thus :—

" Char, essent. — Palpi longi reflexi corniformes. An-
tennae abdominis longitudine, $ ciliatae. Alae aut costa
prope basim convexa, posteriores latae costa, $ simplice,
margine postico ante apicem retuso breviter ciliatae.
Abdomen dorso carinato convexum. Char, naturalis. —
Caput squamis decumbentibus, ocellis nullis, oculis
majusculis. Antennae abdominis longitudine vel
longiores, articulis confertis, $ ciliatae. Haustellum
mediocre, basi squamata. Palpi maxillares breves fili-
fornies conniventes. Palpi labiales, thorace longiores,
reflexi, niodice incrassati, articulo terminali setaceo
acuminato. Pedes mediocres, tibiae posticae in dorso
longius pilosae, calcaribus validis. Abdomine modice
longum, convexulum, dorso distincte carinatum, postice
planum ac subcoarctatum, fasciculo <? anali mediocri.

254 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

Alae anteriores latiusculae, tortriciformes, costa prope
basim convexa postice rectilinea vel modice convexa,
apice acuto vel obtuso vel obtuse rotundato ; venae simplices.
Alee posteriores amplce, breviter ciliatae, costa vix con-
vexula, margine postico- ante apicem impresso, venis
simplicibus."

This considerable extension of the distinguishing
characters of the genus enabled him to include in it such
forms as that of Cryptolecliia sesqtiitertia, Zell. (Lin. Ent.
ix., pi. Ill, f. 20), an insect apparently differing more
widely from the original African type than from the
allied genera, Auxocrassa, Mesoptycha, and Antceotricha,
also then for the first time defined by the same author.

Mr. Walker (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 722), has
described another species of this genus from Ega under
the name Cryptolechia straminella, Walk., and sub-
sequently, in the same volume of his * Catalogue ' (p. 745),
has spelt the name of Zeller's African species in the same
way, whereas it was originally spelt " stramineella" The
distinction is scarcely sufficient to justify the retention
of Mr. Walker's name for the South American species,
which in any future revision of the genus should certainly
be re-christened.

Cryptolechia obliquella, n. s. (PI. XL, fig. 22).

Capite palpis et antennis lacteis. Thorace lacteo-
brunneo bimaculato. Alis anticis lacteis, macula in
basi costae, fascia basali, fascia mediali late reduplicate
cuneiforme, et fascia anguste prope marginem apicalem,
brunneis; ciliis lacteis. Alis posticis lacteo-cinereis.
Apud apicem costae subobsolete bistrigalis.

Head, palpi, and antennae creamy white. Thorax
creamy white, with two brownish spots or streaks. Fore
wings with the costa slightly arched, the apical margin
oblique ; apex somewhat acuminate, creamy white, with
a brown spot at the extreme base of the costa, a narrow
brown fascia near the base slightly curved outwards. A
wide reduplicated brown wedge-shaped fascia occupying
two-thirds of the costal and one-half of the dorsal space
beyond the middle of the wing, its central space showing
the pale ground colour in more or less amalgamated
longitudinal streaks ; its inner edge straight, its outer
edge obliquely parallel to the apical margin ; before
this running from the apex to within the anal angle

Tineidce, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 255

is another narrow brownish oblique fascia. Cilia creamy
white. Hind wings and cilia whitish cinereous, with
two subobsolete brownish costal streaks before the apex.
Expanse, 15 mm.

Three specimens. " Spring Vale and D'Urban, July,
September, and October."

This insect has the palpi of a Cryptolechia, but the
form of its wings is so different from that of the majority
of species, from various parts of the world, which have
been placed in this genus by different authors, that
I should have hesitated to include it among them had I
not been able to compare it with specimens of the
preceding species, from which Professor Zeller originally
characterised the genus ; from these it cannot be con-
sidered generically distinct.

... Cryptolecliia castella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad. 1852, pp. 107, 108 ; Walk., Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxix. 745.

Cryptolechia eariasella^ Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxix. 746. jfci^^/uc.i. •• }

Cryptolechia hceresiella, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet.
Akad. For., 1875, Arg. 32, pp. 128, 129.

Cryptolechia dilutella, n. s. (PL XL, fig. 23).

Capite (capillis aliquot hirsutis), palpis antennis et
thorace dilute albido-ochraceis. Alis anticis dilute albido-
ochraceis, punctis duobus in cellula tertio postice in
plica, et serie arcuata punctorum ante marginem
apicalem subobsoletis fuscescentibus, serie in margine
apicali paulo distinction. Squamis elongatis prope basi
marginis dorsalis in penicillo appresso collectis. Posticis
dilute cinereis, ciliis dilutioribus.

Head rather rough, together with the thorax, palpi,
and antennae pale whitish ochreous. Fore wings pale
whitish ochreous, the costa very faintly and narrowly
shaded with ochreous; a small patch of elongated
scales on the dorsal margin near the base, forming an
appressed tuft, a small fuscous discal spot a little above
the middle of the wing at one-fourth from the base,
followed by another nearly obsolete spot towards the end

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256 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

of the cell, situated in the middle of a narrow oblique
suhfuscous shade ; beneath these two, and equidistant
from each, is another indistinct spot on the fold. Half-
way between the end of the cell and the apex is a
semicircular series of almost obsolete fuscous dots
running nearly parallel to the margin of the wing, and
on the apical margin itself is a series of rather more
distinct but scarcely larger dots of the same colour ; a
very minute fuscous shade on the extreme apex of the
costa. Cilia concolorous with the wing. Hind wings
pale cinereous, with very pale cilia. Expanse, 17 mm.
One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

Cryptolechia atropuncieUa, n. s. (PL XI., fig. 24).

Capite thorace et palpis albis immaculatis, antennis
paulo infuscatis. Alis anticis albis apice rotundato, costa
peranguste substraminea punctis tribus discalibus atris
quorum secundum primo oblique subjacet, tertio ad
finem cellule, serie punctorum minorum in margine
apicali. Posticis dilutissime griseo-albidis subni-
tentibus.

Head and thorax white ; the palpi white, having the
third joint almost as long as the second, which is but
slightly thickened. Antennse white at the base, some-
what tinged with fuscous beyond. Fore wings with the
apex much rounded, white, the costa very narrowly
tinged with straw-colour, especially towards the apex.
Two black discal spots before the middle, the upper one
being the nearest to the base, a third black spot lying at
the end of tne cell ; a row of from three to five smaller
black dots along the apical margin. Cilia white. Hind
wings rather shining whitish, with a very faint rosy
greyish tinge. Under side of the fore wings tinged with
fuscous ; the costal margins of all the wings pale straw-
colour. Expanse, 15 mm.

Three specimens from Spring Vale, taken at light in
November.

Cryptolechia roseoflavida, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 25).

Capilliserectis obscure roseo-brunneis. Thorace obscure
roseo-brunneo. Palpis recurvis tenuibus verticem non
superantibus subroseis. Antennis brunneo-fuscis. Alis

Tinndtc.. and Pterophoridts of South Africa. 257

anticis nitentibus dilute aurantio-flavidis. Ciliis roseo-
puniceis, basi extreme et margine costali late roseo-
puniceis, maculis duabus discalibus roseo-puniceis. Alis
posticis dilute fumidis apud apicem roseo paulo suffusis.

Head rather rough with some erect scales, dull rosy
brown. Thorax dull rosy brown. Palpi recurved, rather
slender, not overarching the vertex, rosy pinkish.
Antennae brownish. Fore wings with the apex some-
what rounded, the anal angle not well denned, bright
shining pale orange-yellow. A rosy pink shade occupies
the extreme base, and overspreads the costal third of the
wing to the apex, gradually blending with the pale
ground colour ; below this shade are two rosy-pink spots
on the disc, one before and one beyond the middle ; a few
rosy-pink scales about the dorsal and apical margins ;
the cilia bright rosy pink. Hind wings pale smoky
grey, with a slight rosy tinge towards the apex. Expanse,
24 mm.

Two specimens received from the late Colonel Harvey
Tower from Natal.

Cryptoleckia roseocostella, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 26).

Capite et thorace albis. Antennas dilute brunneis.
Palpis albis, articulo apicali roseo suffuso. Alis anticis
rotundatis albis, costa anguste rosea, macula ante
medium triangulare cujus apex attenuatus externe ad
finem cellulas productus dilute brunneus, margine apicali
et basi marginis dorsalis dilute brunneis. Ciliis albis.
Alis posticis cum ciliis albis.

Head and thorax white. Antennae pale brownish.
Palpi white, the apical joint suffused with rose-colour.
Fore wings with the apex rounded, the anal angle also
rounded, white, the costa narrowly bright rose-colour,
having, slightly beyond its middle, a triangular pale
brown patch, of which the apex is produced in an
attenuated and angulated streak to the end of the cell,
reaching about half-way across the wing. The apical
margin is also pale brown, the space occupied by this
colour clearly denned and attenuated towards the anal
angle. A pale brown shade lies along the base of the
dorsal margin. Cilia white. Hind wings and cilia white.
Expanse, 16 mm.

Taken at D' Urban among bush in November.

258 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

ANT^OTBICHA, Zeller.
Antceotricha ? ovata, n. s.

Capite antennis et palpis testaceo-griseis ; thorace
forti. Palpis articulo tertio longitudine secundo asquali,
quam in Cryptolechia aliquot fortiori. Alis anticis ovatis
costa arcuata apice rotundato testaceo-griseis subnitenti-
bus ; puncto singulo apud finem cellulaa fusco, venis ultra
earn subconspicuis : posticis quam anticis latioribus vix
dilutioribus griseo-cinereis.

Head, antennae, and palpi pale testaceous-grey, the
palpi with the second and third joints of about equal
length, the third slightly stouter than in Cryptolechia.
Thorax stout. Fore wings ovate, with the costa arched,
the apex rounded, pale testaceous-grey, ^rather shining;
a single fuscous spot at the end of the cell, beyond which
the veins are traceable to the apical margin. Hind wings
rather broader than the fore wings, slightly paler greyish
cinereous. Expanse, 25 mm.

One specimen in poor condition in Mr. Gooch's
collection.

QEcopHOKA, Zeller.
^(Ecophora? obliquestrigella, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 27).

Capite levi, palpis tenuibus, thorace pleno. An-
tennis (articulo basali supra squamis erectis incras-
sato) et alis anticis dilutissime ochraceo-cervinis ;
striga costali oblique inversa ultra medium postice
projecta et margine apicali anguste purpureo-fuscis
puncto minimo discali concolore in terno basali squa-
mulis dilutioribus utrinque diffusis. Posticis parvis
ovatis.

Head, thorax, palpi, antennas, and fore wings pale
ochraceous-fawn colour, the head smooth, with closely
appressed scales above and in front ; the palpi slender,
acuminate. Antennas with the basal joint appearing
thickened by a dense tuft of appressed scales above it.
Thorax wide. Fore wings with the costa somewhat
raised beyond the middle, with a single dark purplish
fuscous streak from the highest part of the costa pointing
inwards, and extending straight down to or beyond the
middle of the wing. Half-way between this and the
base is a small purplish fuscous dot above the middle,

Tineida, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 259

and at the same distance on its other side in the direction
of the anal angle are a few scattered scales of the same
colour ; some small paler scales are widely scattered
over the general surface of the wing. A straight
purplish fuscous streak occupies the middle of the apical
margin, extending downwards into the cilia above the
anal angle, and upwards towards the costa near the
apex, giving a square appearance which does not
correspond to the actual shape of the wing margin.
Hind wings narrow, ovate, rather shining, very pale
cinereous, small in proportion to the upper wings. Ex-
panse, 15 mm.

This species appears to agree more closely with
(Ecophora than with any other genus, but the hind
wings are unusually small, and I am unwilling to denude
the only specimen in the collection to ascertain its
neuration.

One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

TEBATOPSIS, n. g.

Capilli hirsuti ; ore levi. Ocelli nulli. Haustellum
mediocre, squamatum. Palpi maxillares brevissimi supra
haustellum conniventes. Palpi labiales erecti verticem
superantes, articulo secundo quam tertio bis longiore,
tertio squamis rudibus ante apicem aliquot incrassato,
apice acuminato. Antennae supra subserratae. Alae
anticae costa ante medium perarcuata margine postico
subobliquo, vena apicali furcata. Alae posticae sat latae
cellula clausa. Tibiae posticae hirsute pilosae.

Head rough above, face smooth. Ocelli none. Tongue
of moderate length, scaled. Maxillary palpi short,
meeting over the tongue. Labial palpi erect, slightly
overreaching the vertex, the third joint about half the
length of the second, roughly scaled in the middle, with
the apex acuminate. Antennae slightly serrated above.
Fore wings quadrangular, the costa sharply arched before
the middle, the apical margin rather oblique ; anal angle
with long cilia. The apical vein forked, all the others
single. Hind wings rather broad, rounded at the tip,
not emarginate below the apex. Hind tibiae thickly
clothed with coarse hair-like scales. Spurs short.

This genus seems to be allied to Cryptolechia. The
apical joint of the palpi, which is somewhat coarsely

260 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

scaled instead of being slender and naked, as in that
genus, and the suddenly arched, almost angulated costa,
are the chief characters which appear to separate it.
It has much the appearance of the genus Teras, Lin.,
among the Tortricidce.

£- Teratopsis tunicella, n. s. (PL XIL, fig. 28).

Capite thorace palpis et antennis schistaceo-griseis.
Palpis articulo tertio squamis rudibus ante apicem
acuminatum paulo incrassato. Alis anticis schistaceo-
griseis plaga basali externe arcuata et squamis erectis
perspicue marginata purpurascente, lunula auriforme ad
finem cellulae atomis atris circumjaceiitibus, margine
apicali punctulis atris indicate. Posticis dilute schistaceo-
griseis subnitentibus.

Head, thorax, and antennae slaty grey ; the palpi
slaty grey, mottled with a few dusky scales on the outer
sides, having the second joint of even width thickly
scaled ; the third joint half as long as the second, some-
what thickened in the middle, with rough scales nearly
reaching to the apex, which is acuminate. Fore wings
slaty grey, with a conspicuous and distinct basal patch
of bronzy purple covering the basal third of the wing,
except on the dorsal margin, rounded at its outer edge,
which is distinguished by a line of strongly-raised
blackish purple scales, reaching nearly, but not quite,
to the dorsal margin. An ear-shaped spot lies at the
end of the disc, its narrow blackish margin interrupted
on the side immediately opposite to the anal angle, and
separated by a slight interspace from its reddish purple
centre. Around it are a series of minute blackish dots,
which seem to be continued downwards on its inner side
to the dorsal margin and anal angle, becoming more
conspicuous along the apical margin, and reaching
around the apex to the costa. Hind wings rather
shining pale slaty greyish, lighter on the costa towards
the base, with a slender pale line along the base of the
cilia. Expanse, 18 mm.

A single specimen in good condition is in Mr. Gooch's
collection.

Tineithe, and Ptcrophoridce ofSouth Africa. 261

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PSORICOPTERA, Stamtoii.
- Psoricoptertt / JnrsHtcUa, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 29).

Capite aliquot hirsuto-griseo ; haustello mediocre,
squamato. Palpis labialibus griseis fusco striatis et
irroratis articulo secundo late fasciculate, articulo
apicali erecto tenui paulum squamato. Antennis fuscis.
Alis anticis scabris dilute griseo-ochraceis undique fusco
suffusis et irroratis ; flocco basali submediali erecto fusco
et flocco post medium supra marginem dorsalem sub-
ochraceo. Posticis et abdomine cinereis.

Head slightly rough, grey. Tongue moderate coarsely
scaled. Labial palpi mottled and irrorated with greyish
fuscous, with the second joint thickly and widely tufted
beneath ; the apical joint erect, slender, slightly scaled.
Antennae fuscous, with the basal joint scarcely thickened.
Fore wings pale greyish ochreous, almost entirely suffused
or sprinkled with dark fuscous, with numerous scattered
tufts of raised fuscous scales, of which the most promi-
nent and conspicuous is at the base of the wing slightly
below the middle. Immediately above the dorsal
margin, and beyond the middle of the wing, is another
conspicuous tuft of scales of the pale ground colour.
Hind wings cinereous, with a slender pale ochraceous
line at the base of the cilia. Abdomen cinereous. The
posterior pair of tibiae hairy. Expanse, 20 mm.

One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

In neuration it differs only slightly from Psoricoptcra
yibbosclla, Zell., in which species the fork of the apical
vein is nearer to the cell, and the position of the veins
about the anal angle is somewhat different.

GELECHIA, Zeller.

Gelechia rescissella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, 110 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxix. 628.

... G. zetterstedtiella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, 110; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxix. 628.

Gelechia zulu, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 30).

Capite dilute ferrugineo. Palpis tenuibus albidis
externe aliquot infuscatis. Thorace brunneo-fusco,

262 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

patagiis canis. Alls anticis brunneo-fuscis, fascia
obliqua aliquando apud medium interne projecta et
macula costali ante apicem. canis. Margine dorsali
linea antice albida postice ferruginea indicate. Posticis
sub apice vix excisis dilute fuscis.

Head pale ferruginous. Palpi slender, whitish, the
third joint nearly as long as the second, slightly shaded
on their outer sides. Antennae fuscous. Thorax brownish
fuscous ; the wing-coverts white. Fore wings brownish
fuscous, with a white fascia scarcely beyond the middle
pointing obliquely outwards from the costa, and some-
times with an excrescence on its inner edge about the
middle of the wing. A white triangular costal spot
before the apex. The apical margin is marked by a
slender whitish line, followed by some blackish scales at
the base of the cilia. A pale streak runs along the
dorsal margin, its upper half whitish, its lower half
ferruginous. Hind wings pale fuscous, scarcely emargi-
nate below the apex. Expanse, 12 mm.

Two specimens taken at light at D 'Urban and Spring
Vale in July and December (Gooch).

Gelechiaflavipalpella, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 31).

Capite palpis tenuibus et antennis flavidis. Alis
anticis acuminatis cum ciliis subpurascenti-fuscis puncto
obscuro postmedium subobsoleto, posticis cum ciliis
cinereis.

Head yellow, slightly tinged with fuscous above ; the
face bright yellow. Palpi slender, recurved, yellow.
Antennas simple, yellowish, slightly touched with fuscous
on their upper sides beyond the base. Fore wings
elongate, acuminate, together with the cilia fuscous with
a purplish tinge ; an almost obsolete darker fuscous spot
beyond the end of the cell. Hind wings and cilia
cinereous. Expanse, 17 mm.

Taken at light in October at Spring Vale (Gooch).

Gelechia abjunctella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,

xxix. 629.

Two specimens are in Mr. Gooch' s collection.
Taken at D'Urban in the garden in August and
September,

Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 263

BRACHMIA, Heinemann.
Brachmia tric/ella.

- Gelechia (Brachmia) trigella, Zell., Handlingar Kong.
Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 112, 113; Walk.,
Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 628.

C Brachmia subsecivella.

Gelechia (Brachmia) subsecivella, Zell., Handlingar
Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 113, 114 ;
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., $., p. 629.[»«4iO

DROSICA, Walk.
Drosica abjectella (PL XII., fig. 32).

Drosica abjectella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii.,
pp. 519, 520.

One specimen of this species is in Mr. Gooch's
collection. The palpi are very peculiar, somewhat
diverging, clothed beneath with a fringe of elongate
scales, which, turning slightly inwards, give them a
pectinated or feathered appearance. The hind tibiae
have the first pair of spurs very long, and about equal
to each other.

Mr. Gooch writes of this species, "D'Urban, bush on
Berea, August."

EUCLEODOEA, n. g.

Caput squamis appressis laevigatum. Antennas pubes-
centes alis anticis vix longiores. Haustellum sat longum
dense squamatum. Palpi labiales articulo secundo
aliquot incrassato, articulo apicali in dimidio basali
paulo supra fasciculate. Alaa anticae elongatae ovatae
sub apice profunde incisae vena apicali furcata. Posticae
lanceolatae. Tibiae anticae externe fasciculatae.

Head obtuse, with appressed scales, not rough.
Antennae scarcely longer than the fore wings, pubescent.
Tongue rather long, coarsely scaled. Labial palpi long,
recurved ; the second joint somewhat thickened about
the middle, scaled on its upper side ; third joint slender,
slightly shorter than the second joint, its basal half
tufted on the upper side. Fore wings elongate-ovate,
deeply indented below the apex ; the apical vein forked,

TRANS. ENT. SOC, 1881, — PART II. (JULY.) 2 M

264 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricid<s,

both forks reaching the costal margin before the extreme
apex. Hind wings lanceolate ; the abdominal angle
strongly denned.

Eucleodora chalybeella, n. s. (PL XII., fig. 33).

Capillis laevigatis et antennis pubescentibus cinereis.
Palpis dilute cinereis articulo apicali supra ferrugineo
fasciculato. Alis anticis margine apicali profunde inciso
ferrugineis terno dorsali dilutiore ; litura a basi ultra
medium attenuate projecta, postice ferruginea subangu-
lata, antice purpurascenti-chalybea ; striga costali ultra
medium peroblique reduplicata nitente chalybea ; infra
earn litura chalybea. Apice chalybeo substriato. Pos-
ticis cum ciliis cinereis.

Head smooth, cinereous. Antennae pubescent, cine-
reous. Palpi pale cinereous, the second joint slightly
thickened, the apical joint with a pale ferruginous tuft
of elongate somewhat appressed scales on its basal half.
Tongue coarsely scaled. Fore wings elongate-ovate,
with the apex rounded, the apical margin deeply excised,
ferruginous ; the dorsal third of the wing paler ; an
elongate outwardly attenuated costal blotch coming from
the base, angulated and clearly defined below the middle
of the wing, is dark ferruginous on its lower, and shining
purplish steel-colour on its upper, half; a slender out-
wardly very oblique reduplicated shining steel- coloured
costal streak, joining before the apex a short single
costal streak of the same colour. The apical portion of
the wing with some slender steel-grey streaks. Hind
wings and cilia cinereous. The anterior tibiae slightly
tufted, with elongate hair-like scales on their outer
sides. Expanse, 13 mm.

One specimen, taken at Spring Vale at light.

£.. CHELARIA, Haw.

Chelaria albo-yrisea, n. s. (PI. XII. , fig. 34).
Capite albido-griseo. Palpis griseo striatis et macu-
latis; articulo secundo late fasciculato. Alis anticis
albido-griseis ; fusco-brunneo atomosis, litura apud
medium elongata quadrangulari ; litura costali sub-
apicali cum macula interjacente et margine apicali
fuscis, squamis paucis singule dispersis cyaneo-chaly-
beis. Alis posticis cinereo-fuscis sub vena costali
anguste chalybeo pellucidis in vena dorsali fasciculatis.

Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 265

Head and thorax whitish grey ; palpi erect, arching
over the vertex, whitish grey, streaked and spotted with
greyish fuscous ; the second joint with a widely project-
ing semicircular tuft of long closely-packed coarse scales
beneath ; the apical joint with two small appressed tufts
above. Antennae with the basal joint slightly enlarged,
dirty whitish, annulated with greyish fuscous. Fore
wings whitish grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, irr orated
with brownish fuscous scales, and with a few single
widely scattered steel-blue metallic scales chiefly about
the darker markings. A somewhat quadrangular fuscous
spot lies scarcely above the middle of the wing; the
costa above it slightly shaded ; a costal blotch of about
the same size before the apex, and a smaller spot
between the two are of the same colour ; the apical
margin is also narrowly fuscous ; cilia whitish grey.
Hind wings cinereous-fuscous, with a narrow semi-
transparent steel-blue streak beneath the costal vein,
and a tuft of long cinereous-fuscous scales arising from
the base of the dorsal vein, but apparently not erect.
Expanse, 21 mm.

One specimen. Spring Vale, among trees ; December.

YPSOLOPHUS, Fabricius.

Ypsolophusfurvellus, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 115.

• Ypsolophus latipalpis, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 35).

Capite palpis et antennis griseo et fusco atomosis.
Palpis porrectis articulo secundo supra anguste infra
late fasciculate ; articulo apicali brevi filiforme ; externe
fusco suffusis. Alis anticis angustis elongatis (margine
apicali obliquo) brunneo-fuscis ; apud basim et in margine
costali ante apicem griseo atomosis ; linea angusta in
basi ciliorum marginis apicalis ochrea. Posticis sub-
nitidis dilute griseis vix purpurascentibus ; linea in basi
ciliorum dilute ochrea.

Head, palpi and antennae speckled with grey and
fuscous, the palpi very considerably prominent ; the
second joint with a narrow gradually attenuated tuft on
its upper side, a wider and far projecting tuft on its
under side, both laterally compressed ; the apical joint
obliquely erect, short and filiform ; both much tinged on

266 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce, -

their outer sides with brownish fuscous. Fore wings
narrow, elongate (with the apical margin oblique, the
extreme apex rounded), brownish fuscous, with a very
faint plum-coloured gloss ; speckled about the base of
the fold and costal margin with whitish grey scales, as
also about the costal margin on the apical fourth of the
wing. Cilia dark brownish fuscous, slightly speckled
with greyish, and with a narrow pale ochreous line
along their base, continued around the anal angle.
Hind wings and cilia shining pale grey, with a very
faint purplish tinge ; a narrow faint ochreous line
running along the base of the cilia. Expanse, 14 mm.

One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection.

\ * ^ Ypsoloplms straminis, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 36).

Capite et thorace dilute stramineis. Antennis supra
dilute punctatis. Palpis dilute stramineis externe pur-
purascentibus ; articulo secundo incrassato plene vestito,
apicali oblique projecto nee erecto, tenui. Alis anticis
dilute stramineis ; macula discali in medio et striga paulo
ante marginem apicalem ferrugineis, squamis metallicis
cyaneo-purpureis adspersis. Posticis -dilute subcinereo-
stramineis.

Head and thorax pale straw-colour. Antennae pale
straw-colour, faintly dotted above with fuscous. Palpi
pale straw-colour on their inner sides, streaked with
purplish externally; the second joint much thickened,
densely clothed, laterally compressed ; the apical joint
projecting rather obliquely, not erect, slender. Fore
wings pale straw-colour, having a pale ferruginous shade
lying obliquely parallel to and near the apical margin,
extending to the apex, but not quite to the anal angle,
containing throughout its length bright bluish purple
metallic scales ; a ferruginous elongate discal spot about
the middle of the wing, also containing some bright
bluish purple metallic scales ; between this discal spot
and the anal angle is a faint streak of ferruginous -brown
scales, another slight streak of the same colour -beyond
the middle of the cell, reaching to the dark marginal
shade. Hind wings pale rather cinereous straw-colour.
Legs pale straw-colour, some of the joints touched with
purplish. Expanse, 18 mm.

One specimen given to me by Mr. H. Druce from
Bedford, South Africa.

Tineidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 267

** _, Ypsoloplws siccifolii, n. s. (PL XIII., fig. 37).

Capite levi antennis simplicibus et thorace pleno
osseis. Palpis osseis, articulo secundo late fasciculate
externe fusco liturato ; articulo apicali tenui fusco
bicincto. Alis anticis latitudine ter longioribus ; costa
ultra basim recta ; margine apicali obliquo, osseo-
cinereis, ocliraceo-cervino partim suffusis et irroratis ;
squamis atro purpureis in medio et in fine cellules
glomeratis ; strigulis costalibus prope apicem sub-
argenteis et linea metallice argentea in margine
apicali. Posticis dilute osseis subnitentibus.

Head smooth, antennae simple, thorax wide, all bone-
coloured. Labial palpi bone-coloured, projecting, re-
curved; the second joint having a wide laterally
compressed tuft projecting fully its own length beyond
it, blotched with fuscous on its outer side ; the apical
joint slender, acuminate, with two subconspicuous
fuscous rings. Fore wings cinereous bone-colour, more
or less irrorated and suffused with ochreous fawn-
colour, especially on the upper and outer half of the
wing ; a few scattered dark purplish scales near the base
of the costal margin, and two rounded groups of dark
purplish scales on the disc, one before and one beyond
the middle ; some shining whitish oblique streaks on the
outer half of the costa, and a bright shining silvery
metallic line along the apical margin. Cilia shaded
with brownish ochreous, darker at their tips. Hind
wings slightly emarginate below the apex, together with
their cilia pale bone-colour. Posterior tibise smooth,
somewhat thickened, but not tufted. Expanse, 25 mm.

One specimen only. Spring Vale, at light; De-
cember (Gooch).

NOTHBIS, Hilbner. Cj+^fc

Gelechia (Nothris) exteniclla, ZelL, Handlingar Kong.
Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 109 ; Walk., Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 628.

Gelechia, (Nothris) septella, Zell., Handlingar Kong.
Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 108 ; Walk., Cat.
Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 628.

Two specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection. Taken at
D' Urban and Spring Vale ; December.

268 Lord Walsingliam on the Tortricidce,

& Nothris meridionella, n. s. (PL XIII. , fig. 38).
Capite palpis et antennis dilute ochreis. Alls anticis
ochreis ; puncto in finem cellulse majore, punctis tribus
ante medium minoribus, duobus discalibus uno in
plica, fuscis ; margine apicali subfusco adumbrate
punctis tribus minimis supra angulum analem ; ciliis
ochreis. Alis posticis cinereis ; ciliis subochraceis.

Head, palpi and antennae pale ochreous, the palpi
with the second joint thickened, very slightly tufted at
its apex; apical joint slender, nearly as long as the
second. Thorax and fore wings ochreous, with four
small fuscous dots, the largest at the end of the cell, the
other three much smaller ; the first on the disc at about
one-fifth from the base, the second also on the disc just
before the middle, the third on the fold lying obliquely
below and before the second ; the apical margin slightly
shaded with fuscous, with two or three small marginal
fuscous dots above the anal angle. Cilia ochreous.
Hind wings cinereous, with pale ochreous cilia. Ex-
panse, 15 mm.

Two specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection.

This species is nearly allied to the European Nothris
Dwdhametta; Stn., but differs in the number and position
of the spots.

TOPEUTIS, Hubner.
C— Topeutis drucella, n. s. (PI. XIII., fig. 39).

Capite cum flocco frontali cervine albido. Palpis
capite plus quam bis longioribus porrectis. Alis anticis
(costa arcuata) albidis, inter venas dilute cervino multi-
striatis ; costse dimidio basali conspicue albido ; punctis
duobus parvis discalibus brunneo-fuscis. Posticis dilute
cinereo-cervinis.

Head fawn-white, thickly clothed with coarse scales
projecting forwards over the face. Labial palpi whitish
above, dusky beneath, projecting more than twice the
length of the head beyond it, less roughly clothed than
in the European species of this genus, the apical joint
especially being much less coarsely scaled. The struc-
ture of the whitish antennse is similar to those of
Topeutis larbella, Fab., but they are somewhat less
hairy in the male. Thorax whitish fawn-colour. Fore

Tineida, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 269

wings (with the costa considerably arched, the apical
margin oblique) whitish, longitudinally streaked with
pale fawn-colour, which fills all the interspaces between
the veins, leaving these conspicuously distinguished by
the whitish ground colour. Along the basal half of the
costal margin is a conspicuous whitish streak, narrow at
the base, broader towards its middle, and gradually
attenuated towards the middle of the costa, dying out a
little beyond it. At the extreme base of the costa are a
few brownish scales. There are two small brownish
fuscous discal spots, the lesser before, the greater
beyond, the middle ; a series of three or four subobsolete
spots of the same colour are distinguishable along the
apical margin in good specimens. Cilia whitish, mixed
with pale fawn-colour. Hind wings very pale cinereous
fawn-colour. Legs roughly hairy, as in Topeutis
barbella, Fab., with which it appears to agree also in
neuration. Expanse, 19 mm.

One male from Bedford, South Africa.

I am indebted to Mr. H. Druce for this interesting
addition to my collection ; I have ventured to name it
in his honour. There are also two specimens of this
species in Mr. Gooch's collection, taken at light in
October and November at Spring Vale. •

HYPERCALLIA, Stephens.
Hypercallia subreticulata (PI. XIII., fig. 40).

Capite et thorace flavis miniano-roseo subtinctis.
Antennis albidis fusco supra punctatis. Palpis flavis,
versus apicem utriusque articuli roseo tinctis. Alis
anticis flavis, strigis et lituris miniano-roseis subreticu-
latis, quorum majores squamis cyaneo-chalybeis ad-
spersae sunt. Posticis cum ciliis brunneo-fuscis.

Head and thorax bright yellow, touched with rosy
vermilion. Antennae whitish, dotted above with fuscous.
Palpi erect, slightly recurved, with the second joint
scaled, slightly thickened, but not tufted; the apical
joint slightly scaled, acuminate; yellow, touched with
rosy vermilion towards the apex of each joint. Fore
wings bright yellow, subreticulated with rosy vermilion
streaks and shades, of which the most important are
sprinkled with steel-blue metallic scales; notably a
narrow oblique fascia from beyond the middle of the

270 Lord Walsingham on the Tortridda,

costa to the anal angle, a diverging streak leaving this
fascia below the costa and running to the basal third of
the dorsal margin, two rather triangular costal spots,
the one before, the other beyond, the middle, the
extreme base of the costa, and a streak along the apical
margin ; between these markings are some few bright
rosy vermilion shades. Hind wings and cilia brownish
fuscous. Expanse, 14 mm.

One specimen given to me by Mr. Druce from Bedford,
South Africa. It differs from Hypercallia igniferella,
Walk., an Australian species, in its darker hind wings,
and in the convergence of the vermilion streaks in the
direction of the costal, instead of the dorsal, margin.

(EcopHOEA, Zeller.
CEcophora ? sabiella.

C -"Psecadia ? sabiella, F. & K., Eeise d. Nov., pi. cxxxix.,
fig. 30.

Notwithstanding the strong superficial resemblance of
this insect to many species of Psecadia, the form of its
palpi at once distinguishes it from that genus. The
greater length of the proboscis is the only character
about the head which might perhaps be held to distin-
guish it from the genus GZcophora, in which I place it, at
least provisionally. It is very nearly allieid to, and
evidently congeneric with, (Ecoplwra picarella, Walk.,
a New Zealand species. The following description is,
perhaps, scarcely necessary, since it is easily to be
recognised by the excellent figure in pi. cxxxix. of Felder
and Eogenhofer's ' Eeise der Fregatte Novara.'

There are three specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection,
taken at light at Spring Vale in August. I have also
received it from Mr. Druce, who obtained it from
Bedford, South Africa.

Head white ; palpi recurved, overarching the vertex,
white ; the second joint with a black ring at the base,
and another at the apex ; third joint with a black ring
about the middle, and another at the apex. Antennae
fuscous, with a black spot on the white basal joint.
Tongue very long, scaled at the base. Thorax and fore
wings white ; the thorax with four black spots, one in
front, one on the middle, and one on each side ; the fore
wings with the extreme edge of the costa black to the

Tinc'uhc, and Pterophorida of tiouth Africa. 271

middle, some black irregular patches on the upper half
of the wing ; near the base a black cross with equal arms
on the outer edge of the basal third ; a conspicuous black
V-shaped mark, with irregular dentated edges about the
middle, reaching the costa before and beyond the middle,
and the dorsal margin scarcely beyond the middle ; three
black spots on the dorsal margin, one near the base, one
betweeen the cross and the V-shaped mark, and one
near the anal angle ; a small black costal spot equi-
distant between the arms of the V and some small
black marginal spots around the apex and the anal
angle, with an irregular thick black streak extending
inwards from below the apex. Legs white, with several
black annulations. Expanse, 26 mm.

ERETMOCERA, Zeller.

It is remarkable that Mr. Walker, in characterising
the genus Exodomorplia (Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix.,
p. 833), should not have been reminded of Professor
Zeller's genus, Eretmocera (Microp. Caffr. ; Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 98), which was established to
include several allied species occurring in the same
district as those described by Mr. Walker, and in some
cases apparently identical with them. I am indebted to
Mr. A. G. Butler for having called my attention to the
fact that the genus Stamtonia, Staud. (Stet. Ent. Zeit.,
1859, p. 250), is the same as Exodoinorplia , Walk., in
which case it must also yield to the priority of Zeller's
Eretmocera.

_

Eretmocera ((Edematopoda) princeps, Zell., Handlingar -
Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 96, 97 ;
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 707.

Eretmocera fuscipennis, Zell., Handlingar Kong.

Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 98 ; Walk., Cat.

Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 707.
Var. a.= Exodoinorplia inclusella, Walk., Cat. Lep.

Het., B. M., xxix., p. 834.
Var. @.=Exodomorpha derogatella, Walk., Cat. Lep.

Het., B. M., xxix., p. 834.

Prof. Zeller describes what he regards as two varieties
of this species, and points out the differences between
them, as follows : —

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272 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

"Var. a. — Alls anterioribus brunneis ; posterioribus
supra fuscescentibus, subtus puniceis, ciliis circa apicem
fuscis, ceteris puniceis ; abdomine coccineo, macula
baseos dorsali segmentoque anali fuscis. Mas et foem."

"Var. /3. ut a. sed colore flavissimo pro puniceo
coccineoque, mas. — Alse posteriores anguste lanceolatae,
valde acutse, dilute brunneae, basim versus dilutiores
ibique squamis pallide puniceis (in var. /3. flavidis)
immixtis, subtus punicese (var. {3. flavse) apice ipso
fusco-cilia utriusque paginse in var. a. punicea, in var. 0.
flavse, in utraque varietate circa apicem latius fusca."

Mr. Walker's two supposed distinct species agree
closely with the above descriptions, and a single speci-
men of var. S3. = E. derogatella, Walk., is in Mr. Gooch's
collection.

Eretmocera scatospila.

Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852,
p. 99 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 708.

Eretmocera lunifera. (PL XIII., fig. 41).

Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852,
p. 100; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 707.

A single specimen of this beautiful little species occurs
in Mr. Gooch's collection, without any record of where
or when it was taken.

Eretmocera Icetissima.

Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad.,, 1852,
pp. 100, 101 ; Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxix., p. 708.
Exodomorpha divisella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxix., pp. 833, 834.

These names are undoubtedly synonyms for one very
distinct and apparently not uncommon species, which,
however, is not represented in Mr. Gooch's collection.

, Treitschke.

JEchmia boJiemani, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 116; Walk., Cat. Lep.
Het., B. M., xxx., p. 842.

Tineida, and Pteroplioridce of South Africa. 273

GLYPHIPTERYX, Hiilner.

- Glypliipteryx ? dimidiatella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het.,
B. M., xxx. 839.

This insect has not in any degree the appearance of
the genus Glyphipteryx ; but as only one wing of the
typical species is in even reasonably fair condition, the
antennae and palpi being altogether absent, I am unable
to determine in what known genus, if any, it could be
more correctly placed. I may add to Walker's descrip-
tion that beyond the yellow basal half the fore wing is
rather shining purplish.

IDIOGLOSSA, n. g.

Caput superne ac in fronte squamis appressis laevi-
gatum. Antennae crassiusculae simplices, articulo basali
non majus incrassato quam alis anticis paulo breviores.
Palpi labiales tenues articulo secundo squamis ap-
pressis vix incrassato, articulo apicali nudo acuminato.
Haustellum supra longe fasciculaturn. Alae anticae et
posticae angustae elongatae acuminatae, metallice ornatae.
Tibiae posticae pilosae.

Head smooth above and in front. Antennae stout,
simple, with the basal joint not thickened, rather
shorter than the fore wings. Tongue long and thickly
scaled, with a reduplicated tuft of long hair-like scales
depending from its basal half, above.* Fore and hind
wings narrow, elongate, acuminate, and ornamented
with metallic scales. Hind tibiae somewhat hairy.

This genus seems to be allied to the genera Stathmo-
poda, Stn., and Cosmopteryx, Hub., which it much
resembles in the form of the wings and in its general
appearance; but the tufted base of the tongue and
brightly ornamented hind wings at once separate it,
and enable it to be easily recognised.

Idioglossa bigemma, n. s. (PL XIII. , fig. 42).

Capite argenteo ; palpis argenteis. Antennis argenteis
subflavide obscurius annulatis. Alis anticis ochreis
argenteo-aeneo metallice pernitidis ; fascia ante apicem
perangusta obliqua, striga ante medium, macula prope

* In the figure this is shown somewhat too much divided ; the
hind wings also are a little too long.

274 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida,

basi costae, et squamis in terno basali marginis dorsalis
inter cilia projectis cupreo-argenteis. Alis posticis ochreis
plaga basali cum fasciis mediali et subapicali albidis
cupreo-argenteo metallice marginatis.

Head and face shining silvery ; palpi silvery. Antennae
silvery, inconspicuously annulated above with yellowish.
Fore wings ochreous, brightly shining with silvery and
brassy metallic scales ; a narrow fasciaform streak
tending obliquely outwards from the apical fourth of the
costa, a shorter oblique streak before the middle, reach-
ing about half across the wing, and a costal spot nearer
to the base, are composed of shining metallic silvery
slightly-raised scales, appearing, under a strong lens,
dull purplish brown, golden yellow, or silvery white as the
light strikes them at different angles. Cilia very long,
dull yellowish white, mixed with ochreous about the
anal angle, and with a few strong purplish brown pro-
jecting scales on the dorsal margin at about one-third
from the base. Hind wings straight, evenly attenuated
towards the apex, ochreous ; with a basal patch, a
median, and a subapical fascia, all whitish, conspicuously
margined with silvery iridescent scales, as in the fore
wings. Cilia dull yellowish white, with a slight indica-
tion of a few projecting scales on the abdominal
margin opposite to those on the fore wings. Legs
yellowish, the tibiae pilose, tarsi shining, slightly metallic.
Expanse, 10 mm.

One specimen. Taken at D 'Urban, in West Park
thicket, in July.

•
SETOMORPHA, Zeller.

Setomorpha rutella, Zell., Handlingar Kong. Svensk.
Vetens. Akad., 1852, pp. 94, 95 ; Walk., Cat. Lep.
Het., B. M., xxx., p. 708.

CNEMIDOLOPHUS, n. g.

Capite hirsutum. Haustellum mediocre squamatum.
Ocelli nulli. Palpi labiales recurvi articulo secundo vix
incrassato tertio tenui, acuto. Antennae simplices,
articulo basali elongato clavato. Alae anticae elongatae
lanceolatae, costa aliquot arcuata apice depresso. Pos-
ticae lanceolatae, apice attenuato depresso. Tibiae anticae

Tineida, and Pterophorida of South Africa. 275

et mediae dense fasciculatae, posticee pilosae calcaribus
imparibus.

Head rough. Tongue of moderate length, thickly
scaled. Ocelli none. Labial palpi recurved, with the
second joint scarcely thickened, the third joint slender
and pointed. Antennas simple, the basal joint elongate-
clavate. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate,^the costa some-
what rounded, the apex depressed. Hind wings lanceo-
late, the apex attenuated and depressed. The first and
second pair of tibiae conspicuously and densely tufted,
the third pair coarsely hairy. The inner spurs much
longer than the outer.

Probably allied to the genus Laverna, Curtis.

Cnemidolophus lavcrneUus, n. s. (PL XIII. , fig. 43).

Capite albo, brunneo irrorato. Palpis albis, brunneo
maculatis. Antennis albo et brunneo annulatis. Alis
anticis albis, maculis duabus in basi costae, fascia mediali
latissima irregulari et litura apicali brunneis, squamis
fusco-purpureis nitentibus admixtis. Posticis dilute
cinereis subnitentibus, tibiis anticis et mediis fasciculatis
albis, brunneo bifasciatis ; pedibus albis fusco externe
maculatis. Tibiis posticis hirsutis curn pedibus externe
brunneo submaculatis.

Head white, mottled with brown. Palpi white, with a
pale brownish spot at the apex of the second joint, and
two or three pale brownish marks on the apical joint.
Fore wings white, with two brown costal spots near the
base, the second of which is prolonged by a few brownish
fuscous scales, indicating an obsolete basal patch or
fascia ; before the middle commences a very wide
irregular fascia occupying about one-half of the whole
surface of the wing, its inner edge being more clearly
defined than its outer edge, which extends obliquely out-
wards through the cilia at the anal angle. The fascia
has a generally mottled appearance, and is for the most
part brown, upon which are distributed patches of shining
dark purple scales, especially along the inner edge, near
the costa, and on the dorsal half of the wing about the
middle ; it is also occasionally interrupted by more or
less conspicuous spots of the white ground colour, of
which the most clearly defined is a small costal spot
near the commencement of the fascia. There is a brown

276 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

patch at the apex extending through the apical cilia,
and much mottled with shining dark purple scales. The
cilia on the middle of the apical margin are white.
Hind wings pale cinereous, somewhat shining, with
scarcely paler cilia. First and second pairs of tibiae
white, with strong thick tufts doubly barred on the
upper side with brown ; the feet spotted with fuscous.
Third pair of tibiae densely hairy, together with the feet
outwardly spotted with brownish. Expanse, 19 mm.

• One specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection, with no record
of its capture.

LECITHOCEBA, Herrich-S 'chaffer.

Lecithocera anthologella, Wallgr., Of. Af.'Kongl. Vet.
Akad. For. 1875, Arg. 32, p. 129.

• Lecithocera maculata, n. s. (PI. XI., fig. 18).

Capite levi, fusco. Palpis externe fusco suffusis in-
\terne albido-ochraceis. Antennis crassiusculis ochreo-
flavidis. Alis anticis fuscis subnitide purpurascentibus
macula discali minore macula in finem cellules majore et
macula subobsoleta costali in terno apicali ochraceis.
Posticis et abdomine fuscis quam anticis paulo diluti-
oribus.

Head smooth, fuscous. Palpi whitish ochreous on
their inner sides, touched with fuscous externally. An-
tennae very thick yellowish ochreous. Fore wings
fuscous, slightly shining, and with a purplish tinge ; a
small faint ochreous discal spot on the outer edge of the
basal third ; a larger roundish faifft ochreous spot at the
end of the cell, and another less conspicuous spot of the
same colour (sometimes scarcely visible) on the costal
margin above and beyond it, from which an outwardly
angulated line of very faint ochreous scales crosses
the wing to the dorsal margin. The hind wings and
abdomen fuscous, slightly paler than the fore wings.
Expanse, 13 mm.

Two specimens taken at Spring Vale, in bush and at
light, December and March.

This differs from other species of the genus with which
I am acquainted in the presence of pale ochreous spots
on the fore wings.

Tineida, and Ptemphoridte of South Africa. 277

LITHOCOLLETIS, Zeller.
Lithocolletis zulella, n. s. (PL XIII., fig. 44).

Capite palpis et antennis albis. Alis anticis cervinis
puncto apicali nigro. Strigis dorsalibus duabus albis
prima a basi secunda a medio, strigulis costalibus
brevioribus albis ultra medium concurrentibus. Posticis
cinereis.

Head, antennae, and palpi white ; thorax white, with
a fawn-brown streak down the middle. Fore wings
fawn-brown, with two dorsal and two smaller costal
streaks ; the first dorsal streak, starting from the base,
joins the first costal streak, starting beyond the middle,
at an acute angle on the costal half of the wing; the
second dorsal streak, starting from the middle of the
dorsal margin, joins the second costal streak, starting on
the apical fourth of the wing (also at an acute angle)
immediately before the apex, on which is a black spot ;
a few blackish scales are to be found between the costal
streaks, also on the outer edge of the first and inner edge
of the second dorsal streaks. Hind wings and cilia
cinereous. Expanse, 11 mm.

One in Mr. Gooch's collection.

PTEKOPHOEDXE.

AGDISTES, Hiibner.

^ Agdistes pustulalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,

pp. 927, 928.

This species is represented in the Gooch collection by
a single specimen.

It is probably very Nearly allied to Agdistes heydenii,
Zeller, having an indication of the fuscous dots and
cuneiform shade which distinguish that species. I
have seen no specimens in a condition which would
warrant a re-description.

AMBLYPTILUS, Hiibner.

AmUyptilus cosmodactylus, Hub., Wocke Cat., No. 3131.
? Pterophorusacanthodactyliis, Zell., Handlingar Kong.

Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 117.
Oxyptilus direptalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,

p. 934.

This is most probably the species recorded by Professor
Zeller from South Africa as Amblyptilu* acanthodactylu*.

278 Lord Walsingham on the Tortriddce,

I find three specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection labelled
as occurring at D 'Urban (West Park), and Spring Vale,
in bush in the afternoon, and at light in the evening in
July, August, and November. These agree with the
almost cosmopolitan cosmodactylus, but not with the true
acantliodactylus.

There is also one South African specimen in the
British Museum, placed with others under the name
Oxyptilus direptalis, Walk. On comparing Mr. Walker's
description with the three distinct species in this series,
I find that it agrees only with the first specimen, which
is undoubtedly Amblyptilus cosmodactylus, which must,
therefore, be considered the type of his 0. direptalis.

(^Amblyptilus a/ricce, n. s. (PL XIII. , fig. 45).

Capite et alis anticis sordide brunneo-ochraceis ; alis
anticis minus quam ad medium fissis costa supra basim
fissurse et puncto interjacente fuscis. Lacinia anteriore
interne fusco adumbrata, apice producto subfalcato ;
lacinia posteriore interne fusco adumbrata, ciliis brunneo-
fuscis ; margine dorsali squamis obscure fuscis denticu-
late. Alis posticis brunneo-fuscis, digito secundo sub-
falcato, digito tertio postice bidenticulato. Tibiis posticis
dilute brunneo-ochraceis, calcaribus fusco acuminatis.

Head and fore wings dingy brownish ochreous, the
fore wings cleft to one-third of their length, having a
dark fuscous spot above the base of the fissure about
half-way between this and the costa ; the costa above the
base of the fissure shaded with fuscous. Anterior lobe
with the apex produced, subfalcate, having a narrow
subfalcate shade along its middle, Margined at its outer
end by a slender pale line ; a fuscous shade on the costa
above the apex. Second lobe with a fuscous shade along
its middle ; the anal angle not well defined. Cilia
brownish fuscous, with a projecting tooth of dark
fuscous scales slightly beyond the middle of the dorsal
margin. Hind wings brownish fuscous, the first cleft
reaching scarcely beyond the middle ; the apex of the
second lobe slightly falcate, the third lobe with two teeth
of dark fuscous scales in the fringe, one small near the
base, one widely triangular about the middle. Anterior
tibiae darkly tufted ; hind tibiae pale brownish ochreous,
with very long spurs, not tufted, each spur tipped with
fuscous, the inner one much longer than the outer.

Tineidce, <(nd Ptefopkoridte of South Africa. 279

Abdomen brownish fuscous at the sides, with a pale
dingy ochreous longitudinal streak above, along the
centre of which runs a slender brownish fuscous line.
Expanse, 27 mm.

Two specimens taken at Spring Vale at light in May.
1 have also received this species from Zululand through
the late Colonel Harvey Tower.

£>" OXYPTILUS, Zeller.

().ri/pti1ns caffer, ZelL, Lin. Ent. vi., p. 348; Hand-
lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 118 ;
Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., p. 934.

/', Oxi/ptilits walkeri, n. s.

Capite et thorace cervinis, palpis tenuibus porrectis.
Alis anticis vix ad medium fissis cervinis, lacinia pos-
teriore subfalcata, macula ante medium fusca squamis
subalbidis secuta, macula fuscescenti ad basim fissurse,
maculis tribus costalibus una apicali subconspicuis,
fasciis duabus dilutis subobsoletis transversis, ciliis intra
fissuram et in margine dorsali squamis singulis fusce-
scentibus dentatis. Alis posticis quam anticis aliquot
obscurioribus, digito tertio squamis fusco-brunneis paulo
ante apicem denticulate, tibiis brunneo et albido alter-
nantibus.

Head and thorax fawn-brown, the latter posteriorly
paler. Antennae greyish brown ; palpi slender, porrected,
not tufted. Fore wings cleft nearly to the middle, fawn-
brown ; a fuscous spa* before the middle is followed by
some whitish scales ; there is a fuscous spot at the base
of the fissure, above and beyond it three costal and one
apical spot, blackish ; the second costal spot is preceded
and the third costal spot is followed each by a band of
paler whitish scales, which bands are continued across
both lobes, but not conspicuously ; between these paler
bands the cilia within the fissure are studded with
fuscous scales, as also on the dorsal margin of the
second lobe, the apex of which is elongated and sub-
falcate, with a defined anal angle. The hind wings
are somewhat darker than the fore wings, the posterior
cleft extending very nearly to the base ; the third lobe
ornamented on its hinder margin with alternate whitish

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280 Lord Walsingham on the Tortriciche,

and fuscous scales at the base of the fringes, and with a
conspicuous tooth of dark brownish fuscous scales near
the apex, above which the fringes on the anterior edge
of the lobe are also thickened with dark scales up to
the apex. The abdomen is missing in all Mr. Gooch's
specimens ; the legs are whitish ochreous, banded with
dark brown above each joint ; the spurs whitish ochreous,
the first pair longer than the second ; above each pair is
a conspicuous fringe of raised dark brown scales. Ex-
panse, 16 mm.

This species stands second in the British Museum
series of Oxyptilus direptalis, Walk. ; but an examination
of the description shows (as stated above) that it applies
with more correctness to the example of Amblyptilus
cosmodactylus, which stands first in the same series,
and which is evidently the type ; the name 0. direptalis,
Walk., must, therefore, be abandoned, inasmuch as it
could not have been intended to apply to the species
now under description. It would have been difficult to
render this species recognisable by means of a figure ; it
is nearly allied to 0. pilosellce, Zell., the tooth of scales
on the third lobe of the hind wings being somewhat
nearer to the apex than in 0. Itetus and 0. distans, which
species it more closely resembles in appearance.

Three specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection taken at
Spring Vale and D' Urban among grass in the afternoon,
and at light in the evening in November and December.

Oxyptilus wahlbergi, Zell., Lin. Ent. vi., p. 346 ; Hand-
lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetenj. Akad., 1852, p. 117.

0. wahlbergi, Walk., CUt. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,
p. 934.

Pterophorus rutilalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,
p. 943.

Three specimens of this species are in Mr. Gooch's
collection without any record of the time or place of
capture.

Of the palpi Zeller writes : — " Taster von doppelter
Kopflange, weisslich. Endglied iiber den spitzen
Haarbusch des zweiten Gliedes hinausreichend, weiss,
auf der Unterseite schwarz."

The palpi are very peculiar ; there is a small pointed
tuft of hair on the first as well as on the second joint,

Tineida, and Pterophorida of Month Africa. 281

which makes them appear to consist of three spines of
gradually increasing length and divergence.

.This species can scarcely be considered a true
Oxyptilns. The peculiarity of the palpi alone separates
it from that section of the genus Aciptilus, which has
been held to include A . paludum, ZelL, and A. siceliota,
ZelL, to which it appears to be allied.

(EDEMATOPHORUS, W<iU<'u<jrai .

(Edematophorus loncjalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
p. 943.

The typical specimen is in bad condition, but seems
to belong to the genus (Edematophorus by reason of its
structure.

e MIM^SEOPTILUS, Wallengren.

' ^rMimtfyseoptilus sabitis, F. & R., Reise d. Nov., pi. cxl.,

fig. 60.
Caftraria.

There is a single specimen in bad condition of another
species of Mim&seoptilus in Mr. Gooch's collection, taken
among grass in the market square at D' Urban in July.
The wings appear to be almost unicolorous pale greyish
brown ; the head, thorax, antennas, and the tufts of the
palpi more decidedly grey. There is a fuscous discal
spot before the middle, and a faint anti-fissural dot of
the same colour. It is a much smaller species than
Mimaeseoptilus sabiits, F. & R. Expanse, 18 mm.

•
LIOPTILTJS, Wallengren.

-- Lioptilus bonasp&i, n. s. (PL XIII., fig. 46).

Alis anticis dilute stramineis, cervino prsecipue ultra
medium adumbratis, dimidio costali laciniae posterioris
dilute stramineo. Ciliis omnibus cervinis. Posticis
nitide cervinis, ciliis ante medium digiti posterioris
fumido substriatis.

Palpi slender, projecting nearly the length of the head
beyond it. Antennae tinged with fawn-colour. Fore
wings cleft to one-third of their length, straw-coloured,
shaded with fawn-brown over more than the costal half
of the wing, except towards the base, where only the
costa is shaded. The pale straw-colour extends from the

282 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

basal portion of the wing in a narrow streak along the
upper edge of the second lobe, leaving the cilia along
the margin of the cleft, as well as the dorsal half of the
lobe, and the cilia upon it, fawn-brown. Hind wings
shining fawn-colour, with no projecting scales, but
apparently a slightly darker streak in the cilia of the third
lobe just before the middle. Legs pale stramineous,
with a dark slender line along their upper sides and on
the pale spurs, which are almost equal in length. Ex-
prinse, 19 — 20 mm.

One in Mr. Gooch's collection.

ACIPTILUS, Hiibner.
Aciptilus albidus.

Pterophorus albidus, Zell., Lin. Ent. vi., p. 897 ; Hand-

lingar Kong. Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852,

p. 118.
Aciptilus albidus, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx.,

p. 948.
A. alttda, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For.,

1875, Arg. 32, p. 130.

Three specimens of this species taken by Mr. Gooch
at D'Urban among rushes in the evening in July.

- Aciptilus candidalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M.,
xxx., p. 948.

The type of this species is stated by Mr. Walker
to have been received from Sierra Leone. I find
one specimen in Mr. Gooch's collection which seems
to agree with it in all particulars. It was taken at
Spring Vale in March.

C^ Aciptilus adnmbratm, n. s. (PI. XIII., fig. 47).

Capite dilutissime brunneo macula parva brunnea
inter antennas subflavescente albidas. Alis anticis flave-
scente albidis, macula parva ante medium macula in basi
fissurae squamis concoloribus anguste connexis brunneis.
Costa (pra3cipue in lacinia prima ante apicem) brunneo
adumbrata. Ciliis intra fissuram et sub lacinia pos-
teriore prsecipue versus apicem brunneis, basibus
obscurioribus. Posticis brunneis.

Tineida, and Pterophoridae of South Africa. 283

Head very pale brownish, with a small brown spot
between the antennae, which are yellowish white. Fore
wings yellowish white, cleft to one-third of their length,
the costa shaded with brown nearly to the apex, two-
thirds of the apical lobe being suffused with brown
scales ; a small darker brown costal spot slightly beyond
the base of the cleft, a conspicuous brown spot at the
base of the cleft connected by a line of brown scales,
with a rather narrower spot of the same colour before
the middle of the wing ; the cilia within the cleft and
below the second lobe deeply shaded with brown, which
is darkest at their base towards the apex ; a few brownish
scales also along the basal third of the dorsal margin.
Hind wings and cilia brown. Abdomen missing. Legs
yellowish white, the posterior tibiae with - slender brown
lines along their outer and upper sides, as well as on the
spurs. Expanse, 16 mm.

One specimen taken at Pinetown at light in April.

C- Aciptilus tripunctatus, n. s. (PI. XIII., fig. 48).

Capite et antennis cinereis, fronte albido. Alis anticis
albis ; striga in basi marginis dorsalis brunnea, macula
costali supra basim fissurse brunnea squamis dilutioribus
diffusis ad marginem dorsalem ante medium oblique pro-
ducta ; punctis in margine laciniae anterioris duobus
costalibus uno dorsali, strigula in margine anteriore, et
puncto in margine dorsali laciniae posterioris, brunneis.
Ciliis dilute brunneis albo interruptis. Posticis cum
ciliis nitentibus dilute cinereis, punctulo subobsoleto in
apice extreme utriusque digiti.

Head and antennae cinereous, the front whitish ; palpi
cinereous. Fore wings cleft to fully one-third of their
length, white, with a brown streak along the dorsal
margin near the base, followed by an indistinct spot of
the same colour before the middle, connected obliquely
by a line of paler brownish scales, with a conspicuous
brown costal spot above the base of the fissure. There
are three dark brown spots on the margins of the anterior
lobe, the first surrounded by a paler brownish costal
shade, the second also on the costa near the apex, the
third on the posterior margin, rather nearer to the apex
than the first. Along the middle of the anterior margin
of the second lobe is a brown streak, an inconspicuous

284 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce,

small spot of the same colour lying immediately below
it on the opposite margin of the lobe. The costal cilia
are white, but those within the fissure and beneath the
second lobe are brown, interrupted in the middle of each
lobe by a white band. Hind wings and cilia pale
cinereous, having a very small almost obsolete darker spot
at the extreme apex of each lobe ; first and second pairs of
legs white, streaked with brown, the third pair white, with
,a conspicuous brown spot above at the first pair of
spurs. The tarsi slightly shaded with cinereous. Ex-
panse, 18 mm.

Two specimens from Spring Vale taken at light in
November.

ALUCITA, Zeller.

Alucita lutlefi, Wallgr., Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad.

For., 1875, Arg. 32, p. 130.
Transvaal.

Alucita fortis, n. s. (PI. XIII., fig. 49).

Capite, thorace, et antennis dilute griseo-fuscis ; palpis
griseo-fuscis, plene vestitis, quam capite et thorace
longioribus porrectis. Alis anticis subalbidis, costa
albido et griseo-fusco maculata, plaga basali oblique
marginata in costa latiore griseo-fusca, fascia mediali
anguste et margine apicali late griseo-fuscis ; posticis
subalbidis ultra medium dilute griseo-fusco latius adum-
bratis, linea submarginali anguste interne reduplicata
griseo-fusca.

Antennae, head, and thorax pale greyish fuscous ;
palpi greyish fuscous, densely clothed, projecting more
than the length of the head and thorax beyond the front.
Fore wings dingy whitish, the costal lobe mottled with
greyish fuscous ; a basal patch covering about one-
fourth of the wing, its outer margin oblique, widest
on the costa, greyish fuscous ; a greyish fuscous narrow
inwardly oblique central fascia, well defined on its inner,
gradually shaded off on its outer, edge. The apical
margin is rather widely greyish fuscous, a slender whitish
line crossing the lobes before the extreme margin ; a pale
greyish fuscous shade lies half-way between the central
fascia and the marginal shade. Hind wings of the
same dingy whitish colour as the fore wings, with a

, and Ptcroplunidce of South Africa. 285

rather wide pale greyish fuscous shade beyond the
middle, a slender line of the same colour beyond it,
followed by a wider one near the margin just before the
points of the lobes, each of which bears a small pale
greyish fuscous dot. Expanse, 23 mm.

One specimen received from the late Colonel Harvey
Tower from South Africa, probably Zululand. A large
and conspicuous species, having the wings less deeply
cleft than in the European forms of this group ; the
palpi are also very conspicuously longer and more thickly
clothed. This species should probably be made the type
of a new genus.

The discovery of allied or intermediate forms may at
some future time render it necessary to distinguish them
from the original genus Alucita.

Alucita f err uginea, n. s.

Two specimens of a new species of Alucita in Mr.
Gooch's collection are not in sufficiently good condition
to be minutely described, but their colour is very
different from that of any known species with which
I am acquainted. The ground colour of all the wings
appears to be yellowish white, and the markings, which
are distributed transversely across the wings, as is usual
in this genus, are shining pale yellowish ferruginous.
Expanse, 14 mm.

Alucita capensis ? F. & E., Reise d. Nov., pi. cxl., fig. 63.
Mr. Gooch's collection contains two specimens, pro-
bably referable to this species, but the scarcely satis-
factory figure given by Felder and Eogenhofer is accom-
panied by no description, and by no further assistance to
its future recognition than the one remark, " Accedens ad
cymatodactylum / "

They appear to be allied to Alucita grammodactyla,
Zell., but, like most ofihePterophorida in this collection,
they are in very imperfect condition.

286 Lord Walsingham on the Tortriddce,

SYSTEMATIC INDEX.

TORTRICID^E.

PAGE

Cacoecia, Hub.

reciprocana", Walk.

. 221

capitana, F. & R.

. 221

adustana, Wlsm.

. 222

(PL X., fig. 1.)

Lozotsenia, Her.-Sch.

capensana, Walk.

. 222

dorsiplagana, Wlsm. .

. 223

^ (PL X., fig. 2.)

diluticiliana, Wlsm.

. 224

(PI. X., fig. 3.)

elegans, Wlsm. .

. 224

(PI. X., fig. 4.)

Syndemis, Hub.

saburrana, Zell. .

. 225

Compsoctena, Zell.

primella, Zell.

. 225

(PI. X., fig. 5.)

connexalis, Walk.

. 227

Coucbylis, Tr.

trimeni, F. & E. .

. 227

africana, Wlsm. .

. 227

(PI. X., fig. 6.)

Sericoris, Tr.

scabellana, Zell. .

. 228

Eccopsis, Zell.

wahlbergiana, Zell.

. 229

fluctuatana, Wlsm.

. 230

(PI. X., fig. 7.)

Aphelia, Steph.

lanceolana, Hiib.

. 231

Grapholitha, Tr.

spissana, Zell.

. 232

Carpocapsa, Tr.

diremptana, Walk.

. 232

Steganoptycha, Steph.

infausta, Wlsm. .

. 232

(PI. X., fig. 8.)

Phoxopteris, Tr.

natalana, Wlsm.

. 233

(PI. X., fig. 9.)

TINEID.E.

Choreutis, Hiib.

australis, Zell.

. 234

Atychia, Ochsm.

quiris, F. & R.

. 234

Penestoglossa, Rognfr.

capensis, F. & R.
Semioscopis, Hiib.

. 234

trigonella, F. & R.

. 234

Tiquadra, Walk. PAGE

goochii, Wlsm. . . . 234

(PI. X., fig. 10.)
Ischnopsis, Wlsm.

angustella, Wlsm. . . 237
(PI. X., fig. 11.)

Euplocamus, Latr.

stupens, Wallgn. . . 237

horridellus, Walk. . . 237

Tinea, Zell,

vastella, Zell. . . . 238
abactella, Walk. . . . 242
iucultella, Walk. . . 242

purpurea, Stn. . . . 242
fuscipunctella, Haw. . . 242
farraginella, Zell. . . 242
damnificella, Zell. . . 242
erinacea, Walk. . . . 242
(PL XI., fig, 12.)

Blabophanes

longeUa, Walk. . . .243
speculella, Zell. . . .244
rejectella, Walk. . . . 244
rutilicostella, Stn. . . 244

Nemophora, Hiib.

crinigerella, Zell. . . 244
elongatella, Wlsm. . . 244

(PL XL, fig. 13.)
turpisella, Walk. . . .245
alternipunctella, Wlsm. . 245

(PL XL, fig. 14.)

trigoniferella, Wlsm. . . 246
(PL XL, fig. 15.)

Ceromitia, Zell.

wablbergi, Zell. . . . 247

Adela, Latr.

natalensis, Stn. . . . 247
electella, Walk. . . .247

Hyponomeuta, Zell.

africanus, Stn. . . . 248
subplumbellus, Wlsm. . 248

(PL XL, fig. 16.)

fumigatus, Zell. . . . 249
strigillatus, Zell. . . 249

perficitellus, Walk. . . 249
(PL XL, fig. 17.)

Psecadia, Zell.

circumdatella, Walk. . . 249
livid a, Zell. . . .249

(Coptoproctis).

languida, Zell. . . . 250

(Gymnogramma).

rufiventris, Zell. . . 250

Tincidce, and PteTophoridee of South Africa.

287

Eustixis, Hub.

Ypsolophus siccifolii, Wlsm.

267

flavivitella, Wlsm.

. 250

(PI. XIIL, fig. 37.)

Depressaria, Haw.

Nothris, Hiib. .

trimenella, Wlsm.

. 251

externella, Zell. .

. 267

(PI. XL, fig. 19.)

septella, Zell.

. 267

acerbella, Walk. .

. 252

meridionella, Wlsm. .

. 268

Enicostoma, Steph.

(PI. XIIL, fig. 38.)

coartata, Wlsm.

. 252

Topeutis, Hiib.

(PI. XL, fig. 20.)

drucella, Wlsm. .

. 268

Cryptolecbia, Zell.

(PI. XIIL, fig. 39.)

stramineella, Zell.

. 252

Hypercallia, Steph.

(PI. XL, fig. 21.)

subreticulata, Wlsm. .

. 269

obliquella, Wlsm.

. 254

(PI. xiir., fig. 40.)

(PI. XL, fig. 22.)

CEcopbora, Zell.

castella, Zell.

. 255

sabiella, F. & R. .

. 270

eariasella, Walk. .

. 255

obliquestrigella, Wlsm.

. 258

hreresiella, Wallgn.

. 255

(PI. XIL, fig. 27.)

dilutella, Wlsm. .

. 255 Eretmocera, Zell.

(PI. XL, fig. 23.)

! (CEdematopoda)

atropunctella, Wlsm. .

. 256 princeps, Zell. .

. 271

(PI. XL, fig. 24.)

(Eretmocera)

roseoflavida, Wlsm.

. 256

fuscipennis, Zell.

. 271

(PI. XIL, fig. 25.)

scatospila, Zell. .

. 272

roseocostella, Wlsm. .

. 257

lunifera, Zell.

. 272

(Pi. XIL, fig. 26.)

(PI. XIIL, fig. 41.)

Antseotricha, Zell.

Isetissima, Zell. .

. 272

ovata, Wlsm.

. 258

jEchmia, Tr.

Teratopsis, Wlsm.

bohemani, Zell. .

. 272

tunicella, Wlsm.

. 260

Glyphipteryx , Hiib.

(PL XI r., fig. 28.;

dimidiatella, Walk.

. 273

Psoricoptera, Stn.

Idioglossa, Wlsm.

hirsutella, Wlsm.

. 261

bigemma, Wlsm.

. 273

(PL XIL, fig. 29.)

(PL XIIL, fig. 42.)

Gelechia, Zell.

Setomorpha, Zell.

rescissella, Zell.

. 261

rutella, Zell.

. 274

zetterstedtiella, Zell. .

. 261

Cnemidolophus, Wlsm.

zulu, Wlsm.

. 261

lavernellus, Wlsm.

. 275

(PI. XIL, fig. 30.)

(PI. XIIL, fig. 43.)

flavipalpella, Wlsm.

. 262

Lecithocera, Her.-Sch.

(PI. XIL. fig. 31.)

antbologella, Wallgn. .

. 276

abjunctella, Walk.

. 262

maculata, Wlsm.

- 276

Brachmia, Hein.

(PI. XL, fig. 18.)

trigella, Zell.

263

Lithocolletis, Zell.

subsecivella, Zell.

. 263

zulella, Wlsm. .

. 277

Drosica, Walk.

(PL XIIL, fig. 44.)

abjectella, Walk. .
(PI. XIL, fig. 32.)

. 263

PTEKOPHOKID.E.

Eucleodora, Wlsm.

Agdistes, Hiib.

chalvbeella, Wlsm. .

. 264

pustulalis, WTalk.

. 277

(PL XIL, fig. 33.)

Amblyptilus, Hiib.

Chelaria, Haw.

cosmodactylus, Hiib.

. 277

albogrisea, Wlsm. .

. 264

africse, Wlsm.

. 278

(PI. XIL, fig. 34.)

(PL XIIL, fig. 45.)

Ypsolopbus, Fabr.

Oxyptilus, Zell.

furvellus, Zell. .

. 265

caffer, Zell. .

. 279

latipalpis, Wlsm.

. 265

walked, Wlsm. .

. 279

(PI. XIL, fig. 35.)

wahlbergi, Zell. .

. 280

straminis, Wlsm.

. 266

(Edematophorus, Wallgn.

(PI. XIL, fig. 36.)

longalis, Walk. .

. 281

TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1881. PAET II. (JULY.)

288 Lord Walsingham on Tortricida, Tineida, &c.

Mirnseseoptilus, Wallgn.

sabius, F. & R. . . . 281

Lioptilus, Wallgn.

bonsespei, Wlsm. . . 281

(PI. XIII., fig. 40.)

Aciptilus, Hiib.

albidus, ZeU. . . .282
cauclidalis, Walk. . . 282
adumbratus, Wlsm. . . 282
(PI. XIII., fig. 47.)

Aciptilus tripunctatus, Wlsm. 283
(PL XIII., fig. 48.)

ALUCITID.E.

Alucita, ZeU.

butleri, Wallgn. . . .284

fortis, Wlsm. . . .284

(PI. XIII., fig. 49.)

ferruginea, Wlsm. . . 285

capensis, F. & E. . . 285

EXPLANATION OF PLATES.

PLATE X.

FIG.

1. Caccecia adustana, Wlsm.

2. Lozotcenia dorsiplagana, Wlsm.

3. „ diluticiliana, Wlsm.

4. „ elegans, Wlsm.

5. 5a, 5&. Gompsoctena primella, ZeU.

6. Conchylis africana, Wlsm.

FIG.

7. Eccopsisfluctuatana,Whm.

8. Steganoptycha infausta, Wlsm.

9. Phoxopteris natalana, Wlsm.

10, lOa, 10&. Tiquadra goochii, Wlsm.

11, lla, 11&. Isclinopsis angustella,

Wlsm.

PLATE XI.

12. Tinea ? erinacea, Walk.

13. Nemophora elongatella, Wlsm.

14. „ alternipunctella,Wlsm.

15. „ trigoniferella, Wlsm.

16. Hyponomeuta subplumbellus^lsm.

17. „ perficitellus, Walk.

18. Lecithocera maculata, Wlsm.

19. Depressaria trimenella, Wlsm.

20. Enicostoma coarctata, Wlsm.

21. Cryptolechia stramineella, ZeU.
• 22. „ obliquella, Wlsm.

23. „ diluteUa, Wlsm.

24. „ atropunctella, Wlsm.

PLATE XII.

25. Cryptolechia roseqflavida, Wlsm.

26. „ roseocostella, Wlsm.

27. (Ecophora? obliquestrigellat'Wlsm.

28. Teratopsis tunicella. Wlsm.

29. Psoricoptera hirsutella, Wlsm.

30. Gelechia zulu, Wlsm.

31. Gelechia flavipalpella, Wlsm.

32, 32a. Drosica abjectella, Walk.

33, 33a. Eucleodorachalybeella, Wlsm.

34. Chelaria albogrisea, Wlsm.

35. Ypsolophus latipalpis, Wlsm.

36. „ straminis, Wlsm.

PLATE XIII.

37. Ypsolophus siccifolii, Wlsm.

38. Nothris meridionella, Wlsm.

39. Topeutis drucella, Wlsm.

40. Hypercallia subreticulata, Wlsm.

41. 41a. Eretmocera lunifera, ZeU.
42, 42a. Idioglosta bigemma, Wlsm.
43, 43a, 436. Cnemidolophus laver-

nellus, Wlsm.

44. Lithocolletis zulella, Wlsm.

45. Amblyptilus africce, Wlsm.

46. Lioptilus boncespei, Wlsm.

47. Aciptilus adumbratus, Wlsm.

48. „ tripunctatus, Wlsm.

49. Alucita? fortis, Wlsm.

Trans. Erib. Sec. 18t> 'J. / '/ . A .

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South jA£ricar^ .Micr-o-lepidDptera.

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South African Micro-lepidoptera .

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South African Micro-lepidoptera,

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Sooth African Micro-leprloptera

III. African Micro- Lepidoptera. By the Eight Honble.
Lord WALSINGHAM, M.A., F.K.S., F.L.S., &c.

[Bead November 5th, 1890.]
PLATES III., IV., V., VI. & VII.

I AM indebted to many kind correspondents for the
material dealt with in this paper. Mr. Gilbert T. Carter,
C.M.G., formerly Treasurer and now Administrator of
the Gambia Settlements, has sent me many things from
Accra and Bathurst, some of which have been dealt
with in a previous paper (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881,
219—288, PL X.— XIII.). Mr. J. M. Hutchinson has
collected for me at Kimbolton (Estcourt), Natal. I have
also received contributions from Mr. Herbert Druce,
Colonel Bowker, Mr. C. G. Barrett, and Mr. F. J. Jack-
son; the last collection as coming chiefly from the
country between Kilirna Njaro and the coast is especially
interesting. The species described in this paper by no
means exhaust the material, and I hope at some future
time to work out the remainder. In the meanwhile the
present considerable addition to the list of African
Tineidce and Tortriddce may perhaps be useful to those
who study the subject. The majority appear to belong
to well-known European genera, several of which are
now recorded for the first time as occurring in Africa.

In my previous paper attention was drawn to certain
genera which appear on both sides of the Atlantic ; no
less than seven additions are here made to this list : —
Phacasiophora, Grote, (Eta, Grote, Ide, Chambers,
Polyhymno, Chambers, Strobisia, Clemens, Anorthosia,
Clemens, and Zarathra, Walker. Some of these have a
still wider distribution, and will soon be also recorded
as Asiatic. The genus Philobota, Meyrick, hitherto
confined to the Australian region, is here recog-
nised. It is extremely probable that a more intimate
acquaintance than I possess with the numerous new
Australian genera characterised by Meyrick would show

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1891. — PART I. (MARCH.)

64 Lord Walsingham on

that other African forms not dealt with in this paper
can be rightly referred to some of them. The Indian
genus Timyra, Walker, is now found to occur in Africa.

Some few corrections are made in the synonymy of
described genera : Nigilgia, Walker, is identified as equal
to Phy codes, Guenee ; Polyhymno, Chambers, turns out
to be the same as the South American genus Copocercia,
subsequently described by Zeller ; my African genus
Teratopsis is Heinemann's Cacochroa, with which I have
only lately become acquainted in Europe.

Nine new genera are characterised in this paper,
seventy-one new species are described and figured,
while additional localities are given for many previously
known ; moreover, some few omissions in my former list
of South African species are corrected.

TOETEICIN^E.

TERAS, Tr.

Teras (Acleris, Hb.) algoana, F. & K., Eeise Nov. Lp.,

PL CXXXVIL, 50. (1875), ? .
Grahamstown (Cape Colony).

This species, with which I am unacquainted, was acci-
dentally omitted from my former paper (Trans. Ent.
Soc. Lond., 1881), which professed to give a complete
catalogue of South African Tortricidce.

CACCECIA, Hb.
Cacoecia adustana, Wlsm.
Grahamstown (Cape Colony) ; one specimen (Druce).

I am only acquainted with the $ of this species ; the
reception of the $ may perhaps prove that it should be
referred to Pandemis.

[PL iii., fig. 1.]
Cacoecia occidentalis, sp. n.

Antenna reddish brown. Palpi reddish brown. Head deep
reddish brown. Fore wings, $• , reddish brown, paler beyond the
oblique median fascia, much shaded with purplish fuscous scaling
from the base of the dorsal margin nearly to the anal angle ; this

African Micro-Lepidoptcra. 65

fuscous scaling extends upwards as far as the middle of the wing,
where a rich chestnut-brown fascia, running obliquely outwards
from the middle of the costal margin, meets it and blends with it ;
a small space on the middle of the dorsal margin is slightly paler
than the surrounding surface ; towards the apex an obliquely
curved shade of rich chestnut-brown is attenuated from the costal
margin to the lower half of the apical margin; cilia reddish
brown. In the $ , which is considerably larger than the $ , the
purplish fuscous scaling on the dorsal half of the wing is reduced
to two dorsal spots, the first before, the other beyond the middle ;
these are mixed with chocolate-brown, but the whole wing-surface
shows a mottled appearance caused by patches and lines of pale
steel-grey ccales, visible only in a strong light. Hind wings rich
brownish ochreous, with a cupreous tinge ; cilia paler, with a
darker line near their base. Abdomen and anal tuft the same
colour as the hind wings. Exp. al. $ 16 mm., $ 24 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia) ; -six specimens. " Taken
at light, November and December " (Carter).

Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

LOXOT^NIA, Stph.

The genus Loxotania is retained in the present paper,
for, although I am inclined to agree with Mr. Meyrick in
suppressing it in favour of Caccecia upon the grounds
stated in his paper on the classification of the Tortricina
of Australia (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W-, vi., 483 (1882) ),
it involves a more considerable alteration of accepted
nomenclature than would be justified without a detailed
examination of a considerable number of North American,
as well as African, species, which I am not at present in
a position to undertake.

Loxotcenia capensana, Wkr.

Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Htitchinson) ; Gra-
hamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce).

Loxotcenia elegans, Wlsm.

Estcourt (Natal), five specimens (Hutchinson) ; Gra-
hamstown (Cape Colony), two specimens (Druce) ; Zulu-
land, one specimen (collected by the late Col. Harvey
Tower).

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1891. — PART I. (MARCH.; F

66 Lord Walsingham on

PANDEMIS, Hb.
Pandemis reciprocana, Wkr.

Teras reciprocana, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B, M., XXVIII.,
295. (1863).

Caccecia reciprocana, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 221.

When writing my previous paper I was only acquainted
with the ? of this species, and was consequently unable
to refer it with certainty to Caccecia; I have since
received two males, collected at Estcourt (Natal) by
Mr. J. M. Hutchinson. These differ from Cacoscia, Hb.,
in not possessing a costal fold, and reciprocana should
be placed in the genus Pandemis, Hb., although the
notch in the basal joint of the antennae of the $ is but
slightly indicated.

Pandemis dorsiplagana, Wlsm.

Loxotcenia dorsiplagana, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 1881, 222—3.
This species should also be referred to Pandemis, Hb.

Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce) ;
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

Pandemis capitana, F. & E.

Tortrix capitana, F.&K., Eeise Nov. Lp.,Pl. CXXXIX.,

48—49 (1875).
Cacoscia 1 capitana, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1881, 221—2.

I was unacquainted with this :_ species in 1881, and
referred it provisionally to Cacoecia. I have since
received both sexes, which prove it to be a Pandemis.

Grahamstown (Cape Colony), four specimens (Druce).

ARGYROTOXA, Stph.

[PL iii., fig. 2.]
Argyrotoxa tigrina, sp. n.

Antenna brown at the base, greenish beyond. Palpi projected
second joint thickly clothed, the scales at its apex projecting
slightly beneath the short apical joint ; whitish ochreous above,

African Micro-Tjepidoptera. 67

umber-brown at the sides and beneath. Thorax ochreous above,
brown at the sides, the tegulae shining grey. Fore wings with
the costa very slightly raised in the middle, apex pointed, apical
margin oblique, not convex : silvery grey, with four narrow trans-
verse fasciae, each golden yellow, with an umber-brown central
line throughout ; the first commencing at one-third from the base,
slender, outwardly convex ; the second central, stouter, slightly
convex outwardly, and differing from the others in the more im-
portant umber-brown line nearly covering its outer half; the third
at about two-thirds of the wing-length, slightly oblique, tending
outwards from costal to dorsal margin, where it terminates just
before the anal angle ; the fourth, also oblique, terminating beyond
the anal angle ; beyond these fasciae is a short transverse streak of
a similar colouring, immediately before the apex, preceded by a
short costal streak of the same colour ; a diffused golden yellow
basal-streak above the middle does not reach the first fascia ; cilia
greyish fuscous. Under side greyish, with small pale ochreous
and brown costal spots beyond the middle. Hind wings and cilia
grey. Under side whitish grey. Abdomen darker grey ; anal tuft
ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous. Exp. al. 16 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL iii., fig. 3.]
^Argyrotoxaflavicostana, sp. n.

Antennce, head, and face pale straw-colour. Palpi greyish
fuscous. Thorax greyish fuscous, narrowly margined anteriorly
with pale straw-colour; tegulae pale straw-colour. Fore wings
greyish fuscous, the costal margin pale straw-colour to beyond the
apical third ; the lower edge of the clearly-defined pale costal band
is somewhat sinuous and narrowly margined with whitish ; at
one-third from the apex a pale straw-coloured transverse streak, or
narrow fascia, reaches to the dorsal margin immediately before the
anal angle, where it is somewhat dilated, this fascia is much
attenuated (almost interrupted) below the costal band, with which
it becomes blended, it is narrowly margined on both sides by a
whitish line ; a pale whitish narrow sinuous line runs from the
anal angle around the apical margin; there are a few (4 or 5)
small greyish fuscous costal spots in the pale costal band, and a
series of spots (about 7) of the same colour runs down the centre
of the transverse fascia ; cilia pale ochreous, with one or two
darker lines. Hind wings rather pointed, with the outer margin

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68 Lord Walsingham on

very oblique, greyish brown ; cilia the same. Abdomen and legs
greyish brown. Exp. al. 13 mm.

Hal. Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).
Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

•' Argyrotoxa viridis, sp. n.

Antennae rather more than half the length of the fore wings,
brownish fuscous, slightly pubescent. Palpi brownish ochreous,
dusted externally with fuscous ; second joint thickened anteriorly,
somewhat coarsely scaled ; apical joint obtuse, much shorter than
the second. Head dull brown, with erect scales above. Thorax
bright green, with a vermilion-red oblique streak on each side
posteriorly. Fore wings about twice as long as wide, costa sud-
denly arched near the base, thence parallel with the dorsal margin
to the slightly rounded apex ; apical margin straight, somewhat
rounded off at the anal angle : bright bluish green, the costal and
apical margins narrowly brownish ochreous, on which are a series
of about fourteen black dots and spots of different sizes from the
base to the apex, some of which are margined on their lower edges
with red ; along the apical margin are also some black spots, but
somewhat suffused and ill-defined ; upon the surface of the wing
are about seven conspicuous vermilion-red spots or streaks ; the
first elongate, reniform, extending obliquely downwards, near the
base of the wing, to the fold ; a second also on the basal third of
the wing, elongate, quadrangular, obliquely placed above, beyond,
and parallel to the first ; below this one is an elongate streak of
the same colour, the upper end of which barely crosses the fold,
the lower end reaching obliquely the basal third of the . dorsal
margin ; about the middle of the wing is another less elongate
quadrangular spot, above which is a streak connected with a black
costal spot, and beneath a rather larger oblique streak crossing the
fold to the dorsal margin beyond the middle ; an elongate oblique
streak of the same colour, its upper end somewhat dilated, extends
from the upper end of the cell towards the anal angle, but does not
reach it ; beyond the cell the wing is tinged with dull greyish or
purplish fuscous ; an undulating narrow whitish line forming the
inner edge of the ochreous marginal shade ; the middle of the cilia
on the apex and apical margin is clouded with greyish or purplish
fuscous. Hind wings as wide as the fore wings ; brown, the costal
margin straw-white nearly to the apex, which is produced, the

African Micro-Lepidoptera. 69

wing being emarginate beneath ; cilia brown. Abdomen brown.
Legs ochreous, clouded with fuscous. Exp. al. 14 mm.

Hob. Accra (Gold Coast), one specimen (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

CONCHYLIN^E.
CONCHYLIS, Tr.
Conchylis trimeni, F. & E.
Malvern (Natal), one specimen (Boivker).

[PL iii., fig. 5.]
C ~ Conchylis tricolor, sp. n.

Antennae, simple; orange at the base, leaden beyond. Palpi
pale orange. Head leaden grey above; face orange. Thorax
transversely barred with orange in front, leaden grey in the middle,
and bright scarlet behind. Fore wings, costal and apical portions
orange, the extreme costal margin dotted irregularly throughout
with leaden grey ; a large reniform leaden grey spot before the
apex, not reaching the costa, but attenuated downwards to the
apical margin above the anal angle ; a large leaden grey patch ex-
tends from the base nearly to the anal angle, occupying three-fourths
of the width of the wing, and approaching the costa at its upper and
outer angle at two-thirds from the base, its upper and outer edges
irregularly sinuous and clearly defined, the outer edge somewhat
transverse, oblique ; this leaden patch contains three transverse
bright vermilion bars, not reaching to its upper edge, and a spot
of the same colour ; the first bar near the base touching the dorsal
margin is angulated outwards on the fold, the second bar tending
a little obliquely inwards from the middle of the dorsal margin is
attenuated (almost interrupted) at a point a little above the fold ;
the third bar starting erect from the dorsal margin is dilated and
bent a little inwards at half its length ; between the first and second
bars, and almost touching the orange costal border, lies a nearly
circular spot containing a few black scales before its upper edge,
which is narrowly margined with orange ; cilia orange. Neuration
7 and 8 from a common stem. Hind ivings with the costal mar-
gin depressed before, and the outer margin concave below, the
produced but obtusely pointed apex ; brownish fuscous ; cilia the
same, with a slight purplish gloss. Neuration 3 and 4 from a
common stem, as also 6 and 7. Abdomen brownish fuscous.
i. al. 10 iimi.

70 Lord Walsingham on

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

GKAPHOLITHIN^.

EUDEMIS, Hb.
Eudemis botrana, Schiff.

Pietermaritzburg (Natal), October — November, one
specimen (Bowker).

This species has not apparently been hitherto recorded
from South Africa ; it has probably been introduced with
its well-known food-plant, the grape-vine.

[Fl. iii.; fig. 6.]
- Eudemis spissana, Z.

Orapkolitha spissana, Z., Hand. Kong. Svensk. Vet.-
Ak., 1852, 82—3.

This species has much the appearance of a true
Grapholitha, but agrees in neuration with Eudemis, Hb.,
to which genus it should be transferred. There is only
one point in which Zeller's description seems to require
an additional note ; he describes the four costal streaks
before the apex as white ; these are of a leaden grey if
looked at in an ordinary light, but, being somewhat
metallic, they appear almost white if held in certain
positions. The type being in Stockholm, I have figured
the species, which, I have no doubt, is rightly identified.
Zeller was only acquainted with the ? ; I have both
sexes.

Estcourt (Natal), four specimens (Hutchinson).

BACTBA, Steph.
^ Bactra lanceolana, Hb.
Estcourt (Natal), four specimens (Hutchinson) .

ECCOPSIS, Z.
C^-Eccopsis wahlbergiana, Z.

Bathurst (Gambia), ten specimens (Carter).

African Micro-Lepidoptera. 71

[PI. iii., fig. 7).
" Eccopsis ? nebulana, sp. n.

Antenna cinereous, a dark spot beneath on each basal joint.
Palpipale cinereous ; second joint with a blackish spot on the upper
edge towards the base, beyond this an oblique transverse bar,
followed by some darker shading. Head fuscous above ; face
cinereous, with a conspicuous black spot in front near each eye
Thorax fuscous, the tegulae cinereous at the base. Fore wings
cinereous, mottled with delicately striated patches of leaden grey ;
with a series of short triangular oblique spots throughout the
length of the costal margin separated by pale geminations, the
one at half the wing-length being the most important, expanded
outwards below the costa, and margined with a pale cinereous
line ; on the middle of the dorsal margin is a large, very distinct,
dark brownish-fuscous patch, rounded at its upper edge above the
middle of the wing, and with a slight pointed excrescence at its
upper and outer corner, margined throughout by a slender
cinereous line ; the extreme apex of the wing is brownish fuscous,
and below it, arising from about the middle of the apical margin,
is a pale brownish or greyish fuscous well- denned and inwardly
oblique dash running upwards, but not reaching to the costal
geminations ; a dark line runs along the apical margin before the
greyish cinereous cilia. Hind wings greyish fuscous, with a dark
line near the base of their paler cilia. Abdomen greyish fuscous.
Exp. al. 18 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

I have little doubt that this is a true Eccopsis, although
no male specimen has reached me. The species is very
distinct.

PENTHINA, Tr.

[PL iii., fig. 8.]

" Penthina brevibasana, sp. n.

Antennce dark greyish fuscous, with the basal joint whitish
ochreous. Palpi whitish ochreous. Head reddisli brown above,
whitish ochreous in front. Thorax dark brown, tegulae reddish
brown. Fore wings rather pointed, the apical margin slightly
oblique, the costa convex ; whitish ochreous, much mottled with
olive-grey and chestnut-brown, with a conspicuous short basal
patch reddish brown, darkened on its outer half by a strong
admixture of deep fuscous scales, its outer edge, leaving the costal

72 Lord Waisingbam on

margin at about one-fourth of the wing-length, reaches to beyond
one-third of the dorsal margin, and is slightly serrated throughout ;
this is followed by a large irregularly diffused olivaceous patch,
above which, on the costa, are two more olivaceous spots, with in-
distinct short oblique costal streaklets between, before, and beyond
them ; beyond the olivaceous patch are streaks and mottlings of
chestnut-brown, not reaching to the costal quarter of the wing ;
cilia shining dark purplish fuscous, almost black. Under side
greyish fuscous, with a pale ochreous space along the costal and
apical margins, which is irrorated throughout and shaded at the
extreme costa near the base with greyish fuscous. Hind wings
brownish grey, with slightly paler cilia, along the base of which
runs a slender line of the wing-colour. Abdomen dark brownish
grey. Legs whitish ochreous. Exp. al. 22 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .

Type, 2 , Mus. Wlsm.

A conspicuous and distinct species, easily recognised
by the short outwardly oblique dark basal-patch, con-
trasting somewhat strongly with the paler surface of the
wing beyond it.

SEEICOEIS, Tr.

[PL iii, fig. 9.]

Sericoris apicipunctana, sp. n.

Antennce grey. Palpi tawny grey, pale beneath and at the
extreme apex. Head tawny grey, the face paler. Thorax tawny
grey. Fore wings brownish fuscous, with an equal admixture of
diffused leaden grey mottlings, the darker shade prevailing only in
an ill-defined oblique transverse band beyond the middle ; the pale
costal geminations are alternated Math brownish fuscous spots or
streaks, of which two spots at the apex are most conspicuous, the
first costal, triangular; and outwardly oblique, the other apical,
larger, more rounded, and somewhat inverted ; some tawny -brown
colouring is visible about the ends of the costal geminations; cilia
tawny, paler at the anal angle, a dark line near their base. Hind
wings brownish fuscous, with paler cilia, along the base of which
runs a pale line. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 —
16 mm.

Ha b. Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).
Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

frican Micro-Lepidoptera. 73

PlLECASIOPHORA,

[PL iii., fig. 10.]
Phcecasiophora variabilis, sp. n.

Antenncz simple ; greyish fuscous. Palpi short and compact
the apical joint small, greyish fuscous above, paler beneath. Head
greyish fuscous, clothed with short rough scales. Thorax the same
colour as the head. Fore wings greyish fuscous, paler along the
first half of the dorsal margin, and sometimes with a pale diffused
patch on the costal margin before the middle, in which are two or
three small dark costal spots; beyond this is a short brownish
fuscous oblique costal streak, followed by others of the same
colour close to the apex; the most noticeable marking on the wing
is a large dark brown patch above the anal angle, paler about the
angle itself, but reaching nearly half-way along the dorsal margin,
and approaching the costa before the apex at its upper end, where
it is deflexed to a point above the middle of the apical margin ;
this patch is edged with a slender ill-defined greyish white line
throughout its inner and upper margin, which meets a short
slender greyish white streak coming from the costa immediately
before the apex ; in the darker portion of the wing is a somewhat
distinctly darker shade along the first half of the fold ; cilia
greyish white at and below the apex and above the anal angle, but
dark brown along the middle of the apical margin. Under side
unicolorous pale brownish fuscous, the cilia dirty whitish about the
apex and anal angle. Hind wings brownish fuscous; cilia greyish
white, with an obscure dark line along their base. Abdomen
brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 21 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ 2 , Mus. Wlsm.

The species appears to be variable ; the general pat-
tern of coloration is probably maintained, but the colours
vary from dark greyish fuscous to reddish brown, or
chestnut-brown, and perhaps even to other tints in an
extended series.

The African form of this genus differs from the North
American type, as described by Grote, in having strong
tufts of scales on the hind legs in both sexes (not in the
male only). It is interesting to find that not only does
the allied genus Eccopsis of Zeller (equal Clemens' North
American Exartema), but that this North American
genus, described by Grote (Bull. Buff. Soc. N. H., I., 90,

74 Lord Walsingham on

PI. II., 4 — 6 (1873)), also occurs on the African con-
tinent.

[PL iii., fig. 11.]
Phcecasiophora basicornis, sp. n.

Antennae greyish cinereous, faintly annulated ; the basal joint
distinctly white above. Palpi greyish fuscous ; the second joint
stout and thickly clothed. Head and face dark brownish fuscous,
a few dirty whitish scales on the crest. Thorax mottled cinereous
and fuscous, its anterior edge darker ; posterior edge and tegulae
with some brownish scales. Fore wings sprinkled and mottled
with cinereous, reddish brown, and fuscous, the base reddish brown
on the costal half, streaked with very dark fuscous along the costal
margin ; the reddish brown scaling is continued towards the dorsal
margin in scattered patches, forming a sort of ill-defined basal-
patch ; beyond this is a pale cinereous ill-defined transverse fascia,
rather bowed outwards, and much sprinkled with dusky scaling, a
patch of grey occupying its central part above the fold ; beyond
this fascia is a broad transverse shade of chocolate-brown, tinged
with grey on its lower half, narrow at the costal, wide at the dorsal
margin, slightly oblique and angulated at the middle of its outer
edge ; beyond the upper half of this chocolate-brown shade is a
conspicuous whitish grey subcostal patch, into which a series of
four geminated whitish grey streaks run from the costal margin ;
a chocolate-brown patch encroaches upon the lower edge of the
pale subcostal patch, which runs to a subfalcate attenuated point
below the apex, where a slender whitish line interrupts the cilia on
the apical margin; the chocolate-brown is modified with grey
above the anal angle ; cilia brown on the upper half, greyish at the
lower half of the apical margin. Hind wings brownish fuscous,
with a dark line throughout the greyish cilia. Abdomen brownish
fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, the tufts of the posterior tibiae
distinctly whitish at the ends and on their inner sides. Exp. al.
23 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

I have but one^ specimen ; the species is probably
variable, but I think it is quite distinct from the one
previously described.

PHOXOPTEEIS, Tr.
" Phoxopteris natalana, Wlsm.
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

African Micro- Lepidoptera. 75

[PL iii., fig. 12).
Phoxopteris oculifera, sp. n.

Antennce umber. Palpi dark umber. Head pale umber above,
frontal tuft dark umber. Thorax pale umber, tegulae darker.
Fore wings umber, faintly streaked longitudinally with obscure
whitish ochreous lines ; the costal margin with short pale whitish
ochreous geminations throughout ; on the dorsal portion of the
wing below the fold, and about and above the anal angle, the pale
whitish ochreous streaking more largely prevails ; on the extreme
falcate apex, above the marginal indentation, is an ovate dark umber
spot, enclosed above and below, but not at its ends, by short pale
whitish ochreous streaks, giving it an eye-like appearance ; cilia
pale whitish ochreous, tipped with umber at the apex and on the
middle of the apical margin. Hind wings greyish umber, with
paler cilia, and a dark line along their base. Abdomen greyish
umber. Exp. al. 14 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), November, " on species of
mallow," one specimen (Carter).
Type, ? , Mus. Wlsrn.

[PL iii., fig. 13.]
Phoxopteris falcata, sp. n.

Antennce pale fawn. Palpi whitish fawn, rather long, and
roughly clothed with long diffuse scales above and beneath the
second joint. Head whitish fawn. Thorax pale fawn. Fore
wings narrow, elongate, falcate ; veins 7 and 8 from a common
stem (in which it differs from the typical form of this genus) : fawn-
colour along the costal third to beyond the middle, deeply shaded
with brown on the dorsal and apical portions ; the pale costal third
is interrupted by a triangular ill-defined brown shade, commencing
at the middle of the costal margin ; from near the end of the fold
a dark brown dash points obliquely upwards towards the apex ; the
extreme apex shaded with brown, and a dark line along the base of
the pale marginal cilia. Hind wings brownish fuscous, with a pale
line along the base of the cilia. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Exp.
al. 11 — 12 mm.

Hal). Bathurst (Gambia), " November, taken at light
and flying among mallow," two specimens (Carter).

Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species is apparently somewhat variable in the
extent and definition of the brown shading.

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COPTOLOMA, Ld.

[PL iii., fig. 14.]

Coptoloma dimidiata, sp. n.

Antennce pale ochreous. Palpi orange ochreous. Head ochreous.
Thorax shining orange ochreous. Fore wings shining orange
ochreous to one-half their length, sparsely irrorated with purplish
fuscous scales ; beyond the middle bright orange ochreous, irregu-
larly suffused with purplish fuscous streaks and patches, with three
or four very oblique metallic steel-blue costal streaklets ; cilia
orange ochreous, with a silvery metallic lustre, especially on the
lower half of the apical margin, within which three or four small
black dots indicate an ocelloid patch ; the purplish patches are pro-
longed further towards the base on the dorsal than on the costal
margin. Under side pale greyish fuscous. Hind wings fuscous,
with paler cilia. Under side pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen
greyish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, spotted above on the
ultimate tarsal joints. Exp. al. 8 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), " taken at light early in
December," two specimens (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from its Asiatic ally, known as
Hemerosia aurantiana, Pryer (Cist. Ent. II., 235, PL IV.,
12. (1877)), in the more equal division of the pale and
dark portions of the fore wing ; in aurantiana the former
predominates.

DlCHRORAMPHA, Gn.

[PL iii., fig. 15.]
Dichrorampha excisa, sp. n.

Antennce pale brownish fuscous. Palpi whitish cinereous. Head
brownish fuscous ; face whitish cinereous. Thorax pale brownish
fuscous. Fore wings somewhat excised below the apex, and bulged
above the apical margin : pale brownish fuscous to a little beyond
the middle ; the remainder of the wing suffused with a delicate
mauve or pale lilac tint, obscurely striated with darker shades ; the
inner edge of this suffused portion of the wing is clearly denned,
slightly convex towards the base on the lower two-thirds of the
wing-width, and abruptly biangulated beneath the costa; on the
costal margin are three or four pairs of pale oblique streaklets,
those nearest to the apex being shining silvery ; two black dots,
one opposite the middle, the other below the middle, of the apical
margin, the upper one followed by a silvery spot at the bulge, are

African Micro-Lepidoptera. 77

the only indications of an ocelloid spot ; cilia shining silvery, with
a dark line along their base. Hind wings brownish fuscous, with
pale cilia, also with a dark line near their base. Abdomen and legs
greyish fuscous. Exp. al. 16 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

CHOREUTID^E.

CHOREUTIS, Hb.

•>

** Choreutis bjerkandrella, Thnb.
Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson).

SIM^THIS, Leach.

[PL in., fig. 16.]

Simcethis flavimaculata, sp< n.

Antenna ciliated in the $ ; brownish fuscous, spotted above with
whitish ochreous. Palpi pale yellowish, the second joint barred
externally with brown, the apical joint with two brown rings, one
at the base, the other before the apex. Head pale yellowish in
front, brown above posteriorly. Thorax brown above, the anterior
margin broadly pale yellow, with an orange tinge ; yellowish
beneath. Fore wings chocolate-brown, with three conspicuous
yellow patches, all slightly tinged with orange ; the first at the
outer edge of the basal third occupies more than two-thirds the
breadth of the wing, beginning narrowly on the costal margin,
considerably dilated to the fold, but not reaching the dorsal mar-
gin ; the other two patches are in the apical third of the wing, one
almost touching the costal margin, and with a slender yeUow
curved costal streak immediately preceding it, the other, which is
larger, situated just above the anal angle, rounded in form like the
smaller one above it, and also not actually reaching the margins of
the wing ; cilia brownish at the base, paler outwardly. Under side
brownish, with a faint whitish ochreous spot beyond the middle of
the costal margin. Hind wings brown, with a small indistinct
irregular yellowish patch radiating from their base to the middle ;
cilia cinereous, with a brown line along their base. Under side
brownish. Abdomen dark brown, a few paler scales at the base
laterally. Legs brown; posterior tibiae, tarsi, and spurs con-
spicuously banded and spotted with yellow. Exp. al. 14 mm.

Hal). Zanzibar, one specimen (Jackson).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsrn.

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ATYCHIAD^.
ATYCHIA, Latr.
Aty chia quiris t F. & R.
Cape Colony, two specimens (Cr. F. Mathew).

[PL iii., fig. 17.]
Atychia aibiciliata, sp. n.

Antennce brownish fuscous. Palpi brownish above, except at
the base; the base and under side white, except on the apical joint,
which is brownish above and below. Head brownish fuscous.
Thorax blackish (perhaps slightly darkened by greasiness). Under
side fuscous, with some shining scales. Fore wings narrow;
brownish fuscous, sprinkled with greyish scales, especially on the
outer half ; a faint pale line about the base of the cilia, which are
brownish fuscous, slenderly tipped with white. Under side
brownish fuscous, with a subapical patch and central streak white.
Hind wings wider than the fore wings ; clear pure white, with
brownish fuscous base, and with a broad brownish fuscous band of
nearly half their width running around the hind margin and apex,
widest about the base and middle ; cilia pure white, except at the
apex, where they are touched with brownish. Under side with
markings similar to those on the upper surface. Abdomen black,
each segment with a very narrow white ring posteriorly, the three
ultimate annulations more conspicuous than the others. Under
side fuscous, with some shining scales. Exp. al. 15 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinsori).
Type, 3 , Mus. Wlsm.

A small species allied to A. quiris, F. & E., but more
distinctly marked.

PHYCODES, Gn.

[PL iii., fig. 18.]

Phy codes punctata, sp. n.

Antennce greyish fuscous, paler beneath, with the basal joint
whitish on the under side. Palpi white, the apical joint very
short, not projecting beyond the head, tinged with grey above.
Head leaden grey above, white beneath ; face shining metallic dark
fuscous. Thorax leaden grey, with a shining submetallic gloss.
Fore wings shining leaden grey, with black spots, the scales so
arranged as to give the appearance of minute transverse striae under
the lens ; on the extreme costal margin are five very small spots

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rom the base, followed by one slightly larger, one beyond the
middle, which is again followed by two small and one larger,
beyond which are one or two small ones before the apex; the other
spots are six distinct ones and one small one, arranged as follows :
one above and one below the fold, before the middle of which the
lower one is considerably nearer to the base than the upper one ; a
transverse line of three beyond the middle parallel with the slightly
oblique apical margin ; beyond these one distinct spot below the
middle of the apical margin, but not touching it, and above this
one small one rather indistinct ; cilia shining leaden grey with a
bronzy tinge. Under side pale brownish fuscous. Hind wings
brownish fuscous, showing two pale spaces radiating from the base
to about half the width of the wing ; cilia white, tinged with fuscous
at the apical and abdominal angles. Under side pale brownish
fuscous. Abdomen greyish fuscous above, beneath bright glossy
shining white. Legs greyish fuscous, faintly pale spotted above,
beneath bright glossy shining white. Exp. al. 20 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL iv., fig. 19.]
Phy codes substriata, sp.n.

Antennae fuscous. Palpi fuscous. Haustellum brown, long,
and naked. Head greyish fuscous ; face shining bronzy. Thorax
cinereous, speckled with fuscous above, pure white beneath. Fore
wings cinereous, densely striated with slender transverse brownish
fuscous lines, and with one fascia and several costal and discal
spots also brownish fuscous ; the fascia is narrow and straight from
costal to dorsal margin at about one-third from the base ; it is pre-
ceded by two small costal spots, and followed by three or four
others, also costal, with faint indications of other diffused costal
spots towards the apex ; at about two-thirds from the base is a
single spot just beyond the end of the cell, with three smaller ones
above, below, and before it ; the apical margin is strongly tinged
with shining bronzy brown ; cilia shining bronzy. Hind wings
brown, with whitish cilia, except at the extreme apex. Abdomen
and legs greyish fuscous above, white beneath. Exp. al. 17 —
18 mm.

Hab. Zanzibar, three specimens (Jackson).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species is closely allied to Phycodes minor, Wlsm.,
an Indian form.

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[PL iv., fig. 20.]
Phy codes albitogata, sp. n.

(Antenna and palpi broken). Head whitish grey, speckled.
Thorax whitish grey, speckled with bronzy fuscous above, white
beneath. Fore wings whitish grey, with delicate transverse bronzy
fuscous striae throughout, and with two distinct straight transverse
fasciae ; the first one at one-third from the base, bronzy black, con-
taining two shining metallic brassy yellow bars, reaching throughout
from costal to dorsal margin ; the second at two-thirds from the
base, narrower than the first, slightly interrupted above the fold,
and containing one shining metallic brassy yellow bar ; the apical
portion of the wing beyond the second fascia is slightly shaded as
well as striated with bronzy fuscous, and groups of shining metallic
brassy yellow scales lie along the apical margin from the apex
nearly to the anal angle ; there is a small bronzy fuscous streak on
the extreme costal margin at the base ; cilia shining bronzy brown.
Under side unicolorous brown. Hind wings shining semi-
transparent white, with a strong lilac hue, and having a broad
brown band along the costal margin ; cilia delicate white, with a
more opaque white line along their base, merging into brown at the
extreme apex. Under side lilac-white, with a broad brown band
along the costal margin, widening from the base outwards. Abdo-
men shining greyish white above, white beneath. Legs white.
Exp. al. 16 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from Nigilgia adjectella, Wkr., in
the second fascia having but one metallic line or bar
instead of two, in the absence of a metallic line from this
fascia to the apex, and in its paler colour and white
hind wings.

Phy codes adjectella, Wkr.

Nigilgia adjectella, Wkr , Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXVIII.,
512. (1863).

I am unable to separate Nigilgia from Phycodes, Gn.,
a genus which has hitherto been confined to the Indian
region, but which is apparently equally well represented
in Africa. Walker's type was received from Sierra
Leone. I have in my collection a specimen, also a
female, received from Mr. F. J. Jackson, who met with
it at Tangani, Kolumbi Creek (East Africa), in August,
1885.

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TINEHXE.

TAL^POBIAN^.

DISSOCTENA, Stgr.

[PL iv., fig. 21.]

Dissoctena affinis, sp. n.

Antennas bipectinate, each of the long pectinations slender and
pubescent. Palpi very short, subochreous. Head brownish
cinereous. Thorax cinereous. Fore wings with rather straight
costa, rounded apex, and oblique (scarcely convex) apical margin :
brownish cinereous, with two indistinct paler subochreous costal
patches beyond the middle, and before the middle a very indistinct
oblique fascia-form shade of the same colour, dilated outwards from
costal to dorsal margin ; about three very indistinct subochreous
spots on the lower half of the apical margin before the brownish
cinereous cilia. Hind wings slightly darker than the fore wings,
and with a more fuscous shade owing to the absence of subochreous
scaling ; cilia unicolorous. Abdomen and Legs cinereous fuscous.
Exp. al. 14 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), three specimens (Hutchinson).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

The subochreous markings on this plainly coloured
species are very indistinct, and probably almost obsolete
on some examples, unless taken in fine condition. They
seem to constitute a sufficient ground for separating the
species from the South European D. granigerella, Stgr.,
to which it is nevertheless closely allied.

It seems desirable to subdivide the Tineida of Heine-
mann as follows : —

A. Maxillary palpi obsolete.

1. Fore wings with veins 7 and 8 arising from a common stem out

of vein 9 = SETOMOKPHIN^E.

2. Fore wings with veins 7 and 8 not arising from a common stem

out of vein 9 = EUPLOCAMIN^E.

B. Maxillary palpi 4 — 6-jointed == TINEIN&:,

SETOMORPHIN^.

SETOMORPHA, Z.
[PI. vii., fig. 73.]

The neuration of Setomorpha rutella, Z. (the type of
the genus), is as follows :—

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1891. PART I. (MARCH.) G

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Fore wings 12 veins ; 7 and 8 arising from a common stem out
of 9, 7 to apex ; 5 and 6 slightly curved, parallel ; 3 and 4 from a
very short common stem; 2 from near angle of cell, curved at
origin. Hind wings 8 veins ; 2 and 3 from a point at angle of cell ;
5 and 6 from a common stem, 6 to apex.

Hapsifera, Z., agrees with Setomorpha in having
7 and 8 of the fore wings stalked out of vein 9, but
differs in the form of the palpi, and in having 5 and 6
of the hind wings, as also 2 and 8, separate.

IschnopsiSy Wlsm., should probably be placed in the
neighbourhood of these two genera.

Zeller's type of Setomorpha rutella is apparently unique,
but I have three or four undescribed African species
closely allied to it.

EUPLOCAMIN^.

AUTOCHTHONUS, gen. n.
(afaoxQovos = bred of the soil.)
Type. Autochthonous chalybiellus, Wlsm.
[PL vii., fig. 74.]

Antennce [cT?]: ? simple. Labial palpi coarsely clothed
beneath ; second joint more than twice the length of the apical
joint, the latter projecting obliquely upwards, cylindrical, more or
less acute. Maxillary palpi, Haustellum, and Ocelli obsolete.
Head rough. Fore wings narrow, elongate, tufted above, apex
depressed, rounded, costal and dorsal margins evenly receding
from it. Neuration 12 veins ; 7 and 8 from a common stem,
forming a short fork, 7 to apex ; 9 from the same point as this
stem ; the other veins separate ; two internal veins, one running
throughout the length of the cell from between 4 and 5 ; the other,
a shorter vein, cuts off the upper angle of the cell to the base of
vein 10. Hind wings elongate-lanceolate, apex slightly rounded,
the margins evenly receding from it, but the dorsal margin is
slightly more convex than the costal. Neuration 8 veins ; 2 curved
from the outer third of cell ; 3 and 4 from a point at the lower
angle of cell ; 5 and 6 from a common stem ; one internal vein
running throughout the length of the cell.

This genus differs from Euplocamus, Latr., in the
structure of the antennae, and in having veins 5 and 6
of the hind wings from a common stem, and 3 and 4
from a point.

African Micro-Lepidoptera. 83

[PL iv., fig. 22).]
* Autochthonus chalybiellus, sp. n.

Antennae simple'; ochreous. Palpi pale oclireous, the erect
apical joint naked; second joint thickly clothed with projecting
scales beneath. Head pale ochreous. Fore wings mottled rather
transversely throughout with about equal proportions of shining
steel-grey, rich dark brown, and pale ochreous, the latter prevailing
in the numerous tufts of raised scales which are scattered over the
wing-surface; these are sometimes shielded with steel-grey on
their anterior sides ; the most conspicuous of these tufts are, one
above the middle of the dorsal margin but below the fold, another
above it near the costal margin, and another about the anal angle
of the cell ; but the whole wing-surface is very roughly scaled (the
species calling to mind the paler but very similar Euplocamus
horridella, Wkr., from which it differs, as subsequently stated) ;
cilia mixed brownish and pale ochreous, paler at the anal angle.
Hind wings aeneous, with a purplish gloss ; cilia shining greyish.
Abdomen brownish grey ; anal tuft ochreous. Exp. al. 14 —
16 mm.

Hal. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

SCALIDOMIA, gen. n.

(tniatis = a hoe, upa = shoulder).

Type. Tinea horridella, Wkr.

[PL vii., fig. 75.]

AntenncB stout, very slightly serrated towards the apex, two-
thirds the length of the fore wings. Labial palpi, second joint
slightly recurved, clothed with projecting scales beneath ; apical
joint obliquely erect, cylindrical, obtuse, about one-third the length
of the second joint. Maxillary palpi, Haustellum, and Ocelli
obsolete. Head rough. Fore wings elongate, apical margin
obliquely convex, apex rounded, width equal to about one-third
the length ; wing-surface more or less tufted with raised scales.
Neuration 11 veins ; 7 and 8 from a common stem, 7 to apex ; the
other veins separate ; an internal vein runs from the space
between 5 and 6 to between 9 and 10. Hind wings lanceolate-
ovate, apex produced, rounded; dorsal margin convex, costal
margin nearly straight, slightly depressed from the middle.
Neuration 8 veins ; 3 and 4 somewhat approximate at base ; 6 and
7 parallel ; two internal veins, one from base of 4, the other from

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base of 6, meet in the middle of the cell, and are apparently con-
tinued to the base in a common stem.

This genus differs from Euplocamus, Latr., in the
structure of the antennae, and in having but 11 veins in
the fore wings.

Scalidomia horridella, Wkr.

Tinea horridella, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXVIIL,

474. (1863).
Euplocamus horridellus, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 1881, 237—8.

Malvern (Natal), three specimens (Bowker) ; Estcourt
(Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .

BAEBAROSCARDIA, gen, n.

{@af@afoq = foreign, scardia (nom. gen.) ).

Type. Barbaroscardiafasciata, Wlsm.

[PI. vii., fig. 76.]

Antennas $ strongly ciliated. Labial palpi roughly clothed
-beneath ; the short projecting apical joint slender, naked, slightly
•sfeorter than the second joint. Maxillary palpi, Haustellum, and
••OcelK, obsolete. Head rough. Fore wings ovate, apex evenly
•rounded, costal and dorsal margins convex. Neuration 11 veins ;
7 and 8 from a common stem, 7 to apex ; rest separate ; one
internal vein running from the base of 6 to the base of 10. Hind
wings as broad as the fore wings, ovate, costal margin straighter and
less convex than the dorsal, apex rounded. Neuration 8 veins ; 3
and 4 arising from a point at the lower angle of the cell ; 5 dis-
tinctly separate from 4, nearly parallel with 6 and 7 ; one internal
vein from between 5 and 6 dividing the cell throughout.

This genus differs from Euplocamus, Latr., in the
structure of the antennae, and in having only 11 veins in
the fore wings.

[PL iv., fig. 23.]
Barbaroscardiafasciata, sp. n.

Antennce pale brownish, ciliated in the male. Palpi whitish
ochreous, slightly darker at the sides and at the base of the apical
joint, projecting, scarcely upturned. Head whitish oehreous,
densely clothed above. Fore wings whitish ochreous, sprinkled
with scattered brown scales ; a distinct brown transverse fascia
lies at one-third of the wing-length, and is followed on the outer

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half of the wing by three cuneiform brown spots, two costal aud
one dorsal, all pointing downwards, and sufficiently connected to
form a V-shaped mark, with its apex approximate to the anal
angle ; the lower extremities of the two costal spots impinge upon
the opposite upper corners of the dorsal spot, which occupies the
lower half of the wing ; cilia whitish ochreous, with a few small
brownish spots at their bases. Hind wings grey, with scarcely
paler cilia. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ochreous. Exp. al.
14 mm.

Hal). Delagoa Bay (E. Africa) ; two specimens
(Druce).

Type, <? , Mus. Wlsm.

A distinct form, perhaps allied to Euplocamus stupcns,
Wlgrn.

LASIOCTENA, Meyr.
Lasioctena sisyrcea, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1887, 279.
Grabamstown (Cape Colony).

COMPSOCTENA, Z.

- Compsoctena primella, Z.

I am fortunate in having received the female of this
species. It does not fulfil Zeller's prophecy that it
would probably prove to be apterous (Hand. Kong.
Svensk. Vet.-Ak., 1852, 87), nor my own suggestion that
it would have smaller wings and a larger body than the
male (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 227) ; on the con-
trary, the wings are larger (exp. al. $ 16 — 18 mm.., $
20 mm.).

The body is long and fringed at the sides posteriorly,,
the ovipositor is conspicuously produced and abruptly
squared at the end, not acute. The antennae are thickly
and coarsely scaled, not with clearly divided pectinations,
as in the male ; but they are in some degree pectinated,
the pectinations compressed together, and lying forward
along the stem of the antenna. The palpi are roughly
clothed with long scattered hair-scales, less closely
appressed than in the male. The coloration is much
the same as in the male.

There can now be no doubt that this genus should be
placed among the Tineida, where it should stand in the

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neighbourhood of Euplocamus, Latr., from which it
differs chiefly in the separation of veins 7 and 8 of the
fore wings. The genus Lasioctena, Meyr., seems to
differ from Compsoctena in the structure of the palpi,
which are recurved, and in having veins 6 and 7 of the
hind wings approximate at the base. I think I have an
undescribed species belonging to this genus.

Malvern (Natal), two specimens (Bowker) ; Grahams-
town (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce).

TINEA, Z.
C Tinea vastella, Z.

Bedford (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce) ; Gra-
hamstown (Cape Colony), three specimens (Druce) ; Cape
Colony, eight specimens (Zell. Coll.)-, Estcourt (Natal),
one specimen (Hutchinson) ; Malvern (Natal), one speci-
men (Bowker) ; Caffraria, one specimen (Zell. Coll.) ;
Delagoa Bay (East Africa), one specimen (Druce) ;
Kilima Njaro (East Africa), three specimens (Jackson) ;
Sudan, two specimens (Zell. Coll.), three specimens
(Frey Coll.).

Tinea tapetzella, Z.
Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce).

This species has apparently not been previously re-
corded from South Africa.

Tinea fuscipunctella, Hw.
Estcourt (Natal), (Hutchinson).

[PL iv., fig. 24.]
Tinea zebra, sp. n.

Antennae, whitish ochreous. Palpi whitish ochreous. Head
yellow. Thorax brown, inclining to ochreous posteriorly. Fore
wings pale shining ochreous, the basal third of the costal margin nar-
rowly brown ; a brown longitudinal basal streak, tapering outwards,
runs along the fold to the anal angle, where it is connected with a
brown shade which is continued along the base of the cilia around the
apex ; a wedge-shaped shade of scattered brown scales points inward
from the apex, and terminates in a brown spot and a slender brown
line about the end of the cell ; cilia pale shining ochreous. Under

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side brownish, with pale cilia. Hind wings and cilia shining
whitish ochreous. Abdomen and legs ochreous. Exp. al. 14mm.

Hab. Grahamstown (Cape Colony), three specimens
(Druce).

Type, <? , Mus. Wlsm.

BLABOPHANES, Z.
Blabophanes longella, Wkr.

Gambia, one specimen (Druce) ; Zululand, one speci-
men received from the late Col. Harvey Tower.

Blabophanes monacliella , Hb.

Bathurst (Gambia), "November — December," one
specimen (Carter).

This widely-distributed species is apparently new to
the African fauna, but this and longella are probably
only varieties of one species.

Blabophanes speculella, Z.
Estcourt (Natal), three specimens (Hutchinson).

Blabophanes rejectella, Wkr.
Estcourt (Natal), three specimens (Hutchinson).

Blabophanes rutilicostella, Stn.
Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson).

NEMOPHORA, Hb.
— Nemophora elongatella, Wlsm.

I notice that this species differs siightly in neuration
from the European forms of Nemophora ; veins 5 and 6
of the hind wings are separate, and the cell is somewhat
longer.

Estcourt (Natal), three specimens (Hutchinson).

CEBOMITIA, Z.

N. syn. = AGISANA, Mschl. (1883).
This genus is distinguished from Nemophora by its
shorter maxillary palpi, and by having veins 8 and 9 of
the fore wings and 5 and 6 of the hind wings separate :
it is undoubtedly allied to Nemophora.

r/i/

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Ceromitia wahlbergi, Z.

Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson) ; Mal-
vern (Natal), one specimen (Bowker).

Ceromitia turpisella, Wkr.

Nemophora turpisella, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M.,
XXVIII., 497 (1868).

N. syn. = Agisana caffrariella, Mschl., Ver. Z.-b.,
Ges. Wien., XXXII., 308—9, PL XVI., 24 (1883).

This species belongs properly to the genus Ceromitia,
but the neuration does not appear to be constant ; veins
8 and 9 of the fore wings being coincident at the base
in some specimens, although not necessarily in both
wings ; the separation of veins 5 and 6 of hind wings
is, however, a constant character.

Annshaw (Cape Colony), one specimen (Barrett) ; Est-
court (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) ; Malvern
(Natal), one specimen (Bowker) ; Delagoa Bay (East
Africa), two specimens (Druce).

Ceromitia alter nipunctella, Wlsm.
Nemophora alter nipunctella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 1881, 245—6.

This species must also be placed in Ceromitia.
Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce).

ADELINE.

ADELA, Latr.
[PL iv., fig. 25.]

" - Adela cuneella. sp. n.
.'•
Antenna; in the $ about twice as long as the fore wings ; brownish

above, hoary beneath, the basal third spotted with whitish on
the upper side. Palpi and Head very roughly clothed with long
hair-like scales, brownish fuscous above, hoary beneath. Thorax
brownish fuscous above, hoary beneath. Fore wings hoary,,
thickly clothed with closely-packed elongate bronzy-brown scales,
in some lights showing metallic lustre ; at two-thirds of the wing-
length is an outwardly oblique, cuneiform, whitish costal streak
reaching half-across the wing, margined with bronzy brown on
each side, the inner margin slightly darker than the outer ; at the
apex of the wing is a rather distinct small curved fuscous line at the
base of the cilia, which beyond it are white, tipped with bronzy

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brown ; this curved line is preceded in the costal cilia by a short
inwardly oblique whitish streak, margined by bronzy-brown scales,
and below it, in the cilia of the apical margin, are a few corre-
sponding whitish scales, below which is a slender broken bronzy
line at the base of the cilia, which are dirty white, shading to
bronzy brown at the anal angle. Hind wings bronzy brown, with
a darker line along the base of the unicolorous cilia. Abdomen
and Legs fuscous ; tarsal joints spotted with white. Exp. al. 10 —
11 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinsori) .

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

A small, rather obscure species, but very distinct from
any of its known European or American allies.

NEMOTOIS, Hb.
[PL iv., fig. 26.]
- Nemotois humilis, sp. n.

Antennce bronzy, faintly annulated, rather more than twice as
long as the fore wings. Palpi very short, roughly clothed with
hair-like scales. Head dull purplish fuscous. Thorax shining
bronzy. Fore wings shining bronzy, without markings ; the
metallic scales are arranged in lines throughout, divided from each
other by the darkened ground colour, which is scarcely visible be-
tween them. Hind wings purplish, with scarcely paler purplish
cilia. Abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous ; the posterior tarsal
joints faintly pale spotted. Exp. al. 8 mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (East Africa) ; five specimens
(Druce).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

A very small unicolorous species allied to cupria-
cellus, Hb.

HYPONOMEUTIN^E.

HYPONOMEUTA, Z.

Hyponomeuta subplumbellus, Wlsm.
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutcliinson) .

Hyponomeuta strigiilatu*, Z.
Hyponomeuta strigillatus, Z., Hand. Kong. Svensk.

Vet.-Ak., 1852, 102—3.
N. syn. = Hyponomeuta perficitellus, Wkr., Cat. Lp.

Ins. B. M., XXVIII., 531—2 (1863).

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Delogoa Bay (East Africa), two specimens (Druce} ;
Accra (Gold Coast), (Carter).

Hyponomeutamorbillosus, Z., Hor. Soc. Ent. Koss., XIII.,

222—3, pi. III., 66 (1877).
Zanzibar.

This species was omitted from my previous paper
(Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881).

[PI. iv., fig. 27.]
Hyponomeuta puncticornis, sp. n.

Antenna pale leaden grey, with a minute spot on the upper side
of the basal joint. Palpi short, porrected ; pale leaden grey, un-
spotted. Head pale leaden grey. Thorax pale leaden grey, with
five black spots and one on the anterior half of each of the tegulse ;
the thoracic spots are arranged as follows : two anterior adjacent ;
two median, more widely separated ; one posterior, remote. Fore
wings shining pale leaden grey, with about fifteen black spots ; a
line of four or five near the costal margin, the last only beyond the
middle, the last but one about the middle ; a line of four above the
fold, the last slightly beyond the middle ; a line of four below the
fold, the last slightly beyond the outer spot of the middle line ;
two or three more near the apical margin before the cilia ; cilia
pale leaden grey. Under side dark greyish fuscous. Hind wings
shining leaden grey, scarcely darker than the fore wings ; cilia
slightly darker than the hind wings. Under side slightly paler
than in the fore wings. Abdomen dark greyish fuscous. Exp. al.
24mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (East Africa), two specimens
(Druce).

Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

(ETA, Grote.
[PI. iv., fig. 28.]
(Eta carteri, sp. n.

Antenna somewhat serrated, thickened, purplish fuscous ; apical
third snow-white, spotted above with fuscous and tipped with
fuscous. Palpi recurved to middle of face, purple. Haustellum
orange. Head deep purple, with two conspicuous snow-white
lateral spots behind the antennse and two on the face. Thorax
deep purple, with two anterior snow-white spots, somewhat smaller
than those behind the antennae ; one central snow-white spot
behind the middle, and two small snow-white lateral spots beneath

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the tegulae. Fore wings deep shining purple, with from fifteen to
eighteen conspicuous snow-white spots, mostly circular ; one at the
middle of the base, three on the costa, of which two are on the basal
half, and one at the commencement of the apical fourth, the latter
somewhat produced downwards ; two spots in the basal half on the
dorsal margin, the first circular, the second smaller and semi-
circular ; between these and the first two of the costal spots is a
large round spot crossing the fold; immediately beyond the
middle of the wing are two similar ones, of which the lower one is
the larger, and lies immediately below the fold ; beyond these
again is an elongate reniform spot, produced downwards to the
fold ; between this and the anal angle is another circular spot, not
touching the dorsal margin ; in the apical fourth of the wing are
three spots, one somewhat reniform, produced downwards, but not
parallel with the apical margin, the other two are above it, both
circular, the outer one being the smaller ; besides these spots above
mentioned there are three or more very small spots, of which the
most conspicuous are one between the two reniform spots, one
above the first reniform spot, and one below the costal margin
before the apex ; cilia bright shining copper-brown. Under side
dull fuscous, deep purple towards the apex and apical margin ; a
white spot on the costal margin at one-fourth from the apex, and a
small white spot below and beyond it ; these correspond with the
similar spots on the upper side of which others are more or less
visible. Hind wings copper-brown on the basal half, tending to
purplish fuscous outwardly; cilia bright purple about the apex,
copper-brown towards the base. Under side brownish, shading to
deep purple at the apex, where there are two conspicuous white
spots, the one on the costal margin, the other below and beyond it
between veins 6 and 7 ; the costal spot only is visible on the upper
side. Abdomen copper-brown, anal segment deep purplish fuscous.
Under side bright purple, copper-brown at sides and base, with a
white band at the commencement of the purplish colouring,
followed by two white spots near it, and a conspicuous white patch
on the penultimate segment. Legs bright purple, banded and
spotted with white on the tibiae ; the anterior pair with two large
white spots at the base of the femora. Exp. al. 24 mm.

Hab. Bathurst, May ; one specimen (Carter).

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

I have named this beautiful and distinct species after
Mr. Gilbert T. Carter, to whom I am so deeply indebted
for his assiduous efforts to increase my collection of
African Micro-Lepidoptera.

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-" GYMNOGRAMMA, Z.
[PI. iv., fig. 29 ; PL vii., fig. 77.]
Gymnogramma hutchinsoni, sp. n.

Antenna fuscous. Palpi leaden grey. Head fuscous, a collar
of reddish orange dividing the head from the thorax. Thorax
leaden grey. Under side leaden grey, orange-red in front near the
head. Fore wings and cilia unicolorous leaden grey. Under side
orange reddish, except the outer third and costal margins, which
are fuscous. Neuration 12 veins ; all separate ; with a supple-
mentary cell caused by 5 being continued through the cell to the
base of 11 ; 1 forked at base. Hind wings and cilia orange-red.
Under side orange-red, except at the base. Neuration 8 veins ;
with a supplementary cell ; the internal nervule commences near
the base of 6, and is curved downwards, encroaching on the lower
cell ; 3 and 4 from a point at lower angle of cell ; 2 from slightly
beyond outer third of cell. Abdomen fuscous, fringed with orange-
red at the sides posteriorly ; the anal segment entirely orange-red.
Under side orange-red, except at the base. Exp. al. 16 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), three specimens (Hutchinson) .

Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from G. rufiventris, Z., in the
absence of a dark apical margin and cilia to the upper
side of the hind wings, and in its leaden rather than
brown fore wings.

EUSTIXIS, Hb.

Eustixis flavivittella, Wlsm.

Delagoa Bay (East Africa), two specimens (Driicc) ;
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

PLUTELLIN^E.

PLUTELLA, Schrk.

Plutella cruciferarum, Z.

Grahamstown (Cape Colony), 16 specimens (Druce) ;
Estcourt (Natal), five specimens (Hutchinson) ; Gambia,
two specimens (Druce}.

Not hitherto recorded from South or West Africa.

GELE CHIANG.

GELECHIA, Z.
Gclechia rescissella, Z.
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

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Gelechia zetterstcdtiella, Z.
Est court (Natal), seven specimens (Jlutchinson).

Gelechia aglossella, Wkr., Cat., Lp. Ins. B. M., XXXV.,

1830—1 (1866).
Cape.

This species was omitted from rny previous paper.

[PI. iv., fig. 80.]
Gelechia hutchinsonelta, sp. n.

Antenncz brownish fuscous, faintly pale-spotted above, paler
beneath. • Palpi pale stramineous, banded with fuscous before the
end of the apical joint, and with a brownish fuscous spot at the
base of the second joint externally. Head pale stramineous.
Thorax stramineous ; patagia with a brown spot at their base.
Fore wings stramineous, with a brownish fuscous spot at the
extreme base of the costa, thence shaded with greyish fuscous
along the costal margin nearly to the commencement of the costo-
apical cilia ; along the centre of this costal shade a line of chestnut
scales can be traced in fresh specimens, reaching to half the length
of the wing ; contiguous to the lower edge of the costal shade, but
before the middle, is a distinct black spot ; a conspicuous greyish
fuscous patch lies on the dorsal margin contiguous to the anal
angle, its rounded inner edge narrowly margined by a line of black
scales, its outer extremity touched with chestnut ; this patch is
connected at the anal angle with a shade of the same colour, which
follows the apical margin to the apex, interrupted only by a small
marginal spot of the pale stramineous ground colour, immediately
below the apex, by which the darker shade appears to be deflected
inwards ; cilia greyish fuscous. Hind wings and cilia grey.
Abdomen grey. Legs greyish, faintly pale-speckled. Exp. al.
10—14 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), eight specimens (Hutchinsori.
Tangani (Kolumbi Creek, East Africa), August, one
specimen (Jackson) .

Type, c? ? , Mus. Wlsm.

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[PL iv., fig. 81.]
Gelechia palpigera, sp. n.

Antenna; ochreous. Palpi dark brown, with the apical joint
and a spot at the apex of the second joint white. Head and Thorax
greyish ochreons. Fore wings greyish ochreous, paler along the
base of the costal half ; a brown spot at the extreme base of the
costal margin is connected by a slender line along the margin with
a brown shade on the outer half of the costa, which, commencing
very obliquely, is margined internally by a whitish line, and
interrupted about half-way to the apex by a similar, slender, very
oblique whitish line running to a whitish subapical patch (not
visible in every specimen), below which are a few dark scales at
the base of the dorsal cilia ; on the wing-surface a small fuscous
spot lies beyond the end of the cell, opposite the base of the
second white costal streak ; and in another specimen this is pre-
ceded by two similar spots, one on the fold and one on the disk,
about equidistant from the other two ; cilia greyish ochreous.
Under side unicolorous brownish ochreous. Hind wings and cilia
dark grey. Abdomen brownish ochreous. Legs greyish ochreous.
Exp. al. 14 — 17 mm.

Hal). Delagoa Bay (East Africa), two specimens
(Druce) .

Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

The larger specimen has the three spots, the smaller
only one.

BRACHMIA, Hein.
Brachmia trigella, Z.
Estcourt (Natal), -two specimens (Hutchinsori) .

Brachmia subsccivella, Z.
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

ANACAMPSIS, Crt.
Anacampsis lamprostoma, Z.
Gelechia lamprostoma, Z., Is., 1847, 851.
N. syn. = Gelechia zulu, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.Lond.,

1881, 261-2.

Gelechia zulu, Wlsm., must be regarded as a synonym
of lamprostoma, Z. This species appears to be widely
distributed ; it occurs in Sicily, Spain, Asia Minor, and
India, as well as Africa.

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Bathurst (Gambia^, November, two specimens (Car-
ter) ; E jtcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchin-son) .

PTOCHEUUSA, Ilein.
Ptocheuusa ? cemiostomella, Z., Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss.,

XIII., 357—8 (
Zanzibar.
This species was omitted from my previous paper.

POLYHYMNO, Chamb.,
Can. Ent., VI., 246—7 (1874).
N. syn. = COPOCERCIA, Z., Hor. Soc. Ent. Koss., XIII.,

374-5 (1877).

The type of Polyhymno, Chamb., is Polyhymno luteo-
striqella, Chamb., a species occurring in the United
States. This species is figured PI. VII., fig. 78.

Copocercia was described by Zeller for the reception
of Copocercia crambinella, Z., from Ubaque.

I have several specimens of Polyhymno luteostrigella,
Chamb., and the type of Copocercia crambinella, Z. ;
there can be no doubt that they are congeneric. Poly-
hymno takes precedence.

The neuration is as follows : —

Fore wings 12 veins ; 7 and 8 from a common stem, 7 to costa
immediately above apex ; rest separate, 2 from near angle of cell ;
1 b furcate at base. Hind wings 8 veins ; 3 and 4 very short,
stalked (almost from a point) ; 6 and 7 stalked, 0 to apical margin,
7 to costa. Ocelli present.

[PI. iv., fig. 32.]
Polyhymno cleodorella, sp. n.

Antenna brownish. Palpi white, tinged with brown on the
under side towards the apex. Head shining creamy white. Thorax
brown; tegulse shining white. Fore wings falcate at the apex;
brown, with shining white longitudinal streaks and ante-apical
costal geminations; a wide central white streak from the base,
slightly nearer to the costal than to the dorsal margin, is attenuated
beyond the middle, and almost reaches the apical margin below
the falcate apex ; a more slender line of white on the extreme
costal margin from near the base is dt flexed about the middle of
the costal margin, and runs very obliquely outwards, ending
slightly beyond and above the end of the central streak ; a third

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white line, starting at the basal third below the fold, crosses the
fold beyond the middle, and is somewhat dilated towards its apex,
opposite to the middle of the apical margin and on a level with the
apex of the upper line ; this third line gives off a short oblique
branch beneath, which commences on and follows the fold to near
the anal angle ; there are three short outwardly oblique costal
streaks immediately before the apex, and two minute ones above
the apex itself in the apical cilia ; the ends of the cilia are brown
at the extreme apex, with a minute spot of blackish scales lying
beneath the projected point ; cilia on the apical margin white, with
a brown line along their base, within which is a slender parallel
white one ; cilia at the anal angle tinged with brown. Hind wings
deeply emarginate below the pointed apex ; brownish grey ; cilia
pale greyish brown, faintly touched with whitish below the apex.
Abdomen brownish. Legs brown, touched with whitish spots on
the posterior tarsal joints. Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hal. Bathurst (Gambia) ; " Three specimens taken
in November and December " (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs but little from the South American
Copocercia crambinella, Z., except in the arrangement of
the costal streaks, and in the more conspicuous third
line of white crossing the fold. Polyhymno luteotactella,
Chamb., is very similar, but distinct.

[PL iv., fig. 33.]
Polyhymno ? tennis, sp. n.

Antenna with the basal joint elongate, narrow at the base,
slightly enlarged towards its apex ; white at the base, shaded with
brown beyond the basal third. Palpi long, slender, recurved ;
white. Read and Thorax shining white. Fore wings slender,
falcate at the apex ; shining white, with the apex, one costal, and
two dorsal oblique streaks, greyish brown ; the first dorsal streak
commences at one-fourth from the base, is short, stout, outwardly
oblique, and reaches to the fold ; the second dorsal streak com-
mences about the middle of the dorsal margin, is wide at its base,
tapering upwards in a very oblique outward direction, crossing the
fold, and attenuated to a slender line in the direction of the apex,
before which it meets the scarcely less oblique but much shorter
costal streak, which commences at about one-third from the apex ;
beyond and near the costal streak is a greyish brown shade
extending to the apex ; at the extreme apex is a dark brown spot,

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narrowly set in white, to which two slender greyish brown
streaks running through the white apical cilia give an eye-like
effect ; these streaks are bent downward at the apex, and, together
with a large patch of brown scales in the subapical cilia, increase
the falcate appearance to the wing-tip ; they are distinctly visible
on the under side ; cilia at the anal angle pale brownish grey.
Hind wings deeply emarginate beneath the much prolonged and
slender apex ; pale shining grey ; cilia faintly brownish tinged,
with a distinct brownish fuscous transverse streak running through
them at the extreme apex, and very near their outer points.
Abdomen greyish white. Legs white, spotted with brownish.
Exp. al. 9 — 10 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species is perhaps not properly referred to Poly-
hymno, but it is hardly advisable to create a new genus
for its reception at present. Its more slender hind
wings distinguish it from the typical form of this genus.

STROBISIA, Clem.
The neuration of this genus is as follows : —

Fore wings 12 veins ; 7 and 8 from a common stem ; or 11 veins,
7 absent (coincident with 8) ; 2 and 3 from a curved common stem ;
rest separate ; 1 b furcate at base. Hind wings 8 veins ; 3 and 4
from a point at angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from a point ; 1 b furcate at
base.

[PL iv., fig. 34 ; PL vii., fig. 79.]
Strobisia metallica, sp. n.

Antennce pale yellow, spotted with black on the upper side of
each joint. Labial palpi long, recurved, acuminate; apical joint
slightly longer than the second ; externally whitish, slightly
clouded with grey, especially on the inner side. Head greyish
fuscous ; face shining whitish grey. Thorax greyish fuscous, with
a brownish tint posteriorly. Under side pale greyish ochreous.
Fore wings elongate, apex depressed, apical margin scarcely
oblique ; bronzy brown on basal two-thirds, streaked with fuscous
between the metallic markings, which are as follows : first a con-
spicuous bright steel-blue stripe along the costa from base, de-
pressed and somewhat widened before the middle of the wing,
ending above the fold at about half the wing-length ; this stripe is

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slightly dark-margined throughout ; below it is a streak of a
similar colour running along the fold from the base, and ending
before the middle of the fold closely above a detached elongate
spot of the same metallic steel-blue, lying immediately below the
fold beyond its middle ; at two-thirds the wing-length are two con-
spicuous lilac metallic spots, the first, costal, reaching less than
half-way across the wing, the other, dorsal, almost connected with
it, and occupying more than half the width of the wing ; these are
also distinctly dark-margined; beyond them is a broad bright
orange-yellow fascia completely crossing the wing ; the apical
portion of the wing is fuscous, containing three small metallic
spots, parallel with the apical margin, and separated from it by an
orange streak ; cilia bright steel-blue, separated by a dark line
from the orange streak. Under side uniformly smooth, shining
greenish grey. Hind wings brownish fuscous ; cilia grey. Under
side shining greenish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Under
side pale greyish ochreous. Legs brownish fuscous, spotted with
whitish at the joints ; spurs whitish. Exp. al. 11 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen among a
species of mallow in November (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

BRACHYCROSSATA, Hein.

The genus Brachycrossata has 12 veins in the fore
wings ; 7 and 8 from a common stem ; 2 and 3 separate
and parallel. There are 8 veins in the hind wings;
3 and 4 from a point at lower angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from
a point at upper angle of cell.

The genus, as thus denned, is of very limited extent.
A considerable number of species occur in the Indian
region, and also in Africa, which agree with Brachy-
crossata in all particulars, except that veins 2 and 3 of
the fore wings rise from a recurved common stem. This
difference in neuration may be sufficient to constitute
another genus, but for the present it would be rash to
give it a name, as it has most probably been already
described by Walker without reference to the neural
characters. It will be better for the present at least to
divide Brachycrossata into two sections, thus :—

A. Veins 2 and 3 of the fore wings separate.

B. Veins 2 and 3 of the fore wings arising from a recurved common

stem.

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BRACHYCROSSATA, Sect. B.
Brachycrossata septella, Z.
Gelechia (Nothris) septella, Z., Hand. Kong. Svensk.

Vet.-Ak., 1852, 108—9.

Bathurst (Gambia), seven specimens (Carter) ; Tan-
gani (Kolumbi Creek, East Africa), August, one speci-
men (Jackson).

[PI. iv., fig. S5.J
V*^ O Brachycrossata marginata, sp. n.

Antennae, pale fawn -brown, the basal joint shaded with greyish
fuscous. Palpi slender ; pale fawn-brown on their inner sides and
at the end of the apical joint ; otherwise pale greyish fuscous.
Head dull fawn-brown, shaded with greyish fuscous on the face
and vertex. Thorax dull fawn-brown. Fore wings pale fawn-
brown ; a discal spot before the middle and a band of even width
from the apex to the anal angle, but not reaching the costal mar-
gin, greyish fuscous ; there is also an obscure outwardly oblique
costal streak of the same colour before the apex ; a very faint
indication of a second spot at the end of the cell ; cilia pale fawn-
brown. Under side pale greyish fuscous. Hind luings greyish
fuscous, with scarcely paler cilia. Abdomen greyish fuscous; the
$ with a strong ochreous anal tuft. Exp. al. 15 — 17 mm.

Hal). Bathurst (Gambia), five specimens (Carter).
Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species agrees with septella, Z., in having veins
2 and 3 of the fore wings from a curved common stem.

ODITES, gen. n.

(o3iT»ij = traveller.)

Type. Odites natalensis, Wlsm.

[PI. vii., fig. 80.]

Antenna simple ; basal joint slightly thickened, without pecten.
Labial palpi slender, recurved; apical joint nearly equal in length
to the second joint, sharply acuminate ; second joint clothed with
appressed scales, which do not project beyond it. Maxillary palpi
short, meeting over the base of the haustellum. Haustellum
moderately long, scaled at the base. Ocelli obsolete. Head
slightly roughened. Fore wings, apex produced, costal margin
scarcely convex, apical margin oblique. Neuration 12 veins >
7 and 8 from a common stem enclosing the apex ; rest separate ; 2

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from near angle of cell ; an internal vein runs from between 5 and
6 to near base of 11. Hind wings trapezoidal, with produced apex
and oblique outer margin. Neuration 8 veins ; 6 and 7 from a
common stem ; 3 and 4 from a point, or from a common stem,
from the lower angle of cell ; 5 from or near angle of cell. Legs :
hind tibiae clothed with smooth appressed scales.

This genus will probably be found to include a number
of forms from various parts of the world, which have
hitherto been confounded with Zeller's genus Crypto-
lechia, from which they differ in having veins 6 and 7 of
the hind wings from a common stem, instead of separate
and nearly parallel, as in his original type of that genus,
Cryptolechia straminella, from South Africa.

If the name Cryptolechia is to be retained for the
species originally described as the type of that genus, —
and I fail to see how the rule can be departed from in
this instance, — any family founded upon an alliance with
that genus must at least retain its essential characters,
and cannot be established to include the forms in which
veins 6 and 7 of the hind wings are not separated, this
wide difference in neuration being admitted by all
authorities to be of the utmost importance in systematic
classification. It follows that Zeller's genus Cnjpto-
lechia falls into the family (Ecophorida of Meyrick, and
annihilates Meyrick' s family Cryptolechida, which was
not founded on the typical form. Mr. Meyrick, recog-
nising this, has since recharacterised his family Crypto-
lechida under the name Xyloryctidce (Tr. Eoy. Soc.
South Australia, 1890, 23—4).

I have explained that it is necessary to establish this
genus Odites on the strength of its neural characters ;
these exhibit affinities to the family Gelechidce of Heine-
mann rather than to the (Ecophoridce of Meyrick, and
moreover distinguish it from all genera yet described,
not only in the now suppressed family Cryptolechidce,
but even more strongly from the (Ecopliorida which
may be retained, provided always that they agree with
the original typical OEcophora, whatever that may be.
The error, for which Mr. Meyrick cannot rightly be held
responsible, has evidently arisen through the confusion
which Zeller created by his attempts to expand and
amplify his original work. These attempts (Lin. Ent.,
IX., 353, etseq. (1854), and Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss., XIII.,

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258—261 (1877) ) had the effect of supplanting his
original descriptions, and served rather to obscure the
classification than to render it more correct or more easy
of comprehension. Cryptolechia straminella having been
described originally as the type of the genus (Hand.
Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak., 1852, 107), he subsequently
recharacterised the same genus in an expanded form,
making Depresmria (Volucra) flava, from South America,
the typical species (Lin. Ent., IX., 353—5 (1854) ), in-
correctly using the expression " venae simplices," whereas
veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings in that species are from
a common stem, and, in fact, the species agrees in all
points with straminella.

In the Horse Soc. Ent. Boss., XIII., 259 (1877), he
removed C. straminella to MacJiimia, retaining^a^a in
Cryptolechia in defiance of the fact that their characters
are identical, and differ from tentoriferella, Clem., the
type of Machimia, in the remoteness, at its origin, of
vein 2 from vein 3, which arises at the lower angle of
the cell of the fore wings.

With regard to Stenoma, which was described by
Zeller (Isis, 1839, 195), and included griseanum, litura,
and bicolor, alike in structure and neuration ; in the
Lin. Ent., IX., 391 — 3 (1854), he identified griseanum as
walchiana, Cram., and founded the genus Antceotricha
for its reception, together with some allied species. He
then removed litura and bicolor to Cryptolechia (pre-
sumably Cryptolechia No. 2), from which they differ, as
from No. 1, in having veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings,
as also 6 and 7 of the hind wings, separate, corre-
sponding therefore to his statement "vena simplices"
but not to his selected type. In the Horse Soc. Ent.
Boss., XIII., 258-261 (1877), he still further extended
his genus Cryptolechia, including many modified forms
as subgenera. He here resuscitated Stenoma (of which,
as I have shown, the original type was griseanum =
walchiana), and, having got rid of the other species
placed in it in the first instance, he left litura as the type
at the head of his list, placing bicolor in a different sub-
section, and omitting griseanum altogether, although the
three are identical in structure.

In pointing out these inconsistencies I have had the

freat advantage of possessing nearly the whole series of
eller's generic types, in many cases the actual speci-

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mens used by him in writing his descriptions, and where
these are not available, specimens of each species from
his own collection, named in his handwriting.

It is not surprising that Mr. Meyrick, without the
guidance of such valuable material, should have appa-
rently failed to identify the precise form of neuration
characteristic of the original genus Cryptolechia, which
is as follows : —

Fore ivings 12 veins ; 2 from near lower angle of cell ; 7 and 8
from a common stem, the fork enclosing the apex ; the rest sepa-
rate. Hind wings 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point at lower angle of
cell ; 5 bent over at its origin and somewhat approximate to 4 ;
6 and 7 separate, almost parallel ; 1 b furcate at base ; 8 joined to
upper edge of cell by a cross vein. [PI. VII., fig. 86.]

As touching this question of neuration, I may perhaps
here remark that one at least of the characters on which
the Tortricidce have hitherto been separated from the
Tineidce will be found insufficient. It is well known
that in all the Tortricidce, and in many of the Tineidce,
vein 1 of the hind wings — that is, the vein nearest to
the abdominal margin — is divided into 3 veinlets. De
Peyerimhoff, in his ' Etude sur 1'organisation exterieure
des Tordeuses ' (Ann. Soc. Ent. France (ser. 5), VI.,
523—590, pi. X.— XII. (1876)), pointed out that the
middle veinlet of these three was furcate at the base,
and relied upon this character as distinguishing the
family from the allied Tineidce. My assistant, Mr.
Durrant, has carefully searched for this character in the
subfamilies and genera of the Tineidce, and finds it not
only in species allied to Euplocamns, to Gelechia, to
GEcophora, to Atychia, and in Meyrick's Xyloryctidce, but
in the typical Tinea wpetzella, L., itself; in short,
almost wherever he has looked for it.

[PI. iv., fig. 36.]
(\ Odites natalensis, sp. n.

Antennae, brownish. Palpi slender, recurved, ochreous, shaded
with brown externally to beyond the middle of the second joint.
Head rough ; pale straw-yellow, shaded with brownish around the
eyes. Thorax pale straw -yellow. Fore wings pale straw-yellow
to beyond the middle, slightly shaded with brown on the extreme
costal margin near the base ; beyond the middle is a slightly waved

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transverse purplish fuscous line, beyond which the remainder of the
wing is entirely shaded with pale brown, or brownish ochreous ;
cilia scarcely paler than the apical portion of the wing. Hind
wings very pale greyish ochreous ; cilia the same. Abdomen grey
anal tuft ochreous. Legs ochreous. Exp. oil. 17 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), six specimens (Hutchinson) .
Type, <? ? , Mus. Wlsm.

[PI. v., fig. 37.]
Odites carterella, sp. n.

Antennce brown at the base, fading to ochreous towards their
outer extremities. Palpi pale stramineous ochreous, shaded ex-
ternally with brown on the basal portion of the second joint. Head
pale stramineous ochreous. Thorax dark brown. Fore wings
shining pale stramineous ochreous, with a very short dark brown
basal patch, of which the outer margin is slightly bulged below
the middle; cilia the same colour as the wings. Hind wings
shining whitish, with a faint greyish ochreous tinge ; cilia the
same. Abdomen pale greyish ochreous. Legs pale stramineous
ochreous. Exp. al. 15 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species is somewhat similar in appearance to
Depressaria culcitella, H.-S.

Odites atropunctella, Wlsm.

Cryptolechia atropunctella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond., 1881, 256.

Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) ; Cape
Colony, one specimen (Trimen).

[PL v., fig. 38.]
Odites ? inconspicua, sp. n.

Antennae stone-colour. Palpi stone-colour, paler on their inner
surface. Head and Thorax stone -colour. Fore wm^s unicolorous
stone-colour ; with two small darker stone-coloured spots, one on
the middle of the wing, the other in the same line with it on the
end of the cell ; cilia stone-colour. Hind ivings and cilia pale

164 Lord Walsingham ort

stone-grey. Abdomen stone-grey, anal tuft inclining to ochreous.
Legs stone-grey. Exp. al. 13 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from the typical form in having
veins 2 and 3 of the fore wings from a curved common
stem.
/ . i \ IDIOPTERYX, gen. n.

(/3iof= peculiar, mfyu^a, wing.)

Type. Cryptolechia obliquella, Wlsm.

[PL vii., fig. 81.]

Antenna ciliate \ ; basal joint slightly thickened, without pecten.
Labial palpi slender, recurved ; apical joint nearly as long as the
second ; second joint clothed with appressed scales, which do not
project beyond it. Maxillary palpi short, appressed to base of
haustellum. Haustellum moderately long, scaled at base. Ocelli
obsolete. Head clothed with appressed scales. Fore wings, apex
produced, costal margin scarcely convex, apical margin oblique.
Neuration 12 veins ; 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to costa ; 3 and 4 out of 2,
2 curved from angle of cell ; 5 arising immediately above 2 ; 1
furcate at base ; internal vein from between 5 and 6. Hind wings
broader than fore wings ; apex slightly produced, rounded ; outer
margin oblique. Neuration 8 veins ; 6 and 7 from a common
stem, 6 to costa, 7 to outer margin ; 3 and 4 separate ; 5 continued
through cell to base ; 8 connected with upper margin of cell by a
cross-vein near base ; 1 b furcate at base. Legs : hind tibiae thickly
clothed with long rough hair-scales.

Idiopteryx olliquella, Wlsm.

Cryptolechia obliquella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.Lond.,
1881, 254—5.

Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson).

LECITHOCERA, H.-S.

[PL v., fig. 39.]
Lecithocera marginata, sp. n.

Antennae longer than the fore wings ; pale ochreous. Palpi
recurved ; tawny fuscous ; the apical joint equal in length to the
second joint. Head and face tawny fuscous, pale ochreous at the
sides and over the eyes. Thorax tawny fuscous ; tegulae pale

African Micro- Lepidoptera. 105

ochreous. Fore wings tawny fuscous, narrowly pale ochreous
along the costa to a little beyond the middle ; this pale ochreous
costal streak is wider at the base, tapering outwards, and there is
a fuscous shade on the extreme costal margin at the base ; on the
dark portion of the wing are two small obscure dark tawny brown
spots, one at the upper edge of the cell before the middle, another
just beyond the middle at the end of the cell, and equidistant from
the costal and dorsal margins ; cilia tawny grey. Hind wings
grey; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen tawny grey, with paler anal
tuft. Exp. al. 14 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter}.
Type, <?, Mus. Wlsm.

WIV* [PL v., fig. 40.]

Lecithocera flavipalpis, sp. n.
Antennce thickened, especially towards the middle, shorter than
the fore wings ; bronze-colour. Palpi recurved, twice the length
of the head ; second joint thickened with closely appressed scales
beneath; apical joint slender, acute. Haustellum pale ochreous.
Head bronzy above, orange-yellow at the sides. Thorax bronze-
colour. Fore wings rounded at the apex, the costa scarcely convex
near the base, apical margin obliquely convex ; deep bronze-colour,
without markings (under the lens minutely irrorated with paler
scales) ; cilia shining bronzy. Hind wings wide, not emarginate
below the slightly rounded apex ; paler than the fore wings,
bronzy fuscous ; cilia the same, rather shining. Abdomen dark
bronzy fuscous. Legs pale ochreous, tinged with bronzy fuscous
on the posterior tarsal joints. Exp. al. 18 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

Lecithocera maculata, Wlsm.

Tangani (Kolumbi Creek, East Africa), August, one
specimen (Jackson).

TIMYBA, Wkr.
[PI. v., fig. 41 ; PL vii., fig. 83.]

Timyra extranea, sp. n.

Antennce ochreous ; $ with a long and conspicuously projecting
tuft of greyish scales beneath the outer side of the basal joint ; in

106 Lord Walsingham on

the ? simple. Palpi, $ , long, recurved, above the crown thickly
clothed with long diffuse ochreous hair-like scales 011 the upper
side to the end of the rather stout, pointed apical joint, which is
two-thirds the length of the second joint ; in the $ very slender
and naked. Head ochreous, thickly tufted above the eyes. Thorax
ochreous. Fore wings ochreous, faintly and delicately shaded
with brownish ochreous on the basal and outer thirds of the wing-
length ; two faintly indicated brownish ochreous discal spots, one
at the end of the basal third, the other at the commencement of
the outer third, precede and follow the paler central space ; cilia
ochreous. Hind luings delicately fringed with pale hairs on the
upper side of the subcostal vein ; pale ochreous, narrowly bordered
in the $ around the apex and apical margin with brownish
ochreous ; cilia very pale ochreous. Abdomen pale brownish
ochreous. Legs pale ochreous ; the joints above the spurs tufted,
above the first pair strongly, above the second pair less con-
spicuously, with brush-like tufts, ochreous, with a bronzy-brown
band running across their outer ends. Exp. al. 14 — 15 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), Mr. G. T. Carter; three
specimens.

Type, dT ? , Mus. Wlsm.

This genus appears to belong properly to the Indian
region ; it has occurred in Ceylon, and I believe also in
India. This species is closely allied to Timyraphycisella,
Wkr.

APILETRIA, Ld.
[PI. v., fig. 42 ; PL vii., fig. 82.]

Apiletria acutipenuis, sp. n.

Antenna simple, two-thirds the length of the fore wings ; basal
joint elongate, slightly enlarged ; dull cinereous. Palpi recurved;
second joint long, stout, and compactly clothed; apical joint
short, slender, acute ; whitish cinereous above, sprinkled with
dusky scales beneath. Haustellum rather short. Ocelli obsolete.
Head smooth, greyish cinereous. Thorax stout, smooth ; cinereous,
anteriorly shaded with dark grey, a whitish line dividing its anterior
margin from the head. Fore wings lanceolate, acute ; costal mar-
gin slightly convex, especially towards the base, extreme apex
rounded, apical margin very oblique, anal angle obsolete, dorsal
margin somewhat bulged near the base ; pale cinereous, sparsely
sprinkled with elongate fuscous scales, much shaded along the
costal margin and on the dorsal margin about the obsolete anal
angle with brown and greyish fuscous; with two small fuscous

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spots, the first at about half the wing-length, slightly above the
middle, the second on the same level beyond it, less than half-way
to the apex ; cilia greyish cinereous. Neuration, vein 2 from near
the middle of the wing-length, carried forward above the obsolete
anal angle ; 7 and 8 from a common stem ; rest separate. Hind
wings elongate, subovate, about the same width as the fore wings,
apex rounded, with very long cilia at the abdominal angle ; greyish
cinereous, with slightly paler cilia, near the base of which runs a
darker line. Neuration 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point ; 6 and 7
from a common stem. Abdomen dilated, acute, brownish grey.
Legs cinereous, sprinkled with ashy brown. Exp. al. 26 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter}.
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

YPSOLOPHUS, F.

£, — Ypsolophus siccifolii, Wlsm.
Malvern (Natal), one specimen (Bou-ker).

[PL v., fig. 43.] / j|/"<K

,' Ypsolophus gig as, sp. n.

Antennce, in the $ , pubescent ; brownish bone-colour. Palpi
with a very long projecting tuft beneath the second joint, almost
as long as the long slender apical joint, projecting three times the
length of the head beyond it ; brownish bone-colour. Head and
Thorax brownish bone-colour. Fore wings with the costa straight,
the apex depressed, but rather pointed, the apical margin very
oblique ; pale bone-brownish, sparsely irrorated with a few darker
scales, and with three indistinct darker spots, one on the fold at
half its length, and two at the outer extremity of the discal cell,
one at its upper, the other at its lower angle ; cilia unicolorous
with the fore wings. Neuration, 4 and 5 closely approximate at
the base ; 7 and 8 from a common stem, 8 ending above the apex ;
2 and 3 separate. Hind wings somewhat paler than the fore wings,
with an indistinct darker line running along the base of the still
paler cilia. Neuration, 3 and 4 from the same point ; 6 and 7
separate. Abdomen the same colour as the hind wings, but with
about six transverse darker brown segmental bars, corresponding
in colour with the three spots on the fore wings, and with a pale
anal tuft. Exp. al. 40 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

108 Lord Walsingham on

Two specimens of this very remarkable large form of
the genus Ypsolophus have reached me from Mr. J. M.
Hutchinson.

[PL v., fig. 44.]

(^ Ypsolophus marmoratus, sp. n.

Antennce annulated with fuscous and pale greyish ochreous.
Palpi with a strong triangular tuft on the second joint ; greyish
fuscous, faintly speckled with ochreous ; apical joint dull ochreous,
with a fuscous ring before the apex. Head greyish fuscous,
slightly tinged with ochreous above and in front. Thorax dull
ochreous, shaded with fuscous. Fore wings dull ochreous,
mottled and shaded with fuscous ; with an ill-defined fuscous spot
on the disc about the middle ; cilia dull ochreous ; veins 2 and 3
stalked. Hind wings and cilia grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous.
Legs obscurely mottled with greyish fuscous and pale ochreous.
Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).
Type, # , Mus. Wlsm.

NOTHRIS, Hb.
[PL v., fig. 46.]
C^ Nothris bryophilella, sp. n.

Antennce dull white, faintly annulated with fuscous. Palpi with
the second joint clothed with a long projecting tuft of loose hair-
like scales beneath ; white, a large black spot on the outer side of
the second joint, a very small black spot at the base, and a black
band around the middle of the slender apical joint. Head and
Thorax dull white. Fore wings dull white, speckled and blotched
with brown ; the basal third is irrorated with brown scales, a small
fuscous spot near the costa towards the base ; immediately beyond
the basal third is a large reniform greyish fuscous spot, having the
appearance of two roundish contiguous spots, the one reaching
over the fold, the other, about the same size, above it ; beyond this
is a transverse ill-defined band of brown about the middle of the
wing, starting from the costal but not attaining to the dorsal mar-
gin, wider towards its upper end; this band is followed by another
greyish fuscous rounded spot, larger than either of the other two,
and lying on the end of the cell ; this spot is followed by another
large brown patch, occupying the whole apical portion of the wing

African Micro- Lepidoptera. 109

from the anal angle along the apical margin, but not quite reaching
to the costal margin, where there are three fuscous spots, two
small and one larger ; a slender shining leaden grey line borders
the wing, running from the anal angle along the extreme apical
margin, and around the apex along the base of the costal cilia ;
cilia cinereous, with two darker lines, one along their base, the
other along their outer edge. Hind wings pale leaden grey ; cilia
cinereous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs whitish, the posterior tibiae
with long hairs above, the tarsi spotted with brownish fuscous.
Exp. al. 13 — 14 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia) ; four specimens taken in
November (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species bears a great resemblance in colour and
markings to Bryophila perla and glandifera.

MEGACRASPEDUS, Z.

[PL v., fig. 47.]
• Megacraspedus suffusellus, sp. n.

Antennae whitish cinereous. Palpi whitish, dusted with
cinereous, especially on their outer sides along the lower edge of
the long projecting tuft from the second joint. Head and Thorax
whitish, dusted with cinereous. Fore wings whitish, dusted with
cinereous, the darker dusting forming diffused and by no means
distinct spot-like marks below the costa at the basal third, at the
end of the cell, and on the fold ; cilia dirty whitish, with a
cinereous line along their middle, and another before their tips.
Hind wings very pointed, with margin deeply excised below the
apex ; shining bone- white ; cilia whitish cinereous. Abdomen
cinereous, barred with dirty whitish. Legs whitish cinereous.
Exp. al. 18 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .
Type, <? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species may possibly be only a local form of the
European Megacraspedus imparellus, F. K., but it differs
in the absence of distinct spots on the fore wings, and
in its generally more dirty and suffused appearance.

110 Lord Walsingham on

ANORTHOSIA, Clem.
Anorthosia straminis, Wlsm.

Ypsolophus straminis, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 266.

Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce) ;
Delagoa Bay (East Africa), one specimen (Druce).

This species only differs from Anorthosia punctifereUa,
Clem., the type of the genus, by having 11 veins in the
fore wings (7 and 8 being coincident) instead of 12 veins,
7 and 8 from a common stem.

In my former paper I had placed it in the genus
Ysolophus, which has the same neuration as Anortkosia,
but the form of the palpi agrees far more closely with
the latter genus. The neural characters of Anorthosia,
as figured in Stainton's edition of Clemens' papers
(Tin. N. Am., p. Ill), is not precisely correct; veins 3
and 4 of the hind wings should be separated at the base,
and the discal cell of both wings is closed, as in other
allied genera.

[PL v., fig. 45 ; PL vii., fig. 84.]
Anorthosia fractico stella, sp. n.

Antenna dirty whitish, annulated with brown. Palpi : second
joint thickly clothed with projecting scales taking a triangular
form ; externally brown, fringed with whitish at its anterior edge,
internally whitish throughout ; apical joint very long, slender,
erect, slightly recurved, whitish, springing from the apex of the
triangular tuft of scales, not, as is usual in Ypsolophus, from the
base ; in this respect it agrees approximately with Anorthosia,
Clem., rather than with Ypsolophus, in which I was at first
inclined to place it, although differing somewhat from both in the
form of the apical joint. Head and Thorax pale olive-green. Fore
wings with the costa slightly convex near the base, depressed
beyond the middle, with a projection before the oblique depressed
apex, which is rather obtusely pointed, the apical margin oblique
and concave, anal angle obtuse, dorsal margin straight ; pale olive-
green ; a small brown streak along the extreme base of the costal
margin, followed by a few brown scales on the convex part of the
margin near the basal third of the wing-length ; a distinct dark
brown narrow line-like spot along the extreme costal margin,
scarcely beyond the middle, and a few brown scales in the cilia of
the preapical costal projection ; just before the middle of the wing

African Micro-Lepidoptem. Ill

is a reduplicated brown spot, the upper portion of which is almost
round; the lower portion is triangular, with the apex pointing out-
wards ; at the lower angle on the fold is a roundish spot of a darker
brown ; at the end of the cell is an obliquely-placed linear spot of
dark brown scales ; five small spots of the same colour are at the
extreme edge along the apical margin, with three similar spots
above the apex, between it and the costal projection; two similar
spots also occur on the dorsal margin ; cilia very pale greyish
brown. Under side unicolorous pale brownish grey. Hind wings
wider than the fore wings, the outer margin scarcely concave below
the apex ; pale greyish brown, with scarcely paler cilia. Under
side unicolcrous pale brownish grey. A bdomen pale greyish brown,
inclining to ochreous posteriorly. Legs pale greyish ochreous.
Exp. al. 15—16 mm.

Hab. Accra (Gold Coast), five specimens (Carter].
Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

The form of the palpi of this species is somewhat
peculiar ; the second joint throws out a brush of hair-
like scales on its upper side, with a few on its under side
towards the apex ; thus the joint itself passes through
the brush, and gives off the apical joint at its apex,
whereas in Nothris and Ypsolophus it is tufted beneath,
and the apical joint is given off from the base of the tuft.
The neuration agrees with that of Ypsolophus, but the
excavated costal margin distinguishes it in appearance,
and the peculiar palpi seem to justify its reception in
the genus Anorthosia, Clem., which also possesses a
slight depression on the costal margin.

ANARSIA, Z.
[PI. v., fig. 48.]
C'AnaTsia agricola, sp. n.

Antennce annulated with hoary and fuscous. Palpi writh a long
triangular tuft projecting beneath the second joint; fuscous on the
basal half, hoary beyond, each section clearly denned ; apical joint
smooth, hoary, a ring near the base, and the whole outer half
above fuscous, a pale spot on the outer half beneath. Head and
Thorax hoary. Fore wings hoary ; with a large triangular fuscous
dorsal patch, sprinkled with hoary scales, extending beyond the
middle of the dorsal margin, obtusely terminated below the costa ;
above its apex is a small, and beyond it a larger elongate costal
spot of the same colour, both tending obliquely outwards; the

112 Lord Walsingham on

whole apical portion of the wing, above the anal angle and parallel
with the apical margin, is shaded with fuscous scales and patches ;
cilia greyish fuscous. Hind wings semitransparent, shining iron-
grey, with a slight lilac iridescence ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen
pale cinereous. Legs pale cinereous, the posterior tarsi shaded
with fuscous, faintly pale spotted. Exp. al. 11 mm.

Ha b. Estcourt (Natal), two specimens (Hutchinson) .

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

One of these specimens is a rather dark variety.

I have a third variety much paler than the type, with
less suffusion of dark scaling, and the dorsal patch more
conspicuously contrasted with the pale ground colour,
but it cannot be regarded as a separate species.

Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, ? ,Mus. Wlsm.

[PL v., fig. 49.]
& Anarsia inculia, sp. n.

Antenna annulated with hoary and greyish fuscous. Palpi with
a large square tuft, or flattened brush, of projecting scales beneath
the second joint ; hoary, speckled and shaded externally with
greyish fuscous ; apical joint whitish, with a broad black band of
scales around its middle. Thorax hoary, tegulae tinged with
greyish fuscous. Fore wings hoary, obliquely tinged with greyish
fuscous, and some brownish scales at the base, narrowly on the
costal, more widely on the dorsal margin ; a triangular tawny
fuscous patch occupies the middle of the costal margin, its apex
reaching to the dorsal margin ; a chestnut-brown spot on the fold,
intermixed with groups of raised blackish scales, forms its central
portion ; the apical part of the wing is also shaded with tawny
fuscous scales ; cilia tawny fuscous, sprinkled with hoary scales,
and becoming paler about the anal angle. Hind wings semi-
transparent iridescent tawny grey ; cilia grey. Abdomen iridescent
tawny grey ; anal tuft ochreous. Exp. al. 12 — 14 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).
Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

African Micro-Lepidoptcra. 113

XYLOBYCTIN^E.

IDE, Chamb.
[PL v., fig. 50.]
(2 — Ide complanella, sp. n.

Antennce ciliated in the $ ; grey. Palpi stone-grey, inclining to
ochreous towards their apex. Head and Thorax greyish stone-
colour. Fore wings greyish stone-colour, tinged with ochieous
along the costal margin throughout their length; cilia shining
silvery. Neuration 12 veins ; all separate ; 1 b furcate at base.
Hind wings stone-grey, with pale shining cilia. Neuration 8 veins ;
6 and 7 from a common stem ; 3 and 4 from a point ; 1 6 furcate
at base ; 8 joined to upper margin of cell near base by a cross-vein.
Abdomen greyish stone-colour. Legs pale stone-colour. Exp. al.
15—16 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).

Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species agrees with the North American forms in
colour and structure, but the cilia are paler and the
wings somewhat narrower, and even more like those of
Lithosia than in others of this Lithosiform genus.

Ide UtJiosina, Z. (the type of the genus), from the
United States, is figured on PL VIL , fig. 85.

DEPEESSAEIAN^.

DEPRESSARIA, IIw.

[PL v., fig. 51.]
Depressaria inornatella, sp. n.

Antennce cinereous, tinged with fuscous towards the base. Palpi
pale cinereous, sprinkled with fuscous scales externally, and with
an ill-defined fuscous band of scales before the apex of the second
joint, and a smaller one near the base of the apical joint. Head
cinereous; face shining whitish. Thorax tawny fuscous. Fore
wings cinereous, much spotted, sprinkled, and suffused with tawny
fuscous, without the indication of any characteristic pattern or
marking, except a small patch of dark tawny fuscous scales at the
extreme base of the dorsal margin, and a dark tawny fuscous elon-
gate oblique spot lying above and beyond the outer and upper angle
of the cell, but not reaching to the costal margin ; preceding and
following this are two obscure costal spots of the same colour, and
a smaller one lies obliquely between the preceding costal spot and
the base of the elongate spot first mentioned ; these, as well as a
few other small costal and marginal spots, are very indistinct ;

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114 Lord Walsingham on

there is also a faint indication of the usual dark spot on the end of
the cell ; cilia pale cinereous. Hind wings pale cinereous ; cilia
the same, with a faint paler line along their base. Abdomen tawny
fuscous. Exp. al. 17 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species belongs to Section B of the genus,
characterised by having veins 2 and 3 of the fore wings
from a common stem.

(ECOPHOBINJE.

CRYPTOLECHIA, Z.

[PL vii., fig. 86.]

Cryptolechia straminella, Z.

Caffraria, two specimens (Boheman, ZelL Coll.) ; Zulu-
land, two specimens (the late Col. Harvey Tower) ; Cape
Colony, one specimen (Trimen).

CACOCHROA, Hein.

N. syn.= TERATOPSIS, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc Lond.,
1881, 259—60.

The genus which I described as Teratopsis must sink
as a synonym of Cacochroa, since it is identical in struc-
ture and neuration.

Cacochroa tunicella, Wlsm.

Teratopsis tunicella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 260.

Annshaw (Cape Colony), one specimen (Barrett).

ANCHINIA, Hb.
£-Anchinia drucella, Wlsm.

Topeutis drucella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 268—9.

Malvern (Natal), one specimen ( Bowker).

I am induced to transfer this species to the genus
Anchinia, on the ground of the form of the labial palpi,
the neuration also agreeing with that of the type.

African Micro- Lepidoptera. 115

PHILOBOTA, Meyr.
[PL v., fig. 52.]
- Philobota virgo, sp. n.

Antenna with a distinct pecten on basal joint ; strongly pube-
scent; white. Palpi very long and slender, recurved ; white, with
a slight greyish tinge. Head white, with a slight greyish tinge.
Thorax white, slightly tinged with grey anteriorly. Fore wings
with rather straight costa, rounded apex, and oblique apical margin ;
pure shining white, cilia shining white. Under side grey, cilia
white. Hind wings whitish grey, with an indistinct greyish line
along the base of the white cilia. Under side the same colour as
on the upper side, but with no line along the cilia. Abdomen grey.
Legs: the anterior pair with the femora and tibiae shaded with
fuscous, the others white. Exp. al. 29 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from Crytolechia straminella, Z., in
possessing a distinct pecten on the basal joint of the
antennae, and consequently falls into Philobota, Meyr.

PSECADIA, Hb.

C-' Psecadia sabiella, F. & E.
Psecadia ? sabiella,F. &K., Eeise Nov. Lp., PL CXXXIX.,

30 (1875).

CEcophora ? sabiella, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 270—1.

Graharnstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce) ;
Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) ; Delagoa
Bay (East Africa), two specimens (Druce).

Psecadia circumdatella, Wkr.
Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce).

Psecadia livida, Z.

Delagoa Bay (East Africa), one specimen (Druce) ;
Accra (Gold Coast), one specimen (Carter).

In my previous paper (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881,
p. 249), through the printer having omitted to space this
species from the preceding, it would appear that I re-
garded this as a synonym of circumdatella. This printer's
error is unfortunate, as they are abundantly distinct.

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116 Lord Walsingham on

Psecadia oculigera, Mschl., Yer. Z.-b. Ges. Wien.,

XXXIIL, 309, PL XVI., 25. (1883).
Caffraria ; Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen
(Druce) ; Accra (Gold Coast), two specimens (Carter).

CNEMIDOLOPHUS, Wlsm.
£ Cnemidoloplius lavernellus, Wlsm.
Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

GLYPHIPTEEYGIN^ .
GLYPHIPTERYX, HI.

[PL v., fig. 53.]

Glyphipttryx grapholithoides, sp. n.

Antennce fuscous. Palpi and Haustellum pale ochreous. Head
smooth ; bronzy fuscous. Thorax bronzy fuscous. Fore wings
bronzy fuscous, with a conspicuous whitish ochreous transverse
fascia at one-fourth of the wing-length, outwardly angulated in the
middle, and attenuated towards the costal and dorsal margins ;
beyond it are seven slender costal streaks, the first five or six out-
wardly oblique, all are pale ochreous at their costal extremity,
the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth with steel-grey metallic termi-
nations ; a coppery metallic upright streak above the anal angle
indicates the position of what in the genus Grapholitha would be
the ocelloid patch ; above and beyond the upper end of this is a
small coppery metallic spot, opposite to the slight subapical in-
dentation of the outer margin ; rather beyond the middle of the
dorsal margin is a group of small whitish ochreous spots and
scales, reaching as far as the lower extremities of the costal streak-
lets ; cilia whitish, tipped with brown. Under side pale bronzy
brownish, with four pale ochreous costal spots before the apex.
Hind wings brownish fuscous, with scarcely paler cilia. Under
side pale bronzy brownish, slightly paler than in the fore wings,
with a pale ochreous costal spot, rather larger than those in the
fore wings, immediately before the apex. Abdomen bronzy
fuscous. Legs bronzy fuscous ; the posterior pair with whitish
ochreous spurs and three pale spots on the tarsal joints. Exp. al.
10 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species approaches those of the South American
genus Ussara, Wkr., in appearance, but I am unable to
distinguish it from Glypkipteryx. It is very nearly

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allied to Gelechia gemmatella, Wkr., from Sierra Leone
[Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXX., 1022. (1864)1, but Walker's
species has the pale basal band much wider, especially on
the dorsal margin ; it has also distinct whitish streaks on
the sides of the abdomen, and a larger proportion of
yellow streaks and spots on the costal and median por-
tions of the wing. It is possible that an extended series
of specimens might connect these two forms as varieties
of one species.

LAVEENIN^.

LAVERNA, Crt.
[PI. v.( fig. 54.]
- Laverna yamUella, sp. n.

Antennae, annulated with whitish ochreous and brownish fuscous.
Palpi whitish ochreous, touched with brownish on the outer side of
the second joint, at the base and near the apex ; apical joint two-
thirds as long as the second, biannulated with fuscous. Head and
face whitish ochreous. Thorax umber-brown. Fore wings pale
whitish ochreous ; with a distinct outwardly oblique basal patch,
wider on the dorsal than on the costal margin, shaded with grey
except on its outer third, where it is rich umber-brown ; about the
middle of the wing is a broad transverse band, of which the middle
portion is pale tinged with greyish, the margins being clothed with
rich umber-brown scaling, the inner margin outwardly oblique
from the costa, the dark scaling rather scattered and difi'used, the
outer margin strongly angulated inwards at the middle, and with
much thicker and closer dark scaling, which extends around the
anal angle to the apex, leaving a quadrangular cream-white costal
patch above it, extending inwards to one-third from the apex ;
cilia dark brownish grey. Hind wings pale greyish near the base,
tinged with brownish beyond ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen
subochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, barred and spotted with
umber-brown. Exp. al. 10 — 12 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), five specimens taken among
mallow in November and December (Carter} ; Gambia,
nine specimens (Druce).

Type, <? ? , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 55.]
Laverna quinquecristata, sp. n.
Antenna, basal joint somewhat enlarged; brown, spotted with

ochreous towards their outer ends. Palpi very long, overarching
the vertex, apical joint as long as the second ; pale ochreous, barred

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with brown at the base and near the apex of the second joint, and
above the base and before the apex of the apical joint. Head
smooth ; pale ochreous. Thorax blackish, with two longitudinal
ochreous lines, one each side of the middle. Fore wings narrow,
tapering outwards from near the base, the costa slightly convex
before the middle ; coloured with an almost equal admixture of
pale ochreous and brown scales ; with five distinct raised pale
ochreous, smooth, shining tufts, two near the costal and three near
the dorsal margin ; the outer of the three dorsal tufts is scarcely
beyond the half of the wing-length, and the two costal tufts are
opposite the spaces between the dorsal ones ; there is a slight
indication of a few raised scales beyond the third dorsal tuft, but
in the specimen before me these do not form a tuft; cilia pale
brownish fuscous. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale brownish fuscous.
Abdomen brown. Legs brown, spotted with pale ochreous. Exp.
al. 22 mm.

Hab. Est court ((Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson}.

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

STAGMATOPHORA, H.-S.

[PL vi., fig. 66.]
- Stagmatophora fasciata, sp. n.

Antenna fuscous, annulated with white, and with white longi-
tudinal streaks on the fuscous basal joint. Palpi cream-white, the
apical joint dusted with fuscous. Head yellow; face white.
Thor a x purplish fuscous. Fore wings cream-white, with a basal
patch, a broad central fascia and the apex all purplish fuscous,
the edges of these markings being tolerably straight, except the
inner edge of the central fascia, which is curved outwards, and the
inner edge of the apical shade, which extends inwards somewhat
along the dorsal margin ; cilia pale purplish fuscous, paler at the
anal angle. Hind wings pale grey ; cilia pale purplish. Abdomen
greyish fuscous. Legs cream white, broadly barred with purplish
fuscous. Exp. al. 9 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), four specimens taken from
November to December, attached to a species of mallow
(Carter).

Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

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[PL vi., fig. 57.]
Stagmatophora distincta, sp. n.

Antenna with the elongate basal joint white, a distinct brown
spot above beyond its middle, thence entirely white beneath, /,
above alternately spotted and banded to the middle, and banded t —
beyond the middle with brown, the apical joints brown. Palpi
very slender, recurved, divergent ; white touched with brown,
especially at the ends of the second and apical joints. Head white.
Thorax stout, brown, fringed with whitish hairs posteriorly. Fore
wings brown, with a broad, slightly oblique, shining white fascia
near the base ; two shining white lunate spots beyond the middle,
one costal, the other dorsal and slightly further removed from the
base ; a third larger lunate costo- apical spot reaching to the apical
cilia ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wings shining grey at the base,
merging into brown beyond it ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen
white, with two brown spots at the base ; the first large, the other
small ; a row of three large brown spots along each side, and two
brown bands across the two penultimate segments ; anal tuft
whitish. Legs white, banded with brown. Exp. al. 11 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

The only respect in which this species differs from the
typical forms of this genus is in its somewhat wider
wings (both fore and hind wings), of which, however, the
general pattern of neuration appears to be the same.

PYRODERCES, Z.

[PL vi., fig. 58.]
Pyroderces simplex, sp. n.

Antennas 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
shining metallic iridescence on the under side. Fore wings 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
margin ; on the dorsal margin at about half the wing-length is a

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small, outwardly oblique, spot of fuscous scales ; at the extreme
apex is a dark fuscous spot preceded by a few scattered paler
fuscous scales, which are also to be found along the base of the
cilia ; cilia fawn-colour, inclining to greyish fawn about the anal
angle. Hind wings grey, with fawn-grey cilia. Abdomen
cinereous. Legs pale fawn, inconspicuously banded with darker
fawn. Exp. al. 9 — 11 mni.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia) ; two specimens, one bred
from a mine in a species of mallow in November, the
other taken on the wing in the same month (Carter).

Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

STATHMOPODA, Sin.

[PL vi., fig. 59.]

Stathmopoda maculata, sp. n.

Antennae, pale fawn. Palpi whitish, apical joint slightly tinged
with fawn above. Head pale fawn above ; face whitish. Thorax
stout ; cream-white, except on its extreme anterior margin, which
is fawn-colour. Fore wings creamy- white, the costal margin
narrowly shaded throughout with fawn-brown ; a triangular fawn-
brown basal patch, of which the apex reaches the dorsal margin ;
a transverse fascia in the middle, wider on the costal than on the
dorsal margin, and a transverse shade occupying the whole apical
fourth of the wing (except the extreme apex, which is slightly
paler), of which the inner edge is outwardly oblique from the costa
to the dorsal margin ; all deep fawn-brown, with a very slight
purplish hue ; cilia pale brownish ochreous. Hind wings pale
fawn-grey, with pale brownish ochreous cilia. Abdomen fawn-
brown. Legs pale fawn-colour, with deep fawn-brown tufts and
tarsal spots. Exp. al. 18 — 20 mm.

Hob. Gambia, two specimens (Druce).
Type, <? ? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species has a very distinct appearance despite
the general similarity of colouring in S. crassella. The
thorax is also equally stout, but the ground colour of the
fore wings is much paler, and so distinctly mapped out
into two elongate patches, enclosed on three sides by the
dark fawn-brown transverse shades, as to destroy the
somewhat suffused effect. It is also larger, and the sub-
apical shade does not point inwards, but outwards from
the costa. Both crassella and maculata approach Stath-

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mopoda pedella, L., but they are much more robust, owing
to their wider thorax.

[PL vi., tig. 60.]
Stathmopoda crassella, sp. n.

Antenncz strongly ciliated on their inner side; pale fawn. Palpi
very slender, divergent, recurved ; second joint whitish, apical joint
fawn-colour. Haustellum white. Head pale fawn above ; face
shining white. Thorax very stout ; fawn-colour ; shining white
beneath. Fore wings fawn-colour, with the extreme costal margin
very narrowly tinged with purplish fuscous ; a transverse streak
very near the base ; an oblique transverse shade before the middle,
tending outwards towards the dorsal margin, and an oblique trans-
verse shade, at one-fourth from the apex, tending inwards towards
the dorsal margin ; all purplish fuscous ; cilia pale brownish
ochreous. Hind wings pale fawn-grey, with pale brownish
ochreous cilia. Abdomen pale fawn-grey ; shining white beneath.
Legs pale fawn, with purplish fuscous tufts at the joints and spurs ;
shining white beneath. Exp. al. 11 — 14 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), five specimens taken at
light in November and December (Carter) ; Gambia, five
specimens (Dru-ca).

Type, $ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 61.]
Stathmopoda divisa, sp. n.

Antennce pale greyish brown. Palpi whitish, tinged with greyish
brown on the upper side of the apical joint. Head dark greyish
brown above ; face white. Thorax stout ; yellow. Fore wings
yellow to more than one-third of their length ; with two small
greyish brown costal spots, one at the extreme base very small, the
second small, immediately beyond it near the base ; a greyish
brown shade with straight inner margin occupies the whole outer
portion of the wing from before the middle, the yellow ground
colour showing only in small ill-defined longitudinal streaks or
spots beyond the middle ; cilia pale greyish brown. Hind wings
and cilia pale greyish brown. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs
very pale greyish brown. Exp. al. 10 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, £ $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species has much the pattern and colouring of a
Lozostowa, but it is apparently a true Stathmopoda ; it

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on

is closely allied to Gelechia auriferella, Wkr., from Sierra
Leone [Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXX., 1022. (1864) ], which
differs from it only in having a pale yellow band ex-
tending across the wing beyond the middle. The
colouring is much the same in both species, although
the darker shades are described by Walker as "cupreous,"
which, perhaps, fairly describes what I have called
" greyish brown."

BUTALIN^.

BUTALIS, Tr.
Butalis clilorama, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond , 1887,

279.
Grahamstown (Cape Colony).

[PL vi., fig. 62.]
Butalis subeburnea, sp. n.

Antennce dirty cream-colour at the base, shading to brownish
beyond. Palpi dirty cream-colour, slightly shaded with brownish
grey. Head dirty cream-colour. Thorax dull cream-colour. Fore
wings dirty cream-colour, faintly shaded along the costal and
dorsal portions, the central part of the wing throughout its length
inclining to ivory-white ; cilia the same colour as the wings, with
a faint brownish tinge about the anal angle. Hind wings shining
leaden grey ; cilia very pale brownish cream-colour. Abdomen
grey, the anal segments creamy. Legs pale. Exp. al. 15 —
17 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens taken at
light in November (Carter) ; Gambia, one specimen
(Druce).

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

BLASTOBASIS, Z.

[PL vi., fig. 63.]
Blastobasis irroratella, sp. n.

Antennae pale greyish brown; the basal joint fringed below and
of the same colour as the face. Palpi, apical joint one-third the
length of the second, greyish brown; second joint greyish brown,
with the apex hoary. Head and face hoary, profusely sprinkled
with greyish brown scales. Thorax and tegulce hoary, profusely
sprinkled with greyish brown. Fore wings hoary whitish, profusely
sprinkled with greyish brown scales, which are indistinctly grouped
in an outwardly oblique dorsal streak before the middle, an elongate

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spot on the middle of the disc, and a rounder spot beyond the end
of the cell ; cilia hoary, very sparsely sprinkled with pale greyish
brown. Hind wings pale brownish grey; cilia pale cinereous.
Abdomen and legs pale cinereous. Exp. al. 13 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen, November
(Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

(EDEMATOPODA, Z.

(Edematopoda princeps, Z.

Delagoa Bay (East Africa), two specimens (Druce).

ERETMOCERA, Z.
Eretmocera fuscipennis, Z.
Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).

Eretmocera cart en f Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1889, 28, PL VI., 11.
Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).

Eretmocera derogatella, Wkr.
Zanzibar (East Africa), two specimens (Jackson).

Eretmocera dorsistrigata, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.

Lond., 1889, 29, PL VI., 13.
Zanzibar (East Africa), two specimens (Jackson).

Eretmocera miniata, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,

1889, 30—1, PL VI., 15.
Zanzibar (East Africa), two specimens (Jackson).

Eretmocera scatospila, Z.

Bathurst (Gambia), seventeen specimens, August
(Carter) ; Accra (Gold Coast), one specimen (Carter).

Eretmocera basistrigata, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc.
Lond., 1889, 32—3, PL V.

Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).

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Eretmocera latissima, Z.

Caffraria, two specimens (Boheman, Zell. Coll.] ; Bath-
urst (Gambia), seventeen specimens, October—November
(Carter).

COSMOPTEBYGIN^E.
COSMOPTERYX, Hb.

[PL vi., fig. 64.]
Cosmopteryx cognita, sp. n.

Antennce bronzy brown, the elongate basal joint paler beneath,
the five apical joints are white, the next four or five dark bronzy,
preceded by a wide, once interrupted, white band. Palpi bronzy.
Head bronzy; face metallic steel-grey. Thorax bronzy. Fore
wings bronzy brown, with a slightly oblique brassy metallic band
at half their length, preceding the usual orange fascia; half-way
between this band and the base are three silvery streaklets, the
upper one oblique from the costa, the middle one above the fold,
very short, commencing opposite the apex of the upper one, and
reaching about half the length of the lower one, which is stouter and
lying below the fold, it commences opposite the base of the middle
one and projects beyond it ; the orange fascia is margined exter-
nally by a very oblique brassy metallic band running inwards from
the costal to the dorsal margin, and is separated from it, as from
the similar band which precedes it, by a few blackish scales ; there
is a conspicuous white streak in the costal cilia at the upper end
of the outer metallic band and the apical portion of the wing,
which is bronzy brown, contains a single small brassy spot at the
apex, and a tiny white streak at the extreme end of the apical cilia;
cilia bronzy brown. Under side aeneous, the costal and terminal
white streaks alone visible. Hind wings and cilia pale greyish
brown. Under side aeneous. Abdomen brown. Legs : posterior
tibiae and tarsi bronzy brown, banded and spotted with white.
Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

The only species of Cosmopteryx hitherto recorded
from South Africa is an undescribed species noticed by
Stainton (Ent. Week. Int., IX., 32 (I860)).

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BATRACHEDRIN.E.

ZAEATHEA, Wkr.

[PL vi., fig. 65.]
Zarathra muricicoma, sp. n.

Antennce considerably longer than the fore wings; steel-grey;
basal joint slightly enlarged, orange ochreous. Labial palpi long,
slender, divergent, recurved ; apical joint longer than second, both
smooth ; shining ochreous. Maxillary palpi short, distinct, white.
Haustellum rather long. [Walker writes of Zarathra " proboscis
nulla," but his specimens of Zarathra pterodactyla have long
tongues.] Head posteriorly shining metallic steel-white, above
and in front brilliant purple. Thorax brownish purple. Fore
wings very narrow, elongate, brownish purple; with a slender
shining steel- white streak along the costal margin before the costal
cilia ; another almost parallel below it ; a conspicuous white spot
near the base of the dorsal margin, above which the costal portion
of the wing is bright purple ; another conspicuous semicircular
white spot on the middle of the dorsal margin, above which is a
nearly obsolete small whitish costal spot ; dorsal cilia with a
greenish iridescent hue. Hind wings elongate, very narrow,
sharply pointed, purplish grey ; cilia very long, purplish brown, in
some lights with a greenish hue. Abdomen shining, iridescent,
purplish grey above, with white patches at the sides and beneath,
anal segment white. Legs [missing.] Exp. al. 11£ mm.

Hal. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

GEACILAEIAN^.

GRACILAEIA, Hie.

[PL vi., fig. 66.]

Gracilaria punctulata, sp. n.

Antennce white beneath, distinctly spotted with brown above.
Palpi whitish at the base and apex, shaded with umber-brown at
the sides and around the middle. Head white, with a shining
umber-brown bar across the front. Thorax whitish. Fore wings
bone-white, delicately shaded with pale reddish brown along the
middle, on and above the fold, this colour becoming more intense
about the apex of the wing ; on the extreme costa near the base
are three or four minute brownish dots ; a dark brown spot on the
disc, about the middle of the wing, is followed by another nearer
to the costal cilia ; there is an indication of a third similar spot in

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the darker portion of the wing ; there are also a few brown scales
on the middle of the fold ; cilia bone-white, tinged with reddish
brown. Hind wings grey ; cilia very pale reddish brown. Legs
white, tinged with brown, apparently unspotted. Exp. al. 8 mm.

Hob. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .
Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 67.]
Gracilaria apicistrigata, sp. n.

Antennce longer than the fore wings ; white. Labial palpi
drooping, divergent, longer than the head ; white. Maxillary
palpi conspicuously projected ; white, tipped with brown. Head
shining white ; face very oblique, shining white. Thorax shining
white ; tegulae brown. Fore wings shining white along the dorsal
third, brown on the costal two-thirds ; the edge of the white dorsal
band clearly defined, throwing two obtusely angulated projections
into the brown space above it, one before, the other about the anal
angle, between which the brown colour nearly reaches the dorsal
margin ; a blackish elongate dash below the costa, before the apex,
contains two or three detached white scales ; and at the extreme
apex in the middle of the apical cilia an upright short black streak
is preceded by a whitish costal spot ; cilia at the apex greyish,
below it shining white, at and before the anal angle greyish. Hind
wings and cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen grey. Legs
greyish, spotted with white on the posterior tarsal joints. Exp.
al. 7 mm.

Hab. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, (? , Mus. Wlsm.

[PI. vi., fig. 68.]
Gracilaria bi/asciata, sp. n.

Antennae pale brown, the basal joint white. Palpi white. Head
and face white. Thorax whitish, slightly tinged with pale brownish
anteriorly. Fore wings pale brown, with two broad white fasciae ,
the one before, the other immediately beyond the middle, both
dilated to the dorsal margin, the first evenly, the second on the
outer side only ; beyond the second fascia is a conspicuous tri-
angular white costal spot, preceded by a much smaller one, and
followed by the white apical cilia, in which are two brownish
fuscous streaklets, one at the base and one in the middle, meeting
towards the anal angle, and giving a caudate appearance to the

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wing ; all the white markings are delicately margined before and
behind with lines of brownish fuscous scales; cilia at the anal
angle pale greyish fuscous. Hind wings pale greyish fuscous ;
cilia the same. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs white, banded
and spotted with brownish fuscous ; tarsal spurs white, with a
brownish fuscous spot on each. Exp. al. 7 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia) ; one specimen bred from
mines in a species of mallow, November (Carter}.

Type, <?, Mus. Wlsm.

This species belongs to the scalariella group.

LYONETIAN.E.

MICEOTHAUMA, gen. n.

(juu*p6s= little, 6au[Ax = marvel.)

Type. Microthauma mctalli/eray Wlsm.

[PL vii., fig. 87.]

Antennce with basal joint enlarged and clothed with a conspicuous
eye-cap. Labial palpi drooping. Maxillary palpi obsolete.
Haustellum present. Head tufted ; face smooth. Fore wings
moderately broad, acuminate. Neuration 8 veins ; 1 forked at
base ; 2 from near angle of cell ; 4 from the cross-vein closing cell ;
5 and 6 from a common stem ; 7 from beyond middle of cell to
costa ; 8 to costa before middle. Hind wings narrow, elongate,
acuminate, tapering from base outwards. Neuration 4 veins ;
3 and 4 from subcostal vein, 4 to apex ; cell open.

This genus differs from Opostega in neuration, as well
as in the more developed drooping labial palpi.

[PL vi., fig. 69.]

C, Microthauma metallifera, sp. n.

Antenna and eye-caps white. Palpi short, depressed ; whitish.
Head white, tufted above ; face smooth. Thorax white. Fore
wings shining white ; a small indistinct spot of bronzy scales,
mixed with golden yellow, on the costa before the middle, has an
outwardly oblique inner margin pointing towards the apex of an
also outwardly oblique bronzy metallic dorsal streak slightly
.beyond it, which is connected with a bright patch of golden yellow
metallic scales, blending iuto bronzy brown at their outer and
lower extremity ; this patch occupies about the middle of the
dorsal margin ; before it, much nearer to the base, is a smaller
spot of dark bronzy brown metallic scales ; on the costa beyond

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the middle are two very slender oblique and rather indistinct
brownish lines pointing towards a bright golden metallic spot on
the middle of the outer margin below the apex ; above this outer
spot is a slender very oblique brownish streak in the costal cilia,
depressed at the apex, and giving the wing a distinctly caudate
appearance ; cilia white, tipped with brownish above the apical
streak. Hind wings shining white ; cilia white. Abdomen shining
white. Legs white ; the posterior tarsal joints faintly spotted with
brownish. Exp. al. 7 mm.

Hab. Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson) .
Type, <? , Mus. Wlsm.

NEPTICULIN.E.

LICMOCEEA, gen. n.

s — a winnowing fan, x.epa$ = a horn.)
Type. Licmocera lyonetiella, Wlsm.

[PL vii., fig. 88.]

Antennae, as long as the fore wings, simple ; the basal joint much
developed and clothed with a wide eye-cap. Ocelli obsolete.
Maxillary palpi distinct, small, drooping. Labial palpi strongly
divergent, slender, recurved, acuminate, evenly clothed throughout
with smooth scales ; apical joint slightly exceeding the second
joint in length. Haustellum rather short, naked. Head and face
smooth. Fore wings narrow, elongate, gently tapering to an
acute apex, which is not depressed. Neuration 10 veins ; 6 and 7
from a common stem, 6 to apex ; 3 and 4 approximate at their
bases ; 1 simple at its base. Hind wings elongate, acuminate,
evenly attenuated from base, dorsal margin slightly convex, cilia
very long. Neuration 6 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, as are also
5 and 6 ; cell closed ; 2 from before outer third of cell. Abdomen
slender, two-thirds the length of the fore wings. Legs slender,
posterior tibiae clothed above with short hair-like scales.

[PI. vL, fig. 70.]
Licmocera lyonetiella, sp. n.

Antennae whitish, tinged with ochreous ; with the basal joint
widened into an eye-cap, shining white. Labial palpi slender,
diverging, long and recurved, white. Maxillary palpi meeting
over the short tongue ; white. Head and face lustrous white.
Thorax white. Fore wings narrow, elongate, acute, white ; with
a group. of .scattered scales before the middle, two dorsal and one

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costal spot fawn-brown, also a few fawn-brown scales near the base
of the dorsal margin ; the dorso -marginal spots are elongate, semi-
ovate, the first immediately before the middle, the second at one-
fourth from the apex, above and scarcely before this is the smaller
oblique costal spot, rather darker in colour than the others ; at the
extreme apex is a round shining metallic silvery spot, preceded by
two or three brownish scales in the base of the white costal cilia ;
cilia at the apex white, at the anal angle brownish grey. Hind
wings elongate, evenly attenuated from the base, the dorsal margin
slightly convex, together with the cilia pale brownish grey. Abdo-
men narrow, acute, pale, shining brassy yellowish above, whitish
at the sides and beneath. Legs white. Exp. al. 11 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), three specimens (Carter).
Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm.

OXYMACHJERIS, gen. n.
(fo|j/j = sharp, ftaxaipa = knife.) v*~--*/Kr~

^L^_» A ll /^*

Type, $ . Oxymachceris niveocervina, Wlsm. -

[PL vii., fig. 89.]

Antenna simple, about two-thirds the length of the fore wings ;
basal joint somewhat enlarged. Labial palpi slender, drooping,
the apical joint as long as the second. Maxillary palpi con-
spicuous, drooping. Haustellum moderate. Ocelli obsolete. Fore
wings lanceolate, acute, the costal and dorsal margins about equally
convex. Neuration 8 veins ; 5 and 6 from a common stem,
enclosing the apex ; the rest separate ; 1 simple. Hind wings
lanceolate, acute, the costal and dorsal margins about equally con-
vex. Neuration 5 veins ; 1, 2 and 5 simple ; 3 and 4 stalked. Legs :
posterior tibise thinly hairy.

[PL vi., fig. 71.]
Oxymacharis niveocervina, sp. n.

Antenna pale fawn-colour. Palpi pale fawn-colour. Head and
face white. Thorax white at the sides, yellowish fawn above.
Fore wings bright yellowish fawn, with a richer more brownish
tinge above the anal angle ; a snow-white triangular patch on the
middle of the base does not quite reach the costal or dorsal mar-
gins ; a broad snow-white fascia runs obliquely inwards from the
middle of the costal to before the middle of the dorsal margin, its

TRANS. ENT, SOC. LONP, 1891. — PART I. (MARCH.) K

130 Lord Walsingham on

inner edge scarcely sinuate, its outer edge slightly irregular, with
a projection on the fold, between two brownish fawn spots, not
detached from the bright fawn portion of the wing beyond it ; the
white fascia is also projected narrowly along the costal margin to
the apex ; the costal cilia tipped with fawn-yellow ; the cilia on
the apical margin wholly fawn-yellow. Hind wings and cilia
very pale fawn. Abdomen and legs pale fawn. Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

Oxymachceris ? zulella, Wlsm.

Lithocolletis zulella, Wlsm.

I have no longer access to the type of this species,
which is in the Cape Town Museum ; but, from my
recollection of the shape of the hind wings, and from the
figure, I am inclined to believe that it belongs to Oxy-
machceris rather than to Lithocolletis.

MICROPOSTEGA, gen. n. ^ <*j»-<A
os = little ; Opostega (nom.^gen).
Type. Micropostega csneofasciata, Wlsm.

[PL vii., fig. 90.]

Antennae as long as the fore wings, simple; basal joint enlarged
and clothed with a well-developed eye -cap. Maxillary palpi short,
drooping. Labial palpi also drooping, cylindrical. Head much
flattened, with a strong radiating frontal crest ; face smooth. Fore
wings rather wide, somewhat dilated from the base outwards, the
costal margin slightly indented before the apex, apex rounded, cilia
long. Neuration 5 veins ; discal cell open ; 2 and 3 from a
common stem, as also 3 and 4. Hind wings very narrow, elon-
gate, acuminate, evenly attenuated throughout, cilia long. Neura-
tion with vein 1 near the base, and a single median vein forked at
the apex. Abdomen flattened. Legs strongly tufted above.

This genus differs from Opostega in neuration, as well
as in the flattened and highly crested head, and in the
somewhat less developed eye-cap.

[PL vi., fig. 72.]

Micropostega ceneofasciata , sp.n.

Antennce white ; eye-caps shining snow-white. Head rough
above, white ; face smooth, shining, snow-white. Thorax white.
Fore wings white ; a broad shining metallic brassy fascia, wider

African Micro- L^ndopteta. 1B1

on the dorsal than on the costal margin, takes a slightly oblique
direction outwards and upwards, its edges straight and clearly
defined, the outer edge reaching the costa before the middle ; beyond
it is a very oblique shining brassy costal streaklet, ending in silvery
metallic scales ; beyond this again is a slender brownish fuscous
streaklet in the costal cilia, running to the apex, whence it is
slightly depressed and curved in the apical cilia, having below it
at the apex a small brownish fuscous spot ; a large shining silvery
metallic spot lies at the anal angle ; cilia white. Hind wings
shining white ; cilia white. Abdomen shining white. Legs white.
Exp. al. 6 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

COEEECTION.

Since the first part of this paper has gone to press, I
find that I have overlooked two species described by
Mr. P. C. T. Snellen :—

DICHELIA, On.

[PI. Hi., fig. 5.] I

Dichelia albardana, Snell.

Tortrix (Dichelia) albardana, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent.,
XV., 108—9, PI. VIII., 10. (1872).

Lower Guinea.

I have re-described this species as Conchylis tricolor
(ante, pp. 69 — 70), having mistaken vein 3 of the fore
wings for vein 2. It is not a Conchylis, and is probably
rightly referred to the genus Dichelia, though the stalk
to veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings is shorter than in the
typical species. Argyrotoxa viridis, Wlsm., though
resembling this species in appearance, has these veins
separate, though somewhat approximate at their bases.

SERICORIS, Tr.
1 Sericoris improbana, Snell.

Grapholitha (Sericoris) improbana, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent.,
XV., 109-10, PL VIII., 11. (1872) ; XXV., 234.
(1882).
Lower Guinea.

132 African Micro- Lepidoptem.

EXPLANATION OF PLATES III., IV., V., VI. & VII,

PLATE III.
See Explanation facing PI. III.

PLATE IV.
See Explanation facing PI. IV.

PLATE V.
See Explanation facing PI. V.

PLATE VI.
See Explanation facing PI. VI.

PLATE VII.
See Explanation facing PI. VII.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE III.

FIG. 1. $ Caccecia occidentalis, Wlsm.

2. $ Argyrotoxa tigrina, Wlsm.

3. $ A.flavicostana, Wlsm.

4. $ A. viridis, Wlsm.

5. <? Dichelia albardana, Snell.*

6. $ Eudemis spissana, Z.

7. ? Eccopsis ? nebulana, Wlsm.

8. $ Pentliina brevibasana, Wlsm.

9. (^ Sericoris apicipunctana, Wlsm.

10. $ PlicecasiopTiora variabilis, Wlsm.

11. $ P. basicornis, Wlsm.

12. $ Phoxopteris oculifera, Wlsm.

13. $ P.falcata, Wlsm.

14. $ Coptoloma dimidiata, Wlsm.

15. $ Dichrorampha excisa, Wlsm.

16. $ Simcethis flavimaculata, Wlsm.

17. $ Aty chia albiciliata, Wlsm.

18. $ Phycodes punctata, Wlsm.

See correction on p. 131.

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African Micro -Lepidoptera.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.

FIG. 37. <J Odites carterella, Wlsm.

38. $ 0. ? inconspicua, Wlsin.

39. $ Lecithocera marginata, Wlsm.

40. $ L.flavipalpis, Wlsm.

41. $ Timyra extranea, Wlsm.

42. $ Apiletria acutipennis, Wlsm.

43. $ Yjptolophut gigas, Wlsm.

44. $ Y. marmoratus, Wlsm.

45. $ Anorthosia fracticostellus, Wlsin.

46. $ Nothris bryophilella, \\ Ism.

47. $ Megacraspedus suffusellus, Wlsm.

48. $ Anarsia agricola, Wlsm.

49. $ A. inculta, Wlsm.

50. ^ Ide complanella, Wlsm.

51. $ Depressaria inornatella, Wlsm,

52. $ Philobota virgo, Wlsm.

53. $ Glypliipteryx grapholithoides, Wlsm.

54. $ Laverna gambiella, Wlsm.

Trans.Int. See. Lond. 1892. PlV.

37.

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African Micro -Lepidopt era.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI.

FIG. 55.

$ Laverna quinquecristata, Wlsm.*

56.

£ Stagmatophora fasciata, Wlsm.

57.

$ S. distincta, Wlsm.

58.

$ Pyroderces simplex, Wlsm.

59.

$ Stathmo2)oda maculata, Wlsm.

60.

$ S. crassella, Wlsm.

61.

$ S. divisa, Wlsm.

62.

$ Butalis subeburnea, Wlsm.

63.

$ Blastobasis irroratella, Wlsrn.

64.

$ Cosmopteryx cognita, Wlsm.

65.

$ Zarathra muricicoma, Wlsm.

66.

$ Gracilaria punctulata, Wlsm,

67.

$ G. apicistrigata, Wlsm.

68.

$ G. bifasciata, Wlsm.

69.

$ Microthauma metallifera, Wlsm.

70.

$ Licmocera lyonetiella, Wlsm.

71.

$ Oxymachceris niveocervina, Wlsm.

72.

$• Micropostega ceneofasciata, Wlsm.

* This figure is not satisfactory, the shining pale ochreous raised tufts
being wrongly represented by the use of gold [Wlsm.J

Imns.Int. Soc. Lend. 1891 PL W.

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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII.

* f 73. Setomorpha rutella, Z., $ ; a head, b fore wing, c hind

wing.

* f 74. Autochthonus chalybiellus, Wlsrn,, £ ; a head, b fore wing,

c hind wing.

* 75. Scalidomia horridella, Wkr., <^ ; a head, b fore wing, c hind

wing.

* f 76. Barbaroscardia fasciata, Wlsm., $\ a head, b fore wing,

c hind wing.

f 77. Gymnogramma hutchinsoni, Wlsm., $\ a head, 6, fore
wing, c hind wing.

* 78. Polyhymno luteostrigella, Chamb., $ (United States) ;

a head, b fore wing, c hind wing.

f 79. Strobisia metallica, Wlsm., $\ ahead, 6 fore wing, chind
wing.

* I 80. Odites natalensis, Wlsm., $ ; a head, 6 fore wing, c hind

wing.

* 81. Idiopteryx obliquella, Wlsm., $\ a head, b fore wing,

c hind wing,
f 82. Apiletria acutipennis, Wlsm., $\ a, head (side), b head

(front), c palpus, d fore wing, e hind wing.
f 83. Timyra extranea, Wlsm., ^ ? ; a head $ , b palpus $ ,

c head $ , d antenna $ , e antenna ? , / fore wing,

g hind wing, h hind leg <^ , i hind leg $ .
•j- 84. Anorthosia fracticostella, Wlsm., $\ a head, b fore wing,

c hind wing.

* 85. Ide lithosina, Z., $ (United States) ; a head, 6 fore wing,

c hind wing.

* 86. Cryptolechia straminella, Z,, £; a head, b fore wing,

c hind wing.

* f 87. Microtliauma metallifera, Wlsm., $ ; a head, & fore wing,

c hind wing.

* f 88. Licmocera lyonetiella, Wlsm., cf; a head (side), 6 head

(front), c fore wing, d hind wing.

* f 89. Oxymachceris niveocervina, Wlsm., $ ; a head (side),

6 head (front), c fore wing, d hind wing.

* f 90. Micropostega ceneofasciata, Wlsm., <?; a head (side),

6 head (front), c fore wing, a* hind wing.

* = drawn from type of genus ; f — drawn from type of species.
The figures are all enlarged.

Tran^. ErU, Soc. Land. 1891. P.I VII.

'. Hartley Durrani del. KW.Frohawklith.

African Micro -Lepidoptera.

II. Western Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. By
The Eight llonble. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A.,
LL.D., F.R.S.

[Read Dec. 2nd, 1896.]
PLATES II. and III.

I AM indebted to the Rev. Dr. W. J. Holland for the
opportunity of making known some interesting additions
to the African Micro-lepidoptera from a locality hitherto
uuvisited by any collector of these small but instructive
forms. Kangwe, on the Ogowe River (where the Rev.
A. C. Good collected the specimens communicated by
Dr. Holland), is situated only two miles south of the
equator, and the collection, as might be expected, affords
several examples of the more brilliant colouring and
abnormal structure which distinguishes the equatorial
fauna in other regions. The specimens, unfortunately, for
the most part are in only moderate condition, but are
sufficient to indicate that an experienced collector could
find a rich harvest of novelties if he should possess also
the qualifications of a sportsman and be indifferent to the-
aggressive curiosity of the very numerous lions which, I
am informed, make night collecting absolutely impossible*
and in this instance confined it exclusively to lamp-light
on the upper floor.

This small collection still further emphasises the
alliances undoubtedly prevalent between the Micro-
lepidoptera of the two regions lying on opposite sides of
the great dividing barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, especially
about those degrees of latitude tending southward from
the equator. But, while emphasising this fact, the
collection possesses a still greater interest from the
evidence which it affords that the African continent forms
a strong connecting link with the eastern as well as with
the western fauna. Some of the genera included in this,
paper, such as Idiothauma and Mictopsichia, have repre-

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897. PART I. (APRIL.) 3

31 Lord Walsingham on Western

sentative forms in both. The species placed in the genera
Ohoreutis, Simaethis, and Glyphipteryx have near allies
among the Amazonian types, but could be matched
almost as closely by specimens from Assam and the
Malay Archipelago, while Tiquadra, another Brazilian
genus (to which a species is here added), is represented
in the late Mr. Fryer's collection from Japan. Nematois
parvella, in the Adeline, carries us at once to Borneo and
Sumatra for a careful comparison to enable us to
distinguish it from more than one species equally resplen-
dent ; and this is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the
Adeline are but poorly represented in all collections that
have hitherto reached us from the African region, and are
apparently unrepresented in South America ; while the
alliance of Ptilothyris is with Adelomorpha, hitherto only
known from a single species occurring in Celebes.
Alucita similalis, Wkr., affords a parallel instance,
strengthened by the absolute similarity of specimens from
both localities. These affinities will probably be more
strongly recognised when the mass of material in my
hands, illustrating this study from the islands of the Malay
Archipelago and the adjacent peninsula, as well as from
India and the extreme north of Australia, can be
thoroughly worked out a,nd described.

My assistant, Mr. Durrant, has drawn and coloured the
figures for the plates which illustrate this paper under
•circumstances of unusual difficulty, owing to the condition
of the specimens and the absence of any lengthened
series ; the extreme interest which attaches to many of
these unique forms being the chief incentive in under-
taking a task which he has achieved with remarkable
success. To make correct drawings of the neural
characters from ill-set and frequently contorted specimens,
requires not only much labour and patience, but an
intimate knowledge of structure which few possess, yet
this portion of the work is of the utmost importance in
instituting any comparison between what may be
regarded as grades of structural variation, chiefly interest-
ing for the light they may throw upon geographical
origin and distribution ; I must here express my
acknowledgment for the pains that he has taken to
ensure accurate delineation, as well as for the skill with
which he has reproduced the natural colouring.

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 35

PTEROPHORID^E.

CROCYDOSCELUS, gen. n.

= a piece of wool, <™e'Aos = a leg.)

TYPE. Crocydoscelus ferrugineum, Wlsm.

A ntenncG half the length of the forewings, scarcely pubescent in
the Q, somewhat flattened laterally. Labial palpi slender, pro-
jecting about the length of the head beyond it ; apical joint nearly
as long as the second, which is slightly recurved. Haustellum well
developed. Head clothed above with bifid scales. Thorax stout,
smooth. Forewings narrow, bilobed, the fissure commencing at
about three-fourths from the base ; the anterior lobe as wide as
the second, slightly uncate at the apex ; second lobe square- ended.
Xi-uration, 12 veins ; 8 and 9 stalked, 8 to apex ; 3 and 4 stalked.
JIindti:inrj8 trilobed, the anterior fissure extending to one-half, the
lower fissure ^ot reaching to the base ; third lobe filiform, with a
spatule of black scales in the cilia at its apex. Neuration, 8 veins ;
7 to apex of upper lobe ; 5 and 6 short, to fissure ; 3 and 4 approxi-
mate towards origin, 4 to apex and 3 to angle of second lobe ;
1 to apex of third lobe. Abdomen widened in the middle, tapering
to the anal segments. Ley*, anterior pair with a wide tuft at the
end of the tibise ; middle pair with a similar tuft ; posterior pair
with three outspreading fan-like tufts, the first small, near the base
of the tibias, the other two much larger, arising above the base of
the spurs, the inner spurs much longer than the outer, slightly
clothed, outer spurs densely clothed.

£** Crocydoscelus ferrugineum, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 1.)

Antenna greyish fuscous, with a reduplicated white line and
white spots above. Palpi, head, and thorax ferruginous. Fore-
''•inijs ferruginous, banded across the outer half of the lobes with
tawny fuscous and reddish cupreous, with a faint indication of a
white, transverse streak on each lobe ; the apical margin of the
anterior lobe is slightly unc-ate, the cilia blackish along their base,
their outer half tawny-grey ; on the second lobe the cilia are
similarly coloured, but the tawny grey does not extend to
the torrms, where they are purplish, and behind it they
become pale ferruginous on the dorsum. Exp. al., 15 inm.

36 Lord Walsinghatn on Western

Hindwings bright shining ferruginous at the base, ' shading
outwardly to cupreous ; cilia purplish fuscous at the apex, shading
to tawny grey and pale ferruginous towards the base ; hind lobe
very slender, with a cupreous black spatule at its apex. Abdomen
dark ferruginous, shading to tawny fuscous at the sides. Legs, the
anterior and middle pairs pale ferruginous with a rich ferruginous
fan-shaped tuft towards the end of the tibiae ; posterior pair thickly
clothed to the tarsal joints with dark ferruginous scales, the tibial
tufts banded at their base with reddish ferruginous, on their outer
half bright ochreous.

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Yoruba— Idanre (Sir G. Carter, 1894) ; French
Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good).

ALUCITA, L.
TYPE. Phalsena (Alucita} pentadadyla, L. (Poda, 1761),

ALUCITA, L. (nee Meyr.) = ACIPTILIA, Hb. = ACIPTILUS,,
Z. = *PTEROPHORUS (Geoffr.) Meyr.

£•- ' Alucita similalis, Wkr.
n. syn. = malacensis, Z.

Aciptilus similalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX.,.

949 (1864) l; Aciptilia malacensis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent.
Ross., XIII., 485-6 (1877)'.

Sab. AFRICA — Sierra Leone, 10, I. (Dr. Clements) ;.
French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowc River (Rev. A. C.
Good) ; ASIA — Malacca2 ; Borneo — Sarawak1 ; Celebes —
Macassar, 500 ft. (W. M. Doherty).

This species has not hitherto been recorded from
Africa.

- Alucita candidalis, Wkr.

Aciptilus candidalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX.,
948 (1864)1; Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 2822.

Hab. Sierra Leone1' 2 ; French Congo — Kangwe,
Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good); Natal — Spring-
Yale, 111.2

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 37

GELECHIAD^E.
PTILOTHYRIS, gen. n.

(irri\ov = wing, Ovpls = a window.)

TYPE. Ptilothyris purpurea, Wlsm.

Antenncc shorter than the f orewings, somewhat thickened beyond
the base : £ bipectinate 2£, each pectination strongly biciliate ; 9
slightly biserrate : basal joint smooth in both sexes. Maxillary palpi
slender, drooping. Labial palpi very long, recurved, smooth ; second
und third joints of about equal length, the former somewhat flattened
and sabre-shaped, the latter very slender and sharply pointed.
Ilaiisteilum long. Head smooth, with side-tufts behind eyes.
Thorax smooth. Forewinga elongate, of approximately even width
throughout, costa slightly depressed at the base and apex, termen
slightly oblique, not sinuate, tornus rounded. Ncuratiotiy 11 veins
(9 absent, coincident with 8) ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa above
fipex ; 2, 3 and 4 from a recurved common stem ; 5 from lower
.angle of cell, remote from 6. Hindwings broader than the fore-
wings, scarcely sinuate beneath apex ; $ with a semi-transparent
patch. Neuration, 8 veins ; 6 and 7, as also 3 and 4, from a short
stalk ; 5 straight. Abdomen slightly flattened behind middle ;
<J with genital segments densely hairy ; uncus strongly developed.
Legs smooth, hind tibiae with elongate slender tarsi and rather long
spurs.

Allied to Adelomorpha [founded by Snellen (Tijd. v.
Ent., XXVIII., 31-2, PI. 111., 1-3, 1885) on the characters
of a single species from Celebes] but differing chiefly in
the shorter and distinctly bipectinate antennas, which in
Adelomorpha are biciliate. The occurrence of this genus
in tropical Africa is interesting, especially in connexion
with other forms from which probably it may have been
derived. Idiopteryxt Wlsm., possesses vein 9 in the
forewings from the same stem as 7 -h 8, while the loss
of this vein is characteristic of Adelomorpha and Ptilo-
thijris. A tendency in the same direction is shown in the
hindwings, where 3 and 4, which are separate in Idiopteryx,
arise from a short stalk in both these genera. It would
be interesting to discover a form in which all these
stalked veins have become coincident.

38 Lord Walsingliam on Western

Ptilothyris purpurea, sp. n. (PL II., fig. 2.)

Antenme purple on the basal two-thirds, with an ochreous patch
behind the basal joint, the outer third white. Palpi bright
ochreous, the apical joint shaded with purplish fuscous externally.
Head dark purplish, the face paler ; the fringes above the eyes
bright ochreous. Thorax dark purplish. Forewincjs shining, dark
purplish, with a triangular patch of somewhat roughened scales
extending nearly across the wing at one-third from the base (this
is bright purplish grey in certain lights, but appears brownish
fuscous if held in an opposite direction) ; beyond this at the upper
angle of the cell is a smaller similar patch ; a slender subqchreous
line runs along the base of the dark purplish cilia. E,cp. al.
24 mm. Hindwing*, £, deep purplish fuscous (varying somewhat
according to the angle at which the light strikes them) ; costal
margin from the base to two-thirds shining whitish ochreous ; a
pale, iridescent transparent elongate patch, lying beneath the costal
margin beyond the middle, extends nearly across the width of the
cell ; a tuft of greyish hair-scales at the base of vein 1 ; cilia
purplish tipped with whitish ochreous towards the abdominal angle
and somewhat beyond it : $ cupreous brown, without the pale
patch ; cilia purplish grey. Abdomen purplish grey, anal tuft pale
ochreous ; underside shining whitish ochreous. Legs bright
ochreous ; hind tibiae shaded externally with purplish at the base
and between the spurs, the outer spurs and the basal joint of the
tarsi also purplish externally.

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm. ; ? . Mas. Holland.

Hob. Lagos ( $ $ , Sir G. Carter) ; French Congo —
Kangwe, Ogowe River ( $ Kev. A. C. Good) ; three
specimens.

EPICHARMA, gen. n.

r VW* > "" (e7r/xa/^ia = an object of malignant joy.)

TYPE. Epicharma notliriforme, Wlsm.

Antennce ( 9 ) filiform. Labial palpi strongly recurved, second
joint amply clothed above and below, the scales beneath scarcely
longer than those above ; apical joint as long as the second, slender,
smooth. Maxillary palpi short, dependent. Ilaustellum long.
Ocelli obsolete. Head and thorax smooth. Forewings, costa
slightly arched at the base, straight beyond, apex depressed, ter-
men scarcely oblique. Neuration, 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. oO

throughout) ; 2 and 3 from a recurved common stem, others
separate. Ilhulirinys slightly broader than the f orewings, trape-
zoidal, costal third of the wing thickly scaled throughout beneath.
Neural ion, 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, 6 and 7 closely approxi-
mated at base. Legs, hind tibia? thickly clothed, spurs very long.

Allied to Notliris and Ypsolophus, but differing in the
coincidence of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings.

Epicliarma nothriforme, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 3.)

Antennce stone ochreous, faintly annulate. Paljii, rich brown
externally on the second joint ; apical joint and a narrow fringe at
the end of the second joint stone-ochreous. Head and thorax
stone-ochreous. Forewings pale stone-ochreous with three black
spots, one on the middle of the fold, one on the middle of the disc
above and beyond it, the ihird at the end of the cell slightly below
the line of the previous one ; a very faint shade of greyish brown
on the apical portion of the wiug is interrupted by a pale waved
fasciaform mark which extends from the commencement of the
costal cilia, bulging outwards and reverting to the dorsum before
the tornus ; a few ill-defined greyish brown spots around the apex
and termen ; cilia pale stone-ochreous. E.rp. «/., 23 mm. Himl-
n-inys grey : cilia stone-ochreous with a greyish shade near their
base. Abdomen greyish. Legs stone-ochreous.

Type. ?.

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

This species has much the appearance of Notliris
verbascella, Hb., but the neuration is different.

PAPPOPHORUP, gen. n.
= thistle down, Qfpeiv = to bear.)
TYPE. Pappophorus eurynotus, Wlsm.

Antenna (f), unident.ate, basal joint without pecten. Labial
palpi, second joint porrect, clothed at the end and above and
beneath so as to make the joint appear triangular ; apical joint
slender, recurved, twice the length of the second joint. Maxillary
palpi short, distinct. Haustelhan well-developed. Head and thorax
smooth. Forewings with the costa conspicuously bulged before

40 Lord Walsingham. on Western

the middle, comparatively straight beyond, but slightly depressed
before the apex,termen somewhat oblique, tornus rounded, dorsum
straight. Neuration, 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex ; 2 and 3
from a recurved stalk, the others separate. Hlndwings trapezoidal,
broader than the f orewings, slightly sinuate beneath apex, and con-
cave between abdominal angle and tornus, cilia f ; <$ with a
long narrow naked fold on the upper side between vein Ib and Ic
containing a pencil of long fine expansible hairs. Neuration, fi
veins ; 2 absent, 3 and 4 coincident, 5 nearer to 6 than to 3 + 4,
6 and 7 closely approximated, Ib with a long and distinct fork.
A bdomen slender, somewhat flattened. Legs, hind tibiae smooth.

Allied to Ypsolophus, F., but differing conspicuously
in the hindwiugs in the absence of vein 2, in the coin-
cidence of veins 3 and 4, in the approximation of 5 to 6,
and in the fold containing a long hair-pencil between Ib
and Ic.

Pappophorus eurynotus, sp. n. (PL IT., fig. 4.)

Antennce pale fawn, faintly annulate with brown. Palpi pale
fawn on their inner sides, with a well-marked triangular brown
shade externally on the second joint, leaving a pale margin along
the upper edge of the projecting tuft ; apical joint dark fuscous.
Head and thorax pale fawn. Foreivlngs whitish fawn, shaded with
umber-brown along the dorsal half and on the costa beyond the
middle ; a small black spot at the extreme base of the costa,
another, wedge-shaped, at the end of the discal cell, scarcely above
the middle of the wing ; a larger blackish patch (variable in size and
shape) half-way between this and the base (its lower portion some-
times forming a black line in the middle of the fold) ; along the
outer side of the bulged portion of the costa commences an umber-
brown shade, which continues to the apex (shading downwards to
chestnut-brown along its middle in some specimens) but interrupted
by three slender whitish streaks, the first of which is very oblique,
passing across the discal nervules and angulated downwards at a
point before the termen, but above the middle of the wing, hence
it reverts to the dorsum at the commencement of the dorsal cilia ;
the other two small and inconspicuous whitish streaks precede the
apex, and the termen and apex are margined by a line of the same
colour, containing a series of three or four blackish spots ; cilia
chestnut-brown on their basal half, fawn -brown externally. Exp.
al , 16 mm. Hindwings dark umber-brown ; cilia scarcely paler but
chestnut-brown at the apex ; <$ with an expansible white hair-

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoplera. 41

pencil between veins \b and Ic. Abdomen shining, cinereous, anal
tuft slightly paler. Leys brown, tarsi annulated with pale fawn.

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsra.

Hab. Sierra Leone, 25, IV. (Dr. Clements); French
Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe Kiver (Rev. A. C. Good) ; two
specimens.

YPSOLOPHUS, F.
YpsolopJtus basistriatus, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 13.)

Antennas pale cinereous, annulated with fawn grey. Palpi,
second joint with a conspicuously projecting triangular tuft
below, apical joint very long, slender; second joint with a tri-
angular chocolate-brown shade externally, apical joint sprinkled
with chocolate-brown scales on the under side. Head and thorax
fawn-gre}', face slightly paler. Forewings with veins 2 and 3
closely approximate throughout, but especially at their base ; pale
cinereous sprinkled with fawn-grey throughout, a series of small
blackish spots around the apex and termeu at the base of the cilia,
and a conspicuous outwardly-oblique black half-fascia arising from
the dorsum near the base, crossing the fold nnd terminating at the
upper end of the cell at about two-thirds the width of the wing ;
cilia pale cinereous. Exp. al.t 16 mm. Hindwings greyish ; cilia
scarcely paler, with a faint subochreous parting line along their
base. Abdomen grayish. Leg*, anterior and middle pairs black,
tarsi annulated with white, posterior pair pale cinereous.

Type. $.

Hab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe Eiver (Rev.
A. C. Good); three specimens.

This species differs from the typical forms of Ypso-
loplmf, in the approximation of veins 2 and 3 of the
forewings.

CECOPHORID^E.
ORYGOCERA, gen. n.
(opv£ = an antelope, tcepas = a horn.)
TYPE. $ . Orygocera carnicolor, Wlsm.

Antenna, £ simple. Labial palpi very long, evenly recurved,
tapering to an acute point, overarching the thorax, apical joint as long

42 Lord Walsingham on Western

as the second. Maxillary palpi short, stout, dependent. Ifaust-
ellani present. Head slightly rough above, face smooth. Thorax
smooth. Forewings of approximately even width throughout, apex
depressed, somewhat acute, termen slightly concave, oblique,
tornus rounded. Neuration, 11 veins (vein 11 absent) ; 2 and ?>
from a short stalk (not recurved), 4, 5, and 6 straight; 7 and 8
from a long stalk enclosing the apex, 12 running to the commence-
ment of the costal cilia. Hind-wings as broad as the forewings,
slightly lanceolate at the apex, termen not indented. Neuration,
8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, 5 bent over to near their
base; the outer end of the cell forming a deep angle between
5 and 6 ; G and 7 widely separate, almost parallel, 7 nearly
coalescing with 8 beyond the upper angle of cell. Abdomen not
flattened. Legs, hind tibife clothed with projecting scales above ;
spurs stout, tarsal joints somewhat coarsely clothed.

• Orygocera carnicolor, sp. n. (PI. IL, fig. 5.)

Antennas yellowish grey. Palpi white, sprinkled with greyish
scales on the second joint. Head white. Thorax yellowish grey
spotted with flesh-red. Forewings sericeous, yellowish grey, dappled
with flesh-red, with a small triangular mouse-grey spot a little
before the middle, of which the apex is slightly turned outwards,
the whole bordered with flesh-red ; a suffusion of scattered flesh-
red scales extends over the greater portion of the wing-surface,
especially along the fold and in a line beneath it; there is a red
spot on the middle of the disc, and a second a little beyond it below
the costa; a series of three similar spots running obliquely, parallel
with the termen, the first immediately below the costa, the second
at the upper angle of the cell, and the third, somewhat lunate, at
the lower angle of the cell ; another smaller one lies near the
tornus, and the termen is mottled throughout with flesh-red ; the
extreme base of the costa is shaded with fuscous ; cilia yellowish
grey. Exp. a/., 19 mm. II ind wings greyish, somewhat trans-
parent, with a bluish iridescence between the veins, especially
near the abdominal margin ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen
greyish. Ilindlegs whitish cinereous.

Type. $.

Hab. French Congo — Kan g we, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 43

THEATKOCOPIA, gen. n. r, .

^-c~~* *\'~\
= a courting of applause.) ui. > l '

TYPE. Theatrocopia roseoviridis, Wlsm.

Antennas § (? simple). P«/pi very long, strongly recurved
to above the middle of the thorax, smooth, apical joint shorter
than the second and somewhat more slender. Maxillary palpi short.
Haustellum present. Head somewhat roughened above. Thorax
smooth. Forewings elongate, narrow, scarcely widened outwardly,
apex depressed, obtuse but not rounded, costa arched, termen
oblique, tornus rounded. Neuration, 12 veins, 7 and 8 from a
common stem enclosing the apex, 2 and 3 from a recurved
common stem, the others separate. Hindwings as broad as the
forewings, apex slightly depressed, obtuse, termen scarcely
sinuate. Neuration, 8 veins, 6 and 7 separate, parallel, 3 and 4
from a short stalk. Leys, hind tibiee clothed with hairs.

Allied to GryptolecJda, Zv but differing in the longer
palpi, and in the stalking of 2 and 3 of the forewings.

Theatrocopia roseoviridis, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 6.)

Antenna roseate, faintly annulate. Palpi pale olive-grey,
tinged with rosy externally, especially on the apical joint. If cad
and thorax pale olive-grey, the latter with a strong roseate tinge.
Forewincjs elongate, narrow, scarcely widened outwardly, apex
depressed, obtuse, but not rounded, costa arched, termen oblique,
tornus rounded : rosy pink with a strong olive-green band cover-
ing the whole base of the wing (except the extreme basal margin)
and extending to beyond the end of the cell, where it is deflected to
the tornus, its upper edge being impressed before the middle by the
rosy ground-colour which continues between it and the costa, occu-
pying the whole apical portion of the wing, and continued very
narrowly to the base ; beneath the band is a large semicircular
olive-green patch on the middle of the dorsum, bordered by a
narrow line of purplish scales ; between this and the band the rosy
ground-colour, commencing in a narrow line at the base, becomes
widened towards the middle of the wing, and still more so towards
the tornus, its upper edge, adjacent to the angulated green band,
being enriched with bright rosy scales ; cilia rosy pink. Eocp. al.,
19 mm. Hindwinffs olive-grey, cilia the same, slightly tinged with
rosy about the apex, and with a narrow paler parting line on the
outer half of the margin. Abdomen grey. Legs pale grey, tarsi
slightly rosy.

44 Lord Walsingham on Western

Type. $ . (Paratype. Mus. Br.)

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good), one specimen; Calabar — Old Calabar, one
specimen (British Museum).

Theatrocopia elegans, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 14.)
Antenna pale reddish grey. Palpi slender, recurved, second
joint very long, apical joint somewhat shorter than the second ;
pale reddish grey. Head and thorax pale reddish grey. Forewings
grass-green, with a dorsal patch before the middle connected with
an oblique fascia beyond the middle, which is again connected
along the costa and around the tornus, with a patch covering the
apical portion — these markings are all reddish grey, with a distinct
lilac tinge, and are delicately margined with darker scales ; the
connexion of the dorsal patch with the central fascia leaves a
semicircular patch of the green ground-colour on the middle of the
dorsum; cilia reddish grey. Exp. al., 16 mm. Hindwings and cilia
brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs slightly paler than
the abdomen.

Type. $.

Hab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

PSEUDOPKOTASIS, gen. n.

(Protasis, nom. gen.)
TYPE. Pseudoprotasis canariella, Wlsm.

Antenncs, <£ biserrate, slender. Labial palpi (as in Protasis, H.-S.),
very long, projecting more than three times the length of the head
beyond it, clothed with appressed scales throughout ; apical joint
very short, scarcely visible ; second joint straight and laterally
compressed. Maxillary palpi short. Haustellum present. Head
and thorax smooth. Forewingx somewhat narrowed at the base,
whence the costa is slightly arched, of approximately even width
beyond the bend, apex depressed, rounded, termen slightly convex,
oblique. Neuration, 11 veins (10 missing) ; 2 and 3 stalked; 7 and
8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings as broad as the forewings, apex
obtuse, termen evenly rounded. Neuration, 8 veins; 3 and 4
stalked, 5 bent over towards their origin ; 6 and 7 separate and
parallel. Abdomen rather slender. Ilindlegs slender, scarcely
clothed.

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 45

This genus differs from Protasis, H.-S., inits neuration
and in the less acute forewings, but greatly resembles it
in the form of the palpi, and in general appearance.

—Pseudoprotasis canariella, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 7.)

Antennas ochreous. Palpi canary-yellow, tinged -with ferru-
ginous internally and externally on the upper edge of the second
joint ; apical joint fuscous. Head and thorax canary-yellow.
Forewings straAV-yellow, with a slight ferruginous tinge at the
extreme base and along the outer half of the costa, also at the
apex ; cilia pale straw-yellow, slightly tinged with ferruginous.
Exp. «/., 14 mm. Hindwings pale greyish ochreous ; cilia the same,
but tinged with ferruginous at the apex and along the costa.
Abdomen ochreous. Legs pale greyish ochreous, with some fuscous
shading on the hind tibiae and tarsi.

Type. $ .

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Gcod) ; unique.

ETHMIA, Hb.,
(n. syn. = PSECADIA, Hb.)

Etlimia rhomboidella, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 15.)

Antenncc stone-grey. Palpi ochreous, apical joint shaded with
grey. Head and face ochreous. Thorax mouse-grey, with five
black spots (two in front, one in the middle, and two smaller ones
behind it). Forewings slaty grey, cilia the same ; with six black
spots (two small ones beneath the costa on the basal fourth, two
larger ones on the disc, and two on the fold) ; of the discal
spots one lies at the end of the cell, the other at the middle of
the wing; the first of those on the fold is somewhat further
removed from the base than the second subcostal spot, the other
lies beyond and below the first discal spot, but nearer to it than
to the second ; thus these six spots form a series of three pairs, in
parallel lines whether counted as pairs or in series of three.
Exp. «Z., 28 mm. Hindwings stone-grey, having a slight ochreous
tinge on the abdominal margin, cilia also inclining to ochreous,
except towards apex. [Abdomen missing.] Legs greyish
ochreous.

Type. ? . Mus. Wlsm.

46 Lord Walsingliam on Western

Hob. Natal — Malvern (Col. Bowker), one specimen ;
French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good),
two specimens.

The specimens from the Ogowe River have the series of
spots in precisely the same places, but they are decidedly
of larger size ; in all other respects they are similar to the
type, and without further evidence cannot be regarded
as belonging to a distinct species ; these specimens,
which are figured, have the abdomen ochreous.
Exp. al.j 26-27 mm.

HYPONOMEUTID^E.
HYPONOMEUTINJE.

JOBULA, Wkr.

o

Jobula? radiata, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 16.)

Antennae, £ shortly uniciliate, basal joint amply clothed ; olive-
grey above, ochreous beneath. Palpi, $ long, projecting four
times the length of the head beyond it, second joint slightly
recurved, closely clothed throughout ; apical joint short, recurved,
sleuder, also clothed ; orange-ochreous on their upper half, olive-
grey externally along their middle, cinereous within and beneath :
<5 shorter than in the $ , and much more recurved ; whitish cine-
reous throughout. Head strongly tufted with .long projecting
hairs in front, face concave ; olive-grey above, mixed with pale
cinereous, face pale cinereous. Thorax smooth, olive-grey with
three longitudinal orange-ochreous lines ; whitish cinereous
beneath. Forcwings, £ dark olive-grey, with orange-ochreous
lines marking the interspaces between the veins, the extreme baso
of the costa narrowly orange-ochreous ; a distinct orange-ochreous
line, commencing near the base beneath the costa, follows the
upper edge of the cell to the middle of the wing-length ; this
is followed by some spots of the same colour about the upper angle
of the eel!, diverging obliquely downwards and nearly joining the
outer end of a median streak of the same colour, which terminates
in the direction of the base at half the length of the cell ; there is
also a line of the same colour along the fold and some suffusion of
orange-ochreous scales beneath it ; beyond the end of the cell a
series of 9 or 10 separate orange-ochreous lines diverge fan-like
between the veins, and are margined, at their outer ends, by
a distinct semicircle of the olive-grey ground-colour, which is

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 47

followed by an orange-ochreous space, also semicircular, but not
attaining the margins, the apical space being dark olive-
ijrey ; cilia olive-grey, with an ochreous line along their base :

9 with the orange-ochreous much less distinct than in the <$ >
although the same pattern can be traced. Exp. aZ., 17-18 mm.

//hidwings brown, cilia greyish. Abdomen brown. Legs pale
cinereous.

Type. $ . Mas. Wlsm.; ? . Mas. Holland.

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good); two specimens.

This African form differs from any of the Asiatic or
Malayan group, so far as known to me, in that vein 8,
forming the upper branch of 7 and 8 stalked, terminates
at the apex instead of below it. In the palpi of the J it
approaches Jobula semilinea, Wkr., more nearly than the
ordinary forms known under the name of Tortricomorpha,
but the palpi of the $ differ scarcely at all from those of
both sexes of the latter enus.

EREMOTHYRIS, gen. n.

(e>f//xos = destitute of, Oupts = a window.)
TYPE. $ $ . Eremothyris hollandi, Wlsm.

.{ntcnnce, two-thirds length of forewings, basal joint enlarged,
flattened, in £ biciliate (1). Labial palpi short, somewhat recurved,
moderately slender, smooth, apical joint not longer than second.
M! Hilary palpi and ocelli absent. Haustellum naked. Head moder-
ately clothed, not roughened above. Thorax smooth. Forewings
ovate, somewhat widened outwards. Neuratlon, 12 veins : 2 and 3
from a short slightly recurved common stem at lower angle of cell,
ths others separate; 4 from near origin of 2 + 3 ; 5 further removed
at the base from 4 than from 6 ; 6 and 7 approximated, 7 to below
; 8 and 0 approximated, but parallel, 8 to costa ; 9 and 10
from upper angles of a small supplementary cell, formed by an
internal vein running from between 7 and 8 to about midway be-
tween 10 and 11 ; two internal veins, the upper from between 6
and 7, and the lower from immediately above 5, unite at about
half the length of the cell, and form a common stem, which is con-
tinued nearly to the base, where it runs into the radius. Ilind-
irings slightly broader than the forewings, subovate, the margin
evenly rounded, the part occupied by the branches of vein 1

48 Lord Walsingham on Western

clothed above with long hair-scales, no transparent spot at the base.
Neuration, 8 veins : 3 and 4 from a point (or short stalk) ; 6 and 7
from a short stalk ; the cell receding upwards and angulated
inwards between 5 and 6+7, with an internal vein from the
angle to the base ; vein Ib basally furcate. Legs smooth, outer
spurs longer than the inner ones.

Eremotliyris liollandi, sp. n. (PL II., fig. 8.)
Antennae whitish at the base, tinged with grey beyond. Palpi
whitish unspotted. Head, ^whitish: £ stone-grey. Thorax stone-
grey ; tegulae whitish in the .£ , stone-grey in the $. Forewings
stone-grey, the costa narrowly whitish except at the extreme base ;
cilia whitish. Underside greyish, cilia whitish. Exp. a/., 22-25 mm.
Hindwlngs pale stone-grey (scarcely paler than the forewings);
cilia whitish, somewhat tinged with grey. Underside slightly paler
than in the forewings. Abdomen stone-grey. Legs whitish, some-
what tinged with grey.

Type. $ $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. French Congo — Kaugwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A.
C. Good) ; five specimens.

GL YPHIPTER YGINM

GLYPHIPTERYX, Hb.
Glypliipteryx gemmatella, Wkr. (PL III., fig. 17.)

Gelechia gemmatella, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX.,
1022 (1864)1. Glypliipteryx (Gelechia) gemmatella9
Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, 116-72.

Antennce brownish fuscous, faintly annulated. Palpi porrect,
slightly recurved, apical joint very acute, shorter than the second ;
second joint with a divided fringe beneath, consisting of three or
four black tufts separated from each other by white lines. Head
leaden grey. Thorax greyish fuscous, with a white spot posteriorly;
white on the underside. Forewings bronzy brown mixed with
fuscous shading, especially towards the base, a large triangular
straw-white dorsal patch near the base, its apex ending in a small
straight whitish costal streak at one-fifth from the base, its outer
edge slightly convex ; this is followed by two straight chalybeous
metallic streaks, the first at one-third from the base, the second
scarcely beyond the middle ; a third slightly oblique towards the
apex is preceded by a small white costal dot half-way between it

-

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 49

and the preceding streak, and followed by a larger white costal spot
immediately before the apex, a few white scales at the costal
extremity of the third chalybeous streak ; from the dorsum arises
ji rather broad straight chalybeous streak immediately before the
middle, which terminates on the disc between the lower extremities
of the first and second costal streaks; this is followed by a con-
spicuous black patch at the tornus, margined by a shorter chaly-
beous streak at its commencement, and containing two conspicuous
shining metallic spots, with some golden metallic scales along the
margin ; above this patch is a series of five radiating golden ochreous
lines following the nervules, but not extending to the termen;
termen indented below the apex, the apex itself being somewhat
depressed ; cilia shining metallic about the tornus (but too much worn
above it to admit of description). Exp. al., 12 mm. Hindwitty*
purplish fuscous, with cilia the same colour but inclining to greyish
about the abdominal angle. Underside with the cilia distinctly
spotted with white along the outer margin. Abdomen leaden grey.
Underside white, anal segments fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous,
nnnulated with white on the tarsal joints, spurs inclining to
ochreous.

Hob. Sierra Leone1.2. French Congo — Kangwe,
Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good).

Allied to Glypliipteryx grapholithoides, Wlsm., from
Natal. These species belong to the group to which
Walker gave the generic name Ussara, when describing
decoratella from the Amazons. I am unable to discover
any structural character by which it can. be separated from
Glypliipteryx. [When the above description was written
I had not recognised the species, but as it supplements
Walker's in several particulars I am not willing to sup-
press it.]

IDIOTHAUMA, gen. n.
(IfStos = distinct, 0afy«» = a wonder.)
TYPE. Idiothauma africanum, Wlsm.

Antennce, £ bifasciculate (at least 2), without pecten. Labial
palpi recurved, appressed to face ; apical joint blunt, shorter
than second. Maxillary palpi absent. Hamtellum short. Ocelli
present. Head and thorax smooth. Foreivings somewhat triangu-
lar, narrow at the base, widened outwardly, costa straight or
siightly depressed towards apex, dorsum straight, termen oblique,

TRANS. ENT. SOC.LOND. 1897. — PARTI. (APRIL.) 4

50 Lord Walsingham on Western

indented above vein 5. Neuration, 12 veins, all separate ; 2 from
commencement of outer third of cell, 3 and 4 somewhat straight, 8
to termen. Hind wings broader than the f orewings (or at least equal
to the extreme width outwardly), evenly rounded. Neuration, 8
veins ; 3 and 4 from a point or short stalk, 6 and 7 from a short
stalk, 8 free, 5 straight ; outer edge of cell somewhat receding
upwards. Legs, hind tibiae slightly hairy.

Allied to Hilarograplia , Z., but differ ing in vein 8 of
the forewings running to the termen instead of to the
costa, in the much straighter costa and in the conspicuous
indentation between veins 5 and 6.

Tdiothauma africanum, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 9.)

Antennae ochreous with greyish cilia. Palpi pale straw-colour.
Head brownish fuscous, with some pale straw-coloured scales.
Thorax brownish fuscoas, streaked at the sides with pale straw-
colour. Forewings reddish orange, streaked with brownish fuscous,
dark fuscous, pale straw-colour and metallic lilac ; the ground-
colour of the basal third is brownish fuscous, in which are two con-
spicuous pale straw-coloured marks, the one from the middle of the
base depressed along the fold, thence tending upwards and attenu-
ated to a sharp point below the costa at about one-third the wing
length ; the second at one-third of the dorsum, cuneiform, oblique,
and ending in a point at about the middle of the discal cell
immediately beyond the apex of the basal streak already described ;
separated from the outer edge of this mark, by a narrow line of
brownish fuscous, is a rather narrow band of shining cupreous-
scales illuminating the orange ground-colour of this portion of the
wing, this is entirely narrowly margined with brownish fuscous, its
upper extremity being above the middle of the kwing, but not
reaching to the upper edge of the discal cell, and therefore ter-
minating before the apex of the pale straw-coloured wedge ; a
dark fuscous shade leaves the dorsum at two-thirds from the base,
tending outwards to the end of the cell above its middle, its upper
portion contains a short orange streak and its extremity is con-
tiguous with a shade of a similar colour which approaches the
lower half of the termen extending to the tornus ; between these
two shades a short cuneiform spot of brilliant cupreous scales
leaves the dorsum immediately before the tornus, occupying the
central portion of the orange patch of which they form the
boundaries ; along the costa are seven pale straw-coloured streaks,

Equatorial African Micro-lepidnpttra. 51

the first two within the basal third very oblique, the third and
fourth within the middle third also oblique, the fifth straight at
the commencement of the apical third, and the sixth and seventh
(also straight and more than twice the length of the others) immedi-
ately before the apex — all these streaks are narrowly margined on
both sides with dark fuscous and with a few lilac-metallic scales at
the lower extremities of the third and fifth streaks ; in the orange
space between the fifth and sixth costal streaks is an isolated, oblique,
bright metallic lilac patch similarly margined ; cilia purplish
fuscous, interrupted at the upper third of the outer margin by a
small wedge-shaped pale straw-coloured spot. Underside dirty
ochreous all the pale straw-coloured streaks being distinctly white.
Exp. «/., g 14 mm. ; $ 15-20 mm. Hindwings bronzy ochreous,
shaded with brownish fuscous around their margins ; cilia slightly
paler, with an ill-defined darker parting line along their base.
Abdomen bronzy ochreous, whitish cinereous beneath. Ley*
cinereous with bronzy brown spots and shading on the hind tibiae
and tarsal joints.

Type. $ ? .

Hob. French Congo— Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev*
A. C. Good) ; three specimens.

[Hilarographa was proposed by Zeller, Hor. Soc. Ent.
Ross., XIII., 186-7(1877) as a subdivision of his existing;
genus Setiostotna, and having as its types swederiana>
Stoll, and ribbei, Z.

Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 286, raised
Hilarographa to generic rank, giving a careful
structural description, and adding a new species, zapyra
from New Guinea, the type of which is in my collection,
and it was from this specimen, differing in neuration
from swederiana, Stoll, that his generic description was
probably taken, as it conforms in every particular, and
no reference was made to either of Zeller's original
types.

I have not been able to examine the neuration of
ribbei, Z. (the type of which is in Staudinger's cabinet),
to see whether it agrees in structure with swederiana,
Stoll ; but of this I have specimens, and I select it as the
type of Hilarographa, Z., with the following generic
characters : —

52 Lord Walsinham on Western

HlLAROGRAPHA, Z.
SETIOSTOMA (H1LAKOGRAPHA), Z., Hoi*. SoC. Ent.

XIII., 186-7 (1877).
TYPE. Phalaena Tortrix swederiana, Stoll, (Wlsm.).

Antennw hardly half the length of the fore wings, stout, simple,
without pecten. Labial palpi recurved, appressed to face, closely
scaled ; apical joint blunt, shorter than second. Maxillary palpi
absent. Haustellum short. Ocelli distinct. Head with loosely
appressed hairs. Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow at the base,
widened outwardly ; costa slightly arched, termen scarcely oblique,
slightly sinuate below the apex and convex beneath. Neuration,
12 veins, all separate ; 2 from commencement of outer third of cell,
8 to costa. Hindwings broader than the fore wings, costa arched,
termen evenly convex, not sinuate, cilia short. Neuration, 8 veins ;
3 and 4 connate (or from a short stalk), 6 and 7 from a short
stalk, 8 free. Abdomen slender, tapering, in $ terminating in a
bifid extruded chitinous process (having much the appearance of
the anal claspers of the <£), this is armed with, short scattered
bristles, and is either the ovipositor itself or .the sheath of the
same, a point I am unable to determine from the specimen before
me. Legs smooth, the first pair of spurs on the hind tibiae longer
than tie second.

THAUMATOGRAPHA, n. n.
(tiu.vp.a = a wonder, ypdQw = I write).

= HILAROGRAPHA, Meyr., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 286

(nee Z.).
TYPE. Hilarographa zapyra, Meyr.

I propose the above name for Meyrick's genus HilarO'
grapha, which differs from Zeller's in having veins 7 and
8 of the forewings stalked.]

/x r\'»- CHOREUTJS, Hb.

Clioreutis octogemmifera, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 18.)

Antenna whitish beneath, barred with fuscous above. Palpi
white tipped with fuscous, the second joint with three diverging
points of hair-like scales beneath, mixed white and fuscous. Head
greyish fuscous, with a slender white Iin3 along each side. Thorax

Equatorial African Micro -lepidoj tera. 53

greyish fuscous, with two slender white lines on each side of the
anterior half. Forewingn greyish fuscous, mottled and banded
with white, witli a row of eight bright metallic spots around the
apex and termen, each set in an elongate dark fuscous shade ; the
white markings on the forewings are thus distributed : — a narrow
fascia near the base, running obliquely outwards from the dorsum
across the fold, angulated a little below the costa and reverting to
it ; a second a little beyond, rather straighter, reaches only half-
way across the wing from the costa ; beyond the middle of the
wing is a large patch spreading from the outer end of the cell
to the costa and dorsum, much interruptel an I tuffusel by
greyish fuscous scales, but becoming distinct on the margins at the
commencement of the costal cilia and before the commencement
of the dorsal cilia ; cilia greyish fuscous, with a white spot below
the apex and another below the tornus, a slight parting line along
their base. Exp. «/., 12 mm. Hindtcing* brownish fuscous, with
a white patch on the outer half of the cell, and an oblique
white streak reverting from beyond this to the middle of the
termen ; above and beyond the upper extremity of the second
streak is a brilliant metallic lilac streak tapering to its lower
extremity, where it almost reaches the margin ; a third obscurely
whitish streak, from near the abdominal angle, tends outwards and
upwards, terminating above the lower extremity of the more con-
spicuous white streak beyond it ; cilia greyish fuscous with three
conspicuous white interruptions, the first at the apex, the other
two corresponding, with the extremities of the lilac streak and the
largest white streak respectively. Abdomen brownish fuscous.
Legs white, annulated with brownish fuscous.

Type. £.

Hub. Yoruba — Idanre (Sir G. Carter); French Congo
— Kangwe, Ogowe River (Llev. A. C. Good) ; three
specimens.

All the white and metallic markings of both fore and
hindwings are reproduced on the underside, where they
are even more strongly apparent than above.

SIJIAETHIS, Leach.

_ Simaethis equatoris, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 19.)

A ntennce slightly cilia te ; greyish fuscous, annulated with whitish.
Pal pi very short, not projecting beyond the head ; cinereous, with
three narrow greyish fuscous bauds beneath. Head ochreous, mixed

54 Lord Walsingliain on Western

with greyish fuscous. Thorax brownish fuscous. Forewing* narrow
at the base, much widened outwardly, apex rounded, termen some-
what oblique ; brownish fuscous to beyond the middle, thence
orange-ochreous ; the outer edge of the brownish fuscous portion
broken into projecting points, one tending upwards towards the
apex from the upper end of the cell, another shorter one tending
outwards from the lower angle of the cell, a narrow band of
brownish fuscous runs around the apex and termen to the tornus
: with a slight inward projection below the apex (but in some speci-
mens this is reduced to a slight shade) preceding a more or less
distinct brownish line along the base of the pale greyish cilia ; a
pale greyish speckled transverse fascia crosses the darker portion
of the wing at one-third from the base, and is somewhat wider on
its lower than on its upper half ; a few whitish scales are visible at
three points on the costa, the first at the upper extremity of the
transverse fascia, the second at the outer edge of the brown por-
tion of the wing, the third immediately before the apex, and these
are slightly reproduced on the brownish fuscous underside. Exp.
«/., 14 mm. Hindwlngs brown, with pale greyish cilia, a narrow
brown parting line running through them near their base ; a slight
pale marking occurs near the abdominal angle, within the margin,
extending outwards parallel with it nearly to one-half. Abdomen,
brownish fuscous. Leys brownish, with several conspicuous whitish
bands on the hind tibiae and tarsi, spurs whitish.

Type. $ ? .

Hal). French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A.
C. Good) ; three specimens.

Simaethis flavimaculata, Wlsm.

Simaefhis flavimaculata, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1891, 77. PI. 111., 161.

Hab. French Congo — Ogowe River; one specimen.
Zanzibar1.

This specimen exhibits some slight variation from the
type, in that the first orange spot reaches to the costal
margin, the two outer spots narrowly touching each other
at their outer edge.

MicxorsicHiA, Hb.

MiciopsicJtia argus, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 20.)
Antenna dull ferruginous. Palpi short, recurved, scarcely pro-
jecting beyond the head, apical joint shorter and more slender than

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 55

the second ; pale ferruginous. Head dull ferruginous. Thorac,
greyish, with three inconspicuous ferruginous longitudinal streaks
and a reddish orange patch posteriorly. Foreii'inci* dull ferruginous,
paler on the dorsal than on the costal half, much speckled and
shaded with greyish fuscous scales and streaked with metallic
purplish grey, a triocellated dorsal patch before the tornus ; the
dorsal half of the wing from near the base to the tornus is minutely
reticulated with black wavy lines, and these are concentrated into
a somewhat circular patch almost touching the dorsum before the
tornus, in which are spots of the ferruginous (almost ochreous)
ground-colour, and three or four larger spots of metallic bluish
grey, all dark-margined, the more conspicuous of these bluish grey
spots lying along its outer edge ; from the base, immediately below
the costa, runs a bluish grey streak which is deflected at one-third
the wiug-length, terminating on the cell ; beneath it from the base
arises a shorter streak of the same colour, almost coterminous with
a similar streak arising from near the base of the dorsum, the
space between them being h^ownish ; on the outer half of the
wing are two conspicuous blue-grey streaks, the first arising below
the costa near its middle and tending outwards and downwards
towards the tornus, but ending between the ocellated patch and
the termen at one-third the wing-breadth, the second commencing
on the costa at four-fifths, less oblique than the first, and ending
opposite to the middle of the termen above and beyond the apex of
the first streak ; between them lies a small spot of the same colour
below the costa, and beyond the outer one immediately before the
apex is a similar spot almost touching the costa ; several small
brownish fuscous spots are visible along the basal two-thirds of the
costa, and a brownish shade precedes each of the blue-grey streaks
and extends along the termen to the apex (which is less falcate
than in the South American representatives of this genus) ; cilia
brownish grey with a ferruginous parting line near their base.
Ej-p al.j 19 mm. Hindwings reddish orange, speckled around the
margins and apex with greyish fuscous, and having a conspicuous
ocelloid black patch within the middle of the termen, divided by
streaks of the ground-colour, and illuminated along its lower edge
by metallic steel-grey spots ; cilia greyish ochreous, spotted with
blackish, with a reddish orange parting line along their base.
Abdomen orange-ochreous. Leys pale orange-ochreous, hind tarsal
joints spotted with black and whitish.

Type. $ ? .

Hab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River ; three
specimens.

56 Lord Walsi ogham on Western

It may be necessary ultimately to distinguish this
species, and its allies, from Mictopsichia, 011 the ground
of the somewhat longer and more recurved palpi, and
the less falcate apex of the forewings, but the same form
occurs in Mexico and the Malay Archipelago.

TORTRICIDJS.

OLETHEEUTIN^.

= OLETHHEUT^E, Hb., = GRAPHOLITHIN^E, Fern.

= EPIBLEMIDsE, Meyr.

Eccorsis, Z.

Eccopsis przecedens, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 21.)
Antennae stout and densely but shortly pubescent in <£ :
ochreous. Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond itr
moderately clothed ; cinereous. Head cinereous, mixed with dark
umber. Thorax cinereous. Forewingi, costa arched near the baser
depressed in the middle, thence again convex and depressed towards
the apex, termen oblique, slightly convex ; pale cinereous, mottled
and blotched with dark umber tending to blackish along the costa7
and with a series of spots and blotches ; five costal spots on the
basal third are followed by a median triangular shade interrupted
a little beyond its middle, this is followed by another narrow
costal spot, which is succeeded by a shade extending to the apex ;
beneath this apical shade is an oblique band angulated at its upper
extremity and reaching the termen below the middle, the space
between it and the apex shining chalybeous; a few shining
chalybeous scales scattered over the surface of the wing, especially
on its outer half, the greater part of the wing-surface is also-
streaked and dotted with dark umber scales somewhat evenly dis-
tributed ; cilia cinereous, slightly shining on their outer half.
Underside brownish. E'xp. aL, 22 mm. Hindwings with the
abdominal angle strongly lobed, the abdominal margin deeply
indented and with a small hanging appendage near its base
(somewhat more strongly developed than in Eccopsis wahlbergiana 7
Z.) ; coppery-brown, cilia greyish with a slight parting shade
along their middle. Underside brownish ochreous. Abdomen
cinereous, much shaded with dark umber, anal tuft coppery- browiu
Legs worn, apparently cinereous, tarsal joints broadly banded
with dark umber.

Type. $. ;i

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 57

Hab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowu River (Rev.
A. C. Good); two specimens.

In comparing this species with the better-known
Eccopsis tvahlbergiana, Z., it may be distinguished by the
somewhat longer palpi, by the stronger costal marks on
the basal half of the forewings, by the less conspicuous
dorsal shading and by the hindwings being of a much
lighter and more cupreous colour, as well as by its some-
what larger size.

ANCYLIS, Hb.
(= PHOXOPTERIS, Tr.)
- Ancylis argent iciliana, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 22.)

Antennas (<£) rather stout, simple; stone-grey. Palpi very
closely appressed to the face, the short apical joint scarcely pro-
jecting beyond it ; stone-grey. Head stone-grey. Thorax pale
olive-grey. Forewings, costa evenly arched, apical margin strongly
indented on vein G ; pale olive-grey, with a few inconspicuous darker
mottlings indicating a pale basal patch at one-third, its irregular
outer edge slightly oblique, nearer to the base on the costa than on
the dorsum ; from the middle of the costa a slender umber-brown
line (slightly convex outwardly below the middle of the wing)
extends obliquely to the dorsum within the tornus ; this is followed
by a paler space extending to the termen, showing a silvery sheen
with a few slender lines of black scales following the nervules across
it in the direction of the apex, this space is narrowed towards its
costal extremity by an oblique brown line extending from the
indentation on the termen inwards and upwards to the costa and
along the base of the cilia both upwards and downwards ; above it
the costa before the apex is chestnut-brown, with three or four
slender oblique silvery- white streaks, a faint indication of smaller
streaks can be traced along the whole of the outer two-thirds of the
costa ; cilia pure silvery-white, tending to greyish about the tornus,
and tipped along their upper half with chestuut-brown. Exp.aL,
17 mm. Hindwings stone-greyish, with scarcely paler cilia, a very
faint line along their base. Abdomen stone-greyish. Legs pale
stone-grey, inclining to ochreous.

Type. $ .

Hab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

58 Lord Walsingham on Western

LASPEYKESIA, Hb.

Laspeyresia hemispJiserana, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 23.)
Antennas black. Palpi scarcely roughened beneath, apical joint
short, porrect ; snow-white, second joint blackened above towards
the base. Head black, white above posteriorly. Thorax greyish,
with a conspicuous white band across in front. Forewing slaty-
grey, shaded with fuscous along the outer half of the costa ; with a
large semicircular brownish patch on the middle of the dorsum,
narrowly outlined with white ; several narrow very oblique whitish
costal streaks and two very conspicuous clear white ones before
the apex, the first very oblique, the second straight and parallel
with the termen ; a few whitish scales along the extreme base of
the costa ; cilia whitish, a dark fuscous parting line along their
base. Exp. al., 14 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous ; cilia pale
whitish grey, a darker parting line along their base. Abdomen
brownish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous.

Type. $.

Hah. Sierra Leone — 21, IV. (Dr. Clements) ; French
Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe Hiver (Rev. A. C. Good) ; two
specimens.

CYDIA, Hb.

(= CARPOCAPSA, Tr.)

Cydia ? praetextana, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 24.)
Antennas, ochreous. \_Palpi missing.] Head and thorax canary-
yellow, the latter white with a greyish tinge beneath. Forewing s
canary-yellow blending to rich orange along the costa, and reddish
ferruginous along the termen, with some reddish ferruginous
blotches in a wide fasciated band across the middle and along the
dorsum ; a series of about nine small black dots along the extreme
costa, and numerous raised spots of bright steel-grey scales scattered
about the darkened portions of the wing; a series of these starting
at one-fourth from the base continues nearly parallel with the
costa, these are chiefly circular or oblong, those nearest to the costa
being smaller than those below them ; at one- fifth from the apex
is a longer steel-grey spot placed obliquely and pointing to a similar
elongate spot within the lower half of the termen ; a long narrow
spot of the same colour lies parallel with the termen below the
apex and a shorter one immediately within the tornus ; from the
last spot tending towards the base is a series of three large similar
metallic circular spots, and another lies upon the fasciated band

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 59

which crosses the wing ; an orange spot preceded by some fuscous
soales lies at the extreme base of the dorsum ; cilia shining dark
steel-grey. Underside orange, broadly black-margined throughout.
E.i-/>. al., 18 mm. Hindicingx rich orange, with a rather broad
black border ; cilia on the abdominal half of the margin orange, on
the outer half greyish, with a black parting line at their base.
Underside orange, narrowly black-margined throughout. Abdo-
men orange, canary-yellow afc the extreme base, the posterior
segments narrowly indicated with black, anal tuft black. Under-
side whitish. Lcgf; (anterior) yellowish, with blackish spots
[posterior legs missing].

Type. $ .

Hob. French Congo — Kangwc, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good); unique.

The neuration of the hindwings differs from Cyrfia in
having 6 and 7 converging, but distinctly separated. As
the palpi are missing, I prefer to place the species in
Cydia provisionally rather than to create a new genus for
its reception.

TORTHICINM.

TORTRIX, L.

C- Tortrix viridis, Wlsm.

Argyrotoxa viriais, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1891, 68-9. PI. III., 4 '.

Hab. Gold Coast — Accra ! ; French Congo — Kangwe,
Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good).

, subfam. n.

Median vein of hindwings pectinate at base ; vein 2 of fore-
wings rising from posterior fourth of cell.

AUTOGRIPHUS, gen. n.
(avrds = of itself, yp'Qos — a puzzle.)
TYPE. Autogriphus Inteus, Wlsm.

Antenna ( $ ) simple, basal joint slightly enlarged and somewhat
roughly clothed. Labial palpi long, porrect, reaching three times

60 Lord WaLsingham on Western

the length of the head beyond it, second joint triangular with a
brush of scales above tapering to its apex, apical joint short por-
rect. Maxillary palpi absent. Haustellum present. Head and
thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate, costa evenly but
moderately arched throughout, apex depressed, slightly produced r
termen oblique, scarcely sinuate, with slight tufts of raised scales.
Neuration, 12 veins ; 8 and 9 from a common stem, 7 to slightly
below apex, 2 from very near angle of cell, 3 and 4 from a very
short common stem, 5 from near origin of 3 -j~ 4, 11 bent over
at base to very near origin of 10, an internal vein running towards
the base from between 5 and 6 ; vein 1 furcate at base. Hindwings
broader than the forewings, apex slightly produced, obtuse, termen
evenly rounded, median vein pectinated at base. Neuration, 7
veins (6 and 7 coincident) ; 3 and 4 from a short stalk, 5 straight,
not bent over, and continued through the cell as an internal vein.
Abdomen smooth. Legs, hind tibiae slightly hairy above, spurs
rather long and slender.

Autogriphus luteus, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 10.)

Antennce greyish. Palpi pale cinereous, shaded with fuscous
beneath. Head and thorax pale cinereous, the latter mottled with
brown and brownish fuscous. Forewings pale cinereous, much
suffused and mottled with brown ; with six elongate fuscous spots
along the outer two-thirds of the costa, a conspicuous dark fuscous
spot of slightly raised scales at the end of the discal cell between
veins 5 and 6, and a smaller one, also raised, about the lower angle
of the cell before and beneath it ; a few raised greyish scales a
little beyond the middle of the fold on its upper edge, and some
also beneath the fold nearer to the base ; along the termen is a
slight shade or suffusion of brownish fuscous scales, its inner
margin sinuate, angulated inwards at its middle, and recurved at
both extremities, the upper extremity not reaching to the costa, the
lower terminating about the tornus ; cilia greyish, a slightly paler
line along their base. Exp. al., 21 mm. Uindwings grey, the
spaces between the veins, especially about the abdominal margin,
semitranspareut with a bluish iridescence ; cilia pale grey. Abdo-
men [greasy]. Legs pale greyish, hind tarsal joints faintly annulate.

Type. ? .

Hob. French. Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

Equatorial African Micro-lepiJoptera. 01

TINEID^E.
TINEINJE.

ECCOHPSOCTENA, gen. n.
(Compsoctena, nom. gen.)
TYPE. Eccompsoctena secundella, Wlsm.

Antennas, <$ strongly bipectinate (3^), the pectinations biciliate.
Labial palpi short, slender, but roughly clothed, scarcely projecting
beyond the rough scales of the face. Maxillary palpi and liaust-
fllum rudimentary. Head and face rough. Tho rax rather roughly
clothed. Forewings scarcely narrower towards the base than
beyond it, costa slightly convex, apex rounded, termen oblique,
slightly convex. Newation, 1 2 veins ; 7 and 8 from a long com-
mon stem, 7 to apex, 8 to above apex from a small supplementary
cell, from which 9 and 10 also arise, these latter meeting at their
extremity on the costal margin. Hindwtngs as broad as the fore-
wings. Neuration, 8 veins, all separate ; 6 and 7 separate and
parallel. Hind leys thickly clothed, not hirsute.

Eccowpsodena secundella, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 11.)

Antenna and imlpi 'brown. Head and face ochreous. Thorax
umber-brown. Forewings pale ochreous, thickly mottled, speckled,
and suffused with umber-brown scales, the two colours alternating
along the costa in unequal spaces throughout ; a rather strong
patch of umber-brown scales lies at the end of the disc, which
appears to be the only point at which this colour is more concen-
trated than on the remainder of the wing-surface, although it
somewhat prevails also towards the apex and tornus ; cilia pale
ochreous, with an umber-brown parting line along their middle, and
another at their extremities. Exp. al., 22 mm. Hindwings purplish
fuscous ; cilia cinereous, with a dark parting line near their base.
Abdomen purplish fuscous, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs
•dull ochreous.

Type. £.

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A.
C. Good) ; unique.

This has so much the appearance of Compsoctena pri-
mella}2i., that it might easily be mistaken for that species,
but the neuration differs in the forking of veins 7 and 8,
and the meeting of veins 9 and 10 towards the costa of
the forewings, and the palpi are very much shorter.

C2 Lord Walsingham on Western

o

MESOPOLIA, gen. n.

(jue0-o7T(fruos = grizzled.)
TYPE. £ Mesopolia inconspicua, Wlsm.

Antennas, <$ strongly bipectinate (3-4), the pectinations biciliate,
basal joint tufted in front. Labial palpi slender, short, porrect,
not reaching beyond the head. Maxillary palpi and haustellum
obsolete. Head thickly scaled, but moderately smooth. Thorax
smooth. Forewings elongate ovate, costa evenly arched, apex
rounded, termen oblique, tornus rounded. Neuration, 12 veins;

7 and 8 stalked, 8 to below the apex, 5 somewhat bent over and
approximate to 4 at its base ; an internal vein forms a supple-
mentary cell by arising from slightly below 7 -j- 8 and running to
between 10 and 11, and a stalked internal vein from between 11
and the base emits branches to either side of 5. Hindwings as
broad as the forewings, ovate, costa slightly convex. Neuration,

8 veins all separate ; G and 7 closely approximate at base, 5
approximated to 4, a stalked internal vein emits its branches to
either side of 5. [Leys and abdomen missing. J

This genus appears to be allied to Narycia, Sfcph.
(Xysmatodoma, Z.), but differs in the fora of the antennae
and in neuration. It has very much the appearance of
Psilotlirix dardoiniella, Mill., but is somewhat larger and
there are no veins missing as in that species. Nothing is
known at present of its habits, but the larva, is probably
a case-bearer.

C — Mesopolia inconspicua, sp. n. (PI. II., fig, 12.)

Antennae ashy-grey. Palpi dark fuscous. Head and thorax
ashy-grey, the latter shaded with fuscous anteriorly. Forewinys
ashy-grey with numerous short transverse striae and spot-like
groups of brownish fuscous scales — these form a rather conspicu-
ous spot below the costa near the base, another beyond and below
it extending on both sides of the fold, and a third about the
middle of the wing, there is also a slight shade about the upper
angle of the cell ; the other spots are more or less distributed over
the wing surface : cilia ashy-grey with a slight parting shade
along their middle. Exp. al.t 23 mm. Hindwinys pale brownish,
cilia slightly paler. [Abdomen and hindleys missing.]

Type. $.

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev*
A. C. Good) ; unique.

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COMFSOCTENA, Z.

Cdmpsoctcna media, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 25.)
Antennce dentate, shortly biciliate ; pale cinereous. Palpi pro-
jecting less than the length of the head beyond it, brush-like ; dull
ochreous with a few brownish scales. Head very roughly clothed ;
dull ochreous. Thorax whitish cinereous, transversely banded
with brown. Forewings whitish cinereous mottled and reticulated
with brown, a series of brownish patches along the costa ; three
small ones before the middle, of which the first two form the
upper edge of an ill-defined basal patch, a broad one on the middle
of the costa, forming the upper end of a somewhat broken trans-
verse fascia inclining slightly inwards to the dorsum, and two
beyond the middle, the first small, the second larger, before the
apex, also blending with a shade of brownish scales beneath it ;
the interspaces between these spots on the outer half of the costa
are ochreous, the costal cilia immediately above the apex being
also ochreous, and a slight ochreous shade runs through the base
of the cilia along the termen, in which are three more or less dis-
tinct lines of brown scales, the outer extremities of the cilia being
greyish. Exp. a/., 16 mm. Uindwing* purplish grey, cilia pale
cinereous with a faint ochreous parting line along their base.
Abdomen greyish, anal tuft ochreous. Legs brown, hind tarsal
joints annulated with pale cinereous.

Type. $ .

Hob. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good) ; unique.

This species appears to differ somewhat from Comp-
soctena primella, Z., in the formation of the antenna)
and in the shorter palpi, but the neuration is the same,
and its divergence from the type can be scarcely con-
sidered of generic value.

MONOPIS, lib.

(= I3LABOPHANES, Z.)

Monopis monachella, Hb.

= longella, Wkr.88 [? = me-diella, F.9.]
[Alucita wediella, P., Ent. Syst. III. (2), 337, No. 2(3
(1798) ': Tinea mediella, F., Sppl. Ent. Syst
494, No. 73 (1798)2] - Tinea monachella, Hb.
Sam ml. Ear. Schm., VIII., PL XXL, 143 (c. 1800)3 ;
[1 Tinia mediella, TurtLn, Syst. Nat., III.; 38 L

64 Lord Walsingham on Western

(1806)4]; Scythropia monachella, Hb. Verz. bek.
Schm., 414, No. 4001 (1826) 5 • Lit a monachella,
Tr. Schm. Eur., IX. (2), 100-1 (1833) 6; Tinea
monachella, Z , Is., 1839, 184 7; Stn. Zool., VII.,
2630 (1849) 8 : Sppl. Cat. Br. Tin. and Pter., 2,
No. 39, 1851 9; Hdnrch., Lp. Ear. Cat, Meth., 79
(1851)10; Tinea (Blabophanes) monachella, Z., Linn.
Ent., VI., 111-2 (1852) »; Tinea monachella, Stn.
List. Br. An. B. M., XVI., Lp. 9, No. 4 (1854) ":
Ins. Br. Lp. Tin., 27 (1854) 13; Bldbophane*
monachella, H.-S. Schm. Eur., V., 79, Index, p. 29
(1856) 14; Tinea monachella, Koch. Schm. S. W.
Deutschl., 376 (1856)15; Stn. Mn., II., 290 (1859)16;
Stgr. and Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ear., 106, No. 1210
(1861) w ; Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXVIIL,
465 (1863) 18; Tinea longella, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins.
B. M., XXVIIL, 479 (1863)19; Tinea monachella,
de Graaf, Tijd. v. Ent., IX., 44 (1866) 2(); Rssl.,
Nass. Nat. «JB.., XIX.-XX., 315 (= Verz. Schm.
Nassau., 215), No. 1290 (1866) 21; Blabophanes
monachella, Hein. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. (I.) 39
(1870) 22; Stgr. and Wk., Cat. Lp. Eur. 269,
No. 1369 (1871) 23; Blabophanes longella, Btl.,
Ann. and Mag. N. H. (5 s.), VIL, 396-7 (1881) 24;
Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 243-4 25 ; Bla-
bophanes monachella, Snell., Vlind. Ned. Micr.
457-8 (1882)26; Meyr., Ent. Mo. Mag., XX., 36
(1883)27; Sorh. Kleinschm., Mark Brndbg., 143-4
(1886) 28 ; Blabophanes longella, Moore, Lp. Ceyl.,
III., 503, PI. 209, 1 (1887) 29; Swinh. and Cotes,
Cat. Moths Ind., 702, No. 4790 (1889) 30; Wlsm.,
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1891, 8731 ; Blabophanes
monachella, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1891, 8732;
Meyr., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894, 2733 ; *'Monopis
monachella, Meyr., HB., Br. Lp., 785 (1895)34.

Larva — among rubbish,11' 28; in birds' nests (Biitt-
ner)28 ; in skins55.

Hal. EUROPE— V., 7» 8» "• 18,15-6,21-2. yj^ 15,20,22,25,28 .
VII.,11'26; yin.,7, 11, 13,15-6,22,26,28. Ix^ 26, 28 . Germany,
i, 2, 4, 6, 7, H, 14, 15, 21-3, 28 . Austria, 6> u> 14> 23 ; Holland, 20' 26 ;
England, 8> 9« 1M6' 234. INDIA— N. India,, 19> 24> 25 ; Nilghi-
ris/°j BUEMAH — Koni/3; CEYLON,29'30. AFUICA — Gambia

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 65

(Bathurst)31'2. XI.-XII.,83 ; French Congo (Kangwc',
Ogowe River— "Rev. A. C. Good); Natal (Spring Vale)24- «*;
II.,25; Zululand,31. HAWAIIAN Is. (Honolulu)24. 27»33-4-

When recording Tnonachella as new to the African
fauna (I. c., No. 32), I expressed the opinion that Ion-
gella was probably only a variety, and Meyrick (L c ,
No. 33) sunk longella as a synonym. The acquisition of
further specimens confirms the opinion that these two
forms cannot be rightly separated. I am not aware that
the variety longella occurs in Europe, but the ordinary
form is certainly met with in other localities, from which
I have received it (e. g., India, Africa, and Ceylon), but
is apparently not found in the Hawaiian Island, whence I
have only received longella. It seems extremely pro-
bable that the first description of this species is that of
Fabricius, under the name of Alucita mediella (1. c., No. 1).
Stainton drew attention to this with a " ? " (L c., Nos.
9, 12, 13), and Herrich-SchaSer endorsed his opinion
(Schm. Eur. V., Index, p. 29), while Werneburg, JBeitr..
Schm. I., 489, 591 (1864), regarded it as a variety, or as a
worn specimen of Gracilaria alchimiella, Sc., to which it
seems to me impossible that the description could apply.
I hesitate to adopt the name medidla, F. (nee Hb.);
although if this insect were intended it must undoubtedly
have priority, and for the present I prefer to retain it as
a probable synonym with a " ?", but not without hope
that some further evidence may be obtainable to throw
light upon the subject. I think however that the descrip-
tion could fairly apply to a worn specimen of that form
in which the head assumes a decidedly yellowish colour*

SCALIDOMIA, Wlsm.

Scalidomia hirsutellaj Wlsm.

Psoricoptera (?) hirsutdla, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.,
1881, 261, PL XII., 29l.

Hab. Gambia— Bathurst, VIII. (Sir G. Carter);
French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A. C.
Good) ; Natal *.

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897. — PART I. (APRIL.) 5

66 Lord Walsingham on Western

TIQUADEA, Wkr.

Ti quadra Uchenea, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 26.)

Antennae fawn-brown. Palpi, second joint with a loose pro-
jecting tuft beneath, apical joint of about equal length, erect, also
thickly clothed ; fawn-brown. Head and thorax fawn-brown, the
latter pale greenish posteriorly. Forewings very hirsute, with
patches of upstanding scales, all the margins with rough cilia,
except on the basal third ; pale bluish green with spots and ill-
defined cross-streaks of raised coarse hair-like fawn-brown scales,
giving a somewhat reticulated appearance ; of these some at the
end of the disc, and others above and about the outer third of the
fold, are more conspicuously raised ; the outer half of the costa,
which is very roughly fringed, is distinctly chestnut-brown, and
this colour extends narrowly towards the base, the termen also has
some chestnut- brown scales, but the majority of the cilia are dirty
whitish. Underside fawn-ochreous. Exp. al.t 24 mm. Hiudwings
and cilia fawn-ochreous. Underside the same. Abdomen fawn-
ochreous. Legs slightly paler than the abdomen.

Type. $ .

Sab. French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev.
A. C. Good); unique.

An interesting species allied to goochii, Wlsm.

ADELINE.
NEMATOIS, Hb.
Nematois pan-ella, Wkr. (PL III., fig. 27.)

Nematois parvella, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M.,
XXVIII., 504 (1863)1.

Antenna three times as long as the forewings ; cinereous. Palpi
almost obsolete. Head cinereous, with some metallic scales. Thorax
purplish, with metallic scales. Forewings narrow at the base,
widened outwardly, costa depressed to the apex ; purplish cinereous,
richly studded with brassy metallic scales, strongly iridescent in
different lights, with three yellowish ochueous patches : the first on
the dorsal half at the base ; the second triangular, narrowly
margined with black scales, extending inwards from the costal
margin about the middle to the fold ; the third lying beyond the
end of the cell, occupying the middle of the apical portion of the
wing, and produced narrowly inwards and upwards to the com-

Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 67

mencement of the costal cilia, a few blackish scales lying around its
margins ; a line of blackish scales crosses the wing obliquely inwards
from the costal to the dorsal margin near the base ; cilia iridescent,
brassy, with some greenish scales below the apex. Exp. al., 16 mm.
Hindwinys cupreous, with shining brassy cilia. Abdomen cupreous.
Legs cinereous, with rather long hair-scales on the tibia3.

Hab. Sierra Leone1, U.Vr.— VI. (Dr. Clements);
French Congo — Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A. C.
Good).

I described this species as new before identifying it as
parvclla, Wkr., and it may be well to publish my
description, as Walker's is hardly precise enough to
distinguish it from allied forms occurring in the Malay
Archipelago.

EXPLANATION OF I'LATES II. AND III.
[See Explanation ''<:cuirj tie PLATES.]

ffnt Soc lend. 1897 PI II.

10.

EXPLANATION OP PLATE III.

PAGE

FIG. 13. Ypsolophus basistriatu*, Wlsm., £ , . . .39

14. Theatrocopia elegans, Wlsra., $ . . . . 42

15. Ethmia rhomboidella, Wlsm., $ . . . 43

16. Jobula ? radiata, Wlsm., £ 44

17. Glyphipteryx gemmatella, Wkr., 9 ... 46

18. Choreutis octogemmifera, Wlsm., £ . 50

19. Simaethis equator is, Wlsm., £ . . 51

20. Mictopsichia argus, Wlsm., £ . 52

21. Eccopsis prance dens, Wlsm., ^ . 54

22. Ancylis argenticiliana, Wlsm., £ . . . .55

23. Laspeyresia Itemisphcerana, Wlsm.. ^ . . .56

24. Cydia ? prcctextana, Wlsm., <J . . 56

25. Qtfmpsoctena media, Wlsm., (J •'.... 61

26. Tiquadra lichenea, Wlsm., ^ . . . . ,64

27. Kemalois parvelia, Wkr., ^ 64

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4

I. Monograph of the genera connecting Tinaegeria, Wlk.t
with Eretmocera, Z. By The Eight Hon. Lord
WALSINGHAM, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.

[Bead December 5th, 1888-1
PLATES L, II., III., IV., V., & VI.

THE object of the present paper is to collect and arrange
material for a study of certain genera of Micro-Lepi-
doptera, about the classification of which various opinions
have already been expressed by different authors who
have alluded to the subject.
The genera here presented for study are as follows : —

Tincegeria, Wlk.
Snellenia, Wlsm.
Pseudcegeria, Wlsm.
(Edematopoda, Z.
Eretmocera, Z.

A careful and critical examination of their structure
and affinities seems to disclose gradual modification,
and to suggest that they are connected with each other

TEANS. ENT. SOO. LOND. 1889. — PART I. (MARCH.) B

2 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

by characters not jointly possessed by any other genera
of those families or subfamilies in which they have
hitherto been classed.

The species examined are those in the British Museum
and in the Zeller collections, and especially a fine series
of specimens in my own cabinet, for which I am indebted
to Mr. G. T. Carter, Mr. F. J. Jackson, Mr. J. H. Leech,
and Mr. H. Druce.

The question of classification has been touched upon
under the various descriptions of species by Zeller, by
Staudinger, by Walker, by Stainton, and by Meyrick ;
also at more length by Butler in a paper entitled " On
the natural affinities of the lepidopterous family
JEgeriida " (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, pp. 121—5,
Plate V.).

Zeller regarded Eretmocera (including (Edematopoda)
as forming a connecting-link between that section of the
unrestricted genus (Ecophora, which included esperellum,
Hb., selenieUum, Z., and chenopodiellum, Hb. (now
associated with Butalis, Tr.), and the equally unrestricted
genus Elachista, as represented by the species ceratella,
Z., modestella, Dp., &c. Staudinger, in describing his
Staintonia medinella, states his opinion that it comes
nearest to Butalis.

Walker, in the British Museum Catalogue, makes
some very significant remarks. Of Tincegeria he writes,
" this genus seems to connect the Tineites with the
Mgeriida" \ of Arauzona he writes, "this genus seems
to connect the JEgeriida with the Gelechidce." He
further places impactella in the genus Gelechia, and says
" this species appears to have some affinity to the

Stainton remarks of his Atkinsonia, " a singular and
beautiful genus belonging to the family Elachistidce,"
and mentions its habit, when at rest, of erecting its
hind legs above its back behind the head (as in Shrecken-
steinia and Heliodines, Stn.), and vibrating its plumed
antennae. He also notes the larval habits (which are
similar to those of many species of Butalis) . Moreover,
in his ' Tineina of Southern Europe,' he places Staintonia
between Endrosis and Schreckensteinia, where it stands
also in Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue.

Meyrick classifies Castorura with the Elachwtidte, and
Butler draws attention to the affinities with the Mgeriida

connecting Tincegeria with Eretmocera. 8

of Tincegeria, Arauzona, and Acridura, and remarks that
Acridura combines " the characters of the clear wings
with those of the Pyrales and Gelechiidce." He further
states that, " A careful study of all the genera which
seem to be allied to Acridura has manifested a gradation
of structure from the dEgeriidce to the Pyrales, on the
one hand, and from the 2Egemidce to the Gelechiidce on
the other." He goes on to say : — " The difficulty of
pointing out the resemblance of the ^Egeriidce to the
Gelechiidce is nothing to that of determining where the
line of demarcation between the two families is to be
drawn : thus Tinceyeria is apparently a small form of
JEgeriid with long, slender-curved palpi, and a hairy
second joint to its antennae ; it is without doubt allied
to Arauzona and to Acridura, less nearly to Tinthia,
which is close to Mgeria; on the other hand, the
Gelechiid genus Exodomorpha (Staintonia, Staud.) is
evidently the African representative of the New World
genus Tincegeria; indeed, I have hitherto only found
one structural character to distinguish them by, namely,
the form of the secondaries; yet Exodomorpha chiefly
differs from Gelechia in the hairy second joint to its
antennae, and the non-indented apex of its posterior
wings."

Thus it will be seen that in the case of Eretmocera
(shown in this paper to represent Exodomorpha,
Staintonia, and Castorura), Zeller, Staudinger, Stainton,
and Meyrick recognise its affinity to the Elachistidce ;
while Walker and Butler agree with each other in
referring it to the Gelechiidce, and in pointing out its
connection with the JEgeriidce, with which Butler also
connects the Pyrales.

It should be borne in mind that the family regarded
by Walker as Gelechiidce included the genus Butalis,
since referred to the Elachistidce. Thus Walker's opinion
was not at variance with those of Zeller, Staudinger,
Stainton, and Meyrick.

Mr. Butler can scarcely have intended to include
Butalis, or any other genus of the now generally recog-
nised Elachistidce in the term Gelechiidce, for he expressly
mentions the indented hind wings of that family, a
character not exhibited by Butalis or its allies.

In the case of (Edematopoda (shown here to equal
Atkinsonia), Zeller and Stainton also agree in referring

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4 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

it to the neighbourhood of Butalis or the Elachistidce :
and in the case of Tinageria, Walker and Butler again
agree that the genus seems to connect the jEgeriidce
with certain families of the Tineites. Felder and
Kogenhofer place the type of the genus with a "?" in
Eretmocera, and a specimen in my own collection,
received from Mr. G. F. Mathew, was named by Mr.
Meyrick before I received it, " Atkinsonia lineata, Walk.,"
showing that all these authorities concur in classing
Tincegeria with the Tineites (Tineina, Stn.).

I am unable to regard the genus Acridura as allied to
any of the genera here mentioned ; its long, slender,
and pointed abdomen, its Pyralidiform wings and neura-
tion, and certainly its general appearance, seem to
separate it very widely from Tincegeria at the one end,
as well as from (Edematopoda and Eretmocera at the
other end of our proposed series.

The more important structural characters of the genera
included in this paper are as follows : —

1. Antennae thickly clothed with more or less long
projecting scales, extending to a greater or less distance
along them.

2. A greater or less tendency to transparency in the
hind wings.

3. Legs often more or less clothed with projecting
scales upon or above the strong spurs.

4. Bodies usually flattened, frequently brightly
coloured, and with strong lateral scales.

4. Fore wings narrow, elongate, the costal and dorsal
margins nearly straight, and parallel to beyond the
middle ; the apex depressed.

If any affinity to the Mgeriidce can be supposed to
exist in this group of genera, the species having trans-
parent hind wings may be regarded as in this respect
showing less departure from the characters of that
family than others with opaque hind wings. For this
reason, as a matter of convenience in classification rather
than as an arbitrary assertion of a supposed physio-
logical fact, however probable, I have here ranged the
genera according to their degree of approach in structure
and appearance to the " JEgeriida." They seem to
present a gradual and well-marked departure from the
typical form of that family by modifications traceable
step by step throughout the series, but it should be

connecting Tincegeria with Eretmocera. 5

observed that they all differ from them in their longer
recurved palpi.

First, it should be remarked that the structure of the
antennae is approximately uniform throughout the series
here noticed ; the variation occurs in the nature and
amount of scale -clothing only. Butler's observations
as to the long hairy second joint in the antennas of
Tincegeria and Exodomorpha are incorrect, inasmuch
as not the second joint only, but the whole basal portion
of the antennas to near or beyond the middle, consisting
of from thirty to forty joints, is thickly clothed, more
densely in the female than in the male, no one joint
being noticeably longer than the others.

The amount of transparency in the hind wings is
most noticeable in Tinageria, gradually diminishing in
Snellenia, confined to the extreme abdominal angle in
(Edematopoda, and barely traceable in Eretmocera.

The scaling of the legs and spurs reaches its highest
development in Snellenia latipes, originally placed by
Walker in Tincegeria ; it is also very noticeable in
(Edematopoda ; the spurs of (E. clerodendronella are so
thickly clothed as to have been taken for tufts of scales
by Stainton when describing the species. This character
almost disappears in Eretmocera, but "the spurs are well-
developed, and the structure of the legs sufficiently
resembles those of CEdematopoda to point to the con-
clusion that its habit of elevating them above the body
may be the same as described in the case of clerodendro-
nella. The flattened structure of the abdomen is
approximately uniform throughout the genera. The
lateral scaling is traceable in Tinageria, somewhat more
developed in (Edematopoda and Snellenia, and strongest
in Eretmocera ; the anal tuft is always well-developed.

We now come to the shape and neuration of the wings,
a character in which a gradual change is also noticeable.
The narrow elongate fore wings are present throughout
the group, but the neuration differs perceptibly, and the
form of the hind wings is not entirely consistent ;
Tincegeria, as here limited, standing somewhat apart
from the other genera, except Pseudcegeria, in having the
abdominal margin of the hind wing bulged towards the
middle, giving the wing a wider appearance, and agreeing
in this respect with the genus Dasycera, which also
possesses the narrow fore wings, clothed antennas, and
slender recurved palpi characteristic of this genus. I

6 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

should be inclined to admit that some natural affinity
may exist between them, but I doubt if it can be held to
break the chain connecting Tinaegeria with Eretmocera,
nor do I think it forms a true link in that connection.

The hind wings of Snellenia, in which I have included
S. latipes, originally placed by Walker in his genus
Tinageria, are narrow, with the margins nearly parallel,
and the apex rounded. In (Edematopoda and Eretmocera
the hind wings are pointed, but the -neuration shows
gradual progression from the one to the other. In
Tincegeria, Snellenia, and Pseudaegeria the discal cell in
both fore and hind wings is somewhat square at the
outer extremity. In (Edematopoda it is square in the
fore wings and pointed in the hind wings, and in
Eretmocera it is pointed in both fore and hind wings.
The apical vein of the fore wings is forked throughout.
An additional link in the chain of connection appears in
the labial palpi ; these, in (Edematopoda, are very
slender and strongly recurved, in this respect nearly
approaching Tincegeria, whereas, in the form of the hind
wings, it appears to be more nearly allied to Eretmocerat
of which Zeller regarded it as a subgenus.

It is unfortunate that so far little or nothing is known
of the larval habits of these insects. Stainton describes
the larva of (E. clerodendronella as feeding in webs on
shoots of Clerodendron. E. medinella is only known to
frequent the flowers of Umbellifera in Spain (teste Stdgr.)
and Senecio in Persia (teste Christoph.) ; and Mr. G. T.
Carter, who has watched the habits of three or four
species of Eretmocera flying in October at Bathurst, and
at Accra in West Africa, although he has at present failed
to discover their larvae, has supplied me with a sketch of
the plant which they habitually frequent, somewhat
resembling Clerodendron, and possibly referable to one
of the African species of Verbenacea. The flowers of
these shrubs, like the hind wings of many species of Eret-
mocera, are often scarlet or crimson, and they flower about
the time of year at which the specimens were taken.

It is certainly worthy of a passing notice that the
geographical distribution of the genus Clerodendron
coincides somewhat remarkably with what is known of
the distribution of the genera mentioned here ; but it
would be obviously unsafe to found any argument in
favour of their affinity to each other on such slender
grounds. The parallel may be a mere coincidence.

HABITAT.

Clerodendron

myrocoides (Trop. Afr.)

S. Africa. . . .

W. Africa . .

E. Africa
(Zanzibar)

/Eretmocera derogatella, Wlk.
, fuscipennis, Z.
; Icetissima, Z.
, lunifera, Z.
, miniata, Wlsm.
, scatospila, Z.
(Edematopoda princeps, Z.

Eretmocera basistrigata, Wlsm.
carteri, Wlsm.
fuscipennis, Z.
l&tissima, Z.
scatospila, Z.

[ derogatella, Wlk.
dorsistrigata, Wlsm.
( miniata, Wlsm.

(scandens.
\ splendens.
(thompsonce.

macrosiphon.
f hceterophyllum.

Europe

medinella Stgr

\ ligustrinum.

Persia and )

'medinella Stsr

Turkestan j
China

(fcetidum.
} fragrans.

Japan

f (Edematopodaignipicta, Btl.

1 seratinum.
[squamatum.

trichotomum.

„ leechu, Wlsm.

,, clerodendronella,$tn.
Larva drawing together terminal
leaves of Clerodendron with
a white web.

/fortunatum.
I hastatum.
1 inermce.
infortunatum.
•I macrophyllum.

Ceylon ....

Eretmocera impactella, Wlk.
Snellenia coccinea, Wlsm.
„ tarsella, Wlsm.

Eretmocera impactella, Wlk.
impactella Wlk

nutans (Sylhet).
phlomoides.
siphonanthus.
\viscosum.

infortunatum.

(fallax.
-I paniculatum.

Borneo
Celebes ...

Snellenia bimaculata, Wlsm.

[ rumphianum.
bethuneanum.
(illustre.

Australia . .
Fiii

r „ lineata, Wlk.
-1 Eretmocera chrysias, Meyr.
[Pseudcegeria squamicornis, F. & E.

SQuamicornis F & R.

(minahassce.

( tomentosum.
{ costatum.

•C1J1
S. America..

ITincegeria basalis, Wlk.
fasciata, Wlk.
„ ochracea, Wlk.
Snellenia fiavipennis, F. & R.
„ latipes, Wlk.

/A few species chiefly na-
tives of W. Indies and
Columbia.
One species broadly dif-
fused over the mari-
time regions of Tropi-
cal America [Petraia
\ volubilis, Vera Cruz."

8 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

It remains to refer to two species which have been
placed by their authors in one of the genera here mono-
graphed, but which I have ventured to exclude : —

1. ? Staintonia julgens, Erschoff, Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss.,

XII. , 347, 1876.

The description is wholly inadequate to connect it
with the genus Eretmocera, or with the group of genera
to which it belongs ; indeed, its shorter palpi and broader
hind wings serve at once to distinguish it from them.
It probably agrees with the genus Lepidotarphius, Pryer.

2. Staintonia? apiciguttella, Christoph., Bull. Soc. Imp.
Nat. Mosc., LVIL, 42—3 (1882) = Butalis sinensis,
F. & B., pi. cxl., fig. 11, 1875 (n. syn.).

Of this species I have specimens in my own collection ;
it is almost certainly a true Butalis.

The changes here suggested in the generic position of
certain species, and in the synonymy of the genera,
require a few words of explanation.

Tinageria has been restricted to species of which the
antennae are thickly clothed on the basal half only ;
these have the hind wings rather widened and almost
entirely transparent. Snellenia latipes, originally placed
in Tinageria by Walker, differs from his type, T. ochracea,
in its antennae being clothed nearly to the ends, in its
narrower hind wings with nearly parallel margins, and
in the strongly-scaled spurs of the hind legs. For these
reasons it has been transferred to the new genus
Snellenia, with which it more nearly agrees. It is
possible that at some future time, when more material
may become available, it may be convenient to form a
new genus for its reception.

Snellenia lineata, also placed by Walker in Tincegeria,
agrees very closely in structure with S. coccinea, the type
of Snellenia, but differs in its longer and more slender
palpi ; it differs from Tincegeria ochracea in the same
particulars as S. latipes, with the exception of the
strongly-scaled spurs.

After examining, in all details, the structure of
Arauzona basalis, Walker, I am unable to discover any

connecting Tinageria with Eretmocera. 9

sufficient grounds for separating this species from the
genus Tincegeria.

(Edematopoda, Zeller, possesses all the structural
characters relied upon by Stainton in defining his genus
Atkinsonia; the strong scaling of the spurs occurs again
in this genus, and in this character, as in the long
elevated fringe of the antennae, it is merely a question
of degree as between Zeller's and Stainton's types.
Eretmocera ignipicta, Butler, agrees entirely with
(Edematopoda, and is separable from the true Eretmocera
by the shape of the discal cell in the fore wings, as
well as by the characters mentioned above, which do not
occur in that genus.

In Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 271, I have
already pointed out that Staintonia and Exodomorpha
can only be regarded as synonyms of Eretmocera ; to
these must now be added Castorura, Meyrick. Without
committing Mr. Meyrick to any approval of the classi-
fication suggested in this paper, so far as regards the
affinities of the different genera, I may mention that he
quite concurs in regarding Castorura as identical with
Eretmocera.

Felder and Bogenhofer figure, in the ' Keise Novara,'
the following species under the name " Eretmocera ? " :
— E. aneiceps, which is obviously Tinageria ochracea;
E. sesioides, which is certainly Snellenia lineata ; and
E.flavipennis, the figure of which differs from that of
sesioides only in its more yellow colour, in the dark
veining of the anterior wings being interrupted by a pale
space across the middle, and in the colour of the abdo-
men, which in sesioides is figured of a uniform dark
tinge, and mflavipennis is yellow, with the apex only of
a darker colour.

The figures are not satisfactory but they indicate
these points of difference with sufficient clearness ; and
in the letterpress the locality ioi flavipennis is " Amer. ?,"
of sesioides, "Sidney." Snellenia lineata = sesioides is
from Sydney, Australia, and is so labelled in the British
Museum, as in my own collection; but, in describing
the species, Walker states that his specimens were from
" Para, Bates' coll." This, although evidently an error
as regards the actual specimens now existing, seems to
increase the suspicion, founded upon Felder's " Amer. ?,"
that a somewhat similar species does occur on the

10 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

American continent. If Felder's species was truly
American, it was probably obtained by Lindig from
Bogota, approximately in the same region where Bates
collected.

Walker's description seems to apply to the insect
figured by F elder as Eretmocera ? sesioides, and it is
probable that two of the specimens in the British
Museum are rightly regarded as his types of lineata.
These two are distinctly and separately labelled " Sidney,"
and as the other two specimens, to which Walker's
manuscript name Pegella cegeriella is attached, are also
both labelled " Australia," it seems impossible to account
for his error in stating that his types were collected by
Bates at Para.

This paper contains descriptions of two new genera
and eight new species, and as it is intended as a mono-
graph, so far as it goes, the descriptions of the known
species are proposed to be republished, with such notes
and additions as may serve to facilitate their recognition.

TIN^GERIA, Wlk. = ABAUZONA, Wlk.

Type. Tinageria ochracea, Wlk.

Antennce thickly clothed with long scales to half their length,
thence simple. Labial palpi recurved, ascending, very long and
slender; 2nd joint about equal in length to the apical joint, and
slightly straighter. Maxillary palpi small, drooping. Haustellum
long, scaled at base. Ocelli present. Head and thorax smooth.
Fore wings elongate, the margins nearly parallel, rounded at
apex; neuration, 12 veins, 7 and 8 from a common stem.
Hind wings partially transparent, widened in the middle, tapering
towards the base and apex, costal margin somewhat depressed
beyond the middle, apex rounded, dorsal margin evenly rounded ;
neuration, 8 veins, 6 and 7 parallel, 3 and 4 separate at the base,
3 from, or near, angle of cell. Abdomen brightly coloured, not
fringed at the edges. Legs with long spurs not tufted at the
joints. [Wlsm.]

TINJEGERIA, Wlk., Cat.Lp. Ins. B. M., VIII., 260 (1856).

Type. Tincegeria ochracea, Wlk.

" Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevissima.* Palpi graciles, arcuati,
ascendentes, thorace non breviores. Antennae setaceae, graciles,

* ? fracta.— Wlsm.

connecting Tintegeria with Eretmocera. 11

subpilosaB, corpore fere longiores. Abdomen lineare, gracile, apice
non fasciculatum. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor
longis. Alae perangustae ; posticae limpidae.

"Body slender. Proboscis very short. * Palpi slender, curved,
ascending, as long as the thorax; third joint very slender.
Antennae setaceous, slender, slightly pilose, full as long as the
body. Abdomen linear, sessile, not tufted at the tip. Legs
slender ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings very narrow.
Hind wings mostly limpid.

" This genus seems to connect the Tineites with the

-- ABAUZONA, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B, M., XXXL, 25—6
(1864), (n.syn.).

Type. Arauzona basalis, Wlk.

" Mas.f Corpus gracile, sublineare. Proboscis longa, valida,
Antennae alis anticis paullo longiores, fimbria brevi densa munitae,
apices versus glabrae. Abdomen alas posticas longissime superans.
Pedes laeves, breves, robusti ; tibiae posticae subincrassatae, calcari-
bus duobus apicalibus validis. Alae anticae angustae, vestitae ; pos-
ticae vitreae.

" Male.f Body slender, nearly linear. Proboscis long, stout.
Antennae a little longer than the fore wings, with a thick short
fringe along nearly two-thirds of the length from the base. Abdo-
men extending for nearly its whole length beyond the hind wings.
Legs short, stout, smooth; hind tibias slightly incrassated, with
two long stout apical spurs. Wings narrow. Fore wings opaque,
rounded at the tip. Hind wings vitreous.

" This genus seems to connect the Mgeriidce with the
Gelechidce."

[PI. ij

$ 2 , ochracea, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., VIII., 260
(1856).

" Ochracea, subtus argentea ; caput nigro-cyaneum ; antennae
nigrae, apices versus albae ; thoracis disco et abdominis apice nigrum;
alae anticae nigrae, basi fasciaque subapicali ochraceis ; posticae
limpidae, apud costam ochraceus, apice nigricantes.

" Ochraceous, silvery beneath. Head dark blue. Disc of the
thorax and tip of the abdomen black. Fore wings black, ochra-

* ? broken. — "Wlsiu.

[| The palpi are missing from the type, and the specimen is
unquestionably a female. — Wlsm.J

f\ 2 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

ceous towards the base, and with an ochraceous subapical band.
Length of the body, 2£ lines ; of the wings, 5 lines.

" a. b. Para ; from Mr. Bates' collection."

[This species is identical with Eretmocera ? ceneiceps,
F. &K., from Bogota.— Wlsm.]

Antennce yellow at the base, thence thickly clothed with dark
purplish-fuscous scales to half their length, thence broadly banded
with white ; apical one-third purplish fuscous. Labial palpi
recurved, long, slender, 2nd joint about equal in length to the
apical joint and slightly straighter ; purplish at the extreme base of
the 2nd joint, the remainder of which is bright golden yellow
externally, whitish internally, the apex of the 2nd joint and the
apical joint tinged with fuscous. Maxillary palpi black. Head
smooth, metallic -purplish ; face lilac. Thorax shining purplish
fuscous, with two golden yellow lines slightly converging pos-
teriorly. Fore wings purplish fuscous, sprinkled with golden
yellow scales, especially along the middle of the wing ; at the base
is a golden yellow band overspread at the extreme base of the
costa with purple ; at the outer one-fourth of the wing is an ill-
defined golden yellow fascia, divided transversely by four or five
narrow lines of the dark ground colour, but extending inwards at
the middle and along the extreme costal margin ; the cilia at the
anal angle are slightly ochreous ; the whole apex of the wing and
the remainder of the cilia purplish fuscous. Hind wings trans-
parent, except a broad band along the costal margin, which is pale
straw-yellow, the veins immediately below it being marked with
bright golden yellow, which also extends narrowly around the
abdominal margin for one-third of the wing-length ; below the
apex the veins and cilia are smoky fuscous, with green and lilac
iridescence upon the transparent wing-surface below them. Under
side of fore and hind wings yellow along the basal half of the
costal area, paler below and smoky fuscous beyond. Abdomen
vermilion, with a broad black band at the anal extremity, and a
greyish anal tuft. Under side yellowish. Legs : the upper side
of the upper half of the tibias are tinged with vermilion on golden
yellow; spurs and under side pale straw-yellow; tarsal joints
broadly banded above with dark fuscous. Exp. al. 13 mm.

Imago. — October.

Hob. Bogota (Lindig], Santarem (Mr. J. H. Leech).

The above description is taken from a male in my
collection. The specimen figured on pi. cxxxviii. of the

connecting Tintsgeria with Eretmocera. 13

' Novara Reise ' is a female. Walker's types in B. M.
are male and female (Wlsm.).

[PL vi., fig. 1.]

$Ja*data9 Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., VIII., 261 (1856).
"Nigrae; pectus albideum; abdomen ochraceum, basi et apice
nigrum; pedes ochracei, nigro fasciati; alae posticse sublimpidae,
nigro marginatae, apud costam testacese.

"Black. Pectus whitish. Abdomen ochraceous, black at the
base and towards the tip. Hind wings nearly limpid, bordered
with black, testaceous along the costa. Length of the body,
2£ lines ; of the wings, 5 lines (= 11 mm.).

" a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection."
[Walker's type in B. M. is a male. — Wlsm.J

[PL vi., fig. 2.]
? , basalis, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B.M., XXXL, 26 (1864).

"Mas.* Nigro - cuprea ; antennas fascia lata alba; thorax
ochraceo-bivittatus ; pectus et abdomen subtus alba ; tibiae posticae
ochraceo-fasciatae ; alae anticae striga basali ochracea ; posticae
vitreaB, venis fiinbriaque nigris.

" Male.* Blackish cupreous. Antennae with a broad white
band above on the basal half of the slender part. Thorax with an
ochraceous stripe on each side. Pectus white. Abdomen white
beneath. Hind tibiae with an ochraceous band. Fore wings with
a short ochraceous basal streak. Hind wings vitreous, colourless ;
veins and fringe black, the latter rather long. Length of the body,
3£ lines ; of the wings, 8 lines (= 17 mm.).

" a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection."

SNELLENIA, n. g.

Type, (? . Snellenia coccinea, Wlsm.

Antennae supra dense squamatae. Palpi ascendentes, recurvi,
articulo apicali tenui, acuminate. Haustellum vestitum. Caput
et thorax laeves. Alae anticae anguste elongatae, apice obtuso,
depresso, costa ultra medium aliquot arcuata ; venae duodecim,
septimo et octavo a pedicillo communi, ceteris singulis. Alae pos-
ticae prope basim subhyalinae, apice rotundato, anguli abdominali
distincto, marginibus costali et dorsali subparallelibus ; venae
octavo, tertio et quarto a pedicillo communi. Abdomen planum,

[* This is an error ; the specimen is a female. — Wlsm.]

14 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

fasciculis lateralibus et fascicule anali conspicuis. Pedes supra
calcaria fasciculati.

Antenna thickly fringed on the upper side, the fringes tapering
to the apex. Labial palpi ascending, 2nd joint recurved, clothed
with coarse scales ; apical joint naked, slender, acuminate. Maxil-
lary palpi very short. Haustellum thickly clothed. Ocelli
present. Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings narrow, elon-
gate, rounded at apex ; costa arched beyond the middle, depressed
before it ; neuration, 12 veins, 2 and 3 arising from near angle of
cell, 7 and 8 from a common stem. Hind wings semitransparent
at base, rounded at apex, abdominal angle well-developed, costal
and dorsal margins almost parallel ; neuration, 8 veins, end of cell
somewhat square, 3 and 4 from a common stem. Abdomen flat-
tened, slightly tufted at sides, anal tuft broad and well-developed.
Legs tufted at base of spurs, but not to the same extent as in
Atkinsonia.

This genus differs from Atkinsonia, Stn., in the greater
width of the hind wings, and appears to be more nearly
allied to Tincegeria, Wlk., and Arauzona, Wlk., in this
respect, partaking of the characters of Dasycera, Hw.,
and its allies, on the one side, and of Stathmopoda, Stn.,
Schreckensteinia, Hb,, &c., on the other. Comparing it
with undoubtedly allied genera mentioned in this paper,
it seems to form a connecting-link between the so-called
Gelechidce and the Elachistidce. I entirely agree with
the opinion expressed by Mr. E. Meyrick, in a letter to
me on this subject, that Snellenia lineata, Wlk., from
New South Wales, which he regarded as probably allied
to Atkinsonia, is nearly related to Dasycera ; but the true
Atkinsonia from India seems to form a distinct con-
necting-link between this and the African forms de-
scribed by Zeller under the genera (Edematopoda and
Eretmocera, which undoubtedly approach Butalis, Tr.

Tabulation of the species comprised in the genus
Snellenia : —

A. Neuration of fore wings more or less outlined with dark scales.
a. Fore wings orange-yellow.

1. — lineata, Wlk.

2. =flavipennis, F. & E.
6. Fore wings red.

1. Tarsi with white rings =tarsella, Wlsm.

2. Tarsi without white rings — coccinea. Wlsm.

connecting Tincegeria with Eretmocera. 15

B. Fore wing spotted or fasciate.

a. Abdomen red, with dark bar and anal segment = latipes, Wlk.

b. Abdomen yellow, with two dark bands = bimaculata, Wlsm.

[Pi. ii.]

coccinea, n. s.

Alae anticae cocciniae, strigula discali post medium furcata nitide
violaceo-fusca ; ciliis nigrescentibus. Alee posticae nigrse, costa ex
basi ultra medium anguste miniata. Capite, antennis, palpis,
thorace, abdomine et tibiis nigris.

Antennce black. Palpi black; the basal joint and inner side of
lower part of 2nd joint greyish. Head and thorax black, the
latter somewhat iridescent. Fore wings bright scarlet ; a small
spot at the base of the costa and a more elongate small space at
the base of the dorsal margin black ; a violaceous-fuscous metallic
streak at the end of the cell, about equidistant between the costal
and dorsal margins, is bifurcate outwards, and below this a few
black scales are traceable along the lines of the veins which run to
the lower half of the apical margin ; cilia blackish. Hind wings
and cilia black, the costal margin from the base to beyond the
middle rosy pink. Under side of fore and hind wings bright
red, the apical margin and outer half of fore wings, except
the costal portion, obliquely suffused with fuscous, the hind wings
with a broad fuscous border extending from the base to the apex
around the abdominal and apical margins. Abdomen and legs
black. Exp. al. 15 mm.

Hob. Sikkim.

A single specimen, for which I am indebted to the
kindness of Mynheer P. C. T. Snellen, was collected by
Mr. H. J. Elwes.

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 3.]
tarsella, n. s.

Capite nigro. Antennis nigris ultra medium late squamatis.
[Palpi et abdomen desunt.] Thorace coccineo. Alis anticis
coccineis, nigro venatis, naargine dorsali sub plica nigrescent!.
Alis posticis dilutioribus, nigro marginatis. Tibiis nigris, tarsis
albo annulatis, calcaribus nigris.

Antenna black, thickly fringed with long scales to beyond the
middle. Palpi [missing.] Head black. Thorax deep scarlet.
Fore wings deep scarlet, the veins marked with lines of blackish

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scales; the dorsal margin below the fold also blackish. Hind
wings rather paler than the fore wings, a broad blackish border
wider posteriorly. Abdomen [missing.] Legs black, with white
rings on the tarsi, spurs and tufts black. Exp. al. 28 mm.
Hob. Darjeeling.

Type, ? , B. M.

[PL vi., fig. 4.]

lineata, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., VIII., 261 (1856).

" Nigra ; palpi thorace longiores ; thorax et abdomen basi
ochracea ; alae anticae ochraceo venosae, posticae basi luteae.

"Black. Palpi longer than the thorax. Thorax and base of
the abdomen ochraceous. Hind wings luteous towards the base.
Length of the body, 2£ lines ; of the wings, 5 lines (= 11 mm.).

"a. b. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection."

[Walker's types are male and female. The locality
Para is a mistake; the insects were purchased from
Argent's collection, and are labelled " Sidney." Other
specimens stand in the British Museum collection under
the MS. name " Pegella cegeriella " ; these are labelled
" Australia." This species is identical with Eretmocera ?
sesioides, F. & E., also from Sydney.— Wlsm.]

flavipennis, F. & E.

$ , Eretmocera ? flavipennis, F. & E., Eeis. Nov.,
pi. cxxxviii., 59 (1875).

" $ , Amer. ?"

The only knowledge I have of this species is from the
published figure; the shape and general appearance
seem to indicate its near alliance to Snellenia lineata,
Wlk. I should propose to include it provisionally at
least in this genus.

[PL vi., fig. 5.]
latipes, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXXL, 25 (1864).

" Mas. Viridis ; caput subtus pectusque pallide flava ; palpi
basi pallide flavi ; antennae pubescentes ; pedes anteriores flavo
notati ; tibiae posticae rufae, apice nigrae, calcaribus duobus anticis
fimbriatis ; alae anticae lurido bifasciatae ; posticae vitreae.

" Male. Dark metallic -green. Head beneath, proboscis and
pectus, pale yellow. Palpi smooth, slender, compressed, curved,

connecting Tinayeria with Eretmocera. 17

pale yellow at the base, rising high above the vertex ; third joint
longer than the second. Antennas pubescent. Coxse mostly, and
anterior femora and biae partly pale yellow ; hind tibiae long,
stout, bright red, black towards the tips ; first pair of spurs red,
very unequal in length, with a black fringe, which is red towards
the base in the shorter spur; hind tibiae compressed, slightly
dilated and fringed along the whole length. Wings narrow, with a
broad fringe. Fore wings with two lurid bands ; first band near
the base broader than the second, which is at two-thirds of the
length. Hind wings hyaline, colourless. Length of the body,
5 lines ; of the wings, 10 lines (= 21 mm.).

" a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection."

[PL vi., fig. 6.]
bimaculata, Wlsm., n. s.

Antennce yellow at the base, fringed with long deep purple scales
beyond (the ends being broken off it is impossible to say how far
this clothing extends). Palpi long, slender, recurved, yellow.
Head and thorax smooth, shining, bronzy purple. Fore wings
bright golden yellow, overspread with shining brownish purple at
the base; the apical portion of the wing broadly brown, with a
purplish lustre, this colour extending one-third along the dorsal
margin ; a brilliant metallic lilac spot lies at the end of the cell,
and touches at its lower edge the inner extremity of the brown
shading ; this spot is preceded by a smaller spot of the same
colour before the middle of the wing, both very conspicuous upon
the golden yellow ground colour. Hind wings bright golden
yellow, with a broad brown marginal band extending from the apex
nearly to the abdominal angle, which is slightly transparent.
Abdomen golden yellow, with a narrow brown transverse band
across the middle, and a wider one of the same colour near the
anal extremity. Exp. al. 16 mm.

Hal. Sandakan (Mr. II. J. S. Pnjer}.

Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm.

PSEUD.EGERIA, H. g.

Type. Ochsenheimeria ? squamicornis, F. & R.

Caput laevis. Palpi recurvi, articulo secundo sequaliter vestito,
articulo apicali tenue, acuminato. Antennae dense vestitae, squamis
elongatis, serrate congestis. Haustellum longum. Alae anticae
elongatse, marginalibus costali et dorsali parallelibus, apice de-

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18 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

presso ; venae apicali furcata, ceteris singulis. Alae posticae lanceo-
latae, margine costali in niedio arcuato apice obtuso, dimidio dor-
sali subhyalinis ; venis tertia et quarta a pedicillo communi, sexta
et septinia simillimis. Tibiae posteriores supra calcaria floccatae.

Antennas thickly clothed with erect scales from near the base,
arranged in groups of unequal length, giving a strongly serrated
appearance. Palpi recurved, 2nd and apical joints about equal in
length, the former evenly clothed throughout, the latter slender,
erect, acuminate. Head and thorax smooth. Fore wings elon-
gate, margins parallel, apex depressed ; neuration, 12 veins, 7 and
8 from a common stem, the rest separate, 3 and 4 approximate at
base, 3 from or near angle of cell. Hind ivings lanceolate, abdo-
minal angle rather abrupt, costal margin slightly arched in the
middle, somewhat widened at the anal angle ; somewhat trans-
parent about the dorsal and abdominal area ; neuration, 8 veins,
3 and 4 from a short stem, 6 and 7 from a common point, 2 from
outer third of cell. Abdomen somewhat flattened, fringed pos-
teriorly with projecting lateral scales. Legs strongly tufted above
the spurs.

[PL in.]
squamicornis, F. & B.

$ , Ocfaenheimeria ? sqiiamicornis, F. & E., Reis, Nov.,
pi. cxxxix., 6 (1875).

" 2 , ins. vitianse, Australia ? (M. C.)."

Capite nigro. Thorace nigro, sparse aurantiaco squamato, pata-
giis rufo-aurantiacis. Palpis nigris. Antennis nigris, dentate
squamatis. Alis anticis eloiigatis, dimidio costali rufo-aurantiaco,
dorsali nigro, margine apicali usque ad apicem anguste nigro ;
ciliis brunueis. Alis posticis apud marginem abdominalem albide
subhyalinis, apud costam dilute aurantiaco suffusis, margine
dorsali late brunneo ; ciliis brunneis. Abdomine antice brunneo,
postice nigro, linea transversa angustissime post medium albida.
Tibiis nigris, calcaribus albidis.

Antennas thickly fringed near the base with unequal tufts of long
glossy black scales with a purplish tinge, having a dentated
appearance. Palpi black, recurved, reaching well above the head ;
2nd joint evenly clothed throughout, apical joint about equal to it
in length, very slender and erect. Head and thorax glossy black,
the latter streaked with reddish orange, a collar of smooth blackish
purple scales extending over the anterior margin of the thorax ;
patagia reddish orange. Fore wings reddish orange on the costal
half, glossy black on the dorsal half, a narrow semi-detached black

connecting Tincc-yer'ui with Eretmocera. 19

streak is scarcely divided from the black dorsal half, blending with
it beyond the middle, the black is continued around the apical
margin at the base of the cilia as far as the apex; cilia also dark,
but with a slight brownish gloss. Under side pale reddish orange,
suffused with brown within the anal angle. Hind wings whitish
about the base of the abdominal margin, inclining to transparency,
suffused with orange-yellow towards the costal margin, a broad
band of brown along the dorsal margin towards the apex; cilia
glossy brown. Under side pale reddish orange, suffused with
brown around the dorsal margin. Abdomen : the anterior portion
is dark brown, separated from the glossy black anal segments by a
very narrow whitish line behind the middle, posteriorly fringed
with projecting glossy brownish scales adjoining the anal tuft.
Under side blackish. Legs glossy black, with strong tufts of scales
above the spurs ; spurs white. Exp. al. 21 mm.

Hab. Fiji (F. £ R.), Australia (B. M.), 66, 125.

This description is taken from the British Museum
specimen, which is also a $ . — Wlsm.

(EDEMATOPODA, Z. — ATKINSONIA, Stn.
(EDEMATOPODA, Z.

Eretmocera (A) Oedematopoda, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk.
Ak., 1852, 96.

Type, ?. (Edcinatopoda princeps, Z.

" Eretmocera.

" Char, essent. — Caput laeve. Antenna? uno latere squamis pili-
forniibus alatae, apice nudo. Alae elongates.

" Char. nat. — Antennae urio latere dense squamato-pilosae, pilis
sensim longitudine acutis, apice nudo. Capilli appressi, fronte
rotundata. Palpi labiales niediocres, recurvi, articulo terminali
longiore, tenui acuto. Haustellum mediocre spirale. Alae elon-
gatae ciliis longis, posteriorum angulo anali subnullo. Abdomen
breviusculum, crassum, planiusculum. Pedes robusti, tibiarum
spinae longiuscuhe.

" (A) Oedematopoda. — Antennae apice breviter nudo, pilis longis.
Pedes meclii et postici in articulorum apicibus squamato-nodosi,
spinis uno latere pilosis. Abdominis latera non squamis margi-
natum.

" Genus hoc Oecopliorce earn partem, quae esperellam, seleniellam,
clienopodiellam, etc. continet, cum Elacliistis ceretella, modestella,
etc. conjungere videtur. Distinguitur ab utrisque antennis non

c2

20 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

simplicibus, sed a basi ultra medium in latere exteriore pilosis,
palpis longioribus, abdomine latiore."

= ATKINSONIA, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n. s.), V.,

125 (1859).

Type. Atkinsonia clerodendronella, Stn.
" Head smooth, broad, flat ; labial palpi long, slender, recurved,
terminal joint rather longer than the second joint. Antennae stout,
clothed on one side with long loose scales nearly to the tip.
Anterior wings broadest beyond the middle, the costa being at first
slightly concave ; posterior wings narrow and pointed. Abdomen
broad, depressed, with long scales at the side. Legs, especially the
hind pair, with long tufts of scales.

"A singular and beautiful genus, belonging to the
family Elachistida."

Tabulation of the species comprised in the genus
(Edematopoda : —

A. Fore wings yellowish, with black apex =princeps, Z.

B. Fore wings unicolorous.

a. Fore wings cupreous = clerodendronella, Stn.
6. Fore wings red.

1. Head and antennae purplish — ignipicta, Btl.

2. Head and antenna* red = leechi, Wlsm.

[PI. IV.]

princeps, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 96 — 7.

" Abdomine aurantiaco, apice nigro ; pedibus chalybeo-nigris ;
alis ex basi aurantiacis, postice nigris, ciliis posteriorum a basi ad
medium aurantiacis ($>). Magnitudine Oec. cuspidellce minoris,
sequentibus major. Caput violaceo-nigrum, fronte lata. Palpi
thoracis longitudine, recurvi, graciles; articulo primo et secundo
ochraceis, secundo squamis subincrassato, basim versus attenuate ;
terminali secundi longitudine, tenui, acuto, fusco. Haustelli
dorsum ad basim squamis exalbidis tectum. Antennae abdominis
fere longitudine, latere exteriore dense pilosae, pilis nigris, chalybeo-
iiitidis, paulatim magnitudine accrescentibus, ante antennarum
ultimam octavam fere partem abrupte desinentibus ; haec pars
terminalis nuda est, nigra, subserrata. Thorax laevigatus, niger,
nitidulus. Patagia miniata, margine exteriore latius violaceo
nigro. Pedes nigri, chalybeo-coerulei instar nitidi ; anticorum coxae
et posticorum tibiae ad basim miniatae. Tibiae tarsique pedum

connecting Tinageria with Eretmocera. 21

posteriorum crassi; tibiae posticae quater squamis setisque in-
crassatae, nodis apicem versus majoribus ; spinae uno latere pilis
ciliatae, apice nudo, acuto ; tarsi postici et ipsi in articulorum
apicibus squamis nonnihil tumidi, primo tumore reliquis dis-
tinctiore. Abdomen crassum, postice attenuatum, saturate auran-
tiacum ; segmenta duo terminalia sicut venter nigra, violaceo-
mtida; segmentum anale subconicum, truncatum oviductum tes-
taceum exserit. Alae anteriores 3^'" longae, ex basi angusta sensim
dilatatae, apice subobtusae, aurantiacae, majore parte postica nigrae,
violaceo-nitidulae. Color aurantiacus ad costam multo longius
quam ad dorsum propagatur, nusquam a nigro certis finibus
separatus. In humero macula parva nigra adest. Cilia nigricant.
Alae posteriores anguste lanceolatae, dilutius aurantiacae, circa
apicem acutum nigricant. Cilia ex basi ad marginis postici medium
alis concolora, deinde omnino fusco-nigra. Subtus iidem colores,
nisi quod aurantiacus in anterioribus alis majus spatium occupat
nee in basi macula nigra inquinatur.

" Habitat in terra Natalensi." (Exp. al. 16 mm.).

It is worthy of notice that a specimen collected by
Woodford in the Solomon Islands, and now in the British
Museum, is so like this species as to be easily taken for it
by a superficial observer. It is, however, somewhat larger,
but possesses the same colouring, except that the dark
cilia of the hind wings extend more towards the base.
The body is rather black than yellow ; the structure of
the legs, even to the conspicuous fringes on the spurs, is
precisely the same as in CEdematopoda princeps; the
hind wings are certainly somewhat wider towards the
apex, but the following characters seem to me to suffice
to remove it, for the present at least, from the neighbour-
hood of all the genera treated of in this paper. Instead
of the long recurved palpi possessed by all of these, it
has extremely short, inconspicuous, drooping labial
palpi of entirely different structure; moreover, the
apical vein of the fore wings is not forked.

[PI. vi., fig. 7.]

clerodendronella, Stn., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n. s.),

V., 125—6 (1859).

" Alis anticis cupreo-rufis ; alis posticis dilutioribus, griseo-
ciliatis. Exp. al. 6 — 6| lin. (= 13 — 14 mm.).

"Head and face purple. Second joint of the palpi reddish

22 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

orange ; terminal joint purple. Antennae purple-black, densely
clothed along one side with long purple-black scales. Anterior
wings brilliant coppery red, with the cilia greyish. Posterior
wings reddish orange, with grey cilia. Thorax coppery red.
Abdomen blue-black, with a slender whitish belt nearly in the
middle, Legs black spotted with white ; the hind legs with the
spines replaced by thick tufts of black scales* ; the tarsi also much
thickened with black scales.

" Larva dirty brown ; head dark reddish brown ; second segment
black. It feeds in the tops of Clerodendron, drawing together the
leaves with a white web.

" The perfect insects made their appearance on the 27th July,
1856 ; the insect, when at rest, erects its beautifully plumed hind
legs above its back, behind the head, and keeps constantly vibrating
its incrassated antenna.

" Collected near Calcutta by Mr. Atkinson."

[PL vi., fig. 8.]
ignipicta, BtL, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 593—4.

[Capite thorace et antennis purpureis. Alis anticis rubidis, sub-
purpurascentibus, basi et margine costali peranguste purpureo,
margine dorsali ante angulam analem latiore purpureo ; ciliis
fuscis. Alis posticis brunneis ; ciliis griseo-fuscis. Abdomine et
tibiis purpureis. — Wlsm.]

" Purplish black; primaries with a very broad carmine subcostal
streak from near the base to the outer margin, where it meets a
narrow stripe of the same colour, which runs round the margin
half-way to the base ; secondaries dark bronzy brown ; head
shining, smooth, plumbageous ; thorax showing fiery cupreous
points in certain lights ; abdomen with extremely narrow orange
posterior margins to the segments ; under surface bronzy brown ;
primaries cupreous towards the base, purplish towards the apex,
and with purple costal margin ; pectus, as seen between the large
coxse, brilliant opaline ; legs slightly opaline along the centre of the
inferior margins; the long setose antennas, and the spines and
bristles upon the legs, black ; expanse of wings, 8 lines (= 17 mm.)

"Tokei (Fenton).

"A very beautiful little species of this singular
genus."

Since this paper was written Mr. H. Druce has kindly

* See ante, p. 5.

connecting Tinagr.ria irith Kretinoccra. 23

given me a specimen of a species of (Edematopoda
almost nndistinguishable from icinipicta. It differs in
the more streaked appearance of the fore wings ; the
dorsal margin is not uniformly black, the base of the
wing being also decidedly red, not black ; two lines of
black scales are visible above the fold, but the specimen
is not in condition to be described as the type of a new
species. It was collected by Mr. W. Doherty at Perak,
thus extending our knowledge of the geographical distri-
bution of this interesting genus.

[PI. vi., fig. 9.]
leechi, n. s.

Capite rufo, fronte violaceo-fusco. Thorace antice rufo, postice
violaceo-fusco. Antennis dense et late pilosis rufis, apice et basi
violaceo-fuscis. Alis anticis rufis, angustissime violaceo-fusco
marginatis ; linea subdorsali ex basi per plicam violaceo-fusca ;
ciliis fuscis. Alis posticis cupreo-brunneis ; ciliis dilute fuscis.
Abdomine fusco-purpureo. Tibiis posticis violaceo-fuscis.

Antennce red along the middle, but with the base and apex
purplish fuscous, with an erect fringe of very long scales, corre-
sponding in colour to the part from which it rises, the extreme
apical joints only naked. Palpi slender, recurved, pale bronzy
fuscous above, greyish fuscous beneath. Haustellum greyish
fuscous. Head red above ; face violaceous-fuscous. Thorax red,
tending to violaceous-fuscous posteriorly. Under side shining
greyish fuscous. Fore wings red, very narrowly margined with
purplish fuscous by a slender line along the extreme costal and
dorsal margins, but not reaching to the apex ; a streak of similar
colour extends from the base across the fold, vanishing above the
anal angle; cilia fuscous. Under side violaceous. Hind wings
brownish cupreous, with fuscous cilia, the extreme base at the
abdominal angle transparent. Under side shining pale fuscous.
Abdomen deep purple, with a narrow paler spot at the base.
Under side purple. Legs tinged with purple, with long spurs, and
also fringed with purplish scales, having tufts of purplish scales
above at the joints, Exp. oil. 15 mm.

Hob. Satsuma, Japan, May, 1886 (Mr. J. H. Leech).

Type, <? , Mus. Wlsm.

This species differs from ignipicta, BtL, to which it is
nearly allied, in the beautiful red-fringed antennae, and
in the red head and thorax, which in that species are

24 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

purplish, and also in the brighter red of the anterior
wings.

ERETMOCERA, Z. = STAINTONIA, Stgr. = EXODOMORPHA,

Wlk. — CASTORURA, Meyr.

Eretmocera (B) Eretmocera, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk.
Ak., 1852, 96.

(epsTftos, remus ; xspag, antenna) .
Type, <y ? . Eretmocera fuscipennis, Z.

" Eretmocera.

li Char, essent. — Caput laeve. Antennae uno latere squamis pili-
formibus alatae, apice nudo. Alee elongatae.

" Char. nat. — Antennae uno latere dense squamato-pilosae, pilis
sensim longitudine acutis, apice nudo. Capilli appressi, fronte
rotundata. Palpi labiales mediocres, recurvi, articulo terminali
longiore, tenui, acuto. Haustellum mediocre spirale. Alae elon-
gatae ciliis longis, posteriorum angulo anali subnullo. Abdomen
breviusculum, crassum, planiusculum. Pedes robusti, tibiarum
spinae longiusculae.

" (B) Eretmocera. — Antennae paulo ultra medium usque pilosae,
pilis brevioribus. Pedes squamis non nodosi. Abdomen utrinque
squamis marginatum.

" Genus hoc Oecophorce eampartem, quae esperellam, seleniellam,
chenopodiellam, etc. continet, cum Elachistis ceratella, modes-
tella, etc. conjungere videtur. Distinguitur ab utrisque antennis
non simplicibus, sed a basi ultra medium in latere exteriore pilosis,
palpis longioribus, abdomine latiore."

= STAINTONIA, Stgr., Stett. Ent. Zeit., XX., 250 (1859).
Type, $ ? . Staintonia medinella, Stgr.

" Caput obtusum, squamis appressis. Ocelli nulli.* Antennae
crassae, in ^ pubescenti-ciliatae. Palpi labiales adscendentes, re-
curvi, acuminati. Haustellum longum, basi squamatum. Alae
anteriores elongatae ; posteriores angustissime lanceolatae, cellula
media aperta, costa media interiore tripartita, costa media exteriore
tripartita. Abdomen depressum, squamis lateralibus erectis.

"Dem genus Butalis am niichsten ; besonders durch den von
oben nach unten sehr stark zusammengedruckten Leib, dessen
Kander durch grosse seitlich abstehende Schuppen gezahnt
erscheinen, verschieden. Die Fiihler sind bedeutend dicker als

* This is an error. I find ocelli present in my specimens
received from Dr. Staudinger.

connecting Tintegeria with Eretmocera. 25

bei alien mir bekannten Butalis-Arten. Der Rippenverlauf ist
gleichfalls verschieden, namentlich auf den Hinterfliigeln, wo die
Mittelzelle ganz ofifen isfc. Die innere Mittelrandsrippe theilt sich
in drei, die iiussere in zwei Aeste. Genaueres werde Ich spater
geben."

$ ? = EXODOMORPHA, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXIX.,
833 (1864).

Type. Exodomorpha divisella, Wlk.

" $ ? . Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi laeves,
arcuati, ascendentes, capitis latitudine longiores. AntennEe sub-
incrassatae, apices versus subfimbriatae. Abdomen ales posticas
longissime superans. Pedes laeves, validi ; tibiae posticae calcari-
bus longis approximatis. Alae anticae perangustae, apice rotundatae ;
posticae longissime fimbriatae.

" Body stout. Proboscis short. Palpi smooth, curved, rising a
little higher than the vertex, longer than the breadth of the head ;
third joint setiform, shorter than the second. Antennae shorter
than the fore wings, slightly incrassated, except towards the tips,
slightly fringed at the end of the incrassated part. Abdomen
extending for three-fourths of its length beyond the hind wings.
Legs stout, smooth ; hind tibiae with four long approximate spurs.
Wings very narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips; costa
straight ; exterior border extremely oblique. Hind wings with a
very long fringe."

= CASTORURA, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2nd ser.),

i., 1047 (1887).

Type, $ . Castorura chrysias. Meyr.

" Head smooth ; ocelli present ; tongue well-developed. Antennae
almost as long as the fore wings, basal half thickened with scales,
becoming long and roughly projecting on back towards middle,
basal joint elongate, rather dilated terminally, without pecten.
Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, slender, loosely rough-
scaled beneath throughout, terminal joint almost as long as
second, acute. Maxillary palpi obsolete.* Abdomen (in $ ) very
broad, flattened ; apical segment with lateral tufts of scales.
Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled, spurs long, tarsi somewhat rough
beneath. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate ; vein 1 simple, 2 from
£ of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 9 from near 7, 11

* The maxillary palpi are so minute as to be easily overlooked,
but they are visible under a microscope.

26 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the ge

from f . Hind wings f, elongate-lanceolate, cilia 2 ; costa towards
base with a fringe of rough scales drawn over wing ; veins 2, 3,
4, 5 equidistant and parallel, 6 and 7 approximated at base."

Tabulation of the species comprised in the genus
Eretmocera : —

A. Fore wings unicolorous.

a. Hind wings yellow = derogatella, Wlk.

b. Hind wings red.

1. Fore wings brown =fnscipennis, Z.

2. Fore wings purple = carteri, Wlsm.

B. Fore wings 3-spotted = latissima, Z.

C. Fore wings with two spots and a streak.

a. Streak straight, medio-basal.

1. Streak clear and distinct, no black spot on anal segment

= basistngata, Wlsm.

2. Streak indistinct, sometimes obsolete, a black band across

anal segment = scatospila, Z.

b. Streak taking the form of a dorsal lunule.

1. Hind wings red — miniata, Wlsm.

2. Hind wings yellowish.

a. With a dark bar across anal segment

— dorsistrigata, Wlsm.

/3. With dark lateral disconnected fascicules on anal seg-
ments = lunifera, Z.

D. Fore wings 4-spotted.

a. Spots distinct.

1. Hind wings brown — impactella, Wlk.

2. Hind wings yellow = chrysias, Meyr.

b. Spots indistinct,' the basal pair blended =medinella, Stgr.

[PL vi., fig. 10.]
fuscipennis, Z.,* Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 97 — 9.

" Alis anterioribus brunneis ; posterioribus supra fuscescentibus,
subtus puniceis, ciliis circa apicem fuscis, ceterispuniceis ; abdomine
coccineo, macula baseos dorsali segmentoque anali fuscis ((??).

" Var. b, ut a, sed colore flavissimo pro puniceo coccineoque ^ .

" Quae hie sub Eretmocera enumero quatuor nomina, utrum ad
species diversas vere pertineant an varietates solum unius specie!
denotent, persuasum mihi non est. Insectis his eadem omnibus
structura, nee differunt fere nisi pictura. Quum vero E. l&tissimce
specimina quatuor inter se simillime maculata, saltern in alis,
comparem, consultius esse opinatus sum, in picturae differentia

* fuscipennis, Z., is now restricted to the red form (var. a] ; the
yellow form (var. b) = derogatella, Wlk.

connecting Tincefjcria with Eretmocera. 27

differentiam specierum agnoscere et tempori future relinquere ut
me aut confutet aut comprobet.

" Differt E. fuscipennis a sequentibus alis anterioribus omnino
immaculatis. Caput et thorax brunnea ; occiput squamis nonnullis
flavis ciliatum est. Palpi recurvi, thoracis longitudine, satis
graciles, ad basim et in dorso late albidi, subtus fuscescentes ;
articulus terminalis precedent! longitudini subsequalis, multo
tenuior, acutissimus. Haustellum in basi crassum ibique ad latera
albo squamatum ceterum brunnescit et ad anum fere extendi
potest. Antennae abdominis longitudine, fuscae, a basi ultra
medium in latere exteriore squamis approximatis incrassatum,
quse apicem versus longiores fiunt ac violaceo colore nitent ; nuda
pars apicalis filiformis, pube tenera ciliata. Feminae antennae
magis luteo-brunneae squamisque rarioribus tenuiores ; sed eas ut
totum animal nonnihil detritas esse adspectus docet; ceterum
earum structura eadem quam in mare. Pectus pallide flavum.
Pedes brunnei, femora subtus exalbida, tibiae violaceo-nitidae ; pos-
ticae in dorso ante medium fasciculum pilosum modicum gerunt.
Abdomen planum, utrimque squamarum elongatarum ac piliformium
fasciculis marginatum, coccineum (in varietate 6 flavissimum) una
cum squamis ; ad basim macula transversa fusca ; segmentum
anale nigrum, squamis nonnullis ex ano eminentibus puniceis ;
valvularum analium margo ocliraceus; venter pallide flavus,
squamulis fuscescentibus adspersus, macula utrimque ad lateris
medium fuscescens irregularis.

"Alae anteriores $ 3'", $ 2-§'" longae, brunneae, subnitidulae,
cilia fusca. Subtus violaceo nitent ; sub costa reflexa linea ex basi
attenuata flava ad rnediam alae longitudinem procurrit, lineaque in
disco obsoleta supra angulum dorsalein in varietate a conspicitur,
qu8e varietas b caret.

" Alae posteriores anguste lanceolatae, valde acutae, dilute brunneae,
basim versus dilutiores ibique squamis pallide puniceis (in var.
b flavidis) immixtis. Subtus puniciae (var. b flavae), apice ipso
fusco. Cilia utriusque paginae in var. a punicea, in var. b flava, in
utraque varietate circa apicem latius fusca.

" Habitat in tractibus fluviorum Limpoponis et Gariepis." (Exp.
al. 16 mm.).

— $ $ , Exodomorpha inclusella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins.
B. M., XXIX., 834 (1864).

" c? ? . Purpureo-cuprea; caput subtus pectorisque latera aurato-
flava; abdomen aurato-rufum, basi apice ventreque auratis, macula
basali fasciaque subapicali purpureo-cupreis ; alae posticae auratas,
costa fimbriaque rufis.

28 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

"Dark purplish cupreous. Head beneath and sides of the
thorax pale gilded yellow. Abdomen gilded red, with a purplish
cupreous spot near the base, which is gilded ; a purplish cupreous
subapical band ; tip and under side gilded. Hind wings gilded ;
costa and fringe red, the latter blackish cupreous towards the tip.
Length of the body, 2f lines ; of the wings, 5£ lines (= 12 mm.).

" E. divisella, var. ?

" a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection,
b. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection."

Type, <? 2 , B. M.

[PL vi., fig. 11.]
carteri, n. s.

Alae anticse unicolores, subnitidae, viride-purpuriae, ciliis fuscis.
Alae posticae cupreae, ciliis ante medium coccineis, post medium
fuscis. Abdomine coccineo, macula basali purpureo, apicali nigro.
Capite, antennis, thorace, et tibiis purpureo-fuscis.

Antenna purplish fuscous. Palpi purplish fuscous, yellowish
at the base externally. Head purplish fuscous. Thorax greenish,
or purplish fuscous above, bright ochreous beneath. Fore wings
glossy green, or purplish; cilia fuscous. Under side brownish
fuscous, tinged with purplish, a slight ochreous streak from the
base reaching nearly half-way along the costal margin. Hind
wings coppery brown ; cilia before the middle carmine, beyond it
dark fuscous. Under side carmine ; cilia fuscous, except at the
base of the abdominal margin. Abdomen brilliant carmine, tinged
with ochreous about the basal portion, a patch at the base rich
purple, and the anal segments black fringed with carmine. Under
side ochreous. Legs dark purplish fuscous. Exp. al. 12 mm.

Hob. Bathurst (Mr. G. T. Carter).

Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

One of my three specimens from Bathurst, collected
by Mr. G. T. Carter, has the anal segments entirely
carmine, without any black whatever.

[PL vi., fig. 12.]

derogatella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXIX., 834

(1864).*

"<^. Cuprea ; caput subtus pectorisque latera aurato-flava ;
abdomen aurato-flavum, apice nigrum ; alae posticae auratae.

* =fuscipennis, Z., var. 6. (ante, pp. 26 — 7).

connecting Tincegeria ivith Eretmocera. 29

" Cupreous. Head beneath and sides of the pectus gilded yellow.
Abdomen gilded yellow; tip partly black. Hind wings gilded
tip and exterior part of the fringe gilded. Length of the body,
2f lines ; of the wings, 5^ lines (= 12 mm.).

" a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection."

Type, $ , B. M.

[PL vi., fig. 13.]

dorsistrigata, n. s.

Capite brunneo. Palpis subflavidis. Antennis violaceo-fuscis.
Thorace brunneo. Alis anticis brunueis, subaenescentibus, lunula
dorsali ante medium, rnaculisque duabus post medium oppositis,
flavidis ; ciliis fuscis. Alis posticis dilute brunneis, senescentibus,
in basi subflavidis ; ciliis aurantiacis apud apicem fuscis. Abdo-
mine aurantiaco, in basi flavo, macula prope basim purpureo,
vittaque anali purpureo apicem non attingente. Tibiis purpureo
fuscis.

Antenna purplish fuscous. Palpi pale yellowish above, brownish
fuscous beneath, except on the basal one-third. Head bronzy
brown, a few pale yellow scales separating it from the thorax at
the sides. Thorax bronzy brown. Fore wings bronzy brown,
with a pale, oblique, dorsal patch at the basal third, reaching
nearly to the middle of the wing, and two opposite on the outer
third about equal in size, the first on the costa, the second at
the anal angle, all pale lemon-yellow ; cilia fuscous. Under side
bronzy brown, the extreme costal margin very pale ochreous, a
line of orange scales extending from the middle of the base to the
anal angle. Hind wings golden brown, tending to pale yellowish
on the upper part of the costal half, costal cilia pale yellow to
beyond the middle; orange-yellow on the dorsal margin for the
same distance, thence fuscous around the apex. Under side
orange -yellow, thickly sprinkled with vermilion scales; cilia
orange-yellow to beyond the base, thence fuscous. Abdomen
bright yellow at the base, near which is a deep purple bar, not
reaching to the sides ; below this bar the abdomen is orange, with
a wide purplish fuscous band crossing the anal segment, which
leaves the anal tuft pale ochreous. Under side whitish. Legs
purplish fuscous, femora whitish, some wide pale ochreous bands
across the tibiae and tarsi beneath. Exp. al. 15 mm.
Hob. Zanzibar (Mr. F. J. Jackson).
Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm.

This species is apparently allied to lunifera, Z., figured
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, PL XIIL, 41. It differs

30 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the r/encra

in the bronzy-brown colour of the anterior wings, in the
larger oblique yellowish patch on the dorsal margin,
further removed from the base, in the yellow base of
the abdomen, followed by a dark band, and in the com-
plete dark bar crossing the anal segments ; whereas in
lunifera the lateral fascicules of scales only are dark.

[PL vi., fig. 14.]
lunifera, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 100.

" Alls anterioribus fuscis, lunula dorsali ante medium punctisque
duobus posticis oppositis flavis ; posterioribus subtus cum ciliis
interioribus flavis ; abdomine flavo, ani subtus macula fusca ( $ ?).

" Speciminis tantum alas anteriores probe conservatae sunt. Has
lunulam dorsalem punctaque duo opposita habent, quibus et a
scatospila et a Icetissima distinguuntur.

" Caput et thorax fusca, occipitis, margo flavo-squamatus. An-
tennae fuscse (fractae), eadem ut in scatospila structura esse videntur.
Palpi in basi et in dorso flavidi, subtus fuscescentes. Pectus
ochraceum. Pedes fusci, femoribus subtus flavidis, tibiis posticis
violaceo-nitidis, fusco-spinosis. Abdomen flavum in basi fuscum ;
fasciculi laterales (plerique desunt) segmentorum postremorum
flavi, fasciculus segmenti analis niger apicem ani non attingit ;
venter pallidior quam dorsum dimidio basali segmentoque anali,
exceptis fasciculis lateralibus, nigris.

"Alae anteriores 2f" longae, fuscae, signis subcitrinis. Lunula
tenuis dorsalis longe ante alas medium, valde inclinata, dimidiam
alee latitudinem superat. Postice puncta duo perpendiculariter
opposita, inajus angulo dorsali insidens, minus margin! costali.

" Ala3 posteriores brunneae, basim versus dilutiores flavoque
mixtaa ; cilia flava, circa apicern late fusca.

" Subtus alae ant. fuscae, linea flava sub costa replicata brevi.
Lunulae flavse apex in lineam plicaa transit, quae supra anguluiii
dorsalem marginem posticum tangit ibique incrassata est. Pos-
teriores flavae apice breviter fuso ; cilia ut supra.

" Habitat ubi prascedens " (in tractibus fluvioruin Limpoponis et
Gariepis). (Exp. al. 12 mm.) .

[PL vi., fig. 15.]

miniata, n. s.

Capite violaceo-fusco. Thorace violaceo-fusco, postice flavide
bimaculata. Alis anticis purpureo-fuscis, lunula dorsali ante
medium, maculisque duabus post medium oppositis flavidis ; ciliis
fuscis. Alis posticis aeneo-purpureis ; ciliis miniatis, circa apicem

connecting Tinageria with Erctmoccra. 31

fuscis. Abdomine miniato, in basi flavo, macula lunulari prope
basim purpurea, fasciculis duobus lateralibus segment! analis
nigris. Tibiis violaceo-fuscis.

Antenna bronzy brown, fringed with purplish scales to beyond
the middle. Palpi fuscous, whitish at the base. Haustellum
whitish at the base. Head bronzy fuscous, a few yellow scales at
the back. Thorax bronzy fuscous, with two pale yellow spots at
its posterior margin. Fore wings purplish fuscous, with three
pale yellow spots, the first obliquely curved, extending across the
fold from near the base of the dorsal margin to the upper half of
the wing; the second and third about the commencement of
the apical third of the wing, one costal, the other dorsal and
slightly neaier the base, both of equal size ; cilia dark fuscous.
Under side tinged with golden yellow at the base, bronzy fuscous
beyond, with a vermilion streak running along the middle from
the base to the anal angle. Hind wings bronzy, tinged with
golden red at the base ; cilia at the basal two-thirds of the costal
and dorsal margins carmine, beyond dark fuscous. Under side
vermilion ; cilia carmine, dark fuscous around the apex. Abdomen
vermilion, with a yellow band at the base, wider in the middle
than at the sides, followed by a dark purple crescent-shaped spot,
the anal segments with a tuft of black scales on each side. Under
side pale ochreous, with two square-edged lateral patches near the
base and a wide bar across the anal segments, purplish fuscous.
Legs bronzy fuscous above, spurs and under sides pale ochreous.
Exp. al. 14 mrn.

Hal). Zanzibar (Mr. F. J. Jackson) ; Port Natal
(Gueinzius, B. M.).*

Type, <? ? , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 16.]

Erctmoccra scatospila, Z., Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak.,
1852, 99-100.

"Alis anterioribus brunneis, linea ex basi, maculis duabus
posticis oblique suboppositis lituraque apicis obsoletis lutescenti-
griseis ; posterioribus subtus cum ciliis interioribus coccineis ;
abdomine coccineo, macula baseos dorsali segrnentoque anali
nigris ($?).

" Minor quam $ praecedentis (fuscipennis) . Differt ab ea specie
alis anterioribus maculatis, a sequentibus (lunifera and Icetissimd)
maculis obsoletis segmentique analis apice coccineo.

:|: This species was confused with divisella by Walker (see p. 33).

32 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

" Caput et thorax brunnea, occipitis squamae marginales non-
nullae flavidae. Antennas ut in E. fuscipenni, sed squamis longi-
oribus incrassatae, fusco-nigr83. Palporum basis et dimidium
basale articuli secundi sordide exalbida, reliqua pars in dorso
albida, subtus fuscescens. Pectus flavescit. Pedes luteo-brunnei ;
spinae anteriorum pars a luce aversa et tarsorum posticorum articuli
subtus colore sunt exalbido ; tibiarum posticarum dorsum ex basi
ad medium usque flavidum. Abdomen in dorso coccineum ; in
basi macula nigra, coeruleo-nitida, posterius coarctata segmenta
duo occupat. Segmentum anale nigrum, macula apicali vitellina ;
venter pallide ochraceus, vitta utrimque postice acuminata nigri-
canti ; segmentum anale vitellinum, utrimque late nigrum.

" Alse anteriores 2f '" longse, luteo-brunneae, opacas, maculas
lutescenti-griseas squamis elongatis compositas gerunt. Linea
indeterminata hujus coloris e media basi procedens ante mediam
alam evanescit. Maculae duae posticae ita oppositae sunt, ut altera
angulum dorsalem impleat, altera costalis apici alae propior sit.
Apex ipse maculam parvam, parum distinctum habet. Praeterea
squamae griseae nonnullae hie illic sparsae.

" Alae posteriores brunnescentes, apice fusco. Cilia ex basi ad
medium usque coccinea, deinde fusca.

" Subtus alae ant. fuscae. Linea flava sub costa reflexa ex basi
ad apicem alae fere excurrit. Linea altera aurantiaca plicam
sequens pone mediam alam incrassata cum dorsi colore flavido
cohaeret. Posteriores puniceae, apice solo cum ciliis circuindantibus
nigrae.

" Habitat in tractibus fluviorum Limpoponis et Gariepis." (Exp.
al. 14 mm.).

[PI. V.]

Eretmocera basistrigata, n. s.

Alae anticae purpureo-fuscae, striga basali et maculis rluabus mar-
ginalibus oblique oppositis ochreo-flavis ; ciliis fuscis. Alae posticae
puniciae, apice et ciliis apicalibus fuscis. Abdomine puniceo.
Antennis et tibiis purpureo-fuscis. Palpis ochraceis. Thorace
ochreo bistrigato.

Antenna purple. Palpi ochreous, with a fuscous line along the
under side of the apical joint, and at the apex of the 2nd joint.
Head shining bronzy fuscous. Thorax shining bronzy fuscous,
marked with two lateral bright ochreous streaks, and fringed pos-
teriorly with the same colour, blending with the crimson of the
abdomen. Under side shining yellow ochre. Fore ivings purplish
fuscous, with a conspicuous basal streak extending nearly half-way
along the middle of the wing, followed by two spots, the larger of

connecting Tincecjeria with Eretmocera. 33

which at the anal angle precedes the smaller on the costal margin ;
these markings are bright yellow ochre ; cilia smoky fuscous.
Under side crimson, tinged with fuscous. Hind wings crimson,
tipped with fuscous ; cilia smoky fuscous around the apex, bright
carmine along the basal two-thirds of the abdominal margin.
Under side similar to the upper. Abdomen crimson, the centre of
the anal segment sometimes tinged with fuscous, its lateral fringes
ochreous. Under side shining yellow ochre, tinged with purple at
the base. Legs purplish fuscous. Exp. al. 13 mm.

Hob. Bathurst, West Africa (Mr. G. T. Carter).
Type. $ , Mus. Wlsm.

[PL vi., fig. 17.]
latissima, Z., HandL, Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 100 — 1.

" Alis anterioribus brunneis, macula subdorsali ante medium
majore duabusque posticis oblique oppositis flaVissimis; posteri-
oribus puniceis apice fusco (£).

"Maculae alarum anterioruin flavissimae et majores hanc a
praecedentibus distinguunt. Caput et thorax brunnea. Margo
occipitis posticus, patagioruni margo interior et apex, maculaque
eorum apici contigua flava. Antennae ut in scatospila, squamis
violaceo-nitidis. Palpi ut in prioribus. Pectus laete flavo-macu-
laturn. Pedes fusci, ad femorum basim pallide flavi ; posticorum
femora in uno latere, tibiae in basi et sub primo spinarum pari
pallide flavae ; spinae earuin albidae. Abdomen supra puniceum,
ad basim macula indistincta fusca. Venter flavus. Segmenti
analis fasciculis superne puniceus, subtus flavus, interne ater, quo
colore pili laterales in uno specirnini late tincti sunt.

" Alas anteriores 2^ — 2f" longae, obscure brunneae, sub apicem
violaceo-nitidulae, maculis flavissimis ornatae. Macula prima
oblonge ovata non longe a basi plicam ita occupat, ut major ejus
pars dorso alae quarn costae adjaceat. Maculae duae reliquse minores
oblique oppositae, altera in angulo dorsali, altera in costa apici
vicinior.

"Alae posteriores puniciae, apice fusco. Cilia punicea, circa
apicem late fusca.

" Subtus alae puniciae ; anterioruin costa cum apice ciliisque
omnibus nigra, linea sub costa replicata brevis flava ;' posteriorum
color ut supra.

" Habitat in tractibus fluviorurn Limpoponis et Gariepis." (Exp.
al. 14 mm.).

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1889. — PART I. (MARCH.) D

34 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

= $ ? , Exodomorpha divisella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins.
B. M., XXIX., 833—4 (1864).

"df ?. Obscure purpureo-cuprea ; caput subtus pectorisque
latera aurato-flava ; abdomen coccineum, basi ventreque aurato-
flavis, maculis tribus purpureo-cupreis, fasciis duabus ventralibus
purpureis ; alae anticae guttis tribus flavis ; posticae auratae, costa
fimbriaque rufis.

" Dark purplish cupreous. Head beneath and pectus on each
side pale gilded yellow. Abdomen scarlet, with a purplish cupreous
spot near the base, which is gilded yellow ; a purplish cupreous spot
on each side at the tip ; under side gilded yellow, with two purplish
bands ; first band near the base widely interrupted ; second subapical
entire. Fore wings with three pale yellow dots ; first dot discal,
near the base ; second costal, opposite the third, which is near the
end of the interior border. Hind wings gilded ; costa and fringe
red, the latter blackish cupreous towards the tip of the wing.
Length of the body, 2f lines ; of the wings, 5^ lines (= 12 mm.).

*" a, b. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection,
c — e. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection."
Type, $ ? , B. M.

[PL vi., fig. 18.]

impactella, Wlk., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., XXIX., 637—8
(1864). (Gelechia, Wlk.).

" Obscure cuprea, subtus albida ; abdomen luteum, basi apiceque
cupreum ; alas anticae angustae, acutae, lituris duabus posticis, una
discali unaque exteriore albidis.

" Dark cupreous, slender, whitish beneath. Palpi slender, much
longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint setiform, a little
shorter than the second. Antennae smooth, rather stout. Abdomen
luteous, dark cupreous towards the base and towards the tip.
Wings narrow, acute ; fringe long. Fore wings with a whitish
streak along the base of the interior border, and with three whitish
elongated spots ; first spot in the disk before the middle ; second
on the interior border beyond the middle ; third costal nearer the
tip ; exterior border very oblique. Length of the body, 3£ lines ;
of the wings, 9f lines (15 mm.).

"a. b. North Hindostan. From Mr. James' collection.

* These two specimens are miniata, Wlsm., the description of
divisella being evidently taken from the Sierra Leone specimens,
f This is apparently an error for 7'".

connecting Thuefieria with Eretmocera. 35

" This species appears to have some affinity to the
JSgenida."

Type, $ , B. M.

A single specimen in the British Museum from North
India, not in sufficiently good condition for description,
is closely allied to impactella. It has a very faint
indication of two dorsal yellowish spots on its uni-
colorous brownish fore wings. The purple band on the
yellow abdomen is wider than in impactella, and stretches
farther downwards.

[PL vi., fig. 19.]

chrysias, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. (2nd ser.), I.,
1047—8 (1887).

[Capite et thorace aenescenti-fuscis. Antennis purpureo-fuscis.
Alls anticis purpureis, maculis quatuor flavis, duabus dorsalibus,
tertiae subcostali, quarta costali ante apicem ; ciliis fuscis. Alls
posticis aenescenti-flavidis ; ciliis flavidis, partein griseo -fuscis.
Abdomine aurantiaco, fascia prope basirn purpurea, segmento anali
purpureo-fusco. — Wlsm.]

" $ , 15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs dark
purplish fuscous ; palpi yellow-whitish towards base ; thorax with
posterior extremity orange. Abdomen orange-yellow, anal seg-
ment purple-blackish, except apex. Fore wings purple-black, with
four roundisli yellow spots ; first on inner margin towards base ;
second largest, in disc before middle ; third on inner margin before
anal angle ; fourth on costa beyond third ; cilia purple-black.
Hind wings yellow, apical fourth dark purple -fuscous ; cilia dark
grey, towards anal angle yellowish.

"Maryborough, Queensland; one specimen (coll.
Macleay)."

[PL vi., fig. 20.]

medinetta, Stgr., Stett. Ent. Zeit., XX., 250—1 (1859).
" Alis anterioribus aeneo-fuscis, fasciis duabus albidis ; alis pos-
terioribus fuscis ; abdoinine plus minusve lateritio, ano caeruleo-
nigro, cf ? , 10—12 mm.

" Vorderfliigel erzschillernd braun mit weisslichen Schuppen
mehr oder weniger gemischt, und mit zwei weisslichen, nicht
scharf begrenzten Querbinden, die eine bei ^, die andere vor dem
Aussenrande. Letztere rnacht in der Mitte eine bedeutende
Bieguug. Hiuterflugel dunkel. Der Leib roth, namentlicli bei

D2

36 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

den Weibchen. Der After bleibt stets und die ersten Segmente
ineistens nach oben blauschwarz.

" Kalisch entdeckte diese Art in Juni bei Chiclana aufden Bliiten
von Umbelliferen sitzend."

INDEX.

TIN^GEKIA, Wlk.
Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. VIII. 260 (1856) ; Wlsm. ante 10—11 (1889).

Type Tincegeria ochracea Wlk.

[= AKAUZONA Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXXI. 25—6 (1864) ; Wlsm.
ante 8—9, 11 (1889). Type Arauzona basalts Wlk.]

$ $ ochracea Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. VIII. 260 (1856) ; Wlsm. ante
11—13, PI. i. (1889).
— Eretmocera ? ceneiceps F. & E. Eeise Novara, pi. cxxxviii. 62

(1875) ; Wlsm. ante 9, 12 (1889).

(Type $ ? Vienna).
Imago, October.

Hab. S. AMEBICA — Para, Bogota, Santarem.
(Type $ S B. M.}

$ fasciata Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. VIII. 261 (1856) ; Wlsm. ante 13,
PI. vi. 1 (1889).
Hab. S. AMERICA — Para.
(Type #B.M.)

? basalis Wlk.

Arauzona basalis, Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXXI. 26 (1864^ ;

Wlsm. ante 8— 9 (1889).

Tincegeria basalis, Wlsm. ante 13, PI. vi. 2 (1889).
Hab. S. AMERICA — Ega.
(Type ? B. M.)

SNELLENIA, Wlsm., g. n.
ante 13—15 (1889). Type Snellenia coccinea, Wlsm.

coccinea Wlsm sp. n. ante 15, PI. ii. (1889).
Imago, July.
Hab. INDIA — Sikkim.
(Type $ Mm. Wlsm.)

tarsella Wlsm. sp. n. ante 15—16, PI. vi. 3 (1889).
Hab. INDIA — Darjeeling.
(Type $ B.M.)

connecting Tincegeriu with Eretmocera. 37

<? ? lineata Wlk.

Tinageria lineata Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. VIII. 261 (1856) ;

Wlsm. ante 8, 9—10 (1889).
Snellenia lineata Wlsm. ante 16, PL vi. 4 (1889).
= Eretmocera ? sedoides F. & R. Keise Novara, pi. cxl. 22 (1875) ;

Wlsm. ante 9—10 (1889).

(Type $ ? Vienna).
Imago, February.
Hob. AUSTKALIA — Sydney.*
(Type $ J B. M.)

$ flavipennis.

Eretmocera ? flavipennis F. & R. Reise Novara, pi. cxxxviii. 59

(1875); Wlsm. ante 9— 10 (1889).
Snellenia flavipennis Wlsm. ante 16 (1889).
Hab. (S. AMERICA ?).
(Type # ? Vienna).

$ 2 latipes Wlk.

Tinageria latipes Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXXI. 25 (1864) ;

Wlsm. ante 8 (1889).

Snellenia latipes, Wlsm. ante 16—17, PI. vi. 5 (1889).
Hab. S. AMERICA — Para, Maranon.
(Type $ B. M.)

2 bimaculata Wlsm. sp. n. ante 17, PI. vi. 6 (1889).
Hab. BORNEO— Sandakan.
(Type £ Mus. Wlsm.)

PSEUDvEGERIA Wlsm. g. n.
ante 17 — 18 (1889). Type, Ochsenheimeria ? squamicornis F. & R.

$> squamicornis F. & R.

Ochsenheimeria ? squamicornis F. & R. Reise Novara, pi. cxxxix.

6 (1875) ; Wlsm. ante 18 (1889).

Pseudcsgeria squamicornis, Wlsm. ante 18 — 19, PL iii. (1889).
Hab. FIJI, AUSTRALIA.
(Type $ ? Vienna).

(EDEMATOPODA Z.
Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1852, 96 ; Wlsm, ante 19—20 (1889).

Type (Edematopoda princeps Z.

[= ATKINSONIA Stn. Trans. Ent. Soc. (n. s.) V. 125 (1859) ; Wlsm. ante
9, 20 (1889). Type Atkinsonia clerodendronella Stn.]

$ ? princeps Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak. 1852, 96—7 ; Wlk. Cat. Lp.
Ins. B. M. xxix. 707 (1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 271 :
ante 20—1, PL iv. (1889).
Hab. AFRICA — Natal.
(Type $ Stockholm Mus.)

* Walker's locality "Para" is an error; the types are from Sydney,
purchased from Argent.

38 Lord Walsingham's monograph of the genera

£ clerodendronella Stn.

Atkinsonia clerodendronella Stn. Trans. Ent. Soc. (n. s.) V.

125—6 (1859) ; Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXX. 900 (1864) ;

Moore P. Z. S. 1867, 672 ; Wlsm. ante 9 (1889).
(Edematopoda clerodendronella Wlsm. ante 21 — 2, PI. vi. 7

(1889).
Larva. On tops of Clerodendron, drawing together the leaves

with a web.
Imago, July.
Ha b. INDIA — Calcutta.
(Type, Mus. Stn.)

$ $ ignipicta Btl.

Eretmocera ignipicta Btl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 593 — 4 ; Wlsm-

ante 9 (1889).

(Edematopoda ignipicta Wlsm. ante 22, PI. vi. 8 (1889).
Hab. JAPAN — Tokei, Yesso.
(Type, B. M.)

$ leechi Wlsm., sp. n., ante 23—4, PI. vi. 9 (1889).
Imago, May,
Hab. JAPAN — Satsuma.
(Type $ Mus. Wlsm.)

ERETMOCERA Z.
Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak. 1852, 96 ; Wlsm. ante 24, 26 (1889).

Type Eretmocera fuscipennis, Z.
[^STAINTONIA Stgr. Stett. Ent. Zeit. XX. 250 (1859); Wlsm. Trans.

Ent. Soc. 1881, 271 : ante 9, 24—5 (1889). Type, Staintonia medinella

Stgr.]
OEXODOMORPHA Wlk. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 833 (1864) ; Wlsm.

Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 271 : ante 9, 25 (1889). Type, Exodomorpha

divisella Wlk.J
[= CASTOBUKA Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2nd s.) i. 1047 (1887 ) ;

Wlsm. ante 9, 25—6 (1889). Type, Castorura chrysias Meyr.]

$ 2 fuscipennis Z.

Eretmocera fuscipennis (var. a) Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak.
1852, 97—8 ; Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 707 (1864) ;
Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 271—2 ; ante 26—7, PI. vi.
10 (1889).

— Eretmocera inclusella, Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX.
833—4 (1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 271—2 ;
ante 27—28 (1889).
(Type $ 2 B. M.)
Hab. AFRICA — Limpopo-Gariep District, Port Natal, Bathurst

(Gambia).
(Type £ $ Stockholm Mus.)

$ carteri Wlsm. sp. n. ante 28, PI. vi. 11 (1889).
Hab. AFRICA — Bathurst (Gambia).
(Type $ Mus. Wlsm.)

connecting Tincegeria ivith Eretmocera. 39

? 2 derogatella Wlk.

Exodomorpha derogatella Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 834
(1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 271—2 : ante 28—
29, PI. vi. 12 (1889).

— Eretmocera fuse ipennis (var. b.) Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk.
Ak. 1852, 97—8; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881,
271—2: ante 26—7 (1889).
(Type $ 2 Stockholm Mw.)

Hob. AFRICA — Limpopo -Gariep District, Port Natal, Zanzibar.
(Type $ B.M.)

$ dorsistrigata Wlsm. sp. n. ante 29—30, PI. vi. 13 (1889).
Hob. AFRICA — Zanzibar.
(Type $ Mus. Wlsm.)

9 ?) lunifera Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak. 1852, 100—1 ; Wlk. Cat.
Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 708 (1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881,
272, PL xiii. 41 : ante 30, PL vi. 14 (1889).
Hal. AFRICA — Limpopo- Gariep District, Natal?.
(Type ( 2 ?), Stockholm Mus.)

2 miniata Wlsm. sp. n. ante 30—1, PL vi. 15 (1889).
Hab. AFRICA — Zanzibar, Port Natal.
(Type $ 2 Mus. Wlsm.)

2 scatospila Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak. 1852, 99—100 ; Wlk. Cat.
Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 708 (1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc.
1881, 272 : ante 31—2, PL vi. 16 (1889).
Hab. AFRICA — Limpopo-Gariep District, Bathurst and Accra

(Gambia).
(Type ( 2 ?), Stockholm Mus.)

$ basistrigata Wlsm. sp. n. ante 32—33, PL v. (1889).
Hab. AFRICA — Bathurst (Gambia).
(Type $ Mus. Wlsm.)

2 laetissima Z. Handl. Kong. Svensk. Ak. 1852, 100—1 ; Wlk. Cat.
Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 708 (1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc.
1881, 272 : ante 33, PL vi. 17 (1889).

— Exodomorpha divitella, Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 833—4
(1864) ; Wlsm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 272 : ante 34 (1889).
(Type $ 2 B. M.)
Hab. AFRICA — Limpopo-Gariep District, Caffraria, Sierra

Leone, Bathurst and Accra (Gambia).
(Type $ Stockholm Mus.)

2 impactella Wlk.

Gelechia impactella Wlk. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 637 (1864) ;

Moore, Lp. Ceyl. III. 514 (1887) ; Wlsm. ante 34 (1889).
Eretmocera impactella Moore Lp. Ceyl. III. 514, PL ccix., 10

(1887) ; Wlsm. ante 34—5, PL vi. 18 (1889).
Imago, April.
Hab. ASIA — India, Dharmsala (Punjab), Barrackpore. Ceylon

Singapore.
(Type $ B. M.)

40 Genera connecting Tincegeria with Erctmocem.

$ $ chrysias Meyr.

Castorura chrysias Meyr. Proc. Lin. Soc. N. S. W (2s) I

1047—8 (1887) ; Wlsm. ante 9 (1889).
Eretmocera chrysias Wlsm. ante 35, PI. vi. 19 (1889).
Hab. AUSTRALIA— Maryborough (Qd.), Sydney (N. S. W.)
(Type J Hus. Macleay).

$ ? medinella Stgr.

Staintonia medinella Stgr., Stett. Ent. Zeit. XX. 250 1 (1859) •

Stgr. & Wlk. Cat. (II.) No. 2704, p. 324 (1871) ; Wlk.'
Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. XXIX. 701 (1864) ; Stn. Tin. S Eur
142, 157, 340 (1869) ; Ersch. Fedtsch. Reis. in Turkst.'
II. 106 (1874) ; Chr. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. XII. 230 (1876; •
Wlsm. ante 9 (1889).

Eretmocera medinella Wlsm. ante 35 — 36, PL vi. 20 (1889).

Imago. June, on flowers of Umbellifera and Senecio.

Hab. EUBOPE — Chiclana (Andalus).

ASIA— Krasnowodsk (Persia), Samarcand (Turkestan)

(Type $ $ Mus. Stgr.)

EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.

? Tincegeria ochracea, Wlk.

1, natural size.

2, enlarged.

3, side view.

4, neuration.

5, head, front view.

6, head, side view.

7, antenna of $.

7>rm.v .A/,/ . Soc. L>u<l . MM. PL I

.Pro hawk dd.ellith

Tinaeoeria

MirvLern. Bros . Chromo .

EXPLANATION OF PLATE II.

$ Snellenia coccinea, Wlsm.

1, natural size.

2, enlarged.

3, side view.

4, neuration.

5, head, front view.

6, head, side view.

7, apical joints of antenna.

iwklah.

Snelienia,

Mmterrv Bros . Chromo.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE III.

$ Pseudcegeria squamicornis, F. & K.

1, natural size.

2, enlarged.

3, side view.

4, neuration.

5, head, front view.

6, head, side view.

la] et iitk.

PseudaBgeria

Mi'ntern. Broi; . Chn

EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV.

? (Edematopoda princeps, Z.

1, natural size.

2, enlarged.

3, side view.

4, neuration.

5, head, front view.

6, head, side view.

CEdernatopoda

Mintern Bros . Chrome.

x

EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.

Eretmocera basistrigata, Wlsm,

1, natural size.

2, enlarged.
8, side view.

4, neu ration.

5, head, front view.

6, head, side view.

Eretmocera.

Mmtern. Bros . Chromo.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI.

1. Tincegeria fasciata, Wlk.

2. „ basalis, Wlk.

3. Snellenia tarsella, Wlsm.

4. ,, lineata, Wlk.

5. „ latipes, Wlk.

6. ,, bimaculata, Wlsm.

7. (Edematopoda clerodendronella, Stn.

8. ,, ignipicta, Btl.
9- M leechi, Wlsin.

10. Eretmocera fuscipennis, Z.

11- ,, carteri, Wlsm.

12. „ derogatella, Wlk.

13. ,, dorsistrigata, Wlsm.

14. ,, lunifera, Z.

15. ,, miniata, Wlsm.

16. ,, scatospila, Z.

17. ,, Icetissima, Z.

18. „ impactella, Wlk.

19. ,, ckrysias, Meyr.

20. ,. medinella, Stgr.

Trang.Ent.Soc.Lond.m9.fl. IV.

I V &oha.wk del. et lath.

Bros Chrome .

Species of Tinaegeria,Eretraocera

495

XXI. New Species of North American Tortricidse. By
The Right HonbLe. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A.,
LL.D., F.R.S., etc.

[Read Oct. 2nd, 1895.]
PLATE XII.

THE following species are for the most part described
from collections made by the late H. K. Morrison in
Arizona and N. Carolina, and Mr. W. G. Smith at
Loveland in Colorado; 18 out of 26 are figured.
I am by no means convinced that these few descriptions
exhaust the number of the undescribed species received
from them, but especially in the genus Psedisca the local
varieties have so strong a tendency to overlap according
to the latitude in which they are taken that we meet in
an accentuated form the ever-recurring difficulty of
deciding what is a distinct species and what may be
regarded a: a mere variation from some already described
northern or southern type.

I have for this reason selected those only which are
obviously distinct in their characters, and which at least
in the absence of any long series of connecting links
cannot possibly be confounded with their Californian or
other allies.

Had I been less strictly bound by this rule I could
certainly have made known several additional variations
in colour and markings which might well have claimed
specific distinction, but which for the moment I have
preferred to regard as strongly marked varieties of
species already known to science. I am indebted to my
friend, Dr. Fernald, for his advice and assistance in more
than one instance, but even his high authority and
sanction have not given me the courage to include in
the present list all those species which he regarded as
undescribed.

The paper has been somewhat expanded since the
plate was put in hand, a further collection made by

TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1895. — PART IV. (DEC.)

496 Lord Walsingham on

Mr. Smith in the same locality having been received
through the kindness of the Honble. Walter Rothschild.
I regret that it is impossible to add illustrations to the
plate, which leaves several types to be figured at some
future time. A few corrections have been made in the
nomenclature of the genera, as in the case of Hysterosia
for Idiogr aphis, Zeiraphera for Steganoptycha, and Encelis
for Grapholitha, the reasons for which will be found fully
set forth where these names occur. I am painfully aware
that these few corrections touch the fringe only of a
subject uncongenial to my taste, but if any coDsistent
method is to be introduced into the system of nomen-
clature finally adopted for general use by students of
this and allied groups of Lepidoptera, it is a subject that
must be boldly faced and placed once for all upon a
sound basis. I have here endeavoured merely to indicate
the lines upon which such an attempt can safely be
made.

TORTRICID^E.

TORTRICINJE.

PLATYNOTA, Clem.

Platynota nigrocervina, sp. n.

Antenna, $ , cinereous. Palpi cinereous, speckled with fuscous.
Head and Thorax cinereous, with some fuscous shading. Fore-
ivings, $ , f awn-ochreous, with a broad broken band of blue-black
scales (some in raised tufts) extending from before the middle of
the costal to beyond the middle of the dorsal margin ; a similar
band, but somewhat more mixed with the fawn ground-colour,
begins beyond the costal margin and joins the first band about the
lower angle of the cell ; one or two transverse fawn-coloured
streaks cross the apical portion of the wing to the anal angle, and
above it and between these, as well as among the broken spaces in
the dark bands, some lines of shining steel scales illuminate the
paler ground-colour ; cilia pale fawn, a slender reduplicated darker
line along their base. Exp. al., $ 20 mm. Nindwings reddish
fawn ; cilia grey, with a darker dividing shade near their base.
Abdomen fawn ochreons. Legs fawn whitish.

$ In the larger female the black bands are reduced to incon-

new species of North American Tortricidse. 497

spicuous fawn-brown shades containing a few tufts of raised scales
in which black is very sparsely represented. E.cp. al., $ 23 mm.

Type. $ $ . Mus. Wlsm. (Paratypes, Tring Mus.)

Hal. Colorado — Larima Co., 5000 feet, July-August,
1891 (Smith).

Allied to Platynota flavedana, Clem.

Platynota metallicana, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 1.)

Antennas biciliate (2) ; ochreous, clothed at the base with ferru-
ginous scales. Palpi very long ; reddish ferruginous. Head ferru-
ginous. Thorax ferruginous, mixed with ochreous. Forewings
thickly covered with patches of rich ferruginous and ochreous
raised scales, the interspaces between them shining metallic whitish
ochreous ; a rich shining lilac streak occupies the outer half of the
discal cell and is diffused outward and downward toward the anal
angle ; there is also a lilac reflection about the patches of raised
scales which form an irregular oblique fasciaform band from
before the middle of the costa to the anal angle ; a second shining
lilac band leaves the costal margin at its outer fourth and curving
slightly outwards is attenuated to the anal angle, this is narrowly
margined by slightly raised lines of rich ferruginous and ochreous
scales, two whitish ochreous metallic lines lying beyond it, the first
adjacent to it, the second along the apical margin ; cilia shining
golden. Exp. al., £ 16 mm., $ 19 mm. Hindwings rich tawny
ferruginous ; cilia golden, with a ferruginous dividing line near
their base. Undersides uniformly rich reddish orange with golden
cilia. Abdomen ferruginous, mixed with ochreous at the sides.
Legs ochreous, externally tinged with ferruginous.

Type. 3 ? Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Florida. Three males and one female, the latter
unfortunately much broken, but somewhat larger than
the male, received from the late Mr. Morrison. It is
difficult to describe in words the rich colour, combina-
tions and metallic effects which distinguish this very
beautiful and remarkable species, it can scarcely be
regarded as closely allied to any other of the genus.

498 Lord Walsingham 072,

PHALONIANJE.

PHALONIAD^E, Meyr. = CONCHYLTN^, Fern.
HYSTEROSIA, Stph.

Hysterosia, Stph. List Br. An. B.M. X. Lp. 85 (1852) ;
Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXI., 42 (1895) ; = Idio-
graphis, Ld. Wien. Ent. Mts. III., 242, 246 (1859) ;
Fern. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X., 23 (1882).

£ ^ Hysterosia aureoalbida, sp. n.

Antennce, ^, white above, greyish beneath. Palpi and Head
white. Thorax very pale golden yellow. Forewings, <£, shining
silvery white, with a very pale golden yellow suffusion which is
divided into oblique transverse bands beyond the middle ; three or
more coppery-red spots, one beneath the fold at one-third from
the base, consisting of only a few scattered scales above the dorsal
margin, near the outer end of the fold partially connected by a
line of scales with a more conspicuous spot at the upper angle of
the cell, a smaller spot lying half-way between this and the apex ;
these spots are all ill-defined (in some specimens consisting merely
of groups of coppery-red scales, and in some almost entirely
disappearing) ; cilia white, with a slight golden tinge. Exp. al., $
17 mm. Hindwings whitish, tinged with lilac-grey ; cilia shining
white. Abdomen greyish.

The $ is very different in colour from the ^, the general
effect is pale fawn-ochreous, the shining whitish ground show-
ing only between the scattered patches of this colour and
in transverse oblique bands across the apical portion of the
wing. Exp. aZ., $ 16 mm. The palpi, which are very sharp in
the $ , are somewhat shorter and more obtuse in the 9 , and
together with the head, thorax, and antennae, are pale fawn-
ochreous. The hindwings are also a little darker.

Type. $ ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5-10,000 ft. July, 1891
(Smith).

Allied to Hysterosia segrana, WJsm.

PHALONIA, Hb. (Meyr).
= CONCHYLIS, Tr. (Fern.)
^-rPhaloniafelix, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 2.)
Antennae biciliate in the male (1) ; pale cinereous. Palpi
whitish internally, reddish fawn externally. Head creamy white.
Thorax whitish, the tegulas shaded with reddish fawn. Forewings

new species of North American Tortricidse. 499

elongate, slightly widened outwardly, costal margin straight, apical
margin oblique, apex rounded ; creamy white, with some shining
white scales and rosy fawn-brown markings ; the costal margin
shaded with rosy fawn to beyond the middle, more widely at the
base, this colour is diverted from the middle of the costal margin
obliquely backward, but almost obliterated on the cell forming an
indistinct fasciaform band which terminates in an oblique quad-
rate ferruginous spot, resting widely on the dorsal margin, reaching
to the fold and narrowly margined with black on both sides, a
small black spot lying beyond it at the commencement of the
dorsal cilia ; a fawn-brown shade, leaving the costal margin at its
outer fourth, curves outwards and reverts parallel to the apical
margin in the direction of the anal angle, and contains a patch and
line of black scales below its middle ; this is preceded and followed
by sinuous broken bands of silvery white, the outer one ending in
a fork before the apex ; apical margin narrowly fawn- brown with
some ferruginous scales ; cilia mottled throughout with pale rosy
fawn and blue-grey scales, which at the apex are darker than
towards the anal angle. Underside leaden grey, the costal margin
narrowly rosy fawn, with white and grey speckling towards the
apex. Exp. al., 20 mm. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish grey.
Underside paler than in the f orewings, with darker reticulations on
the outer half. Abdomen fawn-grey. Legs greyish, the tarsi
banded with fawn- brown.

Type, c? ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000-10,000 ft., July
1891 (several specimens — Smith).

This species is allied to the European Conchy Us
hilarana, H.-S.

PHTHEOCHROA, Stph.

- Phtheochroa macrocarpana, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 3.)

Antennce cinereous. Palpi projecting three times the length of
the head beyond it ; creamy white. Head creamy white. Thorax
grey, mottled with whitish. Forewinga shining white, with grey
bands ; a broad grey basal patch, containing a few black scales at
its outer edge, and some white about the base of the fold and on
the dorsal margin, spreads obliquely outwards from the costa to
the fold, thence reverting at an angle to the dorsal margin ; an
irregular central fascia of the same colour is indented before and
behind at the upper edge of the cell and is less well defined on its

500 Lord Walsingham on

inner side near the dorsal margin than elsewhere, its edges being,
for the most part, speckled with black and brown scales, of which
there is also a large patch across its middle ; beyond it, from the
outer fourth, a cuneiform band divided by white on the costa,
descends nearly to the anal angle ending in a point before reaching
it, its somewhat sinuous edges defined by black and brown lines ;
the space about the apex, as well as between the markings described,
is very faintly mottled with pale grey ; cilia yellowish white.
Exp. al.j 17 mm. Hindwings shining pale grey, delicately mottled
throughout with darker grey ; cilia shining greyish white. Abdomen
shining greyish. Legs whitish, with a slight ochreous tinge.

Type. ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Ilab. California — Alameda Co., bred from seeds of
Cupressus macrocarpa, 24th January, 1886. (Received
from Dr. C. V. Riley, No. 46, 1886.)

OLETHEEUTINJE (OLETHREUT^E, Hb.) Wlsm. emend
= GRAPHOLITHIN^E, Fern. = EPIBLEMIDsE, Meyr.

PENTHINA, Tr.

PentJiina melanosticta, sp. n.

Antenna greyish fuscous. Palpi black, with some white scales
beneath. Head whitish, mixed with fuscous and ferruginous
scales. Thorax black, the ends of the tegulge white. Forewings
white, with numerous black and blue-grey blotches mixed with
some ferruginous scales, especially about the apex and apical
margin ; these blotches are distributed in an ill-defined basal patch
extending to one-fourth (partially connected by greyish mottling
with a broad central fascia, interrupted on vein 2), and also
about the apex and more sparingly before and above the anal
angle ; there are three costal spots beyond the central fascia, a
blue-grey spot beyond the end of the cell, and a short band of the
same colour nearly parallel with the upper half of the apical
margin ; cilia dark greyish fuscous with a black line along their
base and some white speckling at their outer extremities. Under-
side greyish fuscous, the outer half of the costal margin cream-
white with three fuscous spots. Exp. «/., 24 mm. Hindwings
brownish; cilia somewhat paler, with a dark dividing line near their
base. Underside dirty whitish, the margins shaded with fuscous.

neiv species of North American Tortricidas. 501

Abdomen blackish (possibly somewhat discoloured by grease), with
a white transverse band behind the thorax. Legs whitish, with
greyish fuscous tarsal bands.

Type $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hal). Colorado— Larima Co., 10,000 ft., July, 1891

(Smith).

~ Penthina duplex, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 4.)

Antennas cinereous. Palpi whitish ; apical joint very short,
grey. Head and Thorax whitish, the latter shaded with grey and
having a slight tuft at the back mixed with brownish ochreous
scales. ForewinffK with the costal margin evenly arched, apical
margin slightly oblique ; creamy white, with grey basal patch and
central fascia, both studded with dark umber-brown scales ; the
basal patch is wider on the dorsal than on the costal margin,
obtusely angulated outward on the fold ; the central fascia, narrow
on the costa, is dilated outwards beneath it, again contracted on the
cell, and thence again dilated more widely to the dorsal margin ;
the more conspicuous patches of dark scales upon it are one on the
cell, one at the lower edge of the fold, and one on the dorsal
margin at its outer extremity near the anal angle ; on the outer
half of the costal margin are three greyish fuscous spots with
minute specks of the same colour lying between them ; the whole
wing- surface beyond the fascia is overstrewn with delicate brownish
ochreous scaling in the form of oblique transverse streaklets, not
clearly defined, but giving a slight ochreous hue to the white
ground-colour ; some similar scaling may be seen on parts of the
central fascia, and conspicuously in a semicircular spot at the
extreme apex ; a series of small greyish fuscous spots lies around
the apical margin sending some dark scales through the white
cilia, near the base of which is a dark, dividing line. Exp. al.,
27 mm. Hindwings umber brown ; cilia shining whitish, with a
dark dividing line. Abdomen brownish grey, the anal tuft in-
clining to ochreous. Legs pale cinereous.

Type. 6 . Mus. Wlsm.

Eab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000-10,000 ft., July,
1891 (Smith).

A very large species not nearly allied to any other
North American form known to me.

502 Lord Walsingham on

(Group SERICORIS, Tr.)
Penthina major y sp. n.

Antennce greyish fuscous, spotted above with white. Palpi
pale fawn, the apical joint fuscous. Head and Thorax fawn-grey.
Forewings fawn-brown, speckled with pale ochreous, with two
pale ochreous transverse fasciae margined on both sides by shining
silvery bands ; the apex is mottled with pale ochreous preceded by
an angulated silvery band ; the first fascia is at one-third from the
base, its inner margin slightly concave, its outer margin slightly
bulging outwards on the cell ; the second fascia leaving the costal
margin beyond the middle runs obliquely to the anal angle, the
silvery bands which bound it being deflected inwards to the dorsal
margin from about the lower angle of the cell, a few fawn-brown
spots along the costal margin encroach upon the upper edge of the
pale fasciae ; cilia white, with some grey shading at their base,
especially around the apex. Exp. al., 23 mm. Hindwings fawn-
grey, with whitish cilia. Abdomen greyish fuscous, anal tuft
ochreous. Legs white.

Type. <£. Mus. Wlsm.
Hab.

Colorado— Loveland, 5,000-10,000 ft., 1891
(Smith).

Allied to 8. constellatana, Z., but the silvery markings
confined to the margins of the fasciae, not scattered
between them ; it is also a larger and more distinctly
marked species.

P^DISCA, Tr.

-"Psedisca Tiyponomeutana, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 12.)
Antennce, (£, biciliate (^), rather stout; white. Palpi
moderately clothed, projecting slightly beyond the head ; apical
joint short, drooping ; white. Head thickly clothed above and in
front ; creamy white. Thorax shining white, with two lateral
black spots posteriorly ; tegulae with a few black scales across their
middle. Forewings with the costal margin straight, apical margin
slightly oblique, anal angle rounded ; shining white sprinkled with
distinct black angular spots to the number of about fifty : of these
one only, at about one-sixth of the wing-length, is actually
contiguous to the costal margin, others beyond, approach it very
closely, but there is no apparent regularity in the arrangement of
the spots, which are for the most part transversely elongate, a
somewhat regular series of about ten extending from the base
immediately below the fold ; a second series of about six below it,

new species of North American Tortricidse. 503

along the dorsal margin ; there is an elongate spot in the base of
the cilia immediately below the apex, and a larger and more
conspicuous one scarcely below the middle of the apical margin,
the latter plainly visible on the underside ; cilia white, tipped at
the apex with greyish fuscous. Exp. al., 26 mm. Hindwiug*
white, with a slight smoky brown shade, especially on their outer
half ; cilia shining white. A bdomen white. Legs white, with a
slight brownish tinge.

Type. <?. Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Colorado — Loveland. A single specimen of this
very distinct species received from Mr. W. G. Smith
in 1891.

ragonoti, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 9.)

Antennce very slightly pubescent rather than ciliate ; white,
slenderly annulated with mouse-grey. Palpi white, tinged with
mouse-grey at the outer sides ; densely clothed to the apex.
Head creamy white. Thorax white, slightly grey shaded.
Forewings pale mouse-grey, with shining white blotches ; the
extreme base narrowly shining white, as also the extreme edge of
the dorsal margin near the base ; a pair of large irregular shining
white spots on the basal third, obliquely placed, the first on the
middle of the wing reaching to the lower edge of the costal fold,
the second beyond and below it touching the dorsal margin ; a
very oblique shining white baud from below the costa, before the
middle, crosses the wing obliquely, and is bent back at its outer
extremity to the middle of the dorsal margin ; from near its outer
angle a curved shining white streak bends outwards, reverting to
the anal angle and throwing out a branch to the apical margin
below the apex ; above this curved streak, on the outer half of the
wing, is a quadrate subcostal shining white patch, branching
obliquely outward to the costal cilia, a short shining white apical
streak beyond it ; cilia white, with a mouse-grey shade running
through them at the apex, and below the middle of the apical
margin. Underside smoky grey, with three white costal spots
towards the apex. Exp. al., 23 mm. Hindwings pale fawn-grey ;
cilia white, with a grey shade along their base. Abdomen fawn-
grey. Legs greyish white.

Type. $ ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000 and 10,000 ft., July,
1891 ; several specimens (Smith).

Allied to Psedisca bolanderana, Wlsm.

504 Lord Walsingham on

Psedisca argenteana, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 13.)

Antenna biciliate in the $ (scarcely |) ; pale fawn. Palpi
whitish, tinged with pale fawn-colour. Head and Thorax pale
fawn, the latter with silvery white longitudinal streaks on either
side of the middle. Forewings pale fawn-ochreous, with shining
silvery white streaks longitudinally ; one commencing near the
base of the costal margin follows it to two-thirds of the wing-
length, thence obliquely depressed towards the middle of the apical
margin (without however reaching it), whence it is broken bylines
of scattered brown scales into three longitudinal striae, the lower
one curving back to the lower extremity of the cell and there nearly
meeting a conspicuous shining white streak which comes straight
from the base along the cell ; above the outer half of this latter
lies a shorter parallel shining white streak ; half-way between the
fold and the dorsal margin is another shining white streak coming
from the base and reaching to the commencement of the dorsal
cilia; the extreme dorsal margin below it, and the outer half of the
fold above it being also streaked with shining white, margined at
its outer extremity by brown scales ; on the costal margin before
the apex is a semicircular shining white streak enclosing an ovate
spot of the ochreous ground-colour ; along the apical margin is a
narrow shining white band, separated from the shining white cilia
by a slender brown line. Exp. «Z., 19 mm. Hindwings pale fawn-
grey ; cilia greyish white. Abdomen fawn-grey. Legs whitish.

Type. $. Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000-10,000 feet, July,
1891 ; eight specimens (Smith).

I find the markings of this species somewhat variable
and frequently almost obliterated on the outer half of
the wing. The description is taken from a very distinctly
marked specimen.

"(^ ^Psedisca serpentana, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 10.)

Antennce white, annulated with pale mouse-grey. Palpi pro-
jecting fully the length of the head beyond it, the long hairs of
the second outreaching the short apical joint ; white, slightly
shaded at the sides. Head white. Thorax creamy white. Fore-
wings mouse-grey, speckled with whitish about the outer end of
the cell, inclining to fawn ochreous around the edges of the shining
white bands which traverse the wing-snrface ; the first of these

new species of North American Tortricidse. 505

commences at the base below the costa, dilated outwards and bent
downwards at one-third, terminating in an acute point about the
middle of the wing, at its base it is diffused downwards across the
fold, almost blending with a sinuous band of the same colour,
commencing near the middle of the dorsal margin, thence looped
outwards and upwards, reverting nearly to the anal angle and
deflected towards the apex parallel with the apical margin ; on the
outer half of the costal margin are two short shining white
festooned bands, the first deflected obliquely outward, the
second equidistant between it and the apex ; the apex, apical
margin, and cilia are white, thickly speckled with grey scales.
Underside with three or four pale costal spots beyond the middle.
Ejrp. al., 20 mm. IL'iidtctnys pale fawn-grey ; cilia whitish.
Abdomen and Leys creamy whitish.

Type. $. Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000-10,000 feet, July,
1891 ; four specimens (Smith). One specimen received
from Morrison many years ago, also from Colorado.

Closely allied, to Psedisca morrisoni, Wlsm.

^Psedisca adamantana, Gn.

Argyroptera adamant ana , Gn. Ind. Meth., 65 (1845) ;l
Hdnrch. Lp. Eur. Cat. Meth., 66, No. 157 (1851).2

Conchylis adamantana, Wlgrn. Bih. Svensk. Vet. Ak.,
III., 13, No. 93 (1875) :3 Ent. Tdsk., IX., 196
(1888) ;4 Bag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., LXIIL, 187-8,
PI. I., 5 (1894) .5

Type. Mus. Oberthiir.

Hab. Lapland (?).L 3> 4 North America.6

This appears to be a convenient opportunity for
noticing a remarkable and very distinct species originally
described by Guenee, who supposed that it had been
collected in Lapland. M. Ragonot has recently re-
described it from a North American specimen in his own
collection which I have had the opportunity of examining.
The precise locality is still unknown. It is undoubtedly
a Psedisca with normal neuration and a distinct brown
costal fold, and therefore, inadvertently placed by
Ragonot in the genus Conchy Us, although vein 2 of the
forewings may be said to come from the commencement
of the outer third of the cell. Its position would appear

506 Lord Walsingham on

to be near P&disca crambitana, Wlsm., and it is an
equally beautiful and remarkable form. We may hope
that at some future time the number of known specimens
(at present only three) may be increased.

[Psedisca (?) norvichiana, Hb.

Tortrix norvichiana, Hb. Samml. Eur. Schm., VII., PL
XL., 252 (1814); Eugnosta norwichiana, Hb.,
Verz. bek. Schm., 394, No. 3832 (1826);
Argyroptera norvichiana, Gn. Ind. Meth., 65
(1845) ; Eupecillia norwichiana, H.-S. Schm. Eur.
IV., 179 (1849) ; Argyroptera norvichiana,
Hdnrch. Lp. Eur. Cat., Meth., 66, No. 158 (1851).

I should like to call attention to norvichiana, Hb., the
species which precedes adamantana, Gn., in the Index
Methodicus, in regard to which Herrich Schaffer
remarks, " vielleicht exotisch." Nothing appears to be
known about this insect, nor is it mentioned in
Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue. A study of the
figure leaves a strong impression upon my mind that it
is a Psedisca allied to adamantana, nor should I be
surprised to receive both species from some sub-arctic
region.]

Pdsdisca smithiana, sp. n.

Antennae white. Head, Palpi, and Thorax white. Forewinqs
shining white (in some specimens with a slight yellowish tinge),
some faint smoky grey lines and streaks in the $ are almost
entirely obliterated in the $ specimen ; these appear along the
fold and around the margins of the cell, some also descending
obliquely from the costal margin before the apex, whence also
arise one or two silvery marks, extending downwards towards the
ocelloid patch, which is margined before and behind with silvery
white, preceded at its lower angle by a minute group of black
scales, and contains two black dots; cilia white, profusely and
minutely speckled with black. Exp. at., 16 mm. Hindwing*
very pale whitish grey ; cilia white. Abdomen very pale greyish.
Legs white.

Type. <$ ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000 ft., July, 1891
(Smith).

Nearly allied to P. pergandeana, Fernald MS., but

new species of North American Tortricidse. 507

somewhat smaller and more shining in appearance, the
ground-colour being more unmistakably white.

Psedisca biplagata, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 7.)
Antenna; biciliate (less than £) ; very pale fawn, the basal
joint, straw bchreous. Palpi projecting more than the length
of the head beyond it ; pale straw-ochreous, shaded along the
sides with fawn-brown. Head and Thorax straw ochreous.
Forewings rather wide, the costal margin very slightly arched,
apical margin convex ; pale straw ochreous with two small patches
of fawn-brown scales, the first above the middle of the dorsal mar-
gin, pointing obliquely outwards, reaching to the lower edge of the
cell ; the second at the end of the cell, tending obliquely outwards,
from near the costal in the direction of the apical margin above
the anal angle ; these patches are faintly outlined by shining
white scales, extending towards the anal angle, but scarcely distin-
guishable from the pale ground-colour of the wing, in which there
is a certain admixture of the same ; cilia pale straw ochreous,
tending to whitish on their outer half. Exp. al., 24 mm. Hind-
wings pale reddish brown ; cilia shining white. Abdomen
whitish ochreous. Legs whitish.
Type. <£. Mus. Wlsrn.

Hob. Colorado— Loveland, 10,000 ft., July, 1891;
two specimens (Smith).

v Pssdisca fuscosparsa, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 8.)
Antennce biciliate (more than £) ; pale cinereous. Palpi pro-
jecting the length of the head beyond it ; whitish ochreous.
Head brownish ochreous. Thorax whitish ochreous, the tegulse
spotted with greyish fuscous scales. Forewings moderately straight,
not much widened outwardly ; whitish ochreous, streaked and
sprinkled with brownish fuscous scales, with a slight fawn-brown
suffusion along the middle'; the brownish fuscous scaling is more
noticeable about the middle of the wing-surface where, in the type,
it assumes the form of an ill-defined narrow band enclosing the
outer portion of the cell and resting on the fold at either extremity ;
immediately below the costal margin are a number of small
irregular brownish fuscous spots, and a line of these runs parallel
to the apical margin at a short distance from it, preceding a few
similar spots at the apex and along the margin itself ; below the
fold are also a few small brownish fuscous spots and the paler
fawn-brown suffusion is also here somewhat noticeable ; cilia
whitish ochreous touched with fuscous at the edges. The fore-
wings are pale margined on the underside, the pale costal band

508 Lord Walsingham on

distinctly dilated before the apex. Exp. «Z., 28 mm. Hindwlngs
tawny brown ; cilia whitish, a brown dividing line near their base.
A bdomen whitish cinereous, anal tuft whitish ochreous. Legs whitish.

Type. $. Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5;000-10,000 ft., July,
1891 ; two specimens (Smith).

In the second specimen, although both are in equally
good condition, the markings are almost obliterated,
neither the subcostal spots, the subapical line, nor the
discal lines being at all clearly defined but consisting
merely of a general distribution of brownish fuscous
scales indicating their pattern and position which so far
as it goes is the same as in the type.

A series received (from the same locality) since this
description was written, exhibits considerable variation
in the markings, some varieties approaching closely the
narrower-winged Psedisca mediostriata, in these the
median shade and transverse streaking become obsolete,
the darker markings assuming the form of radiating
streaks between the veins beyond and above the cell.
In some specimens no markings whatever are apparent,
the ground-colour becoming pale cream ochreous with
merely some scattered fuscous scales dusted over the
surface.

Pdsdisca mediostriata, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 11.)
Antennas biciliate (more than £) ; whitish. Palpi projecting
more than the length of the head beyond it ; fawn-grey, white on
their inner sides. Head and Thorax fawn-grey, the ends of the
tegulse paler. Forewings fawn-grey sprinkled with elongate
blackish scales, the costal margin from near the base white, a broad
median white streak from the base to the end of the cell is furcate
at its apex, a second narrower white streak running parallel with
it below the fold ; from the end of the cell about six diffused ill-
defined streaks radiate in the direction of the apex and apical
margin, interspersed with blackish scales; cilia white. Exp. at.,
22 mm. Hindwlngs dark tawny brown ; cilia white with a distinct
brown line running through them near their base. On the under-
side the wings are all distinctly pale margined, the pale costal band
of the fore wings being of equal width throughout. Abdomen
creamy whitish. Legs whitish.
Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000 ft., July, 1891 ; five
specimens (Smith).

new species of North American Tortricidse. 509

Psddisca invicta, sp. n.

Antennae biciliate (1) in the male; greyish ochreous. Palpi
fawn greyish at the sides, whitish above and beneath ; the apical
joint almost entirely concealed in closely appressed scales. Head
fawn-brown. Thorax whitish, with a pale pink suffusion. Fore-
wings white, mottled with pale leaden grey, except on a broad
quadrangular medio-dorsal patch, the grey mottling is more con-
centrated around the margins of this patch and before the upper
half of the apical margin than on the other parts of the wing ; the
quadrangular white dorsal patch has its inner edge almost straight,
a narrow pale fawn-brown line studded with groups of black scales
separating it from the grey mottled space which precedes it, its
outer edge is somewhat angulated, reducing its width above the
fold, here also it is bounded by a slender fawn-brown line and a
series of black dots ; the slight fawn-brown shade beyond it
precedes a curved line of black dots indicating the inner margin of
an obsolete ocelloid patch, and beyond this, parallel with the
middle of the apical margin, are three or four small black lunules
with some pale fawn-brown scaling which is repeated in an oval
spot at the extreme apex ; cilia rosy white, a grey line at their base
around the apex, and three grey spots about the middle of the
margin. Exp. al., $ 30 mm. ; $ 33'5 mm. Hindwings greyish
fuscous ; cilia white, with a dividing shade near their base.
Abdomen greyish. Legs white.

Type. c£ ? . Mus. Wlsm. (Paratypes, Tring Mus.)
Hab. Colorado— Lariina Co., 5,000 ft., July, 1891
(Smith).

The description is taken from an extremely fine and
well-marked specimen, but two varieties occur which are
at least worth mentioning : in both, the lines of black dots
are obliterated and the grey mottling is much less dis-
tinguishable, in one the whole wing is suffused with rosy
pink as in fine specimens of the European Psedisca incar-
natana, Hb., in the other there is but the faintest
indication of the darker markings, the white ground-
colour prevailing throughout.

(?) carolinana, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 5.)

Antennce finely ciliate ; greyish fuscous. Palpi (broken).
Head purplish fuscous, mixed with grey brown scales. Thorax
purplish fuscous, posteriorly tufted with ferruginous and grey

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510 Lord Walsingham on

scales. Forewings of approximately even width throughout, the
costa slightly arched, the apical margin slightly sinuous not oblique,
the anal angle rounded ; greyish white, with leaden grey spots and
blotches ; a basal patch occupying nearly one-third of the wing, its
outer edge serrate throughout, is composed of an equal admixture
of black, leaden grey, brownish grey, ferruginous and whitish
scales distributed in patches, more or less blending with each
other ; the same colours are found in a series of scattered patches
following the costal margin and distributed across the wing beyond
the middle and towards the apex, the black prevailing in a broken
quadrate patch resting on the dorsal margin before the anal angle
and in a semicircular subapical spot, with some smaller spots below
it, parallel to the margin, which is blotched with ferruginous,
bounded inwardly by a sinuate white line, the white ground-colour
appearing also in a series of about seven geminated costal streaks,
commencing at the outer edge of the basal patch, and ending before
the apex ; the cilia are for the most part brownish grey broken and
mottled with white. Exp. aL, 25 mm. Hindwings brown ; cilia
greyish white, with a brown dividing line. Abdomen brownish.
Hind legs whitish cinereous, the tibiae thickly clothed with long
scales, the tarsal joints banded with grey.

Type. ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. North Carolina (Morrison).

A conspicuous and very distinct species of the group
allied to scudderiana, Clem., but surpassing that species
in size and distinguished from its allies by the uniformly
dark hindwings and rich mottling of the fore wings.

- Psedisca dilatana, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 14.)

Antenna very pale fawn colour. Palpi projecting more than
twice the length of the head beyond it; fawn -white, thickly dusted
with fawn-brown on the outer sides. Head fawn- white, sparsely
sprinkled with brownish scales. Thorax fawn- white, sprinkled
with fawn-brown. Forewings somewhat narrow at the base,
widened outwardly, the apex acute, the oblique apical margin
slightly impressed beneath it, costal margin slightly rounded ; very
pale (almost whitish) fawn with a pale fawn-brown basal patch,
occupying fully one- third of the wing-length, narrower on the
dorsal than on the costal margin, its outer edge very oblique and
angulated below the costa ; a rounded dorsal patch of the same
colour before the anal angle and a sinuous streak of varying width
commencing on the cell and ending at the apex, the ground-colour

new species of North American Tortricidse. 511

being at its palest immediately around the outer margins of these
markings ; a few darker almost fuscous scales are sprinkled about
the costal fold and apical streak and along the base of the cilia,
which are fawn-brown tipped and sprinkled with white. Exp. al.,
26mm. Hindwings pale fawn-brown; cilia somewhat lighter, with
a slight dividing shade near their base and some faint whitish
speckling. On the underside the hindwings are more decidedly
lighter than the forewings. Abdomen and Hindlegs pale fawn.

Type. 3. Mus.Wlsm.
Hob. Arizona (Morrison).

This species differs from Ptedisca dorsisignatana, Clem.,
in its wider forewings, in the more outward position of
the dorsal blotch and in the obliquely margined basal
patch, although in general appearance it somewhat recalls
a large specimen of that species.

I should like to add here that I cannot agree with
Dr. Fernald in regarding Psedisca yraduatana as a
variety of dorsisignatana, the hindwings are more
reddish-brown and the dorsal patch is much squarer
and more upright than in that species of which I have a
very long series presenting almost every possible grade
of variation from the pale buff-coloured Californian
specimens to the dark greyish fuscous varieties from
N. Carolina.

. Psedisca castaneana, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 6.)

Antennae, pale cinereous, distinctly banded above with fuscous.
Palpi (broken). Head chestnut brown ; face white. Thorax
chestnut brown, whitish posteriorly. Forewings shining white
and bright chestnut brown in about equal proportions, the former
occupying the central portion of the wing, the latter forming a
strong basal patch with convex outer edge, broader on the dorsal
than on the costal margin, a median costal blotch dilated and diffused
outward and downward and overspreading the white ground-colour,
with a slight chestnut tinge, to the anal angle, also forming two
small costal spots beyond it, and covering the whole apical portion
of the wing, except a reduplicated white costal streak before the
apex ; the bright chestnut apical patch throws out a strong
projection on its inner edge above the middle ; cilia rosy grey,
with some blackish scales along their base below the middle of the
apical margin. Exp. al., 15 mm. Hindwings shining pale grey,

512 Lord Walsingham on

with a slight pinkish tinge; cilia pale yellowish grey, with a faintly
indicated dividing line. Abdomen shining pale grey, anal tuft
ochreous. Legs pale ochreous.

Type. $. Mus. WJsm.

Hob. Colorado — Loveland, July, 1891 (Smith).

This species has the form and appearance of a Stega-
noptycha allied to incarnatana, Hw., but is at once
distinguished by its straighter neuration and the distinct
costal fold in the $ .

SEMASIA, Stph.

C Semasia bucephaloides, Wlsm. (PI. XII., fig. 17.)
Semasia bucephaloides, Wlsm. Ins. Life, III., 465 (1891).
Type. ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. California — Little Shasta (Siskiyou Co.) Sep-
tember, 1871.

I take the opportunity Jof figuring this species, which
was captured by myself in 1871, sitting on flowers of
Mentzelia Isevicaulis.

Semasia octopunctana, sp. n.

Antennce cream-colour. Palpi cream- white. Head cream-white,
slightly shaded with pale fawn at the sides. Thorax cream-
coloured. Forewings cream-colour, with a reddish brown suffusion,
except along the costal third of the wing ; two bright oblique
reddish brown transverse bands, the first at one-third from the
base, nearer to the base on the costal than on the dorsal margin,
where it blends on its inner side with the paler reddish brown
suffusion which precedes it ; the second arising on the middle of
the costal margin, reaches the dorsal margin before the anal angle,
sending outwards from its middle an angulated band which ends at
the apex, a slender broken silvery line separating its upper edge
from the elongate cream-coloured costal patch which fills the space
above it ; the ocelloid patch above the anal angle, bounded at each
extremity by a silvery line, is cream-coloured, containing eight jet
black spots in two parallel rows of four each ; cilia hoary greyish.
Exp. aL, 16 mm. Hindwings grey, with slightly paler cilia.
Abdomen grey.

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Bab. Colorado— Larima Co., 5,000 ft., May, 1891
(Smith).

Allied to Semasia ochreicostana, Wlsm.

new species of North American Tortricidse. 513

Semasia ochrocephala, sp. n.

Antenna greyish, the basal joint pale ochreous. Palpi whitish
ochreous, with a brown spot on the outer side of the second joint.
Head whitish ochreous. Thorax whitish ochreous, streaked with
fawn-brown. Forcwings whitish ochreous, much suffused with
fawn-brown from the base to the ocelloid patch as high as the
upper edge of the cell ; some narrow oblique fawn-brown streak-
lets along the costal margin alternate with wider ones ; an oblique
patch of the same colour at about the middle of the margin con-
nected with the dark suffusion below it, on this suffused portion
are patches of greyish fuscous tending obliquely outwards from
the basal third of the dorsal margin and reverting to it, beyond the
middle ; the ocelloid patch is pale yellowish ochreous margined by
shining silvery bands and containing two black streaks; cilia
whitish ochreous, with a slight shade along their base near the
apex. Exp. al., 18 mm. Hind wings brownish grey, with whitish
cilia, shaded at their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous, anal tuft
whitish ochreous. Legs whitish.

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Colorado— Loveland, 5,000 ft., July, 1891
(Smith).

Several specimens of this species which appears to be
allied to 8. corculana, Z.

iSemasia oUiterana, sp. n. (PL XIIV fig. 15.)

Antennae white, faintly annulated. Palpi, Head, and Thorax
milk white. Forewings milk white ; an elongate grey spot below
the fold at one-fourth, and a patch of grey scales at the outer end
of the cell, occasionally preceded by longitudinal grey streaks,
beyond this some lines of grey scales extend outwards to the apical
margin below the apex, terminating in an oblique streak of ferru-
ginous and black scaling connected with a grey shade in the cilia
and enclosing a small ochreous patch, above which the apex and
apical cilia are pure white, as is the whole costal fourth of the
wing, with the exception of a series of grey dots along the extreme
margin and two short streaks before the apex ; the ocelloid patch
is shining white containing transverse lines of ferruginous and
black scales sometimes only faintly indicated ; opposite to this the
apical margin and cilia are thickly speckled with grey, the spaces
above and below being white, with the exception of two smaller
grey patches at the anal angle. Exp. al., 31 mm. Hindwings
brownish grey ; cilia white, with a faint shade along their base.
Abdomen brownish grey. Legs white.

514 Lord Walsingham on

Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Arizona (Morrison, 1883), Colorado — Larima Co.,
5,000 ft., June, July, and August, 1891 (Smith).

In some specimens there is more sprinkling of grey
scales over the white ground-colour than in others,
tending always to assume the form of diffused longitu-
dinal streaks, the ochreous subapical patch is sometimes
diffused downwards giving a slight ochreous shade
beneath it.

Since writing the above description from the Arizona
specimens I have seen others from Colorado (collected
by Smith) which have a slight ochreous hue over the
forewings and a ferruginous brown dash near the base,
below and parallel to the fold, the dark marginal dots are
more distinctly expressed as is also the darkening of the
cilia.

Allied to Semasia elongana, Wlsm., but lacking the
dorsal streak and the white dividing line in the cilia of
the forewings, it is also lighter in colour.

Semasia transversa, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 16.)
Antennae, cinereous. Palpi triangular, projecting more than
twice the length of the head beyond it, the apical joint completely
concealed in long projecting scales ; pale cinereous, whitish above.
Head creamy-white. Thorax pale olive-brown. Forewings pale
olive-brownish, with white transverse fascia and outer patches
(I take the darker shade as the ground-colour for convenience of
description, but it would perhaps be equally correct to describe the
wing as white, with olive-brown basal patch and central fascia) ;
the white fascia commences before the middle of the costal margin,
is contracted at the upper edge of the cell, and dilated below the
cell to the dorsal margin, bulging on its outer edge along the fold ;
beyond the middle of the costa is an outwardly oblique white
patch, sometimes divided at its upper end by a small olivaceous
line or spot, this is contiguous at its outer edge to a waved white
band, enclosing a triangular spot of the dark ground-colour on the
costal margin, and extending nearly to the apex, on its lower por-
tion is an olivaceous shade ; beneath these two marks and some-
times touching the extremity of the first one — the rounded ocelloid
patch, internally olivaceous, contains sometimes a few black scales,
but no black transverse streaks ; the margins of these three mark-
ings are narrowly shining white, and between and around them are
some dark umber-brown scales, a patch of the same lying on the

new species of North American Tortricidse. 515

fold before the central fascia ; cilia white at the base, with lines of
olivaceous scales throughout from apex to anal angle. Esp. «./.,(£
26 mm. ; $ 23 mm. Hindwings brown-grey, cilia whitish, with a
grey shade and basal line. Abdomen brownish grey. Leys pale
cinereous.

Type. $ ? . Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Colorado — Loveland, July and September,
1891 (Smith).

A series of this species shows it to be extremely
variable in the intensity, and sometimes in the precise
form of the markings, some specimens having three
instead of two triangular costal spots before the apex.
It is nearly allied to Semasia tar and ami, Mschl., but
that species, which is from Labrador (Mschl.) and
Oregon (Fern.), differs in its much less clearly defined
markings, and in the absence of a clearly indicated patch,
this can be traced only in a dark spot on the fold
corresponding to the patch of umber-brown scales before
the central fascia, described in the present species, but
which in tarandana appears completely isolated instead
of being connected by the dark ground-colour with the
dorsal margin ; nevertheless, it is possible (although
Dr. Fernald informs me that he regards this species as
new) transversa may prove to be the southern form of
the insect described by Moschler.

ZEIEAPHEBA, Tr.

TYPE. Tortrlx corticana, Hb. (=communana, Crt.)
Zeiraphera, Tr. Schm. Bur., V1L, 231-2 (1829);
Crt. Guide (1 edn.), 168-9 (1831) : (2 edn.) 197
(1837): Br. Ent., XV., PJ. 711 (1838); Stph.
List Br. An. BM., X., Lp. 43 (1852).
= * Steganoptycka, Wilk., Stgr. and Wk. Cat.; Fern.

(nee fStph.)

As I have already pointed out in the " Entomologist's
Monthly Magazine/' Vol. XXXI., p. 43 (1895), Stephens,
111. Lp. Br. Ins. Haust., IV., 105 (1834), characterises his
genus Steganoptycha [originally published^ Cat. Br. Ins.,
II., 176-7 (1829) ] in the following words: "The males of
this genus, at least in the typical species, are well
characterized by the peculiar process of hairs, which,
during repose, lies concealed beneath the reflected base
of the anterior wings/' Westwood specified the type in

516 Lord Walsingham on

184.0 (Syn. Gen. Br. Ins. 107), as nisella, Cl.
(=b(jeberana, F., Westw.). Those authors who have
subsequently followed Wilkinson [Br. Tortr., 127-8
(1859)] in restricting the genus to species not possessing
the costal fold, have succeeded in eliminating from it all
the species originally included by Stephens, whether
typical or otherwise. For the form which I have here
to describe Zeiraph'era is the oldest name and its type
corticana, Hb., agrees with it in structure, but those
who desire to follow Mr. Meyrick in including wceberiana,
Schiff., in the genus to which this species belongs would
be justified in using the name Enarmonia, Hb., of which
woeberiana is the type.

Zeiraphera medioplagata, sp. n. (PI. XII., fig. 18.)
Antennae (broken). Palpi greyish white, apical joint touched with
fnscous. Head and Thorax greyish. Forewings whitish, with some
silvery waved lines around the darker margins ; these consist of a
dark reddish fuscous blotch, touching the costal margin beyond
the middle and extending obliquely downwards to the outer and
lower margins of the cell, where it is considerably dilated, and is
nearly joined by a broad ferruginous streak from the apex, a
branch of which also narrowly follows the apical margin ; a grey
shade extends from the base along the costal portion of the wing,
reaching to, and slightly blending with the median blotch ; a few
small greyish spots along the costa before the apex and a faint
ochreous tinge over the pale ground-colour on the apical portion
of the wing ; cilia whitish, with a strong fuscous dividing line
which extends round the apex but does not reach the anal angle.
Exp. al, 14'5 mm. Hindwings pale greyish, with paler cilia, in
which is a grey dividing shade. Abdomen pale greyish.

Type. $. Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Colorado — Lee's Cabin, Micawber Mine (Custer
Co.), August 7th, 1889. A single specimen received
from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell.

EUCELIS, Hb.
TYPE. Pyralis aurana, F. (= mediana, Hb.)

Eucelis, Hb., Verz. bek. Schm., 394 (1826) ; t En-
cells, Stph., 111. Br. Ent. Haust., IV., 105 (1834) ;
t Eucelia, H.-S. Schm. Bar., IV., 131, 177
(1848); Eucelis, Stph. List. Br. An. B. M. X.,
Lp., 60 (1852); t EuceUa, Lah. Fn. Suisse.

new species of North American Tortricidze. 517

Tortr., 36 (1858); Eucelis, Wilk., Br.- Tortr.,
199-200 (1859); Stn. Man., II., 242 (1859).

= Trycheris, Gn., Ind. Meth., 56 (1845).

= §Grapkolitha, Tr. (Grapholita, Tr., 1829, emend.
1830), Hein., Fern.

This genus, created by Hiibner to include one species
only, aurana, F., may fairly be taken to cover a much
larger field. E. aurana is placed by recent authors in
the genus Grapholitha, Tr., as restricted by Heinemann
(Schtn. Deutsch. Tortr., 177), but this very familiar name
was preoccupied by Hiibner [Verz. bek. Schm., 242-3
(ante 1826), type rizolitha, Schiff., Hb., teste Stph.]
for a section of the Noctuidx, and requires a substitute.
Treitschke ignored, or possibly never saw Hiibner's
work. The type of his genus Grapholitha (G-rapholita,
Tr., 1829, emend. 1830), following Curtis1 restriction of
1831, became fixed as dorsana, F., by Lederer, in 1859,
when he eliminated from Treitschke's section B the
species included in the new genus Phthoroblastis, Ld., and
referred petiverella and its congeners to Dichrorampha.

Duponchel [Hist. Nat. Lp. Fr., IX., 22, 263-5 (1834)]
cited nisella, Cl. (= petrana, Dp.) as the type of
Grapholitha, but this species was not originally included
by Treitschke and could not therefore have been his
type ; he overlooked also Curtis' restriction of the genus
to Treitschke's section B, adopting the name for section
A, in which he was followed by Stephens, Wilkinson, and
Stainton.

Grapholitha has been used in Staudinger and Wocke's
Catalogue in a still wider sense to include subgenera
which possess the costal fold. In any case another name
must be adopted for this genus on account of its pre-
occupation, and also because all or nearly all the species
included in it had previously received other generic names.

Without attempting clearly to define the range of the
genus Grapholitha, Tr. (Hein.), which may yet be
capable of subdivision under other of the older names, I
have here substituted for it the Hiibnerian name Eucelis.

The family name Grapholithinae, Fern., must certainly
share a similar fate, but taking arcuellaj L., as perhaps
more clearly typical of the majority of genera included
in the Trichophoridse (as representing the group of
Tortricidse which possesses hair on the upper edge of

518 Lord Walsingham on American Tortricidse.

the median vein near the base), I would suggest the
adoption of Olethreutinse corrected from Olethreutse, Hb.
(Tentamen), the family in which he placed his genus
Olethreutes, which dating from 1806, I believe to be the
oldest family name adopted for any species now classed
with the Grrapholithin&j its type being Olethreutes
arcuella.

Anticipating criticism on the ground of inconsistency,
I may add that the manner in which Treitschke ignored
Hubner's earlier work will render revision of his generic
names absolutely necessary whenever the whole subject
of the classification of the Tortricidse and Tineidds comes
to be dealt with, but with respectful regard for con-
servative prejudices on both sides of the Atlantic, we
may leave Semasi<t, Ptedisca, and Penthina, as used
in this paper on respite to come up for judgment
when called upon. I have almost abandoned the hope
that my friend Dr. Kernald will carry out his old in-
tention of dealing with this subject in a comprehensive
manner.

Eucelis larimana, sp. n.

Antennae, hoary greyish. Palpi recurved, somewhat slender, the
apical joint very small ; hoary greyish. Head hoary grey. Thorax
greyish fuscous, with some hoary speckling, the ends of the tegulae
whitish. Forewings greyish fuscous, with minute hoary white
speckling ; a series of oblique hoary streaks along the costal
margin, those before the middle being geminated, four or five
beyond the middle single and whiter than the others ; the third
streak from the apex sends out a grey line to the cilia below the
apex, interrupting a distinct black line which runs along their
base ; a reduplicated oblique white patch rests on the middle of
the dorsal margin and is somewhat diffused along it towards the
base ; some white and steel grey mottling around the ocelloid
patch which contains three black partially interrupted lines ; cilia
shining bronzy grey, with a black line along their base. Exp. at.,
14.5 mm. Hindwings grey brown, with whitish cilia, a brown line
running through them near their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous.
Legs white, tarsi faintly banded above.

Type. $. MUP. Wlsm.
Hab.

Colorado— Loveiand, 5,000 ft., June, 1890-91
(Smith).

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLL
[See Explanation facing PLATE XII.]

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XII.

Fig. page

1. Platynota metallicana, Wlsm., <£ 497

2. PJialonia felix, Wlsm., § 493

3. Phtheochroa macrocarpana, Wlsm., 5 ... 499

4. PentUna duplex, Wlsm., <£ 50!

5. Pcedisca carolinana, Wlsm., 9 . . . *. 509

6. „ castaneana, Wlsm., <£ 511

7. „ liplagata, Wlsm., <J 5Q7

8. „ fuscosparsa, Wlsm., <£ 507

9. „ ragonoti, Wlsm., ^ 503

10. „ serpentana, Wlsm., <£ 594

11. „ mediostriata, Wlsm., ^ 593

12. „ hyponomeutana, Wlsm., ^ . . . . 5Q2

13. „ argenteana, Wlsm., ^ 594

14. „ dilatana, Wlsm., £ 519

15. Semasia obliterana, Wlsm., ^ 513

16. „ transversa, Wlsm., ^ 5^4

17. „ lucephaloides, Wlsm., $ 512

18. Zeiraphera medioplagata, Wlsm., ^ 51^

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1907.] OX THE MICltOLEl'IDOPTEKA OF TEXEEIFE. 911

[From the PHOCBEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,

1007.]
[Published May 1908,]

Microlepidoptera of Tenerife. By the Right Hon.
I^OUD WAI.SINGHAM, M.A., LL,.D., F.R.S., F,Z.S.

(Plates U-LHI, and Text-figures 241-243.)

In the Annalen of the K,-k. Naturhistorische Hofmuseum
(Vienna) Professor Dr. H. Rebel has published a series of very
interesting and instructive papers on the Liepidopterous Fauna
of the Canary Islands ; I desire now to record the result of
a short visit to Tenerife, during which I was able to devote a
good deal of attention to the Micr-olepidoptera of the island :
a large proportion of these having been bred, it is satisfactory
to be able to add some information upon their food plants and
larval habits, In the last of the papers above referred to, published
in Vienna in 1906, Prof, Rebel gives a revised systematic cata-
logue and enumerates 87 species of Microlepi$optera (10 of which
are merely indicated without special names under the genera to
which they belong), 4 out of the remaining 77 not being recorded
from Tenerife; w@ have therefore a residue of 73 species, to which
the additions following in this papej- may now be made, raising
the totaj to 173 species (of which 70 are here described) distri-
buted among 84 genera (seven of which are new), It is proposed
to add some critical notes upon Rebel's Lfist, where these seem to
be required through the acquisition of additional information : the
sp.-i-ies not met with are merely inserted to facilitate reference.

I desire to express my very grateful thanks to DP, George
Perez, and to Dr. O. Burchard, for the great assistance they gave
me in naming many plants which I should otherwise have been
at a loss to determine ; as also to the Rev. A. E, Baton for
numerous additions to my cabinet included in this paper.

I had moreover the great advantage of being allowed to examine
M r. W. W, White's collection at Guimar, enabling me more fully
to appreciate the value of Dr. Rebel's work ; nor can I forget that
that author had already most kindly dealt with some material

orii^innllv submitted to liini from my collection. Without tin-
r:) "vintMif olt'i'ivd bv tli<> complete and systematic manner in

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912 LORD WALSINGIIAM ON THE [XoV. 26,

which he undertook and continued his studies I could scarcely yet
have ventured to work out my present collection.

In addition to the species named in the following pages a
few others may be usefully indicated with a view to their identi-
fication by future collectors. I have still a number of living
larvae in swelled shoots of Lycium afrum, collected at Puerto
Orotava on April 27th. They are white with black heads, and
were found on two only of several bushes growing along the
narrow track leading eastward from the town along the middle of
the rocky, abrupt slopes overhanging the sea. They feed in the
interior of the base of the long thorn-like shoots which arise from
the main branches, at some distance from the stem, causing them
to swell perceptibly, but not distorting them. (Writing on
September 1st: ''None have vet changed to pupae, some have
died.")

A larva found at Guimar on April 1st was very long and attenu-
ated, of an ivory-white colour, burrowing along the pith in the
interior of a stem of Salvia canariensis : this larva was alive a
few days ago, but showed no sign of feeding or pupating.

Another larva, which gave me several days of fruitless work,
mines the minute leaflets of Plocama pendula, hollowing them out,
and leaving them white and transparent — a condition in which
they rapidly become shrivelled, when all trace of the larval work
is lost, except the little brown, desiccated point of the leaflets. I
found unmistakable traces at Santa Cruz, in January, at the
Barranco di Honda, between Santa Cruz and Guimar, in February,
and again in a small barraiico, close to Guimar, in March, where
I secured, at last, one living larva. It was of a very pale amber-
yellow, and might have been a Nepticula ; I failed to rear it.

A larva (possibly a Phycid) burrowing under the woolly clothing
of the stems of Phagnalon saxatile is very abundant at Guimar,
and was collected at sundry intervals during my stay there in
March and April, producing only repeated disappointment.

During my visit to Tenerife a considerable number of Macro-
lepidoptera were collected which have been placed in the hands of
others more competent than myself to deal with them ; it may,
however, be interesting to mention that I bred a specimen of
Eucrostis simonyi Rbl. ( = 0mp/tacodes *divincta Holt- White, nee
Wkr.), Geometridae Stgr-Rbl. I. 2899, from a conspicuous red
larva found on Frankenia erici folia on the coast near Guimar,
6. Ill, excl. 15. IV. 1907.

I. PTEROPHORINA.

Being of opinion that in Entomology " A special type must be
a zoological entity in its imaginal form " (Merton Rules, 36), on
which text a sermon has yet to be preached, I find myself unable
to regard as of generic value embryonic characters unsupported

1JM)7.'| MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENKKII H. 913

by imaginal differences, and thus obliged to discard no small
portion of the generic nomenclature of Vol. V. of Mr. Tutt's
* British Lepidoptera.'

I. PTEROPHORIDAE.

1. (207) BUCKLERIA Tutt.
— *Tni(;nopTiLi-s Meyr.; Stgr-Rbl. (nee Wlsm.).

I adopt Tutt's geneonym here as I entirely agree with him
in separating paluduni Z. and siceliota Z. from the California 11
pytjniaeus Wlsm., the type of Trichoptilus Wlsm., which has the
fissure of the fore wings differently shaped, the lobes being more
divergent.

1. (1311) BUCKLERIA (STAXGEIA) SICELIOTA Z.

Pterophorus siceliota Z. Tsis 1847. 907 no, 450 \ Pterophorus
(Aciptilia) siceliota Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 401 no. 59 (1852) \ Aciptilia
siceliota Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon XXIX. 173-4. PI. 4' 3-5
(1882) 3: Nat. Sic. V, 224 (1886) *. Trichoptilus siceliota Meyr.
Ent. Mo. Mag, XXVI. 12 (1891) 5; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 71
no. 1311 ( 1 90 1 ) 6. Stangeia siceliota Tutt Br. Lp. V. 492 ( 1 906) 7.

Hab. S, EUROPE — ® Cistus salriaefolius, monspeliensis, III-

IV, excl. V-VI. SW. ASIA. N. AFRICA*'-. Canaries— TEXE-
EIFE: Guimar, 14, IV., 0 Cistus monspeliensis, 28, III, excl. 24.
IV -6. V. 1907.

Taken and bred at Guimar from larvae similar to those which I
used to find, and have reared successfully, on the same plant at
Cannes.

2. (208) OXYPTILUS Z,
CROMBRUGGHIA Tutt Br. Lp. V. 449-51 (1906).

2. (1314) OXYPTILUS (CROMBRUGGHIA) DISTANS Z.

Pterophorus distans Z. Isis 1847. 902-3 no, 441 !. Pterophorus
(Oocyptilus) distans Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 345-6 no. 13 (1852)2.
Oxyptilus distans Rbl. Ann, KK. Hofmus. IX. 16, 18 110. 137
(1894) 3: XXL 43 no. 173 (1906) 4: Stgr-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal, II, 71
no, 1314 (1901) \ Crombrugghia distans Tutt Br, Lp, V. 451-67
PI. 4' 1-10 (1906) \

Hah. S. and C. EUROPE. WC. ASIA. Canaries 3-8—TENE-
RIFE : Guimar, 25. Ill - 14. IV., ® Andryala pinnatifida, 9-25.
Ill, excl. 7. IV - 3, V. 1907 ; Puerto Orotava, 27, IV - 3k V. 1907
(H7,sw?,); Forest de la Mina, 8. IV. 1894 (Eaton}', La Laguna, 21.

V. 1889(AV<m*?)3.

Prof, Rebel [Ann. KK. Hofmus, VII, 262-3 (1892)] records
laetusfrom Tenerife, LJI Pahna. and Gran Canarin ; he
[Ann. KK. Hofmus, IX, 81 (1894)] i-ecords a single

914 LORD WALSING1IAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

specimen from Tenerife as 0. distans, suggesting that it may be a
spring form of his Canarian laetus, and in Staudinger and Rebel's
Catalog (II. 1314) he treats laetus plus distans as two broods
under one special name. In his last paper [Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 43 (1906)| he retains both names, possibly through being
unable to refer to the single specimen which he had recorded as
laetus.

I found larvae at Guimar, feeding in March on the crowns of
young plants of Andrycda pinnatifida, completely covering them-
selves with the woolly debris of the consumed leaves ; these pro-
duced up to the beginning of May typical forms of Qxyptilus
didtanSfWhich I have compared satisfactorily with the actual types
described by Zeller from Syracuse, They are, to all appearance,
similar to all that I have previously bred from flowers and leaves
of Andryala sinuata at Cannes and elsewhere. I have preserved
specimens of the larvae for comparison with Others from Europe.

"" Pterophorus laetus Z. Isis 1847. 903 no> 442 \ Pteropkorus
(Oxyptilus] laetus Z. Lin, lint, VI, 346 no. 11 (1852) 2, Oxyptilus
laetus Rbl. Ann, KK» Hofmus. VII. 262-3, 282 no. 36 (1892) 3 :
IX. 16, 81 no, 138 (1894)4: XXI, 43 no, 174 (1906)5. Oxyptilus
distans Z. (II) laetus Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II, 71 no, 1314a
(1901) 6. Orombrugghia laetus Tutt Br, Lp. V, 459-60 (1906) 7.

Uab. S. EUROPE, WC. ASIA. N, AFRICA. Canaries ^—
LA PALMA, 25. VIII. 1889 (Simony} '—TENERIFE : Bajomar, 25.
V. -1907 (Wlsm.)\ 10. VIII. 1889 (Simony] 3— GRAN CANARIA :
Bco. d'e los Chorros (San Mateo), 1. VIII. 1890 ; Mogan, Bco. de
los Hornos (Mogan), 4-20. VIII. 1890 (Simony)\

The only examples apparently agreeing with Zeller's type of
Oxyptilus laetus were met with at Bajomar, on the sea-coast,
where they were easily disturbed from flowering plants of
Andryala pinnatifida, I brought home only three specimens,
some full boxes being lost in my hurry to return to a waiting
conveyance. These specimens are uniformly characterised by
their slightly smaller size, by the lighter brown, rather than
greyish, shade of the forewings, and by the notably bronzy brown
tint of the hindwlrigs, not to be found in my series of distans
from the higher elevations, Tutt (Br. Lp, V* 450-1, 454-9) very
strongly contends that there are two distinct species under the
above names, and certainly seems to prove his case, but except
perhaps by a careful examination of the genital segments, not
yet undertaken, I confess to being unable to distinguish them
with certainty through an extensive series, bred and captured
from many remote localities. It seems indeed quite possible that
these Tenerife specimens^ obviously attached to the game plant,
but at different dates and altitudes, may represent successive
broods rather than truly distinct species. I suggest this without
in any way disputing Mr-. Tutt's conclusions, founded as

M

1907.] Ml< KOLKITDOl'TKHA OF TKXKRIFE. 915

are on differences in the genital segments, and on "Dr. Chapman's
very Critical and careful study of the different larvae.

3. (209) PLATYPTILIA HK
- 3. (1339) PLATYPTILIA (AMBLYPTILIA Hb.) ACANTHODACTYLA Hb.

Ahicita atanthodactyla Hb. Smlg, Eur, Schm» IX, PL 5 ' 23-4
(181 2 ?) l. Pterophorus acanthodactylus Stnk Ann-Mag. NH.
(3 s.). III. 214 (1859) -. Platyptilia acanthodactyla Wlsrn, Tr. Ent.
Hoc. Lond. 1894. 537, 538 no. 1 (1894) \ Amblyptilia acanthodac-
tylrt Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 115, 146 no. 149 (1896) \ Platy-
ptilia acanthodactijlaR,b\. Ann. KK. Hofrnus, XXI. 36, 43 no 175
(1906) 5: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lpk Pal. II. 73 no. 1339 (1901) G ; Frnld,
Bull, US. Nat. Musv 52. 443 no, 4939 (1902) 7. Amblyptilia
cvsm<odactyla Tutt Br. Lp. V. 273-99, PI. 1 • A1'6 (1906) 8.

Hob. EUROPE. W.ASIA. N, and S. AFRICA. Madeiras^1
—MADEIRA2: Funchal3. Canaries ^^^-TENERIFE : Santa Cruz,
8. II. 1907 (Wlsm,), 3. V. 1895 (ffedemann) * ; La Laguiia, 8.
III. 1904 (fiction), 13. Yv 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Guimar, 10. IV.
1907 (H7fc7»-.); Puerto Orotava, 14-22-. IV> 1895 (Hedemann}\
23. IV -8. V. 1907 (WlsrA*)— GRAN CANARIA (Hedemttnn)\
UNITED STATES 7.

I must point out that I adopt this name for the Tenerife
species in the same sense as it is used by Zeller, and Rebel, and
not as referring to punctidactyla Hw., being at present unable to
agree with Tutt (1, c. 8) in his interpretation of Iliibiier's figures
23-24, and 35-36 respectively.

4-, (210) ALUCITA L,
*=ACIPTILIA Hb, ; PTEBOPIIOHCS Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 435 (1895),

4. (1356-1) ALUCITA BYSTROPOGOXIS, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 2.)

Antennae brownish grey. Palpi short, slender, porrect ; brownish
grey. Head and Thorax brownish grey, the latter becoming hoary
grey posteriorly. Porevnngs brownish grey, the fissure extending
approximately to half the wing- length ; the apical lobe shows two
narrow, elongate, smoky blackish cloud-spots on its costal margin,
one about the middle of the lobe, the other half-wny between this
and the base of the fissure ; between them the costa is white, and
beyond them the lobe is white, with a small black dorsal spot
before the apex ; the tornal lobe is white, from the base of the
fissure to its apex, its coital cilia white on the basal half and smoky
black on the distal half of the lobe ; the dorsal cilia of the apical
lobe whitish beyond the fissure to two-thirds, thence smoky black
below the apex; the dorsal cilia of the tornal lobe whitish, with
*i black spot a little before the middle of the lobe, their tij«

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916 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

slightly grey-shaded. Exp. al. 16-20 mm. Ifindwings brownish
grey ; cilia slightly paler throughout, especially along their base on
the dorsum of the tornal lobe. Abdomen brownish grey, with
slender white lines along either side of the dorsum. Legs white,
with smoky black patches at the base of each pair of white spurs.

Type £ (98768); <$ (98769); ® (98801) Mus. Wlsm.

ffab. TENERIFE: Forest de la Mina, 7. IV. 1904 (Eaton}',
Guimar. ® Bystropogon plumosus, 28. Ill, excl. 4. IV - 29. V.
1907 (Wlsm.)\ La Laguria, 23. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.). Forty-three
specimens.

Some varieties assume a decidedly browner tint than the type,
and in these the white cilia are often so modified by the extension
of the brown suffusion, especially within and below the fissure, as
to alter considerably the general appearance of the insect : there
are several intermediate degrees of such modification in a bred
series.

The larva feeds on Bystropogon plumosus, drawing together the
leaves and young no wer-buds on the leading shoots; it attains a
length of 11 mm., and is very pale glaucous green, covered with
short and somewhat spatulate hairs, among which longer diverging
hairs, arising each from a minute brownish pimple, are ranged in
groups along either side of a faint greyish dorsal shade and along
the spiracular line ; the head is very pale amber-brown. The pupa,
which has a line of elongate black spots along the dorsum, is
covered with scattered groups of hairs of varying length, the
shorter ones not spatulate as in the larva,. It is attached poste-
riorly to the leaf of its food-plant without a,ny encircling band.

I received this insect first from the Rev. A. E. Eaton, taken
in the Forest of La Mina, and lately found it abundant above
Guimar, but, like its food-plant, it is somewhat local. It reminds
one closely of Gypsochares baptodactyla Z., and is very similarly
coloured, but the lobes of the hindwings are more slender and the
fissure of the forewings somewhat deeper. There is a very notice-
able difference also in the pupa : that of Gypsochares baptodactyla
has a line of conspicuous elongate black spots on either side of the
dorsum, whereas the pupa of lystropogonis has but one medio-
dorsal line of spots.

5. (1365-1) ALUCTTA PARTICILIATA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 3.)

^*Aciptilia tetradactyla Kbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 263, 280
no. 39 (1892): XXL 43 no. 177(1906).

Antennae white, speckled a-bove with brownish grey. Palpi
Correct, slender ; whitish, with a dark spot at the base of the
terminal joint, which extends a little beyond an obtuse short
frontal tuft. Head and Thorax brownish ochreous. Forewings
brownish ochreous at the base, blending to pale straw-whitish
beyond ; costa narrowly smoky blackish, this colour suffusing the
"whole of the costal cilia, except about the extreme apex ; the
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19()7. j .MH'KoLKI'inol'TEKA OF TENKRIFE. 917

fissure extends to a little more than the wing-length ; the cilia of
the tornal lobe, and of the lower margin of the apical lobe, dis-
tinctly straw-white on their basal half and smoky blackish on
their outer half (this distinct division in the basal and distal
colouring of the cilia is in itself amply and uniformly sufficient to
separate particiliata from tetradactyla L., in which the cilia are
darkened throughout). Exp. al. 20-22 mm. Hindunnys brownish
ochreous ; cilia of all the lobes smoky fuscous on their costal
margins, whereas on their dorsal margins the basal two-thirds art-
straw- white, the distal third only fuscous. Abdomen whitish,
especially at the base, with a narrow dorsal, and wider lateral
brownish grey lines. Legs white.

Type <$ (98810); $ (98816) Mus.Wlsm.

Hab. TENEHIFE: Santa Cruz, 23. XII - 12. II. 1907; Puerto
Orotava, 21. 1Y. 1907. Fifteen specimens.

Having mistaken this species in the field for tetradactyla L., no
special search for the larva was undertaken, but I strongly suspect
that two green and slightly hairy larvae found on Lavandida abro-
tanoides at Santa Cruz, which I unfortunately failed to rear, must
have belonged to it.

Rebel records worn specimens of Aciptilia tetradactyla from
Pedro Gil (Tenerife, 1600 m., 30. VII. 1889— Sii,i<my), and from
Gran Canaria (Itichter). As Pedro Gil is on very high ground the
date is not surprising, but it is at least probable that these speci-
mens (which I have not seen) belong to the same species which
occurs so abundantly at Santa Cruz in January and February, and
of which I have a single specimen taken at Puerto Orotava on
April 21st. I certainly thought the species was tetradactyla when
I took it, indeed I should have secured more specimens had I then
recognised it as new.

•v-*^

6. (1365-2) ALUCITA HESPERIDELLA, sp. n.

Antennae pale brown, speckled with white. Palpi short, porrect,
slender, scarcely projecting beyond the face ; pale brown. Head
and Thorax pale buff-brown. Forewings pale buff-brown, the
costa nfciTOwly white, more conspicuously before the apex, a small,
oblique, inverted darker greyish streak a little beyond the middle
(sometimes obsolete) ; the fissure extends approximately to half
the wing-length, the tornal lobe being white along its upper half
from the base of the fissure to its apex, the cilia tinged with
brownish grey, as also are those of the apical lobe. Exp. al. 16-18
mm. Hindwings pale greyish brown; cilia the same, becoming
whitish at the apex of the tornal lobe. Abdomen pale greyish
brown, with whitish dorsal line. Legs white, a slender greyish
line along their outer sides.

Type $ (98825); rf (98827); 0 (98829) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: IV. 1884 (Leech) \ Santa Cruz, 13-31. 1. 1907
(Wlsm.); Guimar, 21. III. 1904 (Eaton), 2. Ill - 14. IV. 1907,
QMicromeria varia, 23. Ill, excl. 16-26. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto

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918 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. '26,

Orotava, 27. IV - 8. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.)', La Laguna, 23. Y. 1907
(Wlsm.)- Tacaronte, 31. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.). Fifty-nine specimens.
Common at Guimar, Santa Cruz, Orotava, etc. The larva is

slightly hairy, the hairs arranged

m , ~ 0 A i in small divergent fascicules ; it

Text-fig, 241, . „ , „ n& '.,,

is or a dull glaucous green, with

narrow, parallel, paler dorsal and
spiracular lines ; head pale brown ;
it tapers slightly toward the anal
segments ; all the legs uniformly
of the same colour as the body.
It feeds on the leaves of Micro-
meria varia, from which it is not
difficult to sweep or beat it into
ita Jiesperidella the net.

(98829), - The species greatly resembles

Gypsochares olbiadactyla Mill., to

which it is precisely similar in the distribution of the white
margins. Some specimens are distinguishable by the possession
of a costal spot, but the uniformly more slender apical lobe of
the forewinga at once distinguishes it from the more robust
Gypsochares which in other respects it might almost be said
to mimic. Many years ago I received two specimens from the
late Mr. J. H. Leech, which stood in my cabinet as doubtfully
distinct from olbiadactyla until I bred that species.

£^ 5 (213) GYPSOCHARES Meyr.
7. (1381) GYPSOCHARES OLBIADACTYLA Mill,
n. syn.=:hedemanni Rbl.; [ = leptodactyla Stgr. LN. 10J.

Pterophorus olbiadactylus Mill. Ic. Chen-Lp. I. 89-91. PL 5' 1-3
(1859)1. Aciptilia olbiadactyla Stgr- Wk. Cat. Lp. Enr. 344 no. 3199
(1871) 2; Mill, Cat, Lp. Alp-Mar. 382-3 (1875) 3; Hrtm. MT.
Munch. Ent, Ver. IY. 68 no. 1399 (1880) 4; Mill. Nat. Sic. Y.
224 no, 3199 (1886) \ Gypsoohares hedemanni Rbl. Ann. KKl
Hofmus.XI. 115-6, 146 no. 156, PL 3 • 3 (1896) G: XXI. 43 no. 178
(1906) 7: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 75 no. 1382 (1901) 8. Gypso-
C/iares olbiadactyla Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal, II, 75 no. 1381 (1901) 9;
Wlsm, Bat. Mo. Mag, XXXVII. 234-5 (1901) 10.

Hab, S. FRANCE1'5'9— Hyeres, ® \lichen on rocks?1! 25. Ill1"4,
excl, IV - Y4 ; 1'Esterel, 30, IV, 1877 5 : S, SPAIN 10 : Malaga 10,
28. I., 15-17. IV. 1901 (Wlsm.)', Chiclana, 0 Phagnalon ru-
pestre^, e. II, excl. 27. Ill - 1. IV. 1901 (Wlsm.), Canaries-
TE\TERIFE : Santa Cruz, ® Phagnalon sawatile, 21.1- 3. II, excl.
18. II - 12. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; La Laguna, 23. II. 1904 (Eaton) ;
Puerto Orotava, 15-22. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)6, 27. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.) ; Guimar, 2. Ill - 12. IV. 1907, ©, 27. II, excl. 28. IV.
1907 (Wlsm.).

Prof. Rebel described his Gypsochares hedemanni from specimens
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1907. j MICKOLEPJDOPTEHA OFTEXEK1FK. i) 1 U

collected at Orotava in April ; I found the same quite abundant in
the larval stage on I'ltinjtKiloH s(t.i-(iti/t'. at, Santa Crux and (luiinar,
and saw traces of it in other localities where its food-plant occurs.
Manv years ago Mi 11 it-re gave me a specimen of his olbiadactylus,
taken in the Esterel (vide Nat. Sic. V. 224) : I was therefore well-
acquainted with his species, which I have taken in. Spain and
reared from Phagnalon rupestre there. Milliere figures and de-
K.-ribes the larva and pupa, but he omits to mention whether he
actually bred or captured the imago. He suggests that the larvae
feed on lichens growing on the rocks where they were found, but
he adds that they did not eat in captivity, and quickly pupated.
I know that Pliagnalon saxatde is common in the locality where
he discovered the species, and where I have myself searched for it
unsuccessfully when in ignorance of its food-plant. His figure of
the larva shows no black dorsal spots, nor does he describe them,

but the Tenerife larvae (and, if

Text-fig 242 ^ rightly remember, the Spanish

larvae also) possessed a line of
such spots, one on each segment.
It is open to doubt whether the
larvae recorded by Milliere on
rocks were not those of Alucita
tetradactyla L,, which is abun-
dant on the same spot. After
very careful comparison of spe-
cimens with Milliere's figure, and
Gypsocliares olliadactyla with the exponent received from

(98902). him there ^remains no possible

doubt that Gypsocliares hede-

manni as fig ired and described by Rebel, and represented by a
named specimen in Mr. W. W. White's collection, is the same as
Pterophorus ottnadactylns Mill. I have received the same species
from Spain from Dr. Staudinger under the logonym " lepto-
dactyla" The traces of the larva are easily recognised by the
curling-back of the woolly underside of the leaves from which
it has eaten the upper surface and parenchyma, thus exhibiting
small white spots distributed about the plants on which it has
fed : this is similar to the effect produced by larvae of Alucita
adamas Cnst., on titcbeheliniis—fi noticeable sign of its presence,
to which I called my late friend's attention before he was himself
acquainted with the larva, and before we had either of us seen
the imago.

6, (214) PTEROPHORUS Geoffr.

= Au-ciTA Meyr. IIB. Br. Lp. 438,(1895); EMMELIXA Tutt Br.
Lp. V. 1)7 (1900).

S. (1387) PTEKOPHOIIUS MONODACTYLUS L.

Phnlaft-na Aliicit't monodactyla L. Syst. Nat. ed. X. .542 no. 300
(1758) l. Pteropltorus mcnodactylua Alphk. Mem. Lp. V. 231

920 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

no. 57 (1889) 2 ; Holt White B. & M. Ten. 95 (1894) 3. Alucita
monodactyla Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 539 no. 3 4.
Pterophorus monodactylus Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 263,
282 no. 38(1892)5: IX. 16, 81 no. 140(1894)6: XI. 115, 146
no. 153 (1896)7: XXI. 43 no. 179 (1906) 8; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 75 no. 1387 (1901) 9; Frnld. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52.
446 no. 4981 (1902) 10.

Hob. EUROPE. W. ASIA. N. AFRICA. K AMERICA.
Madeiras*"9 — MADEIRA: (Wollaston)4. Canaries 2~8— HIERRO : 28.
VIII. 1889 (Speyer)5'* — TENERIFE 2"a : © Convolvulus floridus 6 ;
IV. 1884 (Leech)- Santa Cruz, 28. I. 1907 (Wlsm.), 3. V. 1885
(Hedemann)\ 25. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Puerto Orotava, 1887
(SieversY\ 3. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Bajomar, 25. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)—
GRAN CANARIA : Las Palmas, 7. V. 1895 (ffedemann)'1'*.

This species occurred everywhere in Tenerife.

9. (1393) PTEROPHORUS (LIOPTILUS Wlgrn.) INULAE Z.

Pterophorus (Pterophorus Z.) inulae Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 384-6 no. 41
(1852)1. Pterophorus inulae Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 76 no. 1 393
(1901)2. Leioptilus sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 16, 81 no. 141
(1894) 3 : XXI. 43 no. 176 (1906) 4.

Hab. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. Canaries — TENERIFE : IV. 1884
(Leech); Santa Cruz, 0 Inula viscosa, 10. I, excl. 24. 1-14. II.,
29. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Guimar, 13. Ill - 10. IV., © Inula
viscosa, III, excl. 23. Ill - 7. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
29. IV - 4. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)', La Laguna, 23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Prof. Rebel records an " unbestimbares Fragment " of a species
of Leioptilus from Guimar, 16. V. 1889 (Krauss)', this was probably
inulae Z., which is common and widely distributed in Tenerife.
It seems to occur wherever Inula viscosa is abundant, as at
Guimar, Santa Cruz, Puerto Orotava, etc. I bred specimens from
larvae boring the leading shoots ; they were easily distinguished
by their dull glaucous green colour, and by a conspicuous series
of blackish dorsal spots.

10. (1395-1) PTEROPHORUS (LIOPTILUS) MELANOSCHISMA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 1.)

Antennae smoky bone-colour. Palpi slender, porrect, projecting
less than the length of the head beyond it ; smoky fuscous above,
pale beneath. Head smoky fuscous ; face straw- whitish. Thorax
pale, or sometimes brownish, straw-colour. Forewings pale straw,
sometimes darker brownish straw" — in both cases fading somewhat
on the dorsal half ; a very narrow fuscous line along the costa to
two-thirds from the base ; the fissure extends to two-fifths of the
wing-length ; the cilia within the fissure are uniformly fuscous,
connected with a dark fuscous spot at the base of the fissure, which
is distinctly visible on the underside; the dorsal cilia are also
fuscous. Exp. al. 16-17 mm. Ilindwings and cilia brownish
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grey, the surface of the lobes somewhat shining. Abdomen con-
colorous with the hindwings. Legs straw-white, or straw- brownish,
unspotted.

Type <$ (98934) ; $ (98935) Mus. Wlsm.

Hah. TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 21.1-9. II., (QPhagnalonsaxatile,
31. I, excl. 27-29. III. 1907 ; Guimar, 12. III. 07 ; Puerto Oro-
tava, 29. IV. 07. Seven specimens.

The larva feeds in the flowers of Phagnalon saxatile, but the
species is not abundant. It is closely allied to pectodactylus Stgr.
(=.chrysocomae Rgt.), but differs especially in the darkened cilia of
the fissure reaching fully to the base ; these are very conspicuous.

7. (215) STENOPTILIA Hb.
11. (140G) STENOPTILIA (ADKINIA Tutt) BIPUNCTIDACTYLA Sc.

Phalaena Upunctidactyla Sc. Ent. Cam. 257 no. 673 (1763) '.
Pterophorus (Pterophorus Z.) serotinus Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 361-4
no. 27 (1852)2. Mimaeseoptilus serotinus Rbl. Ann. KK. Hof-
mus. VII. 263, 282 no. 37 (1892)3: XXI. 43 no. 180 (1906).
Stenoptilia Upunctidactyla Stgr- Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 76 no. 1406
(1901 )5. Adkinia bipunctidactyla Tutt Br. Lp. V. 97, 334-60
(1906)6.

ffab. EUROPE. WC. ASIA. N. AFRICA. Canaries—
TENERiFE3'6: 2. VIII. 1889 (Simony)*; Santa Cruz, 8-16. II.
1907 (Wlsm.} ; Guimar, 14. Ill - 12'. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto
Orotava, 4. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)', La Laguna, 0 Bartsia trixayo,
12. VI, excl. 1. VII. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Common at Santa Cruz, Guimar, and Orotava. Two specimens
were bred on July 1st from larvae found feeding on Bartsia trixago,
at La Laguna, on June 12th. These larvae were noted as pale
green, with purplish dorsal line; with groups of hair distributed
evenly on each segment, and with minute black tubercular spots
above the spiracles : they agreed well with Tutt's description of
the larva of bipunctidactyla (Br. Lp. V. 350), to which species I
have no doubt the Tenerife specimens are rightly referred.

II. AGDISTIDAE.

8. (216) AGDISTIS Hb.

Rebel records only two species, tamaricis Z. and canariensu
Rbl.; I am now able to add frankeniae Z., salsolae sp. 11., and
staticis Mill.

- 12. (1420) AGDISTIS FRANKENIAE Z.

Adactyla frankeniae Z. Isis 1847. 900-2 no. 439 l. A gdistis fran-
keniae Z. Lin. Eat. VI. 321 no. 1 (1852) 2 ; Stgr- Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 77 no. 1420 (1901) 3 ; Chpm. & Tutt Br. Lp. V. 128-30, 131-2
(1906)*; Wlsm. Ent. Rec. XIX. 53-5 (1907) 5.

Hub. S. EUROPE 1'3— SICILY '. CORSICA : Punta Parata, 5. V.

CVU

922 LORD WALSIXGITAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

1896 (Wlsm.). SPAIN : CADIZ : Chiclana, 0 Frankenia pul-
veruknta, 27. I, excl. 2. II. 1901 (Wlsm.}. N. AFRICA5—
ALGERIA: Biskra, Hammam-es-Salahin, 5. Ill - 2. IV. 1903,
14. V. 1903, @ Frankenia, 10-22. Ill, excl. 13. III. 1906, 19.
Ill - 23. IV. 1903 (JFZsra.). Canaries— TEXERIFE : Guimar, 6.
III. 1907, <$ Frankenia ericifolia, 6. Ill, excl. 6-24. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.)', Puerto Orotava, 11. III. 1904 (Eaton), 21. IV - 14. V.
1907 (Wlsm.); Tejina, 18. III. 1902 (Eaton); Bajomar, 25. V.
1907 (Wlsm.).

This is very common on the coast on Frankenia ericifolia and
possibly OD other species of the genus; the larvae are extremely
similar to those of what I must (pace Tutt) regard as the very
closely allied Agdistis (Ernestia Tutt) lerinensis Mill., but, like the
perfect insects, considerably smaller. Although variable in size
the Tenerife specimens agree better with Zeller's original types
from Sicily than with the uniformly Larger specimens which I
found at Biskra (Algeria). I took and bred many specimens,
including a single example at light at Guimar, 1200 ft. above the
sea-level, at which alone its food-plant grows.

13. (1420*1) AGDISTIS SALSOLAE, sp. n.

Antennae stone-grey, a dark spot on the basal joint. Palpi
very short, the median joint rough, hoary grey ; terminal joint
blackish, not projecting beyond the frontal clothing. Head and
Thorax hoary stone-grey. Forewings hoary stone-grey, minutely
speckled with black, except on the more thinly clothed, slaty grey,
triangular fold-space ; the outer third of the costa narrowly white,
showing four strong, black, oblique spots, the apex of the wing
also black, including the apical cilia ; on the lower edge of the
fold-space are two strong, elongate, black spots, preceded by a
smaller one at the angle of the fold, and followed by another, more
conspicuous, and including the cilia at the tornus, before the base
of which it is produced upward along the termen ; terminal cilia
greyish white, a slender blackish line along their middle. Exp.
al. 16-18 mm. Hindwings slaty grey, with some black speckling
on their lower half ; cilia whitish grey, a slender shade-line along
their middle. Abdomen brownish grey, with slender white dorsal
and lateral lines. Legs, posterior pair white, thickly sprinkled with
greyish fuscous scales — less thickly on the anterior extremities of
the joints.

Type c? (98356) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : Puerto Orotava, ® Salsola oppositifolia, 30.
IV - VI, excl. 5. VI - 16. VII. 1907. Six specimens.

The larva is yellowish brown, varying to grey-brown (precisely
the colour of dead leaves and stalks of the food-plant); it lias a
group of four small tubercular excrescences on the prothorax,
followed by two much larger and more elevated humps on the
mesothorax, each tipped with a black spot ; a much shorter pair,
also black-tipped, and rather wider apart on the metathorax ; 011
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MIC'KOLKPIDOPTERA OF TKXEKI FK. 923

•

the first abdominal somite are four black dots in two pairs, one

behind the other, while on the

Text-fi"1 °43 anterior half of the renmin-

ing somites are some more or
less strongly indicated slender,
blackish, oblique lateral lines ;
the ninth abdominal somite with
two short black protuberances
above. Type ® (98418) M us.
\Ylsm.

This larva differs in structure
from others of the genus, and
especially by its much higher
metathoracic humps from that
of frankeniae Z., although in
the imago the two species can scarcely be distinguished.

Aydistis salsolae is more easily recognised by a glance at the
underside than in any other way, for here frankeniae shows only
some rather obscure spots on its dull costa, the tornal and apical
shades being also insignificant, whereas in salsolae the white costa
of the forewings shows very clearly on the under side, making the
four costal spots very distinct ; the apical and tornal patches in
the cilia are also very clear, and the limbus of the hindwings is
thickly sprinkled with black scales, a raised brush of the same
along the cubit us. In salsolcie the legs are also somewhat stouter
and more distinctly mottled, while scarcely any trace is shown of
the subcostal spot at the end of the plical space which is always to
be found \n frankeniae ; the spots are also usually larger and more
conspicuous, but in bred specimens of both species this is scarcely
a reliable character.

The larva is extremely difficult to rear, and I was successful
with only six out of some sixty collected.

14. (1425) AGDISTIS CAXARIENSIS Rbl.

Agdislis canariensis Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 114-5, 146
no. 148 (1896) ' : XIII. 380 no. 161 (1899) '2 ; XXI. 36, 43 no. 181
(1906) 3: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 78 no. 1425 (1901) 4.

Hab. Canaries1"4 — TENERIFE l~4 : Santa Cruz, 3. Y. 1895
(Hedemann}1 ; Puerto Orotava, 20. IY - 3. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.).
FUERTEVEXTURA :< : 15. Y. 1905 (Polatzek}\

I have but little to add to what has been already published : a
sjx'cimen in Mr. White's collection is probably correct, and ex-
hibits the white unspotted costa, beyond the middle of the fore-
wing, specially noted in the original description, and sufficing to
separate this from others of the genus. I had at first regarded it
as, probably a mere variety of some other species, but the distin-
guishing character is very clearly shown in a specimen (98415)
taken at Puerto Orotava, 3. Y. 1907, which can only be compared
with the nearly allied adactyla Hb.

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924 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

*

I met with a single small larva (9841 7) at Guimar, on March 1 1 th,
on Phagnalon saxatile, the flowers of which it continued to eat
very sparingly until it died on May 25th : persistent efforts to
find other specimens were unsuccessful. The brownish larva,
less than | inch in length, has a pair of small projecting pronotal
tubercules, and a metanotal pair, larger and more erect, also an
anal tubercule ; on all the segments are short, reflexed, bristles,
arising from pairs of small tubercular excrescences. It differs
somewhat from the larva of the allied satanas Mill., and 1 had
regarded it as probably that of adactyla Hb., with which I am
not personally acquainted, until observing the close alliance of
the imago of canariensis Rbl. to that species. There can be
little doubt that this was the larva of canariensis, although I so
unfortunately failed to rear it.

(1426) AGDISTIS SATAXAS Mill.

Agdistis satanas Mill. Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. XLIV. (5 s. V : 1875). p. clxvii (1875) * ;
Cat. Lp. Alp-Mar. 377-8. PI. 2' 9 (1875) 2 : Nat. Sic. V. 221-2 no. 3114 bis (1886) 3 :
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 78 no. 1426 (1901) 4; Wlsm. Ent. Rec. XIX. 53 (1907) 5.
Hab. S. FRANCE *~5 : Cannes, © Scabiosa candicans VI, excl. VII 4.
In Mr. Tutt's recently published ' British Lepidoptera ' [V. 129, 136 (1906) ] some
doubt is expressed as to whether a larva which I submitted to Dr. Chapman as that
of Agdistis satanas Mill, is really an Agdistis at all : this opportunity maybe taken
to record the evidence upon which the identification rests. My experience in attempt-
ing to rear canariensis was precisely similar to that of Milliere, and the failure may
probably be attributed to the hibernating habits of the larvae of this group coming
into premature practice through the necessity of keeping the bottles containing them
in a comparatively cool temperature. I extract the following abridged notes from
my voluminous correspondence with my late friend Monsieur Milliere: — In 1885
Milliere had two larvae which he believed to be those of Agdistis satanas. He was
taking great care of them — one disappeared, the other fixed itself up for pupation,
but did not change, drying up, but preserving its form, so that he could figure it.
In his letter to me, of August 19th, 1885, he mentions this fact and adds "car je crois
avoir acquis la preuve que c'est bien la chenille de Satanas." The proof appears in
the following translation : ' One female of this Agdistis has had the good thought
to lay ten fertile eggs, but I have not been able to feed the little caterpillars, which
have not touched anything and have died of hunger. I have preserved in spirit
some of these young larvae, which, under a strong lens, seem to me to have all the
characters of the caterpillar which you have prepared for your collection. 1 can send
you these larvae obtained ab ovo' I have empty egg-shells, sent at that time, but
cannot find the larvae in spirit.

In June 1886 Milliere published (Nat. Sic. V. 221-2) the following additional
information on Agdistis satanas : —

" Obs. Au dernier moment je trouve a 1'habitat de la Satanas, la chenille de cette
Agdistis qui, du 15 au 25 juiu, est parvenue a son entier developpement. Elle se
nourrit sur la Scabiosa candicans dont elle rouge les feuilles, et sans doute sur
d'autres plantes sous-ligneuses.

" Cette larve rappelle la chenille de sa congenere Heydenii, mais elle est plus courte,
avec les caroncules dorsales moins developpes et les poils longs et raides, dont elle est
couverte, depourvus, a I'extremite, du petit rentiement spatulifere qu'on remarque
chez sa voisine.

" L'etat lethargique dure a peine un mois.

" luAgd. Satanas qui n'a qu'une generation pond rarement en captivite, cependent
une V enfermee en un tube de verre, ayaut pondu une 30C d'oeufs, j'ai pu les etudier.
Ces ceufs sont relativement gros, elliptiques, blanchatres, et prorondement canneles
en long ; leur eclosion eut lieu 15 jours apres.

" La jeune ch. se montre alors a peu pres ce qu'elle sera a ses divers ages. Elle
passe 1'hiver fixfa a une tige seche, dissimulee dans les brindilles herbacees."

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1907.] MICROLKIMDOI'TKKA OF TENKU1FK. 925

—15. (1428) AGDISTIS (HERBERTIA Tutt) TAMARICIS Z.

Adactylo. t<(n><trtci* Z. Isis 1847. HDD no. 438' 1 '. Aydistis tama-
ricis /. Lin. Ent. VI. 325-6 no. 7 (1852) - ; Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag.
XXII. 106 (1885) ! ; B-Bkr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. 1894. 50 4 ; Rbl.
Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 115 (1896)"': XIII. 376, 380 no. 162
(1898) ": XXI. 43 no. 182 (1906) T: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
78 no. 1428 (1901) 8. Jferbertid lanmricis Chpm. & Tutt Br. Lp.
V. 129-30, 132. 135, 253 (1906) '. Aydistis tamaricisWlsm. Ent.
Bee. XIX. 54. 55 (1907) 1().

/fab. S. EUROPE1'-'. WC. ASIA8. AFRICA— EGYPT :
Alexandria1 — ALGERIA10: Biskra, Hammam-es-Salahin, 6. Ill
- 28. IV. 1903, 3. IV. 1904, 0 Tamarix, 9. Ill, excl. 10. IV. 1904
(Wlsm.). Canaries ""<— TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz, 30. IV. 1898
(HintzY', 0 Tamarix yallica, 14. I, excl. 27. II - 8. IV. 1907,
0 24. V, excl. 13-15. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.). Cape de Verdes : St.
Vincent3'5-0'10.

Abundant in many parts of the Island, and no doubt thus
widely distributed owing to the prevailing custom of planting
Tamarix along the sides of the main roads so far as these extend.
Preserved larvae compared with European and Algerian speci-
mens show a curious modification in form, the tuberculous excres-
cences on the prothorax and mesothorax, and on the second, fifth,
and ninth abdominal somites, although similarly placed, are dis-
tinctly exaggerated, being at least one-third longer than in
European specimens, a peculiarity in which they are at least closely
approached by larvae from Algeria. I am unable to find any
difference in the imago.

C. — 16. (1430) AGDISTIS (ADACTYLUS Crt.) STATICIS Mill.

Aydistis staticis Mill. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLIV. (5 s. V : 1875).
p. clxvii (1875) l: Cat. Lp. Alp-Mar. 375-6. PL 2 • 4-8 (1875) 2 :
\Vlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXVII. 141 (1891) 3; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 78 no. 1430 (1901) 4. Adactylus staticis Chpm. & Tutt
Br. Lp. V. 128-30 (1906) \ Aydistis staticis Wlsm. Ent. Rec.
XIX. 53-4 (1907) ".

Hab. S. FRANCE 1'ti : He Ste Marguerite M ; Beaulieu 3 ; 0 Sta-
tice cordata, III, excl. 15. V. 1890 3"; 0V, excl. VIII 1'2. ALGE-
RIA |;: Ain-Oumash ", Biskra1', Hammam-es-Salahin ", 0 Statice
limonium °, 2. Ill - 5. IV, excl. 28. IV. 1903, 23. Ill - 13. VI.
1906 (}\lsm.). Canaries— TEXERIFE : Puerto Orotava, QStatice
pectinate, 8. V, excl. 29. V - 13. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

The moths bred at Puerto Orotava from larvae on Statice pecti-
nata are of a distinctly darker shade than those from Cannes and
Biskra, but perhaps this may be partially due to fading in the
older specimens ; the larvae are similar.

The larvae of lerinensis Mill, could not be found among those
of static!* as Miey were at Cannes and Biskra.

62*

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926 LORD WALSIXGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,.

II. ORNEOD1NA.

I. ORNEODIDAE.

9. (217) ORNEODES Ltr.

17. (1438) ORNEODES HUBNERI Wlgrn.

Alucitahexadactyla Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. IX. PL 6 • 30-1 (1818) ].
Alucita hubneriWlgrn. Kngl. Yet-Ak. Hndl. III. (7). 24 (1859) 2.
Orneodes hubneri Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 78 no. 1438 (1901) 3 :
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 36, 43 no. 183 (1906) \

Hob. EUROPE1"3. Canaries 4— TENERIFE : Guimar (IF. W.

White] \

Prof. Rebel records hubneri from Guimar on the authority of
Sir George Hampsoii. My only knowledge of this species in
Tenerife is derived from specimens in Mr. White's collection.

III. TINEINA.
I. GELECHIADAE.

10. (297) METZNERIA Z.

^ 18. (2487-1) METZNERIA INSIGNIFICANS, sp. 11.

Antennae snow-white, faintly annulate with greyish fuscous.
Palpi moderately recurved, the median joint somewhat coarsely
scaled, but scarcely roughened beneath ; stone-whitish, sprinkled
with fawn-brown and greyish fuscous. Head and Thorax stone-
whitish, sprinkled with fawn-brown. Forewings stone-whitish,
profusely sprinkled with pale fawn-brown and pale greyish
fuscous scales ; there is a faint indication of a small spot at the
end of the cell, preceded by another in the middle of the wing,
and the line of the fold is sometimes slightly tinted with ochreous ^
cilia speckled as on the wing-surface, and with a scarcely perceptible
oblique shade-line before their tips. Exp. al. 10-11 mm. Hind-
wings iridescent pale bluish grey, with rosy reflections ; cilia very
pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen iridescent, bluish grey. Legs
pale brownish cinereous.

Type rf (14145) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: Guimar, 1700 ft., 20. III. 1904 (Eaton);
Santa Cruz, 3. IY. 1904 (Eaton]. Two specimens.

I did not meet with this species.

-

19. (2488'1) METZNERIA INFELIX, sp. n.

Antennae stone-whitish, faintly annulate with greyish fuscous.
Palpi stone- whitish, shaded with fuscous along their outer sides.
Head and Thorax stone- whitish, sprinkled with fawn-grey. Fore-
wings stone-whitish, with a slight ochreous tinge, freely sprinkled
with fawn-grey, especiallv along the costa, along the upper edge

1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 927

of the outer end of the fold. ami about the termen ; a small
fuscous spot in the fold, scarcely before the middle of the wing, is
followed by a larger more elongate discal spot, scarcely beyond the
middle, another lying at the end of the cell ; a few of the scales
along the termen are tipped with fuscous, a slight sprinkling also
occurring along the middle of the greyish ochreous cilia. Exp.
al. 11-15 mm. HiiidiriiHjs pale bluish grey; cilia pale greyish
ochreous. Abdomen fawn-grey; anal tuft stone- whitish. Legs
stone-whitish.

Type c? (98962) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 8-14 II. 1907; Puerto Orotavn,
23. IV, 10. V. 1907. Five sporiim-ns. but only one in good
condition.

This species differs from tristella Rbl. in having the antennae
annulate, and in the paler colour of its somewhat narrow fore-
wings ; moreover, although the spots are in the same position they
are unaccompanied in this species by the yellowish, or ochreous,
streaks which in tristella tend to connect and emphasise them.
The palpi appear to be also a little more slender.

•20. (2489-1) METZXERIA DICHROA, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 4.)

Antennae whitish ochreous, speckled with black above. Palpi
whitish ochreous, more brownish ochreous on their outer sides.
Head whitish ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous. Forewings
whitish ochreous, longitudinally smeared with pale brownish
ochreous below, above, and beyond the cell ; an elongate black
discal spot lies on the middle of the wing, followed by a smaller
one at the end of the cell and preceded by two, even less conspi-
cuous, groups of black scales on the fold and at the upper edge
of the cell respectively ; cilia whitish ochreous, with a slender
brownish line running through their middle. Exp.al. 14-16 mm.
Hindwings tawny grey ; cilia pale brownish ochreous. Abdomen
shining, pale greyish. Legs whitish ochreous.

Type 6 (98304) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TEXERIFE : Villa Orotava, 0 in seed-heads of Carlina
salicifolia, 25. IV - 7. VII, excl. 3. VI - 18. VII. 1907. Four
specimens.

Larva white, without markings. Head olivaceous blackish,
rather broadly edged with white on either side of the suture ;
pronotal plate indistinct, pale olivaceous. Long. 6 mm. Type ®
(98308: 7. VII.) Mus. Wlsm.

Bred from larvae, collected April 25th, feeding in old seed-
heads of Carlina salicifolia Cav. in barrancos above Villa Orotova.
Allied to castiliella Mschl.

" 21. (2490-1) METZXERIA MOXOCHROA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 5.)

Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi ochreous ; brownish ochreous
on their outer sides. Head and Thorax pale ochreous, slightly

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smeared with pale brownish ochreous. Forewings whitish ochreous,
suffused with very pale brownish ochreous, leaving the neuration
faintly indicated by slender lines of the paler ground-colour,
scarcely noticeable, except towards the apex ; a slight suffusion of
fawn-brown from the base of the costa reaches to about one-third,
with a group of scales, indicating a spot, below the costa near its
termination ; a plical spot is placed below and a little beyond this,
and there is also a similar fawn-brown spot, rather more conspi-
cuous, at the end of the cell ; cilia pale ochreous, with a very faint
dividing shade-line. Exp. al. 23 mm. Hindwings tawny grey ;
cilia very pale brownish ochreous. Abdomen grey. Legs pale
ochreous ; tarsi unspotted.

Type rf (98309); £ (98310) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: La Laguna, 11. V. 1907. Two specimens.

The $ in fine condition, the 2 not quite so good ; found below
the large leaves of wild Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus), shelter-
ing on the ground from a high wind. It is near torridella Mn.,
but much paler and quite distinct.

11, (321) SITOTROGA Hnm.
22. (2902) SITOTROGA CEREALELLA Oliv

Alucitacerealella Oliv. Enc. Meth. IV. (Ins. I.). 121 no. 15 (1789)1.
Sitotroga cerealella Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 544
no. 32^; Ubl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 89 no. 172 (1894)3 :
XXI. 44 no. 215 (1906)4 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 157 no.
2902 (1901)5; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 496 no. 5552
(1902) 6 ; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXIX. 286 no. 50 (1904) 7:
Jr. Bomb. KH. Soc. XVI. 591 (1905) \

Hab. EUROPE 1'4. ASIA— CEYLON 8— JAPAN (Pryer : Mus.
Wlsm.). AUSTRALIA7. N. AMERICA0. Madeiras 2-
MADEiRA2 : Funchal (Wollaston) 2. Canaries 2"' — TENERIFE 3"4 : IV.
1884 (Leech) ; Santa Cruz, 31. I. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
24. III. 1902 (Eaton); " on board SS. ' Gando '," 15. VI. 1907
(Wlsm.).

Taken at Santa Cruz, and on board ship when coming home.

12. (320-1) PRAGMATODES, gn. n.

(xpayfjict T w£t)s = troublesome. )
Type Pragmatodes fruticosella Wlsm.

Antennae -f, slightly serrate, somewhat thickened in c? ; bawd
joint without pecten. Maxillary Palpi very short, % connivent.
Labial Palpi recurved, moderate, median joint smoothly scaled ;
terminal joint shorter than median. Haustellum moderate. Head
And Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, gradually tapering to
apex : neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa, 6 out of 7 ;
rest separate, 1 furcate at base. Hindwings ( — 1), costa and
dorsam almost parallel, apex strongly produced, termen oblique ;
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cilia .'*>. costal cilia somewhat bristly toward* base: ne

8 veins: '1 to •") remote; (5 and 7 stalked, C> weak. Abdomen

moderate. Legs, hind tibiae clothed with loose hairs.

I am unable to refer this somewhat obscure species t<- any
described genus. In the combined characters 3 and 4 remote.
(') and 7 stalked in the hindwings ; and 6 out of 7, beyond its
furcation with 8, in the forewings, this agrees with tiitotroga Hnm.,
which however differs in having a pecten on the basal joint of
the antennae. Schistophila Chret. and Glance Chmb. differ in
having broader hindwings, with 3 somewhat approximated to 4,
and the latter has long, flattened, broad, black subcostal bristles.
Ptocheuusa Hum. has 3 and 4 of the hindwings connate, and
3 and 4 of the forewings coincident. The group of Aproaerema
Drnt., having 6 and 7 of the hindwings stalked, differs in having
3 and 4 connate ; Apodia Hnm. agrees with Pragmatodes in the
neuration of the forewings, but like other allies of AristoteliaHh.,
with 3 and 4 of the hindwings remote, differs in having 6 and 7
separate, not stalked.

23. (2901 •!) PRAGMATODES FRUTICOSELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 10.)

Poedlia (Stenolechia) sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 128, 146
no. 192 (1896) l. Stenolechia (Poedlia) sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 44iio. 214 (1906) 2.

Antennae dirty whitish, obscurely annulate with fuscous. Palpi
dirty whitish, dusted with fuscous, a black band before the apex
on the median and terminal joints. Head and Thorax whitish,
speckled with fuscous. Forewings dirty stone-whitish, dusted
with fuscous ; a basal patch, with convex outer margin, reaches
to nearly one-fifth from the base and is thickly bestrewn with
fuscous, the space beyond it forming a narrow fascia of the pale
ground-colour, followed by a transverse blackish band, also irre-
gularly convex, hut ill-defined on its outer side; this again is
followed along the dorsum and costa by somewhat profuse blackish
dusting, a small dark discal spot lying in the middle of the wing ;
beyond the middle an inverted and rather angulated fascia of the
pale ground-colour is ill-defined and followed by profuse blackish
speckling, reaching to the apex and termen ; cilia pale brownish
grey, with a shade-line before their outer ends. Exp. al. 6'5-7'5
mm. Hindwings deeply sinuate, but not squarely excised below
the apex ; grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen greyish.
Legs pale brownish grey, with fuscous bands 011 tibiae and tarsi.

Type 2 (98969); rf ~(98970) Mus, Wlsm.

Hob. TEXEUIFE: Santa Cruz, 31. I -21. II, 29. V. 1907, ®
liubiafruticosa, 13. II, excl. 19-20. III. 1907 ; Guimar, 28. II - 4.
III. 1907. Ten specimens.

Bred in March from larvae found mining the leaves of Ilnlltt
fruticosa in February. The moth was also taken on the wing
from January to March, and in May. at Santa Cruz and Guimar.

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930 LORD WALSIXGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

I feel very little doubt that the Poecilia (Stenolechia) sp., which
Rebel described from a worn J , taken by von Hedemami, in a
barranco near Santa Cruz among Tamarix, 5. Y. 1895, was the
•species now described etefruticosetta, the larvae of which, although
difficult to rear, are very common on Rubia in all the barrancos
west of the town.

/

13. (320) APODIA Hnm.
24. (2900-4) APODIA GUIMARENSIS, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 6.)

Antennae cinereous. Palpi whitish cirereous. Head and
Thorax whitish cinereous, the latter with a pale fawn -brown
patch above. Forewings pale fawn-brown, with whitish cine-
reous lines and streaks, placed longitudinally and obliquely, but
not transversely; one along the costa from base to apex, one
along the cell from the base, branching to the costa beyond the
middle, and again before the apex ; another along the upper
edge of the fold as far as the middle of the wing, nearly touching
the outer end of an oblique dorsal patch arising before the middle,
a similar patch arising before the tornus and angulated outward
toward the apex ; cilia whitish cinereous, dusted with fawn-brown
scales on their basal half. Exp. al. 7'5-9 mm. Hindwings pale
grey; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish grey.
Legs pale cinereous.

Type 6 (98979) Mus. Wlsm.

•Hob. TENERIFE: Guiroar, 13-28. III. 1907 (JPfew.), 20. III.
1904 (Eaton). Four specimens.

14. (3IO) ARISTOTELIA Hb.
<3 25. (2797' 1) ARISTOTELIA ANCILLULA, sp. n.

Antennae pale fawn, broadly barred with dark fuscous above,
almost obliterating the paler colour, except a noticeable spot at
the outer end of the basal joint. Palpi pale cinereous ; the
median joint coarsely clothed beneath, speckled externally with
fuscous ; terminal joint much sprinkled with fuscous externally.
Head rosy fawn, shaded with fuscous. Thorax rosy fawn, a
strong dark fuscous shade anteriorly between the tegulae. Fore-
wings rosy fawn, thickly sprinkled wTith fuscous, and with some
dark fuscous, almost black, spots — one on the costa near the base,
another, larger, 011 the dorsum below it, and a smaller one between
them — these more or less confluent ; opposite the middle spot is
a larger one at about one-sixth, its lower edge resting on the
fold ; again, a little before the middle, is a similar spot on the
disc, more or less confluent with a smaller one slightly preceding
it on the fold, and these again are followed by a smaller and less
conspicuous spot at the end of the cell ; cilia rosy fawn, sprinkled
with fuscous along their base. Exp. al. 13 mm. ffindivings (1) ;
shining, somewhat iridescent, pale bluish grey ; cilia fawn-
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brownish. Alnl<mn'n greyish. Legs pale fawn-ochreous, somewhat
speckled with pale fuscous.

Type $ (98982) Mus. Wlsin.

Huh. TENEBIFE: Guimar, 25. III. 1907. Unique.

Agreeing precisely in the form of the hinclwing with servcllaZ.,
hut differing from this, and so far as I am aware from all other
species of the genus, in the form and distribution of the more or
less distinct spots.

2G. (2811-1) ARISTOTELIA CACOMICRA, sp. n.

Antennae brownish grey. Palpi with the median joint slightly
ruffled beneath ; pale cinereous, dusted with brownish grey, with
a fuscous band around the middle of the terminal point. Head
and Thorax brownish grey. Forewings brownish grey, with a
slight sprinkling of pale cinereous scales, some of which about
tlu' apex are tipped with brownish fuscous ; three brownish
fuscous spots are indistinctly indicated, one on the middle of the
fold, one before the outer end of the fold, and one above and
between these, on the cell, forming with them an almost equi-
lateral triangle ; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 7-8 mm.
Ilindwinys iridescent, dark bluish grey ; cilia brownish cinereous.
Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs brownish cinereous, the tarsi
spotted whitish at the joints.

Type 6 (98983) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz. 26. 1 - 21. II. 1907, 29. IV. 1907;
Puerto Orotava, 14. Y. 1907. Seven specimens.

Near rumicetella Hfm., but without any indication of pale
opposite spots before the apex ; also differing noticeably in the
absence of the shade-line which runs through the cilia in that
species, and gives a rounded appearance to the otherwise almost
evenly pointed Aving.

15- (319) CHRYSOPORA Clms.
27. (2894*1) CHRYSOPORA BOSEAE, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 7. )

Antennae golden yellow, annulate with black. Palpi black,
medial and terminal joints tipped with yellow. Head shining,
brassy yellowish. Thorax black, with a few yellow scales. Fore-
K'iiKjs black ; a bright golden fascia, at one-fourth from the base,
descends obliquely inward from costa to dorsum, arid is followed
on the middle of the dorsum by two yellow spots, the first pre-
ceded by some raised black scales and having at its upper edge a
tinge of coppery chestnut which is repeated in a strong spot at
the end of the cell, above and beyond which is a triangular pale
yellow spot on the costa ; cilia pale brownish ochreous, thickly
sprinkled, except on their outer ends, with black. Exp. al. 7-8 mm.
Hindivings deeply excised below the apex ; grey ; cilia brownish
<avy, a slender pale cinereous line marking their base. Abdomen

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blackish. Legs black, with pale ochreous spurs ; hind tarsi with
about five pale ochreous a mini at ions.

Type 6 (98991); $ (98992) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab, TEXERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 27. IV - 8. V. 1907, 0 mining-
leaves of Bosea yervamora, 21. IV, excl. 11-29. V. 1907. Thirty
specimens.

The larva makes blotch-like mines in the leaves of Bosea
yervamora, an indigenous shrub (which also occurs in the West
Indies), on which it is by no means uncommon at Orotava ;
probably to be found elsewhere, as I believe I recognised the old
mines between La Laguna and Tegeste.

16. (311) APROAEREMA Drnt.
= * ANACAMPSIS Stgr-Rbl. (nee Crt.).

_„ 28. (2838) APROAEREMA PSORALELLA Mill.

n. &yn.. = *albipal2)ella (p.) Wlsm. (nee HS.) ; — infestella Rbl. ;
= *anthyttidella (p.) Stgr-Rbl.

Gelechia psoralella Mill. Ic. Chen-Lp. II. 83-6. PI. 61 • 1-6
(1865) l : III. 460 (1874)2. Anacampsis psoralella Sto-r-Wk. Cat.
Lp. Eur. 299 no. 2079 (1871)3 ; Mill. Cat. Lp. Alp-Mar. 335
(1875)4; Hrtm. MT. Miinch. Ent. Ver. IV. 24 no. 2079 (1880) 3.
Anacampsis *albipalpella (p.) Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894.
537, 544 no. 33 (1894) 6 [excl. i Porto Santo, Stn.9}. Anacampsis
infestella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 128, 146 no. 195 (1896) 7:
XXI. 44 no. 212 (1906)8 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 154
no. 2838 (1901) 9. Anacampsis * anthyllidella (p.) Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 153 110. 2835 (1901)10 [excl. "Mad."].

Hab. S. FRANCE : Amelie-les-bains ; Cannes ; Frejus. © Pso-
ralea bituminosa, X-IV, excl. V-VIII. Madeiras ' — MADEIRA <! :
(Wollaston)G. Canaries7— TEXERiFE7: Guimar, 14. III. 1907,
QPsoralea bituminosa, 3-9. IV, excl. 6. IV - 6 V. 1907 (Wlsm.)]
Puerto Orotava, 14-30. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)7 ; 26. IV - 14.
V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Bajomar, 25. V. 1907 (Wlsm.),

Stainton [Ann-Mag. KH. (3 s.). III. 213] recorded *anthytti-
della Hb. from Porto Santo (Madeiras), and described elach-
istella, sp. n., from Northern Deserta (Madeiras). In 1894 (1. c. 6)
I referred Stainton's supposed * anthyllidella to * albipalpella HS.,
and recorded as the same species a single specimen (13617) from
Madeira. Rebel (1. c. 7) suggests the possibility that the species
recorded by me as * albipalpdla HS. ( = *anthyllideUa Stn.) might
be the species which he proceeds to describe as infestella RbL
I think this extremely probable, so far as the specimen from
Madeira (13617) is concerned, for I have now before me more
reliable exponents of albijialpella HS., and this Madeiran specimen
does not completely agree with them ; but it does agree with
psoralella Mill., which Rebel (1. c. 10) sinks as a synonym of the
true anthyllidella Hb. As we are all seeking for the truth, and as
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one good turn deserves another, may I, in thanking Prof. Rebel
for the hint, suggest that his infettetta, is psoralella Mill. ? In
support of this theory, without seeing Rebel's type, I can only
say that psoralella Mill, is very common on Psoralea t>itni>>inosa
in Tenerife, arid the larvae from which I reared it there are the
same as those pointed out to me by Milliere himself at Cannes
many years ago. Rebel's specimens of infestella were taken at
Orotava 14-30. IV. 1895; 1 have specimens of psoralella labelled
Orotava, 26. IV - 14. V. 1907.

In any case I must admit that the Madeira specimen (13617)
is psoraldla, Mill., while Stainton's specimen from Porto Santo,
recorded as *anthyltideUa (no. XXVIII) has a white face and white
palpi, and is a finer specimen of elachistella Stii. than is the unset
type (no. XXIX, <$ ) from Northern Deserta.

_^ 28 a. (2846) APEOAEEEMA ELACHISTELLA Stn.
=*ant7iyllidella Stn. (nee Hb.) ; =*all>ipalpella (p.) Wlsm. (nee HS.).
Gelechia *a»thyttid«Ua Stn. Aim-Mag. XH. (3 s.). III. 213 no. 19 (1859) T,
Gelechia tlachi*t«lla Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 213 no. 20 (1859) 2; Wkr.
Cat. Lp. BM. XXIX. 628 no. 307 (1864) a. Anacampsis *all\palpella (p.) Wlsm.
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 544 no. 33 (1894) 4. Anacampsis elachistella
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 544 no. 34 (1894) 5 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 154 no. 2846 (1901) 6.

Sab. Madeiras--6 — NORTHEEN DESEETA: (Wollaston)*' •*• 5. — -POETO SANTO :
(WoUaston) l. Canaries— GEAX CANAEIA : Las Palmas, 15. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.}.

Staiuton [Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 213] recorded *anth>/Ui<M1a Hb. from Porto
Santo, and described elachistella, sp. n., from Northern Deserta. In 1894 (1. c. 4)
I referred Stainton's supposed *anthyllidella to *albipalpella HS., and recorded as
the same species a single specimen (13617) from Madeira. Having now before me
more reliable exponents of albipunctella HS., I find that this specimen from
Madeira does not completely agree with them ; but it does agree with psoralella
Mill., which I have bred from Psoralea bitinninosa at Cannes and in Tenerife. I
have again examined Stainton's specimens and find that his *anthyllidella from.
Porto Santo (no. XX VI 1 1) has white palpi and white face, and is a finer specimen
of elachist'Ma Stn. than is the unset type (no. XXIX, <£) from Northern Deserta.
I took two specimens of this snecies at Las Palmas on June 15th. The locality
"J//f/7." (Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 153 no. 2835) pertains to elachistella Stn.
( = *anthi/Ui<lcU« Stn.) — the true anthyllidella Hb. has not yet been recognised as
occurring in the Madeiras or Canaries.

- 29. (2847-01) APEOAEREMA GEXISTAE, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 8.)

Antennae black, with white annulations. Palpi white, with a
slender black line along the under side of the acute terminal
joint. Head white. Thorax brownish olivaceous. Fore wings
pale brownish olivaceous at the base, blending to blackish about
the middle, and on the dorsum nearly to the base ; beyond the
middle is a straight, well-defined, oblique white fascia, of even
width, pointing slightly outward from dorsum to costa ; beyond
it the terminal portion of the wing is profusely sprinkled with
some brownish, many blackish, and a few elongate shining steely
grey scales, the latter prevailing around the margin and at the
base of the tawny greyish cilia. Exp. al. 8 mm. Hind wings
leaden grey; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen leaden grey. Leys
white, with broad tawny fuscous bands around the hind tibi.-ic.

Type 9 (98993): 6 (98994) Mus. Wlsm.

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934 LORD WALSIXGIIAM ON THE [Xov. 26,

Hob. TENERIFE : La Laguna, 0 in shoots of Genista canari-
ensis, 18. V, excl. 21. Y - 9. VI. 1907. Thirty-three specimens.

Closely allied to captivella HS. and acanthyllidis Wlsm. [Ent.
Mo. Mag. XLT. 40 (1905)], differing from the former in the white
fascia being more outwardly oblique from dorsum to costa, and
from the latter in the form of this fascia, which is consistently of
even width throughout, throwing no projection toward the
termen on its outer side ; it is also slightly larger and has darker
hindwings.

30. (2847-2) APROAEREMA THAUMALEA Wlsm. (Plate LI. fig. 9.)

Aproaerema thaumaleaWlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XL I. 41 110. 2847'2
(1905) \

Hab. ALGERIA T : Hammam-es-Salahin, 0 Astragalus gombo,
III-V, excl. IV- VI.1 Canaries — TENERIFE : Guimar, 0 Lotus
sessilifolius, 6. Ill, 16-27. IV, excl. 10-29. IV, 20. V. 1907.

Thirteen specimens, bred from larvae forming sand-galleries
beneath the trailing shoots of Lotus sessilifolius, on the coast
near Puerto Guimar, are not in any way distinguishable from my
Algerian specimens bred from Astrayalus gombo. The food-
plants are not very nearly allied, but they both grow on hot
sandy soil, and the habits of the larvae are almost similar, but the
larvae themselves, or at least the specimens which I preserved,
believing them to belong to this species, are totally different, so
much so that I am led to doubt whether the Algerian specimen
(97110) does not rightly belong to some other species feeding on
the same plant. About the Tenerife larva there can be no
mistake : it is a curious, long, attenuated larva, with the thoracic
somites slightly swelled ; the head pale yellow-brown, pronota1
plate broad, but very faintly indicated ; abdominal claspers short
almost rudimentary, it is creamy white, with a slender reddish
line on either side of the dorsum, running from the mesothorax
to the anal extremity. Long. 13 mm. 0 (98996) Mus. Wlsm. It
descends into the sand in a silken tube, coming up to feed on
the leaves of the plant, and again retiring below ground. So far
as I observed, the Algerian larva did not descend below the
surface of the soil, the sand- tubes being among the trailing
branches.

The specimen figured (98995, $ ) is from Guimar.

31. (2847*1) APROAEREMA MERCEDELLA, sp. n«
(Plate LI. fig. 11.)

Antennae yellow, annulate with black. Palpi pale yellowish,
the median joint black nearly to its apex, except a narrow line of
white along its upper side ; terminal joint with a broad blackish
shade before its apex. Head yellowish white. Thorax pale
yellowish, with a diffused greyish fuscous median shade above.
Forewings blackish, with pale yellowish patches and lines occupy-
ing almost as much space as the ground-colour, which is accom-
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panied, around their edges, by some rust-brown suffusion, especially

noticeable on the ;ipir;d portion of the wing; at the extreme b.-ise
a short yellow streak, which follows the fold, is tjuickly diverted
and dilated to the dorsum ; a large pale yellow patch, commencing
above its outer extremity on the costa, is attenuated obliquely
outward along the cell, ending in a pale ocellate spot at the end
of the cell, containing an elongate black dot, a little beyond which
an outwardly annulate, narrow, pale yellow fascia crosses the
wing; this is produced at either extremity along the margins
and around the apex, forming thus a narrow yellowish band
enclosing a space of the shape of a blunt arrow-head ; cilia pale
yellowish, with two parallel black lines running through them
and emphasising the obtusely rounded appearance of the apex ;
the pale costal patch throws a slight excrescence across the fold
before the middle, but does not reach the dorsum. Exp. al. 10 mm.
Ifin<l"'in(j8 leaden grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen grey; anal
tuft ochreous. Legs ochreous, the tarsi banded with leaden grey.

Type 3 (14107) Mus. Wlsm.

Hub. TENERIFE : Las Mercedes, @ on dead moss-grown bark
of Laurocerasus lusitanica, 7. Ill, excl. 24. VIII. 1904 (Eaton}.
Unique.

Among described species this is most nearly allied to nigrato-
mella Clnis. and concinusella Chmb., from both of which it differs
in the presence of dark dorsal markings ; the pattern is found
also in other allied American genera. A single specimen was
bred by the Rev. A. E. Eaton from a larva found on dead moss-
grown bark of Laurocerasus lusitanica, 7. III., near the Casa del
Agua, in the forest of Las Mercedes, 2050 ft. (near La Laguna),
011 August 24th, 1904.

17. (303*01; TELPHUSA Chmb.
= Xt-:-\fti.i-:ci/iA Meyr.

TELPHUSA Chmb. Can. Ent. IV. 132 (1872); Busck Bull. US.
Nat. Mus. 52. 496-7 (1902): Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXV.
773, 783-9. PL 28 • 5 (1903).
XEXOLECHIA Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 583 (1895).

32. (2743) TELPHUSA CISTI Stn.

Gekchia cisti Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 211-12 (1869) l. Teleia cisti Mill.
Oat. Lp. A lp- Mar. 331 (1875)-; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Ver.
IV. 20 no. 1983 (1880) 3; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXVII. 145
(IH'U)1; Rbl. Verb. ZB. Ges. Wien XLI. (1891). 630 no. 45
(1891)*. Gekchia (Teleia) cisti Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 150
no. 2743 (1901)°.

Ilab. S. EUROPE 1-«— S. FRANCE l~* : ® Cistus salviaefolius1' 3,
C. albidus\ III-VI 3, excl. IV-VIII.3— DALMATIA ''"— CORSICA :
I'orte, ® Cistus salviaefolius, excl. 18-27. VII. 1898 (Wlsm.).
X. AFRICA— TUNIS; Aine-Draham, 21. VII. 1896 (Eaton}—

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936 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

ALGERIA: Port National, Algiers, 1. XI. 1892 (Eaton}-, Azagga,
2. IX. 1893 (Eaton) ; Lac Houbeira, 3. VII. 1896 (Eaton).
Canaries — TEXERIFE : Guimar, 0 Cistus monspeliensis, 26. II.
excl. 4. V - 3. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

, 33. (2749-1) TELPHUSA SCHIZOGYXAE, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 12.)

Antennae black, dotted with white throughout. Palpi, ter-
minal joint longer than the smoothly and compactly clothed
median ; pinkish white, with two slender black lines running
throughout the length of the terminal, and a black patch on the
outer side of the median joint at its base. Head iridescent, steely
whitish. Thorax black, shaded with brownish ochreous at the
sides. Forewings steely whitish, suffused with bluish grey to
two-thirds from the base, and again narrowly around the apex ;
at the extreme base is a short brownish ochreous patch, externally
bounded by a black dorsal streak, and separated from the costa
by black ; there are two black discal spots, one before the middle,
one at the end of the cell — -the first of these preceded by a similar
spot on the fold below it ; the outer edge of the blue-grey shading
is straight, except for the outer discal spot projecting through it ;
apex and cilia white, the latter with a faint median shade.
Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hindwings abruptly and deeply excised
below apex, veins 3 and 4 separate, 5 approximate to 4, discoidal
weak, 6 and 7 stalked ; tawny grey ; cilia paler, with a lighter
line along their base. Abdomen and Legs tawny grey, the tarsi
pale-spotted.

Type 6 (98997) ; $ (98998) Mus. Wlsm.

ffab. TENERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 0 in galls on stems of
ScMzogyne-sericea, 21. IV - 16. V, excl. 25. IV, 10-30. V, 3-30.
VI, 2-10. VII, 19. VIII. 1907. Fourteen specimens.

A distinct species, perhaps most resembling fugitivella Z.
-f lyellella Crt., but larger. The median joint of the palpi is too
smooth to be described as "thickened with rough scales beneath,"
but the clothing of this joint is variable in the genus Telphusa.
Bred from larvae feeding in a swelling on the stems of Schizogyne
sericea : these galls are abundant on the plant, but their numbers
are likely to be somewhat misleading as to the abundance of
the species, for not only are they for the most part empty galls
belonging to many previous seasons, but a very large proportion
of the living larvae are affected by parasites — indeed I have been
able to rear only fourteen specimens .from at least 150 galls
collected.

C*, 34. (2749-2) TELPHUSA CANARIENSIS, sp. 11. (Plate LI. fig. 15.)

Antennae mealy white, annulate with fuscous. Palpi mealy
white, with two blackish annulations on the terminal joint, and
two oblique blackish bars on the outer side of the median. Head
and Thorax mealy white, the latter slightly sprinkled with fuscous.
Forewings mealy white, sprinkled, and almost suffused locally,
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with greyish fuscous ; an oblique costal spot, at one-sixth from
the base, points downward to a similar one on the fold a little
beyond it, which airaiu points to another on the dorsum, each
containing some raise. 1 >;M Irs, there is ;ils<> a, small spot at the
extreme base of the fold ; another cost;il spot occurs before the
middle and is somewhat diffused outward and downward toward
a small dark discal spot, beyond which, transversely placed, are
two small spots at the end of the cell, these and the preceding
being partially surrounded by pale ochreous scaling; there is a
faint indication of a transverse shade beyond the end of the cell,
tin-owing an acute angle outward towards the apex from below
its middle, the space beyond this shade being of the paler ground-
colour, but succeeded by more shady suffusion around the apex
and termen ; cilia mealy white, dusted with greyish fuscous.
Exp.al, 16 mm. Hind wings pale grey; cilia pale brownish grey.
Mxlomen brownish ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous.

Type £ (98999) Mus. Wlsm.

Hcib. Canaries— TENERIFE : Guimar, 12. IY. 1907. Unique.

Taken at light.

18. (303) GELECHIA Hb.
O 35. (2533) GELECHIA DOMESTICA Hw.
:>;"> + a. (2533 + a) DOMESTICA Hw.-f DOMESTICA Hw.

Recurvaria domestica Hw. Lp. Br. 551 no. 18 (1828) \ Bryotropha
domestica Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 142 no. 2533 (1901) 2.

Hob. EUROPE — ENGLAND — GERMANY — AUSTRIA — ITALY —
SPAIN. WC. ASIA.

35 + b. (2533 + b) DOMESTICA HW.+.SALMONIS, var. n.

Itn/otropha domestica Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loncl. 1894. 537, 544
no.' 31 (1894) x; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 38, 44 no. 208
(1906) 2.

ffab. ALGERIA: Hammam-es-Salahin. 18. IV. 1903 (TPfow.);
Constaiitine, 20. Y. 1895 (Eaton}- El-Kantara, 25. Y. 1903
( II 7.<^.). Madeiras 1 — MADEIRA : (Wollaston}\ Canaries ~ — TENE-
RIFE : (White]- ; Guimar, 4. IY. 1907 (\Vlsm.). Five specimens.

Tf/pe tf (99000) Guimar, Mus. Wlsm.

I have already recorded this species from Madeira, and Prof.
Rebel mentions a Tenerife specimen which I have seen in
Mi*. White's collection. I took a fine c? at Guimar on April
4th. These specimens have a salmony pink hue in the ground-
colour of the forewings, which is wanting in European specimens.
I have three specimens, taken in Algeria, which resemble the
Canary form, and to which I had given the MS. name "
as all the markings correspond with those of English
Hw., it is perhaps sufficient to indicate these and the Canary and
Madeiran specimens under this varietal name, taking my Guimar
rf (99000) as the Type of this variety.

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938 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

£, 36. (2584) GELECHIA PLUTELLIFORMIS Stgr.

= olbiaella Mill. ; = siewersiellus Chr. (iiec sieversi Stgr., sp. alt.,
2584-01).

Gelechia plutelliformis Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 239 no. 79
(1859) l ; Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 141, 147 no. 18, 360 (1869) 2. Alucita
olbiaella Mill. Ic. Ohen-Lp. I. 193-6. PI. 1 • 1-6 (1861) 3; Stn.
Tin. S-Eur. 167, 182-5 no. 10 (1869)4. Hypsolophus siewer-
siellus Chr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXVIII. 239-40 (1867) 5. Gelechia
plutelliformis Stgr. Berl. Ent. Zts. XIY. 309-10 no. 91 (1870)°:
Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 290 no. 1832 (1871) 7; Mill. Cat. Lp.
Alp-Mar. 326 (1875)"; Hrtm. MT. Miinch. Ent. Yer. IV. 16
110. 1832 (1880)!); Curo Cat. Lp. Ital. VI. 38 (1882) 10; Kouast
Cat. Chen. Eur. 155 (1883) u; Chr. Mem. Lp. Rmhf. II. 158
110. 316 (1885) 12 ; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 274, 283 no. 56
(1892) 13: XIII. 377, 381 no. 203 (1898) u: XXI. 44 no. 209
(1906) 13 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal. II. 144 no. 2584 (1901) le.

Hob. S. SPAIX1"2' °-7' 10' l3' 1G.— S. FRANCE3-4' ^ 10' 13' 1(i.— SE.

RUSSIA : Sarepta '• 7' 10' 1G, 23. V. 1866, 1. VII. 1866, 11. VIII.
870 (Christoph). POXTUS l3' 1(5.— SYRIA lc. — TuRA12' 13' lc : ® Tama-
mj1-5'8"11: gaXfaa *->'*-": laxa*'9: pattasii3'0, III-IV9; VI-
VIII 5' 9 ; IX 5 ; autumn 8- 4< n, excl. V 9-VI *• "• • ; VII 3'4' 5 s ;
YIII3-1>8-!)_IXo< canaries "-"—TENERIFE 13'13 : Guimar, 15. I.
1898 (ffintz)1*', Santa Cruz, 17.1-2. II. 1907, 0 Tamarix
gallica, XII-I, excl. 20. 11-17. IV. 1907 (llrlsm.) ; Monte de
Aguirre, 800 m., 21. VII. 1889 (Simony) ls.

Among a series of fifteen specimens, bred from Tamarix gallica,
near Santa Cruz, one pale variety approaches somewhat closely
in colour to the Algerian sinuatella, Wlsm. [Ent. Mo. Mag. XL.
223 (1904)], but the form of the markings is distinctly that of
plutelliformis, which it resembles also in its smaller size.

The larva feeds on Tamarix gallica, in December and January,
the moth flying in January, February, and March.

Larva, somewhat attenuate to either extremity, greenish
yellow, with reddish patches on the anterior portion of each
segment, and a few, sparsely distributed, bristly hairs ; there is
a single black dot 011 either side of each thoracic somite. Head
pale screen ; no distinguishable pronotal plate ; legs and claspers
long, blackish.

In 1859 Staudinger described Gelechia plutelliformis (Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 239)
from two ? ? bred from larvae taken at Chiclaua, and in 1870 Le described
Gelechia sieversi Chr. in litt. (Berl. Ent. Zts. XIV. 309-10), pointing out the
differences between the two species, and adopting Christoph's name, apparently
overlooking Christoph's description of Hypsolophus siewersiellus (Stett. Ent. Ztg.
XXVIII. 239-40). The two species are quite distinct and easity separated: in
plutelliformis the dark streak reaches to the base, and is sinuate thus ~^<~*^ ,
being clearly denned beneath by whitish ochreous, but above it fades away into the
ground-colour of the wing; at the extremity of the dark sinuate line is a dark-
extension, sometimes separated from it. In sieversi the longitudinal dark marking
may be best described as a cuneate streak commencing at half the wing-length and
attenuate towards the base, which it does not reach; this streak is sharply edged
with whitish above, and slightly beyond its outer extremity, in line with its

.NIK i;<>u;i>iij<)i>ri;i;.\ OK TENEKIFE. 939

3 an elongate dark streak, also ed^ed above with whitish ; at the base is a
Mack limhal streak which does not. occur in ^>! iift-llifni'iinx. When describing
siewersiellus, Christoph had het'o.v him (unwittingly) specimens of bothplvtelli-
f» i' in is and sieversi, both taken at Sarepta, and apparently both bred from Tamnri.e.
His description of gi&wergielltlt was obviously taken from plutelliformis, and
Standin-vr und \Vncke (Cat. Lp. Eur. 25)0) give the synonymy correctly thus:

1831. \/i -rci-fti Sfgr.

1832. pltitcllifarinis Stgr. ; = <tU><ai:lln Mill.; — siewersiellus Chr.
Christoph's collection contains six specimens and a larva labelled " sieversi Stgr.";

and four specimens labelled " plutellifbrmiA Stgr." These are all from Sarepta,
and are correctly determined, except that the third specimen of plutelliformis is
a worn example of an allied species distinct from both. The name siewersiellus
does not occur in the collection: the larva labelled "sieversi" appears to be
distinct from, but closely allied to, that of plutelliformis (sieiversiellus), and
probably fed on Tamari.v li.m or pallasii (vide Chr. 1. c.).

Christoph sent /eller two specimens, which constitute Zeller's series of " plutelli-
formis Stdg." The first, received from Christoph in 1860, is labelled by Zelier
" Gelechia pint el I if or mis Stdg. E. Z. 59, 239 " : this determination is incorrect, it is
sieversi Stgr. The second specimen is not specially labelled, not being regarded as
distinct from the first ; it is, however, truly plutelliformis Stgr. ( = sieiversielhis
Chr.). When describing sieversi, Staudinger observes that, owing to its similarity
to pi ut ell if or in is, he had at first thought it that species, but, recognising its
distinctness, he retains for it the name given by Christoph in honour of the now
unfortunately deceased entomologist Sievers. It is therefore presumable that
Christoph sent Staudinger sieversi Stgr., labelled " siewersiellus Chr." On the
other hand, Christoph sent Hofmann, in 1871, four specimens of " siewersiella
Chr.'', which are rightly determined by Hofmann us plutelliformis Stgr.

In Staudinger and Hebel's Catalog (II. 144) we find both species united thus : —
2584. plutelliformis Stgr.; — olbiaella Mill.; = siewersiellus Chr.; —sieversi
Stgr. _ab.]. '

The confusion caused by both species occurring at Sarepta, and both species being
distributed by Christoph as " siewersielhis," has doubtless suggested the erroneous
idea that the verbal variants Hypsolophus siewersiellus Chr. and Gelechia sieversi
Stgr. pertained to mere varieties of one species. Staudinger's two species are
undoubtedly distinct, and we must revert to the synonymy of Staudinger and
Wocke's Catalog, correcting that of Staudinger and Rebel thus . —

^ 2584-01. GELECHIA SIEVEKSI Stgr.
(nee siewersiellus Chr., - 2584. plutelliformis Stgr.)

Gelechia sieversi Stgr. Berl. Ent. Zts. XIV. 309-10 no. 91 (1870) J : Stgr-Wk. Cat
Lp. Eur. 290 no. 1831 (1871) - ; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Ver. IV. 16 no. 1831
(1880) :i [*in syn. plutelliformis Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 144 no. 2584 (1901) 4].

Hab. SE. RUSSIA: Sarepta1-4, 29. VI. 1859, 16. VI. 1866, 1. VII. 1866, 1
VIIL, 18. VIII. 1866, 20. VIII. 1879 (Christoph), 0 Tamarix1.

:>7. (2611-2) GELECHIA LUXARIELLA, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 13.)

Antennae shortly biciliate in ci ; blackish, spotted with rosy
reddish above. Palpi moderately biserrate beneath ; rosy whitish,
speckled and ringed with black, the terminal joint having a
black ring before its middle, and a broader bind before its
minutely pale apex ; the intermediate space pale rosy. Head
steely greyish, with rosy iridescent scale-tips. Thorcuc black,
mixed with rosy reddish. Forewings cinereous, varying to rosy
reddish , sprinkled and suffused with tawny grey and black
scaling, the latter for the most part slightly raised, and exhibited,
especially on the base of the dorsum, in an outwardly oblique,
narrow, partially interrupted, transverse fascia at about one-sixth
from the base ; in a patch on the middle of the cell, another,
toward the end of the cell, produced downward to the dorsum at

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940 LORD WALSIXGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

the outer end of the fold ; above it a blackish costal patch,
preceded by an elongate costal shade, the intermediate spaces
bright rosy red ; the terminal portion of the wing is much
mottled with similar colouring, tending to indicate marginal
spots, radiating through the tawny greyish cilia, which have two
narrow shade-lines running through them before their ends.
Exp. al. 15-17 mm. Hindwings tawny grey, with a rosy tinge:
cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs brownish
cinereous, the latter spotted externally with tawny fuscous.

Type 6 (99001) ; $ (99002) Mus. Wlsm.

Hub. TEXERIFE : San Andres, 0 Rumex Iwnarius, 23. I, excl.
27 II - 9. III. 1907 ; Guimar, ® 12. IV, excl. 11-24. V. 1907 ;
Puerto Orotava, ® 24. IV, excl. 23. V. 1907. Thirteen
specimens.

Bred from pale glaucous green larvae collected on Rumex
lunarius in January and April ; these larvae turned to rosy
reddish before pupating (99003 Mus. Wlsm.).

I met with this species first at San Andres, near Santa Cruz,
and subsequently observed it near Guimar, and again at Orotava.
It contorts and attaches together the young terminal leaves of its
food-plant, and probably occurs wherever this indigenous shrub
is to be found on the island. It is closely allied to nigrorosea
Wlsm., but is a darker and rather broader winged insect : it is
also very near to the European diffinis Hw.

~ 38. (2635) GELECHIA EPITHYMELLA Stgr.

Gelechia epithymeUa Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 242 no. 89 (1859)1 ;
Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 141, 150 no. 28, 332 (1869) 2. Lita epithymeUa
Mill. Ic. Cheii-Lp. III. 392-4. PI. 149' 8-10 (1874) 3: Cat. Lp.
Alp-Mar. 329 (1875) 4; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Ver. IV. 18
no. 1914 (1880) \ Gelechia (Lita} epithymeUa Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 146no. 2635 (1901) (i.

Hob. S. FRANCE 3"G : Cannes 3> 4, Monaco 3, Mentoiie 4, ® Solatium
nigrum, VIII-IX 3"5, excl. IX-XI 3~ — S. SPAIN "• 5~° : Chiclana,
14. Ill 1"2. Canaries — TEXERIFE: Puerto Orotava, ^Hyoscyamus
albus, 10. V, excl. 6-16. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

After persistingly searching plants of Hyoscyamus albus in the
expectation of finding Gelechia hyoscyamella Mill., I at last found
larvae mining the leaves of two or three plants only, among
several, in a lane east of Puerto Orotava. To my surprise these
produced rather dark varieties of Gelechia epithymeUa Stgr.,
which has been recorded as feeding on Solanum nigrum in the
south of France, but which has not hitherto been observed in
Tenerife.

39. (2636-1) GELECHIA MICRADELPHA Wlsm.

Gelechia micradelpka Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVI. 217-8
110. 1916-3 (1900) *; St£>T-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal. II. 264 no. 2694ter
(1901) \
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1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TKXF.it I HO. t»4l

Hub. S. FRANCE1"': Perpigimn, 0 LI/CUI ni citrojxK: tun. 'I'l. V .

excl. 7-9. VI. 1899 (H7*wi.)1. ALGESIA: Biskra. 13. II - 7.

IV. I'M):!. 0 Li/d,,,,' europaeum, \'2. \. axel, <>. 111. 19U4 (H7*/,/.):
Hammam-es-Salahin, 22, III 30. IV. 1904 (fFZww.). Canaries

TENEBIFE: Santa Cruz, 10. I. 1907 (IIVswi.); Puerto Orotava.
27. IV. 1904 (U7x//>.),

This obscure little species is common among Lycium a/rum,
west of Santa Cruz, and east of Orotava. It has not hitherto
been known to occur in the Canaries, unless it be the same as the
•worn specimen, taken by von Hedemann at Orotava, 14. IV. 1895,
recorded as Llt« xy>., by Rebel, Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 127, 146
no. 191 (1896): XXI/44 no. 211 (1906).

40. (2712-1) GELECHIA SCIURELLA, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 14.)

Antennae dark grey, with blackish annulations. Palpi hoary,
much sprinkled and suffused with black and chestnut-brown,
except on the inner side of the median joint, which appears
slightly serrate beneath. Head and Thorax steely grey. Fore-
triiHjs whitish grey, mottled, suffused, and blotched with chestnut-
brown and black ; the former prevailing especially along the
costal area, from the base to beyond the middle, and in a diffused
patch a little beyond the upper angle of the cell ; the latter
especially in a roundish spot on the fold near the base, in a large
reniform patch before the middle, its lower edge crossing the
fold, and in an inverted, upwardly attenuate, oblique patch resting
on the outer end of the fold ; the apex and termen are also
speckled with black ; cilia smoky greyish, with some pale brown
around the apex. Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings subiridescent,
bluish grey ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen grey. Legs greyish
fuscous, pale cinereous at the joints.

Type $ (14290) Funchal Mus, Wlsm.

Hob. Madeiras— MADEIRA : Funchal, 2600 ft., 8. III. 1902
(Eaton). Canaries— TEXERIFE : Guimar, 27. 11-12. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.) ; Arafo, 13. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.). Seven specimens.

Most nearly allied to promnciella Stn., but smaller and more
glossy; the darker shades are greyer, and the ground-colour is
more cinereous, less ochreous. I have had the type in my col-
lection for some years : the capture of six worn specimens in
Tenerife has induced me to describe it.

19. (300) PLATYEDRA Meyr.
41. (2509) PLATYEDRA VILELLA Z.

Gelechia vilella Z. Isis 1847. 846-7 no. 393 \ Platyedra vilella
Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 605 (1895) 2 ; Stffr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 141
no. "2509 (1901) :1.

II«1>. WC-C. and S. EUROPE— SPAIN : SEVILLA : Corrio
del Ilio, 10. XII. 1900; Alcalar, 12. XII. 1900 (Wlsm.)'. CADIZ:
de la Froiitera, 18. XII. 1900; Chiclana, 22-25. II. 1901

63*

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942 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE |Nov. 26,

(Wlsm.): MALAGA: Malaga, 2. I. 1901 (Wlsm.). WC. ASIA.
N. AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tangier, 13. IV. 1901 (Wlsm.) -
ALGERIA: Biskra, 7. III. 1903 (Wlsm.). Canaries — TENERIFE :
Villa Orotava, 19. II. 1907 (Wlsm.)', near Tacaronte, 29. IV.
1907 (Wlsm.).

Two specimens : one taken at Villa Orotava, the other between
Villa Orotava and Tacaronte.

20. (300'D PHTHORIMAEA Meyr.

PHTHORIMAEA Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVIII. 103-4 (1902) *;
Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 502 (1902) 2 : Pr. US. Nat. Mus.
XXV. 773, 821-3. PI. 30' 19 (1903) 3; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc.
NSW. XXIX. 259, 315-6 no. 20 (1904) \

"Antennae i, in <3 simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten.
Labial Palpi long, recurved, second joint expanded with rough
projecting scales beneath, terminal joint as long as second, acute.
Forewings : 2 and 3 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hind-
wings 1, trapezoidal, apex produced, acute, termeii bisinuate,
cilia 1-J ; in $ with long pencil of hairs lying along costa from
base beneath forewings ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 somewhat approxi-
mated to 4, 6 and 7 remote, nearly parallel.

" A North American genus of several species, of which one has
been artificially introduced with its food-plant into widely sepa-
rated regions ; it is a derivative of Gnorimoschema Busck. Imago
with forewings elongate, pointed." (Meyrick, 1. c. 4.)

42. (2509-1) PHTHORIMAEA OPERCULELLA Z.

= § terreUa "Wkr. ; =solanella Bdv. ; =tabacella Rgt.; =sedata
Btl. ; =.*piscipellis Hwrd. (nee Z.).

Gelechia terrella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 1024 (1864) \
Gelechia (? Bryotropha) operculella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wieii
XXIII: 1873. Abh. 262-3. PI. 3' 17 (1873) \ Bryotropha
solanella Bdv. J. B. Soc. Centr. Hort. (XI. 1874)3. Gelechia
tabacella Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLVIII (4 s. IX: 1879)
pp. cxlvi-vii (1880) 4. Gelechia sedata Btl. Cist. Ent. II. 560
no. 88 (1880) 5. Litha solanella Alph. Mem. Lp. Rmhf. V. 231
no. 56 (1889)6; Holt White B. & M. Ten. 95 no. 20 (1894) 7.
Lita solanella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 274-5, 282 no. 57
(1892)8: IX. 18, 89 no. 171(1894)9: XI. 127, 146 no. 190
(1896) 10: XIII. 381 no. 204 (1899) u: XXI. 44 no. 210 (1906)12.
Gelechia (Lita) solanella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. ,Lp. Pal. II. 146 no. 2636
(1901) 13. Phthorimaea operculella Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVIII.
103-4 (1902) u; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 502 no. 5616
(1902) 1S : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXV. 821-2. PI. 30 • 19 (1903) 1(i ;
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXIX. 316 no. 94 (1904) 1T ; Wlsm.
Fn. Hawaii. I. 483-5, 731, 745, 757, 758 no. 21. PI. 13' 27
(1907)".

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1907. i MICUOLEPIDOPTEKA (>K TKXKRIFE. 94?)

lf<tl>. WEST INDIKS. UNITED STATES. HA.WAIIA.
TA1UTL AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND. S.EUROPE—
SPAIX. N. AFRICA — ALGERIA. 0 mining leaves, shoots,
stems, tubers : Lycopersicum esculentum ; Nicotiana tabacum ;
Solanuin carolinense, melonyena, tuberosum, I-XII, excl. I-XII.
Canaries'"13' ^—TEXERIFE"-^ ls: IV. 1885 (Leech); Guimar, 2.
Ill - 16. IV. 1907 (JFTswi.) ; La Laguna, 3-23. V. 1907 (TFTww.);
Puerto Orotava, IX (Alpheraky)*'9. — FUERTEVEXTURA H~12 ' ls : Rio
Paima, 20. X. 1890 (Simony)*.

Not uncommon in March and April at Guimar, and at La
Liiu'inta in May; often, but not exclusively, near potato-fields.

[For Index to full list of references ride Wlsm, 1. c. 18.]

21. (306'OD TRICHOTAPHE Clms.

TRICHOTAPHE Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XII. 166 (I860)1:
Clms-Stn. Tin. N. Am. 121 (1872) 2; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus.
52. 505-7 (1902) 3 : Pr. US. Nat. XXV. 772, 906-16. PL 32 • 33
(1903) 4.

"Antennae serrate, often more or less ciliated. Labial Palpi
long, recurved ; second joint thickened with scales, appressed
and smooth in front and laterally, smooth, or more or less long-
haired above (on the inner side) ; terminal joint long, but shorter
than second joint, slender, smooth, pointed. Forewings elongate,
apex obtuse; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 2 and 3 stalked. Hind-
wings broader than forewings, slightly sinuate below apex,
trapezoidal, anal angle rounded ; 8 veins, 3 and 4 connate with
a tendency to become short-stalked, 5 approximate to 4, 6 and 7
connate with a tendency to become short-stalked. Discal vein
in several species with a tendency to become obsolete." (Busck.
1. c. 3.)

' 43. (2270'01) TRICHOTAPHE LAMPROSTOMA Z.
= zulu Wlsm.

Gelechia lamprostoma Z. Isis. 1847. 851-2 no. 400 l. Gelechia
zulu Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1881. 261-2. PI. 12' 30 2.
Anacampsis lamprostoma Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 154 no. 2848
(1901) 3. Aproaerema Imnprostoma Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag.
XXXVII. 236 (1901) \ Onebala lamprostoma Wlsm. Ent. Mo,
Mag. XL. 267-8 no. 2770-1 (1904) 5. Anacampsis (Onebala)
Idiit/n'ostoma Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 38, 44 no. 213
(1906)°.

//fib. SW. ASIA3' 8 : VI 5. S. EUROPE '' 3' 5— SICILY, V1- 3' 5
—SPAIX, V3*"'. AFRICA— ALGERIA : IV3— GAMBIA: XI5.—
NATAL : VII ; XII \ Canaries— TEXERIFE 6 : (White, 1905) 6 :
Puerto Orotava. 10. V. 1907. 0 Convolvulus althaeoides, 10. V,.
excl. 15. VI. 11)07 (Wlsm.).

I bred a single specimen from a larva found at Puerto Orotava :
this did not emerge until June .Itli. although I captured five

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944 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

specimens on the same spot on May 10th, when I found the larva
feeding on Convolvulus althaeoides : the food-plant of this species
was hitherto unknown.

44. (227O02) TRICHOTAPHE CONVOLVULI, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 16.)

= Ceratophora sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 275, 283 no. 58
(1892)1. Brachmia (Ceratophora) sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 44 no. 216 (1906) 2.

Antennae dark tawny fuscous. Palpi dull whitish ochreous,
unspotted ; the median joint clothed with closely appressed scales.
Head whitish ochreous. Thorax dark tawny fuscous. Forewings
dark tawny fuscous, with a small, narrow, elongate, pale ochreous
costal spot at four-fifths from the base ; on the cell, at one-third
from the base, is an elongate blackish spot, followed by another
at two- thirds — each rather obscurely annulate with chestnut-
brown scales ; a similar spot lies in the fold, straight below the
first cliscal, and a row of minute ochreous spots precedes the dark
tawny grey cilia. Exp. al. 13-15 mm. Hindwings brownish
grey, with a slender pale ochreous line along the base of the
otherwise unicolorous cilia. Abdomen fuscous. Legs dark tawny
fuscous ; the spurs and joints of the tarsi pale cinereous.

This species (which is obviously the same as Ceratophora sp.
Rbl.) is closely allied to juncidella Clms., but differs in its darker
face and palpi : the median joint of the palpi is more roughly
scaled, and the pale costal spot is distinctly visible on the under
side of the forewings.

Type $ (99004); <$ (99005); 0 (99006) Mus. Wlsm.

Hah. Canaries — TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 19-22. I. 1907,
0 Ipomoea quinquefolia, 19. 1, excl. 20. II - 2. III. 1907 (Wlsm.).
— GRAN CANARIA : (Richter) 1~~. Thirty- two specimens.

Bred from larvae reminding one much of those of Brachmia
rufescens Hw. in their black and white oblique striping. Head
honey-yellowish, edged with blackish ; pronotal plate honey-
yellow, posteriorly broadly black - margined lunate! y, suture
honey -yellow ; mesothorax, metathorax, and abdominal somites
I-II blackish, mesothorax conspicuously separated by white from
the metathorax and prothorax, the latter similarly separated
from the head ; abdominal somites III-IX white, with blackish
markings — the lateral markings are oblique, as in rufescens, but
having no pale dorsal stripe to interrupt them, anteriorly above,
they form on each segment a complete arcuate band, followed on
somites III-YII by a transverse bar of the same colour, but on
Y this bar is not apparent, owing to dark dorsal suffusion ;
normal spots distinct, black ; legs black, abdominal claspers
tipped with blackish ; long. 15mm. (99006 Mus. Wlsm.). The
larvae roll the leaves of Ipomoea quinquefolia in January, and are
extremely abundant on this introduced plant at Santa Cruz,
especially on a wall below the Quisisana Hotel.
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22. (349'D APATEMA Wlsm.

APATK.MA \Vlsm. Ent. M,». Ma-. XXXVI. 219-20 (1900); Stgr-
IH)1. Oat, LJ>. Pal. II. 265 no. 348bi3 (1901).

45. (3050*1) Al'ATEMA FASCIATUM Stll.

n. 9JJ3&L.aa*giiadripunetq Stn. (nee Hw.); =coarctella Rbl. ; =me-
diopaUidum Wlsm.

Gelechiafasdata Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 213 no. 18(1859)!;
Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXIX. 628 (1864)'. *0egoconia *qu*dri-
pi'Mcta Stn. Tin. Syr. As-Min. 41 no. 23 (1867) :t. Hypatima
fasciata Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1894. 538, 554 no. 56 (1894) '.
Lampros coarctella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmtis. XI. 129-30, 147
no. 198, PI. 3 • 11 (1896) '. Apatema mediopalUdumWlsm. Ent.
Mo. Mag. XXX'Vl. 220 no. 222:5 • 1 (1900) ; Stirr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. 11/265 no. 3049bis (1901) '. Hypa&ima fasciata Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 164 no. 3073 (1901) \ Vorkhavsenia coarctella
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 178 no. 3380(1901) fl : Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmns. XXI. 44 no. 229 (11)06) VJ.

Hob. WC. ASIA— PALESTINE1: Plains of Jordan, 1865 (O.P.
Cambridge)1. S. EUROPE— CORSICA ^ : Ajaccio, 6. V. 1896
(U7*^.)'-;; He RoiLsse, 5. VI. 1898 (Wlsm.) '!— S. SPAIN: GRANADA:
Granada, 13-17. VI. 1901 (lllsm.)— GIBRALTAR : 3. VI. 1903
(I!7.s-^.). X. AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tanker, 14. IV- 18. V. 1902
( l[7x/y^.)--ALGERiA : Biskra, 9. IV. 1903 (Ulsm ). Madeiras1''
—MADEIRA'"': Fimchal !, The ]\[oimt (Wollaston) '— DESERTA
GRAXDE 1; ! : (Wollaston)1' '• Canaries 5> °"10 — TEXERIFE 5> 10 : Santa
Cruz, 2. I - 20. II. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Guimar, 20. III. 1904 (Eaton),
9. Ill - 18. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; La Lacuna, 27, III. I904(#o«0w),
23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Puerto Orotava, 26-30. IV. 1895 (Hede-
,»<(,,„)''. 21. IV -2. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).— GRAN OAXARiA3'10: Las
Palnias, 9. V. 1895 (Hedemann) \

Having placed this species in the Oecophoridae, through failing
to observe that veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings were stalked,
Prof. Rebel not unnaturally overlooked my genus Apatema (Gele-
chiadae, 1900), allied to Oecogenia (t6^occmi«)Stn., and Symmoca
Hb. ; and when describing mediapaUidum, from Corsica, I over-
looked the Madeira n Gelechia fasciata Stn., which I had erro-
n.'ou.sly referred to Hypatima Stgr-Wk. (nee Hb.) in 1894. The
specimen which Stainton recorded as Oe(joconiaquadri2)unrtaH\v.,
from the Jordan (9212 Mus. Wlsm.), is Apatema fasciata Stn.,
Itadly worn.

[It should be observed that HYPATOPA Wlsm. Pr. US. Xat.
Mus. XXXIII. 200, 211 (l<>07) = *//>/^rt^!« HS. (nee Hb.} type
Ui><'»;>/tt>r>f iiui/uctella Z., and that HYPATIMA Hb. (nee HS.) =
i '/i<-fnrlit Hw.]

tr,. (3050-2) APATEMA LUCIDUM, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 3.)

ochreous ; basal joint black above. Palpi

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946 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26..

pale ochreous, the median joint shaded on its basal half with
black, and with a black spot on its distal half externally. Head
and Thorax pale ochreous, the latter slightly shaded with fawn-
brown anteriorly. Forewings pale ochreous, partially shaded
with umber-brown, especially below the fold, on the outer half of
the costa, and around the apex where the dark scales project
more or less through the pale ochreous cilia ; the extreme base of
the costa is narrowly black, a few black scales being scattered
along the base of the dorsum ; at one-third from the base are two
small black spots placed obliquely in the cell, sometimes confluent,
and beneath the outer one is a stronger black spot in the fold ;
beyond these, at the end of the cell and preceded by a small
elongate spot at its upper edge, is an oblique reniform patch,
covering the discoidal and produced inward from the upper angle
— these markings are subject to more or less modification, and
are less distinct in some specimens than in others, but their posi-
tion is uniformly maintained. Exp. al. 13-1 4 mm. Hindwings
pale straw- whitish ; cilia pale ochreous. Abdomen and Legs pale
ochreous, the tibiae and tarsi slightly shaded with brownish on
their outer sides.

Type d1 (98242); $ (98241) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob'. TENERIFE : Forest de la Mina, 7. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ;
Realejo, 7. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Las Mercedes, 19. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\
La Laguna, 23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Tacaronte, 31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).
Thirteen specimens.

This species is somewhat larger on the average than Apalema
fasciatum, and the forewings are uniformly broader ; their invariably
ochraceous ground-colour and the distribution of the black spots,
with the absence of any distinct shade across the base, serve to
distinguish it from its ally — like the forewings the. hind wings are-
also of an entirely different hue. It does not appear to be a
common species.

23. (349'2) AMBLOMA, gn. n.

(cipfiXwpa = abortion.)
Type Ambloma brachyptera Wlsm.

Antennae without pecten ; a little longer than the forewings ;
simple in <5 . Maxillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi bent upwards,
reaching to vertex ; median joint moderately clothed with slightly
projecting scales below at apex ; terminal joint short, smooth.
Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings very short, tapering rapidly
to a slightly depressed, obtusely pointed apex; costa evenly convex,
flexus rather squarely developed, dorsum straight beyond the
nexus: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 6 out of
stalk of (7 + 8) ; cell short. Hindwings f, much shorter, but of
the same shape as the forewings ; cilia 1^ : neuration 8 veins ;•
6 and 7 stalked; 3 and 4 stalked. Abdomen smooth. Legs, hind
tibiae moderately hairy.

Allied to Apatema Wlsm. and Symmoca Hb., but differing in
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its curiously aborted appearance, which recalls the form of /-.//<

lril<>nopsis Etn. and Hodegia \Vlsm.. both insular forms, and. in
the European fauna, the $ of Chimabacche Hb.

47. (3050-3) AMBLOMA ERACHYPTERA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 18.)

Antennae dark greyish fuscous, the basal joint hoary white.
Palpi greyish fuscous externally, hoary white on their inner sides,
arid around the apex of the median joint. Head and Thorn.'
hoary white, the latter with grey sprinkling. Forewings hoary
white, profusely sprinkled with dark stone-grey scales, but devoid
of pattern ; a slight spot of ochreous .suffusion on the cell a little
before the middle of the wing ; cilia hoary whitish, with a slight
admixture of grey, especially about the tornus. Exp, al. 9 mm.
Hindu-ings whitish grey; cilia pale grey. Abdomen ochreous;
anal tuft hoary white. Legs whitish, dusted with brownish grey,
the tarsi faintly banded.

Type rf (99007) Mus. Wlsm.

Hah. TENERIFE : Guimar, 6. III. 1907. Unique.

Found under leaves of Lotus sessilifolius. on the black sand
of the coast near Puerto Guimar. Xo other specimen seen.

24. (348'OD CHERSOGENES, gn. n.

(xepi7oyei'//s = bred on dry land.)
Type Chersogenes victimella Wlsm.

Antennae 1, simple in $ ; without pecten. Maxillary Palpi
moderate. Labial Palpi extending fully three times the length
of the head beyond it ; median joint thickly clothed above and
beneath, the lower scales projecting nearly half the length of the
slender, erect terminal joint, beyond its base. Haustellum
moderate. Head and Thorax moderately smooth. Forewings
narrow, elongate, lanceolate, with straightened costa and slightly
curved dorsum tapering to a point : neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8
stalked, 7 to termen ; rest separate. Hindu-ings as broad as the
fore wings, considerably shorter, but much the same shape ; cilia
1£ : neuration 8 veins; 6 and 7 long-stalked; 3 and 4 long-stalked.
Abdomen smooth, somewhat flattened ; uncus and claspers strongly
developed. Legs, hind tibiae slightly hairy.

This genus is most nearly allied to Epanastasis Wlsm. but
differs in the structure of the palpi.

48. (3022-01) CHERSOGEXES VICTIMELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LI. fig. 17.)

Antennae dark brownish fuscous. Palpi hoary whitish, sprinkled
with fuscous scales on their outer sides. Head and Thorax
cinereous, dusted with fuscous. Forcn-iags pale cinereous.

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densely sprinkled with fuscous throughout, except along a narrow
line running from the base to the lower angle of the cell, with
a slight break about its middle ; on either side of this break
is a small spot of raised dark fuscous scales, two similar spots
appearing on either side of the outer end of the pale line, the
lower spot in each case being a little further from the base than
the one above it ; there is also an indication of a small group of
dark fuscous scales resting on the upper edge of the cell at its
base; cilia cinereous, sprinkled with fuscous. Exp. al. 12 mm.
Hindwings and cilia dark tawny brown. Abdomen brownish
cinereous. Legs pale cinereous, slightly dusted with fuscous.

Type 3 (99008) Mus. Wlsm.

Hal. TEXERTFE: Santa Cruz, 29. IY. 1907. Unique.

The most persistent efforts to secure another specimen of this
very distinct species were unsuccessful.

25. (34-8-02) EPANASTAS1S, gn. 11.

(eTrar((fj-a(Tis = rebellion.)
Type flolcopogon sopkroniellus Rbl.

Antennae nearly as long as the forewings, slightty serrate ;
without pecten. Maxillary Palpi short, dependent. Labial
Palpi clothed with projecting scales beneath, these extending
beyond the base of the terminal joint ; terminal joint not more
than half the length of median, smooth. Haustellum well-
developed. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, lan-
ceolate, the dorsum slightly more convex than the costa : neuration
1 2 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen ; rest separate. Hind-
wings 1, apex slightly depressed, termen very oblique, almost
sinuate, nexus moderately developed ; cilia 1 : neuration 8 veins ;
6^and 7 long-stalked : 3 and 4 stalked. Abdomen smooth. Legs,
hind tibiae slightly hairy above.

Has much the appearance of Apiletria Ldr., to which it is closely
allied, but differs in having vein 7 of the forewings to termen, in
which it agrees with ftymmoca Hb. ; differing from Symmoca, as
also from Apilelria, in its more roughly clothed palpi, with much
shorter terminal joint.

49. (3022-02) EPAXASTASIS SOPHROXIELLA Rbl.

Holcopogon sophroniellus .Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 89-90
no. 174 (1894) l : XI. 128-9, 147 no. 196, PI. 3 • 10-10a (1896) 2 •
XIII. 381 no. 210 (1899)' : XXI. 44 110. 217 (1906) 4 : Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 160 no. 2980 (1901) 3.

Type rf (61057) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. Canaries1' - TEXERIFE ^ : 'IV. 1885 (Leech) ]— GRAN
CAXARiA2-': Teror, 10. V. 1895 (.fledemann)2.

Despite persistent search I did not meet with this species.
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26. (348) SYMMOCA Hb.
.")(). (3035-1) SYMMOCA CAXARIEXSLS Rbl. (Plate LII. fig. 1.)

Xiinrnxiea t-diKir'n-tisis Rbl. Ann. K.K. Hofmtis. XXI. 38—9, 44
no. 218 (1906) \

Hab. TEXERIFE l : 1905 (ir. IF. White) l ; Santa Cruz, 4-29. II.
1907 ( II7.W.). :{. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 29. IV. 1907(JPZsm.) ; Guimar,
2. Ill - 14. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Arafo, 13-14. IV. 1907 (IFfem.);
Puerto Orotava, 21. IV- 10. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ La Lagima, 23. V.
1907 (Whin.).

I carefully «>xa mined the single specimen, in Mr. White's collec-
tion, at Guimar, which is the type of St/mntoca canariensis Rbl., and
bearing in mind the appearance of Holcopogon sophroniellus Rbl.,
at first imagined they must be the same, but, although I cannot
agree with Prof. Rebel in placing sophroniellus in the genus Hoi-
cnpnyoii Stgr. (\vhich has been wrongly included in the Gelechiadrtc,
and must be removed to the ffyponowieuiidae), the shorter terminal
joint of the palpi, even without other more important characters,
is at once sufficient to separate it from the Symmoca. I found
X. caiuti'i<'ii.iix almost the commonest insect in the Island; it was
abundant at Santa Cruz and Guimar, but I have no clue to the
Imbits of the larva.

A fine series of 64 specimens exhibits considerable variation : in
some the costal margin is broadly and conspicuously darkened, in
contrast to the dull. white ground-colour; in others a suffusion
extends more or less over the whole wing ; while in others again
there is a yellowish streak along the cell, or sometimes two pairs
of obliquely placed fuscous spots, before and beyond the middle,
recalling vividly the pattern of oxybiella Mill., but more obliquely
placed than in that species, and exhibiting scarcely any of the
yellowish scales which are there to be found on the outer edge of
the spots. Some of the smaller and more suffused varieties show
a faint indication of these spots and approach very closely, except
in colour, the only two specimens which I am obliged to eliminate
from my series and to describe under another n&me(a8greUa1 sp.n.).
S. canariensis was not found at the time and place where the new
species occurred.

.">!. (:n >:',.•> -2) SYMMOCA AEGRELLA, sp. 11. (Plate LII. fig. 2.)

Antennae and Palpi sandy ochraceous. Head and Thorax pale
ochreous. Forewings sandy ochreous, dusted with fawn-brownish
scales, slightly more thickly above and belowr than upon the cell ;
cilia pale sandy ochreous. Evp. al. 13-14 mm. Hindwings
shining, pale straw-ochreous, a little more brownish toward the
apex ; cilia very pale sandy ochreous. Abdomen and Legs pale
sandy ochreous.

Type <3 (99009) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: La Lagima, 9. VI. 1907. Two specimens.

This species, \vhich agrees with canariensis in having veins •>

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and 4 of the fore wings short-stalked, differs in its ochreous, rather
than whitish, or greyish, colouring ; in its paler and more ochreous
hindwings, and in the absence of a dark shade along the outer
side of the median joint of the palpi, which are also somewhat
more slender in appearance.

27. (347) EPIDOLA Stgr.
52. (3019) EPIDOLA STIGMA Stgr.

Epidola stigma Stgr. Stett. Ent, Ztg. XX. 244 no. 93 (1859) x;
Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 141, 152 no. 32 (1869) 2; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 162 no. 3019 (1901) \

Hob. S. EUROPE— CORSICA : Punta Parata, 0 Frankenia
pulverulenta, 7. YI, excl. 1. IX. 1899 (Wlsm.)', Ajaccio, 0 Crilh-
mum maritimum, 10. YI, excl. 7. IX. 1899 (Wlsm.) — S. SpAix1"3 :
Chiclana, 0 Quercus cocci/era, 1Y, excl. YI (Stgr.) x"2 ; Coto,
Granada, 0 Cistus, Helianthemiim, IY-Y. 1901 (Wlsm.).
N. AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tangier, 029. II. 1902 (Wlsm.) ; Cape
Spartel, 0 on palings, 14. IY. 1902 (Wl^m.)— ALGERIA : Con-
stantine (Stgr.). Canaries — TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz, 0 on rocks,
30. I - 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.).

I found, at different dates, six cases of this species on the rocks,
above the Hotel Quisisana at Santa Cruz, but failed to rear any
of them, repeating my previous experience as to the difficulty of
breeding it. From more than a hundred cases, collected at Granada,
not a single specimen emerged ; but the few cases previously found
in Corsica all produced the moth in due course. I am quite at a
loss to account for the failures. Similar cases are made by species
of the Australian genus Ocystola Meyr. (Oecophoridae).

II. BLASTOBASIDAE.

28. (351) BLASTOBASIS Z.

Prof. Rebel recorded the occurrence of Blastobasis rosciddla Z.
in the Canaries [Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 90 no. 177 (1894)],
on the strength of a specimen (61060) received from me in 1893.
This was one of a series of seven specimens (61058-64) taken in
Tenerife, by the late Mr. J. H. Leech, in April 1885, and is now
recognised as Scythris fasciatella Rgt. (3536), vide no. 86, p. 973.

53. (3054) BLASTOBASIS PHYCIDELLA Z.

Oecophora (Scythris) phycidella Z. Isis 1839. 193 no. 35 \ Blasto-
basis phycidella Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 309 no. 2303 (1871) 2;
Mill. Cat. Lp. Alp-Mar. 346 (1875) 3 ; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent.
Yer. IY. 33 no. 2303 (1880) 4 ; Srhgn. Kleinschm. MBrndbo.
221-2 no. 305 (1886) 3; MP-FT. Nat. Sic. YIIL 187 (1889) u ;
Meyr, Ent. Mo. Mag. XXYIL 59 (1891) ~. Blastolasis ? phyd-

1907. ] MICROLKPIDOPTERA OF TBNEUFE. 951

deUa Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 276, 283 no. 60 (1892)*.
Blastobasia phyciddla Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 90 no. 176
(1894)9: XXI. 44 no. 220 (190r>)"; Sbld. Deutsche Ent. Zts.
Iris XI. 317 (1898) " ; Stgr-Rbl. Gas. Lp. Pal. II. 163 no. 3054
(1901) ls.

//«&. WC. ASIA 2> •• ". S. EUROPE 1-4>-0- *'*> 12 — GER-
MAN v 1"2> 4" — S. AUSTRIA 2> 12 — SWITZERLAND L- — ITALY '2 : San
Remo, 2. IY. 1893 (Wlsm.) ; Rome, 10-25. IV. 1893 (TPfom.)—
SICILY l' "—CORSICA : Ajaccio, 4-6. V. 1896, 16. VI. 1899 (Wlsm.)
— S. FRANCE*: Cannes, 20. IV. 1890, 1. VI. 1892, 0 Rubia
peregrina, excl. V. 1881 (Wlsm.) ; Napoule, 24. V. 1892 (Wlsm.);
Thues-les-baius. 18-21. VI. 1900 (Wlsm.)— SPAIN u : GRAXADA :
Granada, 17. VI. 1901 (Wlsm.) : GIBRALTAR, 3. VI. 1903 (Wlsm.).
X. AFRICA— ALGERIA7'9'12: El-Biar, 21. IV. 1893 (Eaton);
Bone, 11. V. 1896 (Eaton); Azazga, 2. IX. 1893 (Eaton)—
MOROCCO: Tangier, 2-4. V. 1902 (Wlsm.). Canaries ^10- 12-
TEXERIFE 9-1() : IV. 1885 (Leech)*; La Laguna, 23. V - 9. VI.
1907 (Wlsm.)— GRAN CANARiA8'10 : (Richter) s'10.

Five <3 (51 from La Laguna at the end of May and the beginning
of June : one of these specimens ( tf 98233), with broader and
more pointed wings, taken on May 23rd, is abnormally large (exp.
al. 19*5 nun.) for a representative of this species, but it cannot
otherwise be separated.

Rebel mentions a single worn $ , with notched antennae and
hindwings similar to those of phyddeUa Z., as taken at Orotava,
20. IV [Blastobasis sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 132 no. 201b
(1896)]. He apparently regarded it as distinct from both
phyciddla and rubiginosella.

54. (3056) BLASTOBASIS RUBIGIXOSELLA Rbl.
**sp. 179 Rbl.

Blastobasis sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 91 no. 179 (1894)1:
XXI. 44 no. 223 (1906)-. Blastobasis rubiginosella Rbl. Ann.
KK. Hofmus. XL 130-1, 147 no. 200, PI. 3' 12 (1896)3: XXL
44 no. 221 (1906) 4: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 163 no 3056
(1901) \

Hub. TENERiFE1-"': IV. 1885 (Leech)1; Guimar, 4. Ill -16.
IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; La Laguna, 8. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 7. VI. 1907
( HV.y/y*.); Puerto Orotava, 21. IV. 1895 (ffedemann)*, 30. IV. 1907
(W1*m.)\ Las Mercedes, 29. V- 7. VI. 1907 (TPfewi.); Tacaronte
31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Twenty-eight specimens were taken at Guimar, Tacaronte,
Puerto Orotava, Las Mercedes, and La Laguna, from March 4th
to June 7th, but the larva remains unknown.

The specimen mentioned by Rebel as Blastobasis sp. 179 (I. c. 1)
is in my collection ( ^ 61053); it is undoubtedly a worn c? of rubi-
ginosella ; the type of the species, when subsequently described,
having been a $ .

952 LOKD WALSIXGIIAM OX THE [Nov. 26.

- 55. (3056-1) BLASTOBASIS VELUTIXA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 4.)

Antennae and Palpi ash-grey, the latter sprinkled with black
scales. Head and Thorax ash-grey. Forewings ash-grey, with a
short square patch of black scales at the base of the costa, followed
at a distance equal to its own length by a broad transverse band
of black scales, some conspicuously raised, especially along its outer
edge, which is convex and reaches nearly to the middle of the
wing ; its inner edge approaches nearer to the base on the dorsum
than on the costa ; beyond this patch, which in some specimens
appears divided into two fasciae, the wing is much more sparingly
bestrewn with black scales, which however are somewhat
thickened on the margins at three-fourths, and around the apex ;
cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 11-14 mm. Hindwinge
brownish grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen ash-grey,
shaded at the sides and posteriorly with black ; pale cinereous
beneath. Legs brownish cinereous, the tarsi blackish, with whitish
cinereous annulations.

Type d (98258) ; £ (98263) Mus. ¥71sm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Guimar, 9-30. III. 1907; Tacaronte, 31. Y.
1907 ; La Laguna, 9. YI. 1907. Four specimens.

Allied to rubiginosella Rbl., but distinguished by the broad,
dark, transverse band before the middle of the wing. The antennae
are deeply notched in the <5 .

^1 — 56. (3060) BLASTOBASIS FUSCOMACULELLA Rgt.
= seeboldiella Kreithn.4 ; = * marmarosella Rbl. (riec Wlstn.) *~4.

Oecophora fuscomaculella Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLYIII. (5 s.
IX : 1879). p. cxli (1880) \ Oecophora seeboldiella Kreithner
Yerh. ZB. Ges. Wien XXXI. SB. 20-1 (1881)2. Blastobasis
marmarosella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. YII. 276-8, 283 no. 61.
PI. 7 ' 6-6a $ (1892) 3 : IX. 18, 90-1 no. 178 (1894) 4. Elasto-
basis fuscomaculella Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Loiid. 1894. 538, 549
no. 47 (1894) 5; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 130, 147 no. 199
(1896)°. Sbld. Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris XI. 317. PI. 11 • 15
(1898)7. Blastobasis fuscomaculella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XIII. 377, 381 no. 213 (1899) « : XXI. 44 no. 224 (1906) * : Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 163 no. 3060 (1901)".

Hob. SPAIN2'5'7'10: Bilbao2'4'7, Y7, YII2, VIII 7 — POR-
TUGAL L> ;> 10 : Coimbra 1. Madeiras — MADEIRA 5> 10. Ca-
naries 3"li> b~10— TENERIFE 8*4) (i> 8"!) : IY. 1885 (Leech} ' ; La Lacuna.
23. Y-7. YI. 1907 (Wlsm.), YI. (Cabrera)*', Puerto 0«rtava,
IX. 1889 (Simony)*- 8 - HIERRO s : Yalverde, 9-14. II. 1898
(Hints) 8.

This is apparently a scarce species, I only met with three
specimens. Yalverde is in Hierro, not in Tenerife.

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1907. J .Ml< i;0!.i;riD()PTEKA OF TEX Ellin-.. I)").'!

29. (351-1) PROSTHESIS, gn. 11.

(ttp0<r#etftse*ail addition.)
Type Prosthesis exclasa, sp. n.

Aiili'iutfti' with pecten ; c simple, or minutely ciliate, not
notched, nor attenuate at the base. Maxillary Palpi short, con-
verging. Labial Palpi recurved, reaching above the vertex,
closely clothed ; terminal joint shorter than median. Haustelluiu
scaled at the base. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow,
elongate, evenly lanceolate : neuratioti 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked,
to costa. Hindwings nearly as broad as the forewings, acutely
lanceolate, the costa straighter than the dorsum : neuration 7 veins
(3 and 4 coincident); (^>+4) and 5 stalked; (5 and 7 remote,
almost parallel. Abdomen smooth. Legs, hind tibiae moderately
hairy.

This genus agrees with Blastobasis Z., Epistetus Wlsm., and
Zenodochium Wlsm. in having 3 and 4 of the hiiidwings coincident,
stalked, or connate, with 5. It dift'ers from Epistetus and Zeno-
dochium in having a pecten instead of a coiichoidal shield of scales
on the basal joint, of the antennae, and from Blastobasis^ with
which it agrees in having a pecten on the basal joint, in the
absence of a notch.

57. (3067-1) PROSTHESIS EXCLUSA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 5.)

Antennae stone- whitish. Palpi stone-greyish, sprinkled with
fuscous ; the median joint fuscous on its outer side nearly to the
apex. Head and Thorax stone-grey. Forewings pale stone-grey,
sparsely sprinkled with fuscous and rust-brown scales ; a small
spot at the base of the costa, a narrow fascia at one-third
from the base, much mixed with rust-brown and strongly
angulated outward on the cell, whence it runs nearer to the
base on the dorsum than on the costa ; at two- thirds a rather
strong group of fuscous and brownish scales, on the dorsum,
is more or less connected by scattered scales across the wing
to a smaller costal spot a little nearer to the apex, and these
again are more or less connected with each other by a chain
of six or seven obscure marginal spots running around the
apex ; cilia pale brownish grey. Exp.al. 12-1 4 mm. Hindwings
grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous, with narrow,
shining, pale steely grey, transverse bands. Legs stone-greyish,
thickly speckled with brownish fuscous 011 their outer sides.

T'ipe 3 (98291); $ (98298) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TEXERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 25. IV -3. V. 1907; La La-
gmm. 23. V-9. VI. 1907; Las Mercedes, 29. V- 7. VI 1907.
Nineteen specimens.

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954 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

30. (352-1) ZENODOCHIUM Wlsm.
ZEXODOCHIUM Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XLIV. 49 (1908).
Type Zenodochium monopetali Wlsm.

_58. (3069-2) ZEXODOCHIUM POLYPHAGUM, sp. n.
(Plate LII. fig. 6.)

= Blastobmis sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 131, 147 no. 201a
(1896) l : XXI. 44 no. 222 (1906) 2.

Antennae brownish fuscous. Palpi brownish fuscous, the distal
end of the median joint narrowly whitish. Head and Thorax
whitish, sprinkled, or sometimes entirely suffused, with brownish
fuscous. Forewings usually dirty whitish, but varying from clear
white to dull ash-colour,- with brownish fuscous streaks and
blotches ; the usually paler basal third of the wing has a small
spot at the base of the costa, one or two short length-streaks on
and above the fold, and another near the dorsum, and is sometimes
also profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous scales ; at one-
third occurs a slightly inverted triangular costal spot, between
which and an ill-defined, outwardly oblique, dorsal patch the paler
ground-colour asserts itself in a narrow, oblique, separating band ;
on the median area is a short length-streak along the upper edge
of the cell, and much sprinkling (sometimes considerable suffusion)
of brownish fuscous ; at three -fourths is a transverse, narrow,
brownish fuscous band, slightly inverted from costa to dorsum,
and sometimes interrupted below the costa, and beyond is another
short median length -streak and a series of about six dentate
streaks around the margin ; cilia hoary, faintly sprinkled arid
narrowly striated with brownish grey. Exp. al. 13-20 mm.
Hindwings brownish grey ; cilia shining, yellowish brown along
their base, greyer beyond. Abdomen grey. Legs brownish grey.

Type c? (98227); £ (98221); PT. var. rf (98210) Mus.
Wlsm.

Hob. TEXERIFE1'2 : Puerto Orotava, 24. IV. 1895 (Hedemann) \
23. IY - 7. Y. 1907, 0 in refuse on Artemisia canariensis, 27.
III,excl. 4. YI - 2. VIII. 07, 0 Allagopappus dichotomies, 4. IV,
excl. 4. Y - 4. VII. 07, 0 Senecio kleinia, IVe, excl. 13-31. Y.
07, 0 Sonchus gummifer, 23. IV, excl. 23. VI. 07, 0 Pinus cana-
riensis, 20. IV, excl. 19. V-ll. VI. 07, 0 Rubia fruticosa, II,
excl. 18. Y. 07, 0 Cytisus proliferus, 22. IV, excl. 29. IV- 10.
VI. 07, 0 Rhus coriaria, 28. IV, excl. 6. VI. 07 (Wlsm.) ; Bajomar,
26. V. 1907 (Wlsm.). Thirty-six specimens (33 bred, 3 captured).

The species varies much in the amount of sprinkling, or suf-
fusion, of brownish fuscous on the ashy ground-colour, some of
the whiter varieties being more plainly marked than others, but
all possess the oblique pale separating line between the costal
triangle and dorsal blotch. In appearance it reminds one rather
of Tecmerium anthophagum Stgr., but its nearest ally is Zeno-
dochium xylophagumWlsm., a much darker species with indistinct
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liH)7.] MM'KOLKPIUOPTEKA OF TKXEUIFE. 955

markings. I bred thirty-six specimens from accumulated refuse
on ArU'iniaid canarieusis (3), Allagopappus <li<'hnt<nn nx (13),
Seneclo kli'ini«. (4), and Soncku.}* yuin-iiiifer (1) — Compositae; Pin UK
c.nn<n"'n-iixii< (()) — Coniferae ; Ridwfruticoea(l) — Rubiaceae ; Cy-
tisus proli ferns (4) — Leguminosae ; and Rkus coriaria (1) — Tere-
binthaceae; these are, I believe, all plants indigenous to the
Island. The larva frequently bores into the stem of the food-
plant before pupation, leaving a hole from which the imago
escapes.

III. OECOPHOBIDAE.

31. (369-01) AGONOPTERYX Hb.
Forewings : 2 and 3 stalked ; 7 and 8 stalked.

Type Pyralis ocellana F.

= ^AGOXOPTERIX Hb. (Type ocellana F.) ; =PIXARIS Hb. (Type
arenetta S-D.); =TICHOXIA Hb. (Type atomeUa S-D.); = EPE-
LEUSTIA Hb. (Type lituretta Hb.) ; =HAEMYLIS Tr. (Type assi-
milella Tr.) ; =.*V»ucnA Z. (conterminetta Z.), iiec Ltr. ; =
DEPRESS Ait i A (A) Meyr.

Wallengren [Eiitomologisk Tidskrift II. 81 (1881)] described
the new genus S'njdnorosis for species agreeing with heradiana DG.
in having veins 2 and 3 of the forewings separate, thus restricting
the use of Depressaria Hw. to species with 2 arid 3 stalked. Un-
fortunately he overlooked the fact that in 1828 Curtis had cited
heracleana as the type of Depressaria Hw., and figured its neuration.
Siganorosis "Wlgrn. must therefore sink as a synonym of Depres-
Mfi'tff: Hw., and also of Volucra Ltr. The species having 2 and 3
of the forewings stalked form a natural and easily recognisable
genus and should be known as Agonopteryx Hb.

O 59. (3193-1) AGOXOPTERYX OIXERARIAE, sp. n.
(Plate LII. fig. 7.)

Antennae ochraceous, much clouded beyond the base with smoky
fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous, the terminal joint minutely tipped
with black, and having a black band around it above the middle.
Head and tufted Thorax pale ochreous. Forewings with the costa
moderately convex, apex depressed, termen oblique ; pale ochreous,
with a few darker fa wii-ochreous shades tending to define the
neuration ; more or less profusely sprinkled with scattered black
dots, some being placed along the temien, some on the costa, one
on the costa beyond the middle, in position to form an equilateral
triangle with two others on the disc, above and near the first of
which is sometimes a blackish patch ; a small black marginal spot
also lies near the base of the dorsum. Exp. al. 17- 20 mm. J/ind-
ii'iiHjx very pale, shining, whitish ochreous ; cilia still paler.
Abdomen and Leys pale straw-oehreous.

PROC. ZCOL. Soc.— 1907, No. LXIV. 64

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956 LORD WALSIXGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

Type S (99011); PT. var. rf (99012) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Arafo, 13. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Barranco Lorez,
near Orotava, 0 Senecio (Cineraria) populifolius, 7. V, excl. 11—
20. VI. 1907 (IVlsm.). Seven specimens.

Larvae found in April and May, at Guimar and near Orotava,
on Senecio (Cineraria} populifolius and heritieri, mining between
the upper and under surfaces of the leaves, causing a slightly
puckered appearance, but very difficult to detect owing to their
pale greenish white colour. Six specimens bred in June, and a
single cj taken on the wing above Arafo, April 13th.

Allied to assimilella Tr., but easily separated by the distinct
black spotting on the under side of the costa of the forewings, which
are, as are also the hindwings, much paler than in that species.

60. (3201 •!) AGOXOPTERYX COXCILIATELLA Rbl.

Depressaria conciliatella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 272-4,
283 no. 55. PL 17 • 14 $ (1892) l: Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.
1894. 538, 546 no. 40 (1894)2; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 171
no. 3223 (1901) 3: Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 44 no. 226
(1906) 4.

Hob. SICILY l~3: Palermo1. Madeiras2"' — MADEIRA2: Fun-
<?hal; The Mount (Wollaston)-. Canaries1"1 — TEXERIFEI: Agua
Mansa and Pedro Gil, @Cytisus proliferus, 20. IV, excl. 20-23. V.
1907 (Wlsm.); Pedro Gil, 1420m., 30. VII. 1889 (Simony) l—
GRAN CANARIA l : San Mateo, 805 m., 7. VIII. 1890 (Simony) \

The only named species, of the unrestricted genus Depressaria,
recorded by Rebel in his complete list (1906) is conciliatella. In
1894 (I. c. 2), I wrote that if I had rightly identified this species
it was very variable. I have now two specimens, bred from larvae
feeding in the leading shoots of Cytisus proliferus, from Pedro Gil
and Agua Mansa respectively, which are much darker than the
Madeiran examples, but not distinguishable in the position and
character of the markings. Professor Rebel, throughout his
description, compares conciliatella with " yeatiana F.," but it is
much more nearly allied to scopariella Hnm., from which indeed
some of the less speckled varieties are almost indistinguishable.
The easiest way to separate them is by the costal markings on the
underside : in conciliatella there is a wide pale band around costa
and termen, much peppered and streaked with fuscous along the
basal half of the costa : in scopariella the pale band is narrower
and decidely less speckled.

61. (3222) AGOXOPTERYX YEATSAXA F.
= t yeatiana F., J yeatsana. (T. P. Yeats, nom. pr.)
Puralis yeatiana F. Sp. Ins. II. 286 no. 60 (1781)1. Depressaria
yeatiana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 272-4 (1892) 2 : Stgr-Rbl.
Oat. Lp. Pal. II. 171 no. 3222 (1901) 3.

Hab. C-S. EUROPE 1-3 — CORSICA : Corte, ® Heloscyadium

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1907.] MICROLEI'IDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 9->7

sp., 7. VI, excl. 20. VI. 1898 (M7.s/«.)— S. FRANCE: II. Var,
QPeucedanum pahistre, 10. IV, excl. 18. VI. 1H(.)<> (IIY.v///.).
N. A FRIC A— MOROCCO : Tangier, ® Heracleum sp.?, 24 IV,
excl. 19. V. 1902 (Wlsm.}. Canaries — TEXERIFE : Puerto
Orotava, 4. V. 1907, 0 Umbellifer, 9. V, excl. 10. VI. 1907
(Wfom,.).

Six specimens taken, and one brerl from an Umbellifer, growing
under dripping rocks on the sea-coast, near Orotava. The plant
.-ippfMivd to be the same as that from which I bred this species in
Corsica, in 1898, and which was named for me at the time
•• Heloscyadium sp.", but I am not sure that the species occurs in
Tenerife : in any case my botanical knowledge is quite inadequate
to decide the point from such specimens as were available at the
date on which the larva was found near Orotava. My experience
is, that this species occurs only on marshy ground ; I have also
bred it from Peucedanum palustre, gathered at the mouth of the
Var, on the Riviera, and from Heracleum sp., at Tangier.

(>2. (3232-1) AGOXOPTERYX PEREZI, sp. n. (Plate III. fig. 8.)
=*applana Wlsin. (iiec F.).

Depressaria applana Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 546
no. 41 (1894) \

Antennae smoky fuscous. Palpi cinereous, the median joint
thickly sprinkled with black and tawny on the outer side, except
in a narrow band around its upper end ; terminal joint with a
narrow black band around its base, a broader one before its apex,
and the extreme apex minutely black. Head and Thorax cinereous,
more or less tinged with fuscous ; the latter with an elevated crest
posteriorly. Foreioings tawny reddish fuscous, with smoky black
suffusion and speckling; a pale ochreous patch at the extreme
base, its outer edge straight and black-margined to the upper edge
of the cell, above which it is aiigulated and produced outward
along the costa, and gradually absorbed in the darker ground-
colour ; on the cell, at one-third, are two clearly defined, almost
contiguous, but obliquely diverging, black spots, the lower one
slightly beyond the upper — both followed by a few ochreous scales,
produced and broken into two spots, in line with the lower one
on the cell ; the slightly paler costa is obscurely spotted with dark
fuscous throughout, and the termen is also narrowly spotted, the
fuscous shading on the wing tending to follow and indicate the
neuration ; cilia corresponding in colour to the wing-surface ;
underside shining, sericeous, the costa and termen strongly speckled
with fuscous. Exp. al. 16-20 mm. Hindi/rings and cilia shining,
pale cinereous, the cilia with slender parallel shade-lines running
through them ; underside shining, sericeous, the costa and termen
strongly speckled with fuscous. Abdoiflenxnd Ze^/spale cinereous,
tin- r.irsi with four fuscous bands.

Type cJ (99018); 2 (99019) Mus. Wlsm.

64*
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958 LORD WALSINGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

Hal). Madeiras1 — MADEIRA1. Canaries — TENERIFE : Puerto
Orotava, © Ruta pinnata, 14. V, excl. 4. VI - 1. VII. 1907
( Wlmn .). Twenty-four specimens.

The pale screen larva rolls the leaves of Ruta pinnata, an
indigenous and somewhat local plant, to which my attention was
specially called by my friend Dr. George Perez, after whom I
have named this Agonoj>teryx, and whose great assistance in the
botanical work connected with my study of the Tenerife Lepidoptera
I gratefully acknowledge.

°As compared with Agonopteryx applana F., the chief points of
difference noticeable in perezi are that the pale basal patch is
sharph' annulate (not curved outward) at the radius, along and
above which are some distinctly ochreous scales; the discal spots
are yellowish, not white, and the antennae are shorter. Looking
again at the rather poor specimen which I recorded from Madeira,
as applana, in 1 894, I am now inclined to regard this as perezi.

32. (369) DEPRESSARIA Hw.
Fore-wings : 2 and 3 separate ; 7 and 8 stalked.

Type Phalaena Tortrix heracleana (L.) DG., F., Hw.

DEPRESSARIA Hw. (Type heracleana Hw.) ; = PYUAUS F. (II.)
Ltr. ; \_ = PIESTA Bllg. (Type heracleana L.) L^.~\\ =4." PYRALE,
VOLUCKE" Ltr. (Type heracleana F.) ; =VoLUCRA Ltr. (Type
heracleana F.) ; —SiGANOitosis Wlgrn. (Type heracleana L.,
Wlgrn.); = DEPRESSARIA (B) Meyr.

63. (3299-1) DEPRESSARIA TEXERIFAE, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 9.)

= Depres8aria sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 39, 44 no. 227
(1906) \

Antennae smoky fuscous. Palpi cinereous, densely speckled
with smoky fuscous externally, and with a fuscous ring above the
middle of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax pale slaty greyish,
more or less sprinkled with tawny fuscous. Forewings slaty
greyish, suffused, and obscurely blotched, with smoky fuscous; a
very dark patch at the base, below the fold, leaving a narrow pale
margin within it, is diluted upward and outward, and followed
by two clouds of a similar colour on the cell, one before arid one
beyond the middle, of which the first is the darker, owing to black
scaling continued from its lower edge in a series of two or three
small spots reaching to the end of the cell; beyond the cell is
a strong, outwardly curved, dark fuscous shade, preceding the
speckled margin and cilia, the latter are delicately rosy- tipped.
Exp. al. 17—19 mm. Hindwinys and cilia pale, shining, rosy
cinereous. Abdomen and Leys shining, cinereous ; the tarsi with
four fuscous bands.

Type £ (99020) ; rf (99021) ; ® (99022) Mus. Wlsm.

Nab. TENERIFE: 1905 (White)1 '•> Santa Cruz, (^Artemisia cana-
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1907.] MTCROLEPIDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 'J."><)

riensis, 11. II, excl. 19. Ill - 3. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); Guimai-,

0 Artemisia cananensis, 25. Ill, excl. 9. IV - 23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.}.
Sixteen specimens.

Bred from a rather stout green larva., feeding in the leading
shoots of Aft' 'ntixia canariensis, at Santa Cruz and Guimar. As
compan-d with the European species which feed on Artemisia, it
is distinctly more suffused in its colouring, the darker patches
being unaccompanied by any lines of whitish scales ; indeed the
whole insect has a much more silky, smooth appearance, with some
gloss, not only in the hindwings, but also on the anterior pair.
It is perhaps nearest to absinthivora Frey, but the absence of any
outward elongation of the median shade is a good character by
which it may readily be distinguished.

(>4. (3306) DEPRESSARIA APIELLA Hb.
= nervosa Hw. ; =*keradiana Wlsm. (nee DO.).

Tinea apiella Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. VIII. (Tin.). 39. PL 14" 94
(1796)1. Dcpressaria nervosa Hw. Lp. Br. 506 no. 4 (1811)".
Pinaria opiella Hb. Verz. Schm. 411 no. 3966 (1826) 3. Depres-
saria nervosa Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1881. 317 (1881) \ De-
pressaria *heradiana Wlsm. Tr. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 546
no. 42 (1894) "'. Dej>r'-.^irni nervosa Stijr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
174 110. 3306 (1901)*; Busck, Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 747
no. 34 (1902) 7; Dyar Bull. US. Nat Mus. 52. 522 no. 5887
(1902) \

Nab. EUROPE r"8. N. AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tangier, ^Fe-
rula sp., excl. 19. V. 1902 (Wlsm.); @0enanthe peucedanifolia,
6. V, excl. 7-15. VI. 1902 (Wlsm.)\ 0 Thapsia cjarganica, 9. V,
excl. 7. VI. 1902 (Wlsm.). Madeiras '—MADEIRA : (WoUaston)'.
Canaries — TEXERIFE: Guimar, Q)JfupIf>nrttm atiphyllum, 6. Ill,
excl. 16. IV. 1907 (Whm.); ® Umbetttfer, 14. IV', excl. 22. V.
1907 (Wlsm.). UNITED STATES4' 7'8— OREGON4'7^: GRANT
co.: Camp Watson, IV". 1872 (Wlsm.) : JACKSON co. : near Rogue
River, 4-6. V. 1872 (Wlsm.).

For more than half a century apiella Hb. (1796) has been sunk
as a synonym of nervosa Hw. (1811): so long as these two names
are held to pertain to the same species, it is obvious that that
species must be named apiella Hb.

Two specimens bred from an Vmbettifer, found at Guimar, and
one from the rare BupUurwn aciphyllwm ( = salicifolium) appear
to be inseparable from this species : they agree exactly with
specimens bred in Morocco, in 1902, from Ferula, Oenanthe
peucedanifolia, and Tlmpxia </«/-(/anica, and are only distinguished
from my European series by their slightly larger size and darker
colour, [tartly due to the freshness of the specimens. This species
lias not been met with in the United States since 1872, when

1 took two specimens in Oregon. I again refer to these two
specimens to give the exact localities, viz., (91970) Camp Watson,

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960 LORD WALSIXGIIAM OX THE [Nov. 26^

Grant Co., in Northern Oregon, taken in April 1872, and (91971)
taken in Jackson Co., in Southern Oregon, 4-6 June 1872, when
near Rogue River. These two American specimens have vein 5
of the hindwings out of the stalk of 3 and 4, in which they agree
with Canary, Tangier, Madeira, and European specimens which
have 5 connate with, or out of the stalk of 3 paid 4 ; a character
which occurs also in discipunctella HS. ( = *pastinacella Stn.).
The specimen recorded by me from Madeira in 1894 (/. c. 5)
as " Siganorosis heracliana DG. " is a bleached example of
apiella Hb.

33. (365) ETHMIA Hb.
— PsKCADiA Hb., Stgr-Rbl.

65. (3143) ETHMIA BIPUXCTELLA F.

Alucita bipunctetta F. Ent. Syst. 668 no. 7 (1775)1. Psecadia
bipunctetta Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 272, 283 no. 54 (1892) 2 :
IX. 18, 89 no. 168 (1894) 3: XIII. 377, 381 no. 201 (1899) l :
XXI. 44 no. 225 (1906) 5 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 167 no. 3143
(1901)°.

Hal. W. ASIA2-3'". C. and S. EUROPE T~3 °— S. SPAIN:
HUELVA: Coto, 23. IV. 1901 (Wlsm.). JST. AFRICA -~3 °— MO-
ROCCO : Tangier, 11. II. 1902 (Wlsm.)— ALGERIA : LeTarf, 29. VI.
1896 (Eaton). Canaries 2~6— TEXERIFE 3"3 : Santa Cruz, 6-12.1.
1907, © Symphytum, 14. I - 13. II, excl. 5. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.},
30. IV. 1898 (Hintz) 4 ; Las Mercedes, 7-29. III. 1904 (Eaton) ; La
Laguna, 12. VI. 1889 (Krauss) 3— GRAN CANARIA 2'5 : (Richter) -~\

Taken on the wing, and bred at Santa Cruz.

33a. (376) HARPELLA Schrk.
65a. (3329) HARPELLA FOEPICELLA Sc.

Plialaenaforficella Sc. Ent. Carn. 248 no. 638 (1763) *. Harpella forficella Rbl..
Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 276, 283 no. 59 (1892) - : XXI. 44 no'. 228 (1906) ': Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 176 no. 3329 (1901) 4.

Hal . C-S. EUROPE l~\ Canaries 2'4— ( ? GRAX c Ay ARIA 2).
I did not meet with this species in Tenerif'e.

IV. HYPONOMEUTIME.

34- (412) COLEOPHORA Hb.

Q

-^66. (3713) COLEOPHORA OROTAVEXSIS Rbl.

Coleophora orotavensis Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 137-8, 147
no. 214, PI. 3' 16 $ (1896) x: XXI. 44 no. 234 (1906) 2: Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal II. 193 no. 3713 ((1901) 3.

Hob. TEXERIFE 1'8 : Santa Cruz. 26. XII - 26. I. 1907 (Wlsm.) ;
Guimar, 28. II - 12. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.), 24. III. 1904 (Eaton);
Tacaronte, 1. IV. 1902 (Eaton); Puerto Ovotava, 21-30. IV. 1905
(Hedemann)\ 21. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.).
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Exceedingly common everywhere. It seems to '"• ait ached
to Chenopo'Jiii in . and to appear in successive broods almost
continuously.

67. (3713-1) COLEOPHOKA MICRO.MKIM.M;. sp. n.

Antennae white, annulate with greyish fuscous; the basal joint
roughly clothed, but not tufted. Palpi white, a broad greyish
fuscous band spreading around the apex of the median, and base
of the terminal joint, including some slightly projecting scales
from the former. Head white, slightly 'shaded along the middle
with greyish fuscous. Thorax white above ; tegulae touched with
greyish fuscous. Forewwgs greyish fuscous, the costa narrowly
pure white from the base, widening outward, and continued to the
apex, before which the costal cilia are slightly touched with grey ;
there is a less conspicuous line of white scaling along the fold
and slightly diffused downward across the space beneath it to the
dorsum, the base of the terminal cilia being also white, forming a
streak which runs out through those of the apex ; with this
exception the cilia are pale brownish grey; the marginal white
lines are clearly visible on the underside. Exp. al. 8-11 mm. Hind-
ii-tin/8 very pale bluish grey ; cilia pale brownish grey, becoming-
whitish at their tips around the apex. Abdomen brownish grey
above, white beneath ; anal clothing whitish. Legs white, the hind
tarsi faintly speckled.

Type 2 (99023) ; rf (99024) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 19. II. 1907, 5.Y. 1907 (TFZsm.);.
Guimar, 27. II - 14.. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.), ® Micromeria varia, 23. II,
excl. 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm,)- Cruz de Afur, 5. IY. 1904 (Eaton);
Forest de la Mina, 7. IY. 1904 (Eaton). Sixteen specimens, one
bred.

The case is brown, short and cylindrical, sprinkled with short
whitish hairs, like the leaf-surface of the food-plant ; the mouth is
slightly oblique. It was found on Micromeria varia, among
which plant I took several specimens, at Guimar, at about 1200 ft.
I also met with the species at Puerto Orotava, in February, and
in May, and received three specimens from Mr. Eaton, taken in
April 1904, at Cruz de Afur, and in the Forest de la Mina.

68. (3773) COLEOPHORA COXFLUELLA Rbl.

Coleophora confluella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 278-9, 283
no. 63, PI. 17 ' "15 rf (1892) ] : XXI. 44 no. 235 (1906) 2 : Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 195 no. 3773 (1901) 3.

Hob. Canaries 1'3— LA PALMA' 3: Pico del Berigoya, 1400-
1500 m., 21. VIII. lss<> (Sn.nnniY— TEXERIFE: Guimar, @Heli-
anthemum <jnlt<tt« m, 27. Ill, excl. 25. IX - 1. X. 1907 (Wlsm.);
La Laguna. ($ Helianthemum <ji<tt«tinn, 3. Y. 1907 (Wlam.).

Larvae were common, in cases made of leaves (similar to those
of helianthemeUa Mill.), on Helianthemum tjii11«tn m. and also on.

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962 LORD WALSIXGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

Cistus monspeliensis. I found numerous cases at Guimar, at the
end of March, from which I bred two specimens only at the end
of September and the beginning of October. I have always found
hdianthemella an extremely difficult species to rear, under the
conditions to which a travelling entomologist is restricted, and
confluella presents similar difficulties, for I bred only the two
specimens mentioned, although larvae were collected subsequently
at La Laguna in the beginning of May.

68a. COLEOPHORA SP. ?

Three cases found on Adenocarpus foliolosus, at Guimar, 26th
February, were extremely similar to those of confliiella, and might
have been taken for stray specimens from the Helianthemum, had
I not observed traces of their feeding 011 the leaves. They were
slightly smaller than the others, but would not feed in captivity
and I failed to rear them.

£,- 69. (3815*1) COLEOPHORA AEGYPTIACAE Wlsm.

•Coleophora aegyptiacae Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XLIII. 148 no.
3815-1 (1907) \

Hob. ALGERIA : Hammam-es-Salahin, 0 Salvia aegyptiaca,
III - IY, excl. IV.1 Canaries — TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 0 Salvia
aegyptiaca, 16. I — II. 1907.

Several cases of this Algerian species were found at Santa Cruz,
at different dates in January and February, on Salvia aegyptiaca,
but were not reared.

^.70. (3840-1) COLEOPHORA TEIDENSIS, sp. n.

Antennae pale grey, with very faint paler annulatioiis ; basal
joint smooth. Palpi greyish white ; smooth, a few scales projecting
from the end of the median, before the base of the short terminal
joint. Head and Thorax pale silky grey. Foreu'ings narrow ;
pale silky grey, without any ochreous or brownish scaling ; a faint
greyish white line, along the costa, is a little widened about the
middle, but thence touches only the outer ends of the greyish
costal cilia ; other still fainter greyish lines running throughout
the wing-length, one along the upper edge of the cell throwing
three slender branches to the costa along the principal veins
one along the middle of the cell leaves the costa near the base,
approaching and running parallel to the termen, another lying
below it along the fold; cilia pale stone-grey. Exp. al. 13 mm.
Hindwings very 'pale bluish grey ; cilia pale stone-grey. Abdomen
dark leaden grey. Legs whitish grey.

Type <$ (99026); $ (99027) Mus. Wlsm.

Nab. TENERIFE: Puerto Orotava, 14. V. 1907; Tacaronte, 31. Y
1907 ; La Laguna, 5. VI. 1907. Three specimens.

The nearest approach to this species in our European lists is
(tlgiddla Stgr., which it greatly resembles in colouration and in
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1907.] MICRO LEl'IDOPTERA OF TEXEKFFK. •">•'>

the taint whitish longitudinal lines; it. diflrrs, however, decidedly
in its much nsirnwr t'uivwings. I should place it between cd<ji<l<'H(t
Stur. and itnu'inijK'.inif1ln. Dp.: its scarcely ammlated antennae
and more silky grey colour separate it from the latter.

71. (3852) COLEOPHORA ATLAXTICELLA Rbl.

Coleopkora atlanticella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XL 138-9, 147
no. 215 (1896) l: XXI. 44 no. 236 (1906) 2 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 198 no. 3852 (1901) 3.

lf«lt. Canaries 1'3— TEXERIFE ^ : Santa Cruz, 22. I - 10. II.
1907 (Wlsm.}- Guimar, 12-30. III. 1907 (Ulsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
27. IV. 1895 (Hedemanny — GRAX CAXARIA 1-2 : Las Palmas,
7. Y. 1895(IIedemann)1-

A good series taken at Santa Cruz ; I also met with it at
Guimar.

^ 72. (3895) COLEOPHORA ARTEMISIAE Mhlg.

Coleopkora artemisiae Mhlg. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXY. 163-5 (1864)1 ;
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 199 no. 3895 (1901) 2.

Hab. GERMANY l"2 — AUSTRIA 2. Canaries — TEXERIFE : Guimar
12. IV. 1907; Puerto Orotava, 21. IV. 1907.

Six specimens taken at Puerto Orotava, and two at Guimar,
among Artemisia canariensis.

73. (3904-1) COLEOPHORA POECILELLA Wlsm.

Coleopkora poecilella Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Ma». XLIII. 129 no.
3904-1 (1907) '.

Hah. ALGERIA : Biskra, Hammam-es-Salahin, © Suaeda ver-
miculata, IV, excl. IV - V, X.1 Canaries^TEXERiFE : Puerto
Orotava, ® Scdsola oppositifola, 4. VI. 1907.

Three of the easily-recognisable, long, tapering, cylindrical cases,
found on Scdsola oppositifolia, at Orotava, are ^indistinguishable
from those taken in Algeria on the allied Suaeda vc.rmicidata ;
but again I was unable to rear them.

35. (389) BATRACHEDRA Stn.
74. (3562) BATRACHEDRA LEDERERIELLA Z.

Cosmopteryx Av/^r/vW/^ Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XL 198 no. 220
(1S501. Batrachfidrn ledererieUa Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXVII.
149(1891)-; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 132, 147 no. 205
(1896) 3: XXI. 44 no. 232 (1906) 4: St^-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
1H5 DO. ::-",r,2 (1901) '' ; Wlsm. Ent, Mo. M.-.u'. XXXIX. 167
(1903) 6.

Ilab. WC. ASIA . S. EUROPE ^"—S. FRANCE: Cannes,

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964 LOUD WALSINGHAM OX THE [^ov- 26,

0 in webbed rubbish 011 Mimosa, excl. 20. IV. 1879, 0 in webs
of Spiders and Larvae, II-III, excl. IV. 1881, 0 Juniperus
oxycedrus, III, excl. 24. V. 1890, 0 Rosmarinus officinalis, III,
excl. 16. V. 1890, 0 old fruit of Mespilus c/ermanica, excl. 12.
V. 1892 (JFZs???.); Beaulieu, 0 rubbish in leafy galls on Salix
pendula, 6. IV, excl. 5. V - 17. VIII. 1890 (TFZsm.)— SPAIN :
MALAGA: Malaga, 0 in seed-heads of AnthyUis cytisoides, XII,
excl. 2. IV. 1901, 0 Genista umbellata, 28. I, excl. 1. IV. 1901,
0 Cistus albidus, 27. 1, excl. 5-8. IV. 1901 (Wlsm.}. K AFRICA
—MOROCCO : Tangier, 11. I., 8. III., 2. V. 1902 (Wlsm.), ® Cistus
ladaniferus, 9. XII, excl. 30. VII. 1902 (Wlsm.); Cape Spartel,
0 seeds of Cistus sp., excl. 16. VIII. 1902 (Wlsm.). Canaries3'"
— TENERiFE3: La Laguna, 2. III. 1904 (Eaton), 7. VI. 1907
(Wlsm.) ; Guimar, 2. Ill - ] 4. IV. 1907 (IVlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
11. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)3, 0 old seeds Senecio kleinia, 26. IV,
excl. 29. IV - 10. VI. 1907, 0 diseased stems Cytisus proliferus,
24. IV, excl. 13. V. 1907, 0 Pinus canariensis, 20. IV, excl. 24-29.
V. 1907, 0 Mangifera indica, 14. V, excl. 25. VI - 14. VII.
1907, 0 Sonchus leptocephalus, 30. IV, excl. 7. VII. 1907 (Wlsm.) ;
Arafo, 13. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)— GRAX CAXARIA': Las Palmas, 9.
V. 1895 (ffedemann)3.

Taken commonly at Guimar, and bred from Senecio, Cytisus,
Pinus, Mangifera, and Sonchus, bearing out my previous ex-
perience of the habits of the species in Europe and Morocco,
where it is invariably a rubbish -feeder, among debris of spiders'
webs, and frass of other larvae on numerous plants as enumerated
above.

36- (388) COSMOPTERYX Hb.
75. (3550-1) COSMOPTERYX CORYPHAEA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 10.)

= Cosmopteryx sp. n. Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 237
(1901) l.

Antennae pale buff, spotted with white along their outer sides,
two black, and two white annulations occurring before a darker
band, which precedes the four or five yellowish distal joints,
Palpi white, with pale buff lateral lines throughout. Head
olivaceous brownish, with a short central, and two longer lateral
lines. Thorax olivaceous brown, with a central white line, and
one along the inner edge of each of the tegulae. Forewings
olivaceous brown to about three-fifths of their length, on which
colour are five slender silvery white lines ; one from the base of
the costa, slightly diverging, and terminated below the costa at
at about one-third ; another, above it along the costa, slightly
widened towards its outer end ; a third, from the middle of the
base, extending to the outer margin of the olive-brown space,
whence a shorter, inverted, streak diverges, terminating opposite
to the outer end of the first costal ; the fifth streak is from the
base, along the dorsum. and is rather shorter than the first costal;
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beyond the brown space. ;m<l therefore a little beyond the middle
of the wing, commences :\ pale lemon-yellow patch, which is con-
tinued toward the apex, bearing the following nun-kings: iirsi.
two bright silver spots, each touching the brown preceding space,
arid each carrying a jet-black dot on the side opposite to it ;
beyond these, at a distance equal to about the middle of the
wing, are two corresponding spots of bright silver scales, but
with only one or two black scales attached, the yellow ground-
colour extends between and beyond these, blending to creamy
white along the costa and dorsum to the apex, the margins being
separated by a short olive-brown dash reaching the extreme apex;
cilia, brownish grey. Exp. al. 9-10 mm. Hiiitln'inys pale grey;
cilia brownish grey. Abdomen yellowish. Legs white, shaded
externally with oblique olivaceous brownish bands.

Type dT (99029) : $ (99030) Santa Cruz, Mus. Wlsm.

Hub. SPAIX: MALAGA : Malaga, 29. TV. 1901 (]\lsw.)1.
Canaries— TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz. 12-16. II. 1907. Eight
specimens.

Nearest to similis Wlsm., but differing in the continuation of
the yellow band beyond the outer pair of silver spots, giving the
wing a much lighter appearance ; in this respect it agrees with
quadrilineella Chmb., but differs in. having five white lines in
the dark basal area of the wing, of these the subcostal, the median,
and the dorsal arise from the base.

76. (3553) COSMOPTERYX ATTEXUATELLA Wkr.
n. syn.=flavofasciata E. Wlstn. ; =lespedezae Wlsm.

Gelechia attenuatella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 1019 (1864) l.
Cosmopteryx flavofasciata E. Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (5s.). III.
438 (1879) - : Lp. St. Helena 53 (1879) 2. Cosmopteryx lespe-
dezae Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X. 198 (1882) 3. [? = Cosmopteryx
(* gemmiferella Clms.) Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. XV. 345, 354
(1890) 4; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891. 536, 548 (1892) 3].
Cosmopteryx lespedezae Riley, Smith's List Bor-Am. 107 110. 5771
(189 1)6. Gelechia attenuatella Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891.
519, 545 (1892)7. Cosmopteryx lespedezae Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soe.
Lond. 1891. 536, 548 (1892) s. Cosmopteryx favofasciata EbL
Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 91-2 (1894) 9 : XI. 133-4, 147 no. 208
PL 3-13 (1896) 10: XXI. 44 no. 230 (1906) u. Cosmopteryx
attenuatella Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897. 105-6 no. 123
(1897) 12. Cosmopteryx fiavofasciata Stgr-Ebl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
185 no. 3553 (1901)13. Cosmopteryx lespediza Dyar Pr. Ent.
Soc. Wash. IV. 478 (1901)u. Cosmopteryx attenuatella Dyar
Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 535 no. 6068 (1902)"; Bnsck Pr. US..
Nat. Mus. XXX. 710 (1906) b.

Hab. UNITED STATES r' •• ia' l'-u— TEXAS "• »• l6 : © Lespe-
deza^ 8, i,__x CAROLTXA •• la— FLORIDA u-"; : II-III u. WEST
1 X I )1 ES ' ' - JAMAICA li l~ : Constant Springs, 18.

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966 LOUD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

XII - 2, I. 1905 (Wlsm.); Runaway Bay, 17. II - 13. III. 1905
(Wlsm.) — HAYTi12'10: V1"; San Domingo lu— [? PORTORICO 4~; 12]
—ST. CROIX : Y 12— ST. VINCENT 7' 12— GRENADA : III-IV 12— St.
Helena*' 9> 1;!. Canaries10"11' I3 - TENERIFE 10*u : Guimar, 19.
Ill - 12. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava, 1895 (Hedemann) 10,
29. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)', 14. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) — GRAN CA-
NARIA 10'u : Las Palmas, 7-9. V. 1895 (Hedemann) 10.

Professor Rebel (1. c. 10) records and discusses jtavofasciata
E. Wlstn., of which I have one of the examples (7244) collected
by von Hedemann in the Botanical Gardens at Puerto Orotava,
29. IV. 1895, and six taken by myself at Puerto Orotava, 14. V.,
and Guimar, 19. Ill - 12. IV. 1907. I have now re-examined
Mrs. Wollaston's type from St. Helena, and am convinced that it
is the same as the species identified by Rebel under this name
from Tenerife, but the possession of more specimens has now
enabled me to correct the synonymy as follows : —
attenuatella Wkr. (1864) ; =. flavofasciata E. "VVlstii. (1879);
= lespedezae Wlsm. (1882) — thus proving that the species is
widely distributed.

77. (3555) COSMOPTERYX TURBIDELLA Rbl.

Cosmopteryx sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 91-2 no. 183
(1894)1. Cosmopteryx turbidella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI.
135-6, 147 no. 209. PI. 3 • 14 $ (1896) 2: XXI. 44 no. 231
1906 3 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 185 no. 3555 (1901 *.

Hob. Canaries 1'4— TENERIFE 1~t : Guimar, 5. 11-17. III. 1907
'(Wising 20. III. 1904 (Eaton), 0 Parietaria vulgaris, 5. II,
excl. 17-18. III. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto Orotava, 0 Parietaria,
excl. 15-25. III. 1904 (Eaton], 16-30. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)'2;
Forest de la Mina, 17. III. 1902 (Eaton) ; Cruz de Afur, 5. IV.
1904 (Eaton) ; Las Mercedes, 28. V. 1907 (Wlsm.), VI. (Cabrera)1;
Barranco del Loro (nr. Realejo Alto), 0 Parietaria arborea, 7. V,
excl. 11-12. VI. 1907 (TfZsw*.).

Cosmopteryx turbidella feeds on Parietaria i'ulgaris, near
Guimar, in great abundance ; it was found there by Mr. Eaton,
who also observed the larvae where I have taken and bred it.
An intimate acquaintance with the form of the mine caused me
to suspect that a large, broad-leaved, shrub growing in the
Barranco del Loro, above Realejo Alto, was Parietaria arborea ;
and this turned out to be correct.

C. turbidella Rbl. differs from piilcherrimeUa Chinb. in the
possession of a black dot, a little above the middle of the wing,
contiguous to the golden metallic band which precedes the yellow
fascia ; also in having the silver apical streak undivided, whereas
in pulcherrimella it is broken into two short lines ; moreover, the
outer golden fascia does not commence in a pure white costal
spot, as in the somewhat smaller American species. After re-
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examining my series of pulcherrimella, collected in Madeira hv
\\Ollastoii. with the addition of specimens subsequently received
from Eaton, and my own from Teiierife, J am surprised to find
that there is not a, specimen of tnrbidella from Madeira. Mr.
Eaton notes (MS., 1(5. IY. 1904) that "The Co8inopl<>,'!/.>' so
common at Guimar. and Puerto (de la Cruz) Orotava [i. e. turbi-
</>//(/ 111)1.]. was also plentiful on Par'n'tui'tn^ at Funchal, in the
garden of the Carmo Hotel" ; but his specimens of pulcherrimella
\\viv taken at "Funchal: at altitude of about 600ft., 26. II.
190:2: out of Eupcdoriuvn adennphorum Spreng.," one of the
< 'ontpositae. This plant should be searched, but it is not a
probable food-plant for pulckerrimellaVhml)., which in the United
States feeds on Pilea pumila, one of the Urticaceae.

Gosmopteryx turbidella is by no means consistent in the colour
of the yellow fascia ; this, in some specimens, is almost obsolete
through the strength of the brownish suffusion ; in others the
colour is only slightly influenced in tone, while rarely it is of a
clear orange-yellow, without partial shading or suffusion. I have
again carefully compared all the specimens, without being able
to detect any difference between the American and Madeiran
specimens of pulcherrimella.

37- (405) STAGMATOPHORA HS.
78. (3564) STAGMATOPHORA (PYRODERCES) ARGYROGRAMMOS Z.

Cosmopteryx aryi/royrammos Z. Isis 1847. 37-8 no. 177\ Pyro-
derces aryt/royrammos Cnst. Ann, Soc. Eiit. Fr. LII. 20 (1883)-;
Rbl. Ann'. KK. Hofmus. XL 132, 147 no. 207 (1896) 3: XXI.
44 no. 233 (1906) l: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 185 no. 3564
(1901) \

Hob. WC. ASIA l- 3— HALEB : Shar Devesy, 1893 (Nat. Coll. :
Leech}. S-MC. EUROPE 1- — ITALY : Rome, 10-25. IV. 1893
( ir/.s-^,)— CORSICA : Corte, 19-21. V. 1896; He Rousse, 5. VI.
1898; Ajaccio, 16. VI. 1899 (JFZsw.)— • FRANCE : © Compositae
— CftrfiiKt. corymbosa, KentrophyUwm lanatum, Centaurea aspera,
Pi/cnomon acarna, etc.- ; Monte Carlo, 5. V. 1882 (Wlsm.) ; Beau-
lieu, © Cardu-us, excl. 12. VII. 1889 (Wlsm.) — S. SPAIN:
MALAGA: Malaga, 14. III. 1901 : GRANADA: Granada, 22. V-20.
VI. 1901 : CADIZ : Chiclana, © Centaurea, excl. 10. VI. 1902
(J17*y/>.). N. AFRICA '—ALGERIA : Bone, 21. IV. 1896 (Eaton)-
MOROCCO: Tangier, IV. 1902 (Wlsm.); Rabat, IV. 1902 (Wlsm.).
Canaries'"' -TEXERIFE""' : Guimar, IIIe. 1907 (\Wiite); Puerto
Orutava. 1 4. IV. 1 895 (Hedemann) 3 ; La Laguna, 5. VI. 1907
(Wlsm.).

Mr. White took a good specimen of this at Guimar. when
collecting with me, at the end of March ; I subsequently mot
with a worn example, at La Lacuna, in June.

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968 LORD WAL3INGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

38. <417) APHELOSETIA fctph.
= * ELACHISTA (Tr. p.) Z.. Stn., Stgr-Rbl., etc.

Type Phalaena Tinea argentella Cl. (Wstwcl. 1840).

APHELOSETIA Stph. 111. Br. Ent. Haust. IV. 287 (1834); "Wstwd.

Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 112-3 (1840).

ELACHISTA Tr. (c. ELACHISTA) Z. Isis 1839. 211, 212-3.

When describing Elachista, Treitschke [Schm. Eur. IX. (2). 177
(1833)] wrote as part of his generic diagnosis : '; Die liaupeii
leben auf der Unterseite der Baumblatter oder minirend zwischen.
deii Hauten derselben. Sie verpuppen sich in festen Hiilsen."
This restricted the possible type to species with such larval habits
(i. e. Bucculatrix Z. and Phyllonorycter Hb.) with whose life-
history Treitschke was acquainted, and rendered it impossible
for any of the grass-mining species (Elachista Auct.) to be
regarded as a potential type. Treitschke quotes the life-history
of Buccidatrix frangulella Goze and Phyllonorycter (Lithocolletis)
tremulae Z. from Fischer von Roslerstamm (in litt.), but he was
personally acquainted with the larvae of ulmifoliella .Hb. and
Uancardella (F., mespilella Hb. 272) Tr. Elachista Tr. must there-
fore sink as a synonym of Phyllonorycter Hb., and vlmifoliella
Hb. should be taken as the type. Duponchel [HN. Lp. Fr.
XI. 25, 499-502 no. 30 (1836)] cited complanella Hb. as the type
of Elachista Tr., but Treitschke was unacquainted with the larva
of complanella, and this species is not indicated as specially
typical. Zeller's restriction to the grass-feeding species is also
invalid for the same reason.

79. (3994-1) APHELOSETIA HYPOLEUCA, sp. n.
(Plate LIL fig. 11.)

Antennae fuscous, the basal joint pale ochreous. Palpi whitish
ochreous. Head and Thorax whitish ochreous, the latter faintly
shaded with fawn-grey. Forewings pale oehreous (whitish ochreous
if worn), sprinkled and suffused with fawn-brown, especially
above the fold beyond the middle, with some deeper brownish
fuscous shades, notably along the costa and about the tornus ;
three black spots, one below the costa at two- thirds ; a smaller
one, a little beyond and below it, about the end of the cell ;
a third, more conspicuous, on the fold at about half the wing-
length ; a strong blackish shade-line runs along the middle of the
brownish ochreous cilia. Exp. al. 8-9'5 mm. Hindwings rather
dark leaden grey ; cilia tawny greyish. Abdomen grey, anal tuft
ochreous. Legs pale brownish ochreous, shaded with fuscous
externally.

Type 3 (99036); $ (14312) Mus. Wlsm.

Nab. TENERIFE : Forest de la Mina, 17. III. 1902, 7. IV. 1904
(Eaton] ; Realejo, 7-10. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
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U. V. 1907 (ir/xy//.); L-i Laguna, 23. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Las
Mcircdes, 29. V. 1907 (Wlsm.). Nineteen sp»viiiM-iis.

Not uncommon, oil the higher ground, in the barr-inco above
lvf:d»'jo and elsewhere; first taken by Mr. Eaton, in the forest
of La Minn. It is very near to albidella Tngstr. (1847 ; =rhyn-
chosporella Stn., 1848), but differs in the possession of two extra
spots beyond the conspicuous plical one : the European species
having no spot at the end of the cell or below the costa. Vein 5
is absent in both wings.

39, (417'OD POLYMETIS, gn. n.
(jroXv/ii|rij=of-many-counsels.)

Type Poly met is carlinella Wlsm.

Antennae j, slightly serrate towards apex ; basal joint with
strong pecten. Maxillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi smooth,
usually dependent, but capable of upward movement ; terminal
joint shorter than median, rather obtusely pointed. Haustellum
small. Head and face coarsely, almost roughly, scaled. Thorax
smooth. Forewinys evenly lanceolate: neuration- 12 veins;
7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa ; 6 out of 7, to termen ; 5 out of
stalk of (6 + 7 + 8); rest remote, 3 slightly approximate to 4;
lc distinct, 1 furcate at base. Hindwings nearly j|, tapering
evenly to an acute apex ; cilia 2-2 1 : neuration 7 veins, 5 and 4
coincident ; 6 and 7 stalked, enclosing apex ; 2 remote from 3,
which is somewhat approximate to (4 + 5) ; above 5 the discoidal
recedes to radius. Abdomen smooth. Legs, hind tibiae hairy.

Almost corresponding in neuration with some species of Aphe-
losetia Steph. and Staymatophora HS. ; separated from the former
by the basal furcation of vein 1 of the forewings, as well as by
the shorter and less recurved palpi, and from the latter by the
same characters, and by the coincidence of veins 5 and 4 of the
hind wings. The habits of the larva afford additional reason for
separating Poll/metis from Aphelosetia (Elachista Auct.), of which
the larvae of all known species feed on the Gramineae, or
< 'f/peraceae.

80. (3920-1) POLYMETIS CARLINELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LIL fig. 13.)

.1 ntennae and Palpi whitish cinereous. Head white. Thorax
whitish cinereous. Foreivinys white, profusely and evenly dusted
throughout with pale greyish brown scales ; the outer half of the
cilia whitish cinereous. Exp. al. 10-11 mm. Hindwings grey;
cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish. Legs whitish,
with faint greyish shade-bands on their outer sides.

Type 6 (99037) ; $ (99038) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TEXERIFE — Tacaronte, and Guimar, 0 sup. Carlina
salicifolia, 19. II - III, excl. 13. Ill - 23. IV. 1907; Puerto
Orotava, 27. IY. 1907. Eight specimens.

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970 LORD WALSINGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

The larva feeds in mines, reminding one of those of the
bramble-feeding Tischeria margined Hw. on the upper surface of
leaves of Carlina salicifolia. I found it near Tacaronte, at
Guimar, and near Orotava — seven specimens were bred and one
captured.

40. (274'1) MENDESiA Joannis.

MEXDESIA Joann. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. LXXI : 1902. 230-1 (1902) ;
Mendes Broteria III. 249-51 (1904).

81. (2343*2) MEXDESIA SYMPHYTELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LIT. fig. 14.)

Antennae brownish fuscous ; basal joint white, with strong
pecten. Palpi slightly recurved, white; terminal joint less
clothed, and therefore apparently rather more slender than
median. Head coarsely scaled above ; white. Thorax smooth^
wiiite. Forewings white, sparsely dusted with brownish scales ;
a brown spot in the fold at about half the wing-length, and
another at the end of the cell ; a brown streak along the termen,
running out through the white apical cilia ; cilia white, very
sparsely dusted with brown along their base. Exp. al. 12-14 mm.
Hinclwings of the <3 white ; of the £ inclining to greyish ; cilia
of both sexes yellowish white. Abdomen greyish fuscous, except
along the margins of the segments. Legs white ; hind tibiae with
long white hairs.

Type $ (99045); d (99046) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TEXEBIFE : Santa Cruz, 12. 1 - 10. II. 1907, ^Symphytwm
sp., 7-25. I, excl. 25. 1-20. II. 1907 (Wism.); Forest de la
Mina, 17. III. 1902 (Eaton); Guimar, 19. Ill- 10. IV. 1907
(Wlstn.) ; La Laguna, 1-6. IV. 1904 (Eaton). Thirty-three
specimens.

Twelve specimens were bred from larvae, found at Guimar,
mining leaves of Syniphytum ; the mine almost undistinguishable
from that of Acrocercops scalariella Z., but the pupa enveloped in
a white, silken, rather flat, ovate cocoon. Mr. Eaton caught a
single specimen of this species in the Forest de la Mina, in 1902 ;
in 1904 he met with it again, at La Laguna, and I took it 011 the
wring at Santa Cruz and Guimar.

41, (415) FERITTIA Stn.

82. (3919-2) PEKITTIA CEDEONELLAE, sp. 11.
(Plate LII. fig. 12.)

Antennae tawny fuscous above, pale cinereous beneath ; a pale
spot at the outer end of the short, and rather thickened, basal
joint. Palpi slender, drooping ; tawny fuscous. Head dull
yellowish white, the face shaded with fuscous. Thorax tawny
fuscous. Forewings tawny fuscous, with some faint pale
sprinkling; an oblique yellowish white dorsal streak, arising at
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about one-fourth, extends across the fold to the cell ; beyond the
middle of the clorsum is another, yellowish white, upright streak,
broad at its base, slightly inverted, and attenuate to its apex on
the cell ; this is succeeded by an ill-defined, and much diffused,
streak along the term en ; a dark fuscous line runs through the
tawny greyish cilia, falsely indicating a tornus, more defined than
in the wing itself. Exp. al. 6*5-7 mm. Jfind wings dark grey ;
cilia tawny greyish. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs yellowish
white, broadly banded on tibiae and tarsi with dark tawny
fuscous.

Type rf (99047) ; £ (99048) Mus. Wlsm.

I lab. TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz, 3000 ft., 0 Cedronella triphylla,
3. I, excl. 24. I - 1. IT. 1907 (Wfan.) ; Puerto Orotava, 10. III.
1904 (Eaton}-, Cruz de Afur, 10. III. 1904 (Eaton). Fifteen
specimens.

The larva feeds, in December and January, in a broad blotch-
mine, on leaves of Cedronella triphylla, and is abundant at the
head of the Barranco del Bufadero, near Santa Cruz, and probably
on all the high ground, where this plant occurs, along the out-
skirts of the forests of Erica arborea. Mr. Eaton met with the
species near the same locality, in 1904, and also in the Barranco
Martianez, Puerto Orotava.

The Tenerife species of Perittia, here described, have the palpi
slightly longer than those of obscurepunctella Stn., but this slight
difference is not of generic value.

83. (3919'3) PERITTIA LAVANDULAE, sp. n.

Antennae fuscous. Palpi fuscous, tipped with whitish. Head
hoary whitish, with fuscous speckling. Thorax fuscous, with
some whitish scales on the tegulae. Forewings dark fuscous,
profusely sprinkled with rather yellowish white scales, by con-
centration of which the dorsal streak arises at one-fourth, pointing
outward, and diffused upward to the costa ; a larger, upright,
streak arises before the tornus and extends nearly to the costa,
a further patch spreading over the upper half of the termen and
apex ; a line of dark fuscous scales runs through the greyish
fuscous cilia. Exp. al. 4 '5-6 mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish
fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs whitish, broadly banded
with dark tawny fuscous on the tibiae and tarsi.

Type 6 (99071) ; $ (99072) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TEXERIFE : Santa Cruz, 14. 1 - 21. II. 1907, 0 Lavandula
abrotanoides, 20. I - 22. II, excl. 13. II - 28. III. 1907 ; Guimar,
28. II. 1907 ; La Laguna, 0 Lavandula staeckas, 3. VI, excl.
19. VII. 1907. Thirty-six specimens.

The larva is common, at Santa Cruz, on Lavandula abrotanoides,
hollowing out the ends of the slender leaflets, and leaving them
bleached, when passing from one to another (after the manner
of the larvae of Epermenia on Umbelliferae) ; it also feeds on
Lavandula staechas.

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972 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

It is extremely difficult to describe the differences between this
species and cedronellae : its smaller size, more sprinkled appear-
ance, and slightly yellower-white markings may alone be relied on
to separate them.

I have, what I believe to be, yet a third, intermediate, species
of Perittia, (bystropogonis), from Guimar, feeding on Bystropogon
plumosus, in March, and emerging towards the end of April.

Hdb. TEXERIFE : Guimar, 0 Bystropogon plumosus, 27. Ill,
excl. 21-26. IV. 1907. Six specimens (99076-81).

42, (384) SCYTHRIS Hb.

84. (3478-02) SCYTHRIS ARACHNODES, sp. n.
(Plate LII. fig. 16.)

Antennae black. Palpi slender, porrect ; hoary greyish, mixed
with black. Head and Thorax black ; face greyish. Forewings
short, obtusely lanceolate ; black, a few greyish white scales at
the base, and two transverse bands of the same, one before, the
other beyond the middle ; the first narrower than the second,
and running a little obliquely outward from the costa ; the second
moderately straight, both being ill-defined, with a few scattered
whitish scales between them, others forming a patch at the apex ;
cilia greyish fuscous. Exp. al. 7—10 mm. Hindwings dark
leaden grey; cilia greyish fuscous. Abdomen steely grey. Legs
greyish fuscous, the tarsi shaded with black.

Type 6 (99082) ; $ (99083) ; © (99084) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 12-20. II. 1907 (Wlsm.\ 4. IY.
1904 (Eaton), © in webs 011 rocks, 6. I, excl. 15. II - 28. III.
1907 (Wlsm.) ; Cruz de Afur, 5. IY. 1904 (Eaton) ; Guimar,
© in webs on rocks, 1. Ill - 4. IY, excl. 11. YIII. 1907 (Wlsm.).
Twenty-seven specimens.

The larva feeds, probably on small lichens, ori the surface of
rocks, and rough stones in walls, and is very widely distributed
in the Island, where its webs are to be seen forming numerous
small patches on the face of almost every rock by the roadside.
They have the appearance of rather opaque spiders' webs, and
as they endure long after the moth has left them they are much
more numerous than the larvae themselves. Nearly allied to
bubaniae Wlsm. [Ent. Mo. Mag. XLI. 6-7 no. 3478*1 (1907)],
but smaller, and the fasciae are much more distinct.

85. (3533-1) SCYTHRIS PETRELLA, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 17.)

Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi slender, porrect ; ash-grey.
Head and Thorax ashy grey. Forewings greyish fuscous, mottled
with ashy white, the base sprinkled with ashy white scales ; an
outwardly angulate, ill-defined fascia at two-fifths, followed by
more sprinkled scales, especially towards the costa, the whole
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outer third of the wing mottled with the same, a spot at the end
of the cell, a costal patch before the apex, and a streak along the
iermen being of the plain dark ground-colour : cilia a. shy greyish.
/;>/>. al. 8-9 mm. Hindinmjs grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen
fuscous. Legs pale ashy grey.

Type 6 (99085) $ (99086) Mus. Wlsm.

I lab. TEXERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 23-30. IV. 1907 ; Las Mer-
cedes, 29. V. 1907; La Laguna, 5. VI. 1907. Twelve specimens.

The distribution of the ashy white scaling varies considerably,
and in some specimens occupies a much larger proportion of the
wing-surface than in others. It appears to be more variable than
the larger, and perhaps allied, cicadella Z., and is paler and less
uniform in its ill-defined marking than arachnodes.

86. (3536) SCYTHRIS FASCIATELLA Rgt. (Plate LII. fig. 15.)
= *ro8cidella Rbl. (nee Z.).

Butalis fasciatella Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLIX. (5 s. X : 1880).
pp. cxxi-ii (1881)1. *Blastobasis *roscidella Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. IX. 18, 90 no. 177 (1894) 2 : XXI. 44 no. 219 (1906) 3.
Butalis fasciatella Sbld. Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris XI. 319 (1898) 4.
Scythris fasciatella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 183 no. 3536
(1901) 5.

Antennae cinereous beneath, fuscous above. Palpi whitish
cinereous. Head and Thorax pale cinereous, a brownish band
crossing the latter, including the outer part of the tegulae. Fore-
wings hoary whitish, dusted with fuscous and pale rust-brown
scales ; a much sprinkled basal patch, extending to one-third, is
obliquely margined outwardly by a band of the pale ground-
colour, the sprinkling being condensed in a small costal spot near
the base, and in a costal shade a little beyond this — both accom-
panied by rust-brown ; an oblique fuscous fascia, about the middle,
is shaded with rust-brown along its ill-defined outer side and on
the costa, the paler apical area beyond it much sprinkled and
mottled with the same colours, in which a fuscous, condensed,
spot above the tornus is distinguishable ; cilia greyish fuscous,
with some hoary scales. Exp. al. 10'5-H mm. Hindwings
brownish grey ; cilia pale greyish fuscous. Legs hoary whitish,
the hind tibiae with two greyish fuscous bands across their outer
sides ; the hind tarsi also suffused with fuscous externally.

CT. d (99087); $ (99088); © (99089) Mus. Wlsm/

Larva brownish grey ; head pale brownish ; a pale, ill-defined,
dorsal line, interrupted by brownish fuscous spots on each of the
abdominal somites ; all the somites laterally shaded with brownish
fuscous, and stippled with minute pale ocellated dots ; underside,
up to the spiracular line, pale whitish ochreous ; thoracic legs
dotted with fuscous. Long. 12 mm.

Hob. SPAIN a> 4"5 : VALENCIA : Alicante, 0 ...?..., excl. 15.
XI. 1879 (Rgt.} l : ANDALUSIA 4~5 : III \ Canaries "~3— TENERIFE :
IV. 1885 (Leech) 2 ; Puerto Orotava, 26. IV - 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.),

65*

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974 LORD WALSIXGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

© Salsola oppositifolia, 27. IV, excl. 19. Y - 2. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.),
($ A triplex parvifolius, 10. V, excl. 3. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

When describing fasciatella, Ragoiiot states that he took and
bred several specimens, but omits to mention the food-plant.
I found this species on the wing, and the larva feeding among
shoots of Salsola oppositifolia, and on Atriplex parvifolius in
a slight web, in April and May ; the moths emerged in May and
June. This is the species wrongly identified by Rebel as
" Blastobasis roscidella Z.", which, apart from the generic differ-
ences, it does not greatly resemble. I fear the specimen I sent
him must have been a very poor one. The type of Blastobasis
roscidella is in the Zeller Collection, and I have also a Cotype of
Butalis fasciatella received from the late M. E. Ragonot.

43. (383) EPERMENIA Hb.
87. (3413) EPERMENIA DAUCELLA Peyr.

Chaulicdus daucellus Peyr. Pet. Nouv. Eiit. I, 57-8 (1870) : ;
Hrtm. MT. Munch. Eiit. Ver. IV. 44 no. 2564 (1880) 2; Wlsm.
Ent. Mo. Mag. XXVII. 147 (1891) 3: Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894.
538, 554 no. 59 (1894) 4. Epermenia daucella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 179 no. 3413 (1901) 5.

Hob. S. EUROPE : Daucus carota l~~ ; Thapsia villosa 3—
GIBRALTAR, 0 Thapsia, III, excl. 7. IV- 21. V. 1901 (Wlsm.).
K AFRICA — MOROCCO : Tangier, 30. I. 1902 (Wlsm.).
Madeiras4 — MADEIRA4: (Wottaston)*. Canaries — TEXERIFE: La
Laguna, 31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

A single specimen occurred at La Laguna, at the end of May :
this species had already been recorded by me from Madeira, but
had not been observed in Tenerife.

44. (283) PRAYS Hb.
88. (2382) PRAYS CITRI Mill.

Acrolepia citri Mill. Pet. Nouv. Ent. I. 310 (1873)1. Prays citri
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 133 no. 2382 (1901) 2 : Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. XXI. 38, 44 no. 206 (1906) 3.

Hal}. CoiisicA1"3 — SICILY 1"3 — S. FRANCE3: 0 Citrus decu-
mana \ Canaries 3 — TENERIFE 3 : Guimar, 1896 (White) 3 ; Puerto
Orotava, 10. III. 1904 (Eaton).

Mr. Eaton took a single specimen, at light in the hotel, in
March 1904 : I did not myself meet with this species.

45. (281) HYPONOMEUTA Ltr.
89. (2361) HYPOXOMEUTA GIGAS Rbl.

Hyponomeuta gigas Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 271-2, 283
no. 52, PI. 17 • 17 rf (1892)1 : IX. 18, 89 no. 166 (1894) 2 : XL
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126-7, 146 no. 185 (1896) 3 : XIII. 377, 381 no. 199 (1898) 4.
Yyx»iomeula gigas Ilbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 44 no. _!0f)
(1906)'': Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 132 no. 2361 (1901)°.

If ah. Canaries l~' —TEXERIFE 2~G : Realejo, 0 Salix canariensis,
25. IV, excl. Y - VI. 1895 (Jledemann) 3, ® 25. IV- 7. V, excl.
10. V - 2. VI. 1907 (IVlsm.) ; La Laguna, ® Populus alba, 21. V,
excl. 30. V. 1907 (TFZsw.); Santa Cruz, 1. VI. 1889 (Krauss}2-
GRAX CANARiA1'0: 1890 (Eichter)1 '•> <& Salix, Populus, Ocotea
(Oreodaphne)foetens,exc\. 29. IV - 25. V. 1893 (Lowe) ; nr. Teror,
0 Populus, excl. 10. V. 1895 (ffedemaam)3] Santa Brigida,
0 Salix canariensis, excl. IVC - Vb. 1898 (ffintz) \

Many years ago I received a considerable number of larvae of
this species from Dr. John Lowe, who wrote as follows : —

" The larvae occur in countless myriads on the Willow, Poplar,
and 'Till' trees (Laurel : Oreodaphnefoetens). They spin a fine
silken web over the entire tree, even to its ultimate branches,
which makes them look white and silvery. The underwood and
stones at the base are also covered with the silk tissue, which is
so closely woven that there are no visible openings. I was able to

strip off pieces five or six feet in length." "It is just

possible that there may be more than one species, but I am
doubtful about this. If it is so one will be found in the box, with
a pin through it, which I took from Salix — the rest were from
Oreodaphne. I am sending you some of the silk, which is most
remarkable. The brushwood under the trees was completely
covered by it, also the grasses and large stones. The tree- trunks
were so closely covered that one could not see even a pinhole on
the smooth trunks of the 'Till' — every branch was covered, and
scarcely a leaf remained on any of the infested trees, which were
60 or 70 ft. high. At the base of the trunks the appearance of
the web was most singular — large reticulations, like pulmonary
cells, seemed to open one into the other, but on closer examination
the apparent openings were found to be closed by a membrane of
perfect continuity, but so transparent that until something was
passed through it one could not perceive that it existed."
(Dr. Lowe, in Hit., 29. IV., 20. V. 1893.)

I first met with Hyponomeuta gigas on three large trees of
Salix canariensis, at the first branching of the large barranco above
Realejo Alto : the ends of the branches were entirely covered with
the colonies of larvae, in dense web, having a seriously denuding
effect upon the foliage. Subsequently I found it, in less abundance,
on Populus alba, in the Eucalyptus avenue, running north-east
from La Laguna. There is no difference between the specimens
reared from Salix and Populus respectively ; the larvae also were
^distinguishable. Rebel originally described gigas (I. c. 1) as
sexually dimorphic, having " alis plumbeis, anterioribus c? punctis
nigris triseriatis, $ innotatis " ; subsequently, however, he came to
the conclusion that both sexes occurred in both forms, and that
the spotless form was characteristic of Gran Canaria, appearing

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976 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

only as an aberration in Tenerife. It may be convenient to name
the spotless form innotata, var. n., and then to enumerate in
series each variety as represented in my collection.

I have 129 (= gigas 93 + 36 innotata) specimens, of which 103
(= gigas 91 + 12 innotata} are from Tenerife, and 26 ( = gigas 2 +
24 innotata) are from Gran Canaria. The series of 103 specimens
from Tenerife is composed of 91 ( = 66 d1 c? +25 $ 5) gigas, of
which 55 ( = 42 cf c? +13 $ $ ) were bred from Populus alba, and
36 ( = 24 $ c? +12 $ $ ) were bred from Salix canariensis ; and
12 (6 J d +6 2 2) innotata, 8 (=4 J tf +4 $ $ ) of which were
bred from Populus and 4( = 2 tf c? + 2 $ $ ) from Salix.

The 26 ( = 9 d1 d +17 S $ ) specimens from Gran Canaria were
bred by Dr. Lowe from Ocotea foetens ; 24 (9 3 3 +15 $ $ ) are
innotata, while 2 ( $ $ ) are gigas.

^ 46. (424) PHYLLONORYCTER Hb.

—LITHOCOLLETIS Hb.; =EucESTisHb.; = ELACHISTA Tr. (nec*Z.).

\ ((j)v\\ov =a leaf ; opvK-iify=& miner.)

' Type Phalaena Tinea rayella L., Hb. 200.

PHYLLONORYCTER Hb. Tent. p. [2] (1806). LITHOCOLLETIS Hb.
Yerz. Schm. 423 no. 4117-20 (1826); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
210-16 (1901); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 549-57(1902);
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXXII. 49, 51-2 (1907).; etc.

Lithocolletis Hb. is a synonym of Phyllonorycter Hb., the type
of both being rajella Hb. Tin. PI. 29' 200.

(^, 90. (4113) PHYLLONORYCTER HELIANTHEMELLUS HS.

Lithocolletis helianthemella HS. Neue Schm. 20 no. 89, PI. 18 '
115 (I860)1 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 211 no. 4113 (1901)2.

Hob. WC. ASIA 2. C-S. EUROPE : ® inf. Helianthemum
vulgare, guttatum l~'2. Canaries — TENERIFE : Guimar, 25. II -

10. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Taken at Guimar : the larvae observed on Cistus monspeliensis.

91. (4165) PHYLLONORYCTER MESSANIELLUS Z.

Lithocolletis messaniella Z. Lin. Ent. I. 221-2 no. 21. PI. 1- 23
(1846) x; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555 no. 65 (1894)2;
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 214 no. 4165 (1901) \

Hab. WC. ASIA 3. WC-S. EUROPE l'a ; 0 inf. Quwcus,
Castanea, Carpinus "—ITALY : Rome, 10-25, I V; 1893 (Wlsm.\—
SPAIN: MALAGA: Malaga, 17. III. 1901 (Wlsm.). N. AFRICA—
MOROCCO : Tangier, ® inf. Quercus siiber, XII, excl. 25. I -

11. III. 1902 (Wlsm.}. Madeiras 2— MADEIRA - : (Wollaston)'2.
Canaries— TENERIFE : La Laguna, 0 inf. Quercus suber, 13. I
excl. 17-30. I. 1907 (Wlsm.), 14. III. 1902 (Eaton), 0 inf. Quer-
cus sp. (decid.), 23. V, excl. 4. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Guimar, 25. II.
1907 (Wlsm.).

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First received from Mr. Eaton : I found it in great abundance
at La Lamina and < Jm'mar, on Quercus suber — also on a deciduous
oak at the former place.

92. (4166) PlIYLLOXORYCTER PLATANI Stgr.

Lithocolletis platani Stgr. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. VII. 277-9, PI. 3 •
18 (1870) l; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 214. no. 4166 (1901) \

I lab. WC. ASIA2. S. EUROPE: 0 inf. Platanus oriental-is l"-'
— SPAIN : MALAGA: Malaga, 17. III. 1901 (Wlsm.). Canaries —
TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 8. I - 11. II. 1907, 0 inf. Platanus
orientalis, 1. I, exci. 14-20. II. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Extremely abundant at Santa Cruz : the fallen leaves were
crowded with mines at Xmas, 1906.

93. (4180) PHYLLOXORYOTER CYTISELLLUS Rbl.

Lithocolletis cytisella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 140-1, 147
no. 217. PL 3- 17-17* (1896) l : XXL 44 no. 242 (1906)2 : Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 215 no. 4180 (1901) 3.

Hob. TEXERIFE1"3: La Laguna, 0 Cytisus proliferus, 13. I,
excl. 16. I - 8. II. 1907 (Wlsm.); Guimar, ® Cytisus proliferus,
26. II, excl. 3-25. III. 1907, 7. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)] Puerto Oro-
tava, 11-26. IV. 1895 (HedemannY , % . V. 1907 (IFZswi.); Las
Mercedes, 29. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Common : a long series taken among, and bred from, Cytisus
proliferus. It is very variable, some forms approaching juncei.

94. (4180*1) PlIYLLOXORYCTER JUXCEI, Sp. n.

Antennae and Palpi white. Head white, mixed with golden
brownish. Thorax golden brownish, with white streaks at the
sides, and posteriorly. Forewinys shining, golden brown, with
five costal, and two dorsal, white streaks, more or less plainly
indicated ; the first costal is at about half the wing-length, and
further removed from the second than the others are from each
other ; the first dorsal is larger than the first costal, commencing
before it, but approaching it at its apex ; the second dorsal is
opposite to the second costal ; there is also a white basal streak,
sometimes produced as far as the first pair, and partially connected
with a small white dorsal streak ; the outer half of the wing is
thickly studded with black scales, which tend to form dark inner
margins to the first and second costal, and to the second dorsal
streaks, also an outer margin to the inverted costal streak before
the apex ; there is a conspicuous, elongate patch of similar black
scales, also before the middle, forming an inner margin to the
first dorsal streak ; terminal cilia golden brown at their base, with
a dark line dividing this from their paler outer ends. Exp. al.
7'5-9 mm. Hindtri.iigs pale grey; cilia pale brownish grey.
Abdomen greyish. Legs white.

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978 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

Type 2 (99090); rf (99091) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Villa Orotava, 6. V, 1907; Puerto Orotava,
0 Genista stenopetala, 8. Y, excl. 13-16. Y. 1907; La Laguna,
0 Spartium junceum, 21. Y, excl. 23. Y - 6. YI. 1907. Seventy-
eight specimens.

This is apparently allied to cytisellus Rbl., and, like it, is also
very variable in the intensity of its markings, which in some
specimens are more or less evanescent, but, whereas in cyti-
sellus the white so strongly predominates as to overrun the wing
and leave golden markings, in juncei the golden ground predomi-
nates, leaving white markings. I have a long series of bred
specimens of both species, and can never be at a loss to distinguish
them.

I first found juncei in the garden behind the Hotel Yittoria,
Villa Orotava, flying freely about Genista stenopetala, and after-
wards bred it from leaves of the same, gathered at Puerto Orotava ;
but it was even more abundant on Spartium junceum, by the side
of the road from La Laguna to Tegeste, where, in one spot only,
for about 100 yards, almost every leaf of these plants was affected
by the larvae. The species is described from specimens bred from
Spartium junceum.

95. (4207* 1) PHYLLONORYCTER FOLIOLOSI, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 8.)

Antennae white, with blackish annulations. Palpi white.
Head and Thorax pale golden brown. Foreivings pale golden
brown, with four costal and three, or four, more obscure, white
dorsal streaks ; the first two pairs opposite, and frequently
appearing as two fasciae by meeting each other, a slender whitish
streak sometimes connecting them along the middle ; between the
white streaklets, as well as towards the base, the wing is plentifully
bestrewn with minute black scale-points ; cilia mixed golden and
whitish, becoming greyish along the dorsum. Exp. al. 4-5 '5 mm.
HindwingsKJid cilia pale grey. Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous.
Legs yellowish white.

Type J (99092) ; $ (99093) Mus. Wlsm.

Rob. TENERIPE: Guimar, 25.11 - 6. III. 1907, 0 Adenocarpus
foliolosus, 26. II, excl. 1-10. III. 1907 (Wlsni.)- La Laguna,
25. III. 1904 (Eaton}, 23. V - 9. VI. 1907, 0 Genista canariensis,
18. V, excl. 5-15. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.). Fifty-three specimens.

The larva feeds in the tiny leaflets of Adenocarpus foliolosus,
at Guimar, at about 2000 ft. above sea-level, sometimes giving
to the branches a whitened appearance, through the bleaching of
innumerable leaves ; I found the same species later, at La Laguna,
on Genista canariensis, where Mr. Eaton had taken it in March
1904.

The species is allied to parvifoliellus Rgt., but differs in the
more numerous costal streaks.
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47. (420'OD ACROCERCOPS Wlgrn.
n. syn.=CoxoPOMORPHA Meyr.; =DIALECTICA Wlsm.

Type 1. Tinea brongniardella F. (Wlgrn. 1881).
ACROCERCOPS Wlgrn. Ent. Tdsk. II. 95 (1881).

Type 2. Conopomorpha cyanospila Meyr. (Meyr. 1886).

CONOPOMORPHA Meyr. Tr. NZ. Inst. XVIII. 183 (1886): Pr. Lin.
Soc. NSW. XXXII. 49, 54-61 no. 4 (1907).

Type 3. Gracilaria scalariella Z. (Wlsm. 1897).
DIALECTICA Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Loiid. 1897. 150-1 no. 93.

In his recent paper [Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXXII. 47-68 (1907)]
Meyrick has removed the groups of Gracilaria and Zelleria from
the Tineidae to the Plutellidae, assigning now " more importance to
the smooth posterior tibiae which are a normal attribute of those
two groups, than to the rough head which is a frequent character-
istic. Moreover, whilst folded maxillary palpi are peculiarly
characteristic of the Tineidae, the simple porrected maxillary
palpi of the Gracilaria group are so similar to those of the Plutella
group, and so different from those of any other Tineina, that they
would seem to indicate real affinity." He concludes from his
study of the Gracilaria group that " Coriscium Z. cannot be
maintained as a distinct or natural genus, the scaling of the palpi
being subject to much variation, and not according with true
affinity. On the other hand," he has " found it practicable to use
the scaling of the legs to break up the whole of the species thus
thrown together into four groups which are both natural and
strictly definable, and since the number of species known is
already very large and destined to be much larger," he has
" thought it conducive to clearness to establish them as genera."
Cyphosticha Meyr. and Conopomorpha Meyr., having " Posterior
tibiae with bristly hairs above," are separated from Gracilaria
Hw. and Macarostola Meyr., with " Posterior tibiae smooth-
scaled." Dialectica Wlsm. is sunk as a synonym of Conopomorpha
Meyr. ; but brongniardellum F. also has " Posterior tibiae bristly
above [Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 749 (1894)], for which reason Wallen-
gren removed it from Coriscium Z., making it the type of
ACROCERCOPS Wlgn. (1881), described as having " Tibiae postice
setosae," and, consequently, Conopomorpha must also sink as a
synonym.

96. (4082-1) ACROCERCOPS HEDEMANXI Rbl.

Gracilaria hedemanni Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 136-7, 147
no. 211. PI. 3- 15 c? (1896)1: XXI. 44 no. 239 (1906)2: Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 207 no. 4067 (1901) 3.

Hab. Madeiras — MADEIRA : The Curralhino, Funchal, 9. IY.

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980 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

1902 (Eaton). Canaries ^3— TENERIFE l'3 : Guimar, 2 III. 1907
(TF7sm.); La Lagima, 17. III. 1902 (Eaton); Forest de la Mina,
2500-2800 ft., 7. IY. 1904 (Eaton); Puerto Orotava, 23. IY.
1907, 0 Malva parviftora, 23. IY, excl. 11-14. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.);
La Matanza, 2. Y. 1895 (Hedemann) l ; Las Mercedes, 29. Y.
1907 (Wlsm.).

The publication of Prof. Rebel's figure of hedemanni prevented
me from describing a very closely allied species, found at Tangier
in 1901. I have now a considerable series of each, and am
acquainted with their larvae. Both feed on species of Malvaceae,
making conspicuous blotches on the upper sides of the leaves, and
in both instances the larvae assume, before pupating, the beau-
tiful transverse bands of scarlet, or rich carmine, so well known in
Acrocercops brongniardellum F.

The Tenerife species is exceedingly common, feeding on Malva
parviflora everywhere, and on Lavatera arborea in gardens, at
Orotava and elsewhere. I have received hedemanni also from
Funchal, Madeira (Rev, A . E. Eaton) ; there is no difference
between the Tenerife and Madeira specimens.

(4032'2) ACROCERCOPS MALVACEA, sp. n.
=*hedemanni Wlsm. (nee Kbl.).

Dialectica sp. n. Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 236 (1901) J. Gracilaria *hede-
manni Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIX. 181 (1903) 2.

Sab. MOROCCO: Tangier1"2, © Malva sp. 1, Lavatera olbia 2, © [Malva ? sp. ?],
XII, excl. 1-11. I. 1902, © 13. IV, excl. 29. IV - 9. V. 1901. Thirty-six specimens.

Type $ (88655) ; ? (88669) ; ® (88688) Mus. Wlsm.

When recording Gracilaria hedemanni from Morocco [Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIX.
181 (1903)], I was somewhat misled by the absence of a pale basal patch in Rebel's
figure. Such a patch is distinctly present in hedemanni, but barely traceable or
entirely absent from the Tangier insect ; moreover the dorsal spot be3"ond the centi'al
fascia is also absent from what I may now call Acrocercops malvacea, sp. n.
There is also a slight difference in the larvae: in malvacea the scarlet transverse
bands are shorter, extending less far laterally, and the head is brown — not blackish
as in hedemanni. I recorded the food-plant as Lavatera olbia (Ent. Mo. Mag.
XXXIX. 181), but I am unable now to verity this by reference to preserved specimens,
which is to be regetted, as I had previously [Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 236 (1901)]
thought the plant "a very large mallow", it was a tall Malvaceous plant, some-
times seven or eight feet high, with broad rounded leaves and white, or lilac,
flowers.

97. (4082-3) ACROCERCOPS SCALARIELLA Z.

Gracilaria scalariella Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XI. 160-1 (1850) T;
Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Yer. IV. 35 no. 2351 (1880) 2; Wlsm.
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555 no. 64 (1894) 3 ; Rbl. Ann.
KK. Hofmus. IX. 18, 91 no. 181 (1894) 4: XI. 137, 147 no. 212
(1896) 5 : XXI. 44 no. 240 (1906) 6. Dialectica scalariella Wlsm.
Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897. 150-1 (1897) ~. Gracilaria scalariella
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 208 no. 4081 (1901) 8.

Hob. WC. ASIA 8. S. EUROPE T"8 : 0 Echium vulgare, X-
XI, excl. IV-Y 2— CORSICA : Posso di Borgo, 5. VI. 1889 (Wlsm.)

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1907. MICROLEPIDOPTEUA OF TEXE1UFE. 981

— S. FRANCE8: Mentone, © Cynoglossum, excl. 12. III.
(II7.V///.); ( ',-nnies, 0 Echium, excl. IV. 1881 (\Ylsm. )\ Monte
Carlo, © Echium, excl. IY. 1881 (JFZsw.)— SPAIN • < : MALAGA:
El-Chorro, © Echium, 5.1, excl. 27. I - 1. II. 1901 (TFfcwi.);
Malaga, © Symphytum, 31. I, excl. 13-14. II. 1901 (H7s?y?.).
K AFRICA— ALGERIA : Bone, 6-21. IV. 1896 (Eaton); Con-
stantine, 26. X. 1895 (Eaton)— TUNIS : Tunis, 5. XII. 1893
(Eaton). Madeiras""' s: MADEIRA: (H rollaston)3'*'* ; Monte,
Fimchal, 13. IV. 1904 (Eaton). Canaries '"8— TENERIFE4'6 : IV.
1885 (Leech)4 ; Santa Cruz, 1895 (Hedemann) '* , 7-12. I. 1907,
© Symphytum, 26. XII, excl. 14. I. 1907 (Wlsm.)] San Andres,
© Echium spinosum, 23. I, excl. 26-28. I. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto
Orotava, IV. 1895 (Uedemann) 3, © Echium sp., 8. V, excl. 6.
V. 1907 (JFZsw.): Realejo, 7. V. 1907 (JPfow.)— GRAN CANARIA :
1895 (Hedemann)'.

This species is common at Santa Cruz, and Guimar, and indeed
wherever its food- plants are found. I bred it from at least three
different species of Echium, as well as from Symphytum, in
Tenerife, and am able to extend the distribution of the species
from captures by Mr. Eaton and myself.

48. (420) GRACILARIA Hw.
98. (4057) GRACILARIA ROSCIPENNELLA Hb.

Tinea roscipennella Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. VIII. PL 29 • 128
(1796) \ Poeciloptilia roscipennella Hb. Verz. Schm. 427 no.
4167 (1826)-. Gracilaria roscipennella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
VII. 278, 283 no. 62 (1892) 3 : IX. 18, 91 no. 180 (1894) 4 ; Wlsm.
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555 no. 63 (1894) 5 ; Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 207 no. 4057 (1901) G: Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 44 no. 237 (1906) 7.

Jfab. WC. ASIA. C-S. EUROPE : © Juglans— SPAIN :
GRANADA: Sierra Nevada, 3 VI. 1901 (Wlsm.). Madeiras5'"—
MADEIRA": San Antonio da Serra ( Wollaston) ° ; Raba^al,
3430 ft., 29. IV. 1904 (Eaton). Canaries 3"7— TENERIFE 3~T : IV.
1885 (Leech)*; La Laguna, © Laurus canariensis, 19. V, excl. 9.
VI - 21. VII. 1907 (Wlam.) ; Taganana, 9. VIII. 1889 (Simony)3.

Prof. Rebel records specimens taken by Professor Simony,
above Taganana, among Woodwardia radicans ; he subsequently
recognised a worn specimen, in my own collection (61049), re-
ceived from the late Mr. J. H. Leech, from Tenerife. I havo
now succeeded in breeding a few examples from larvae forming
conspicuous cones on Laurus canariensis, collected in the neigh-
bourhood of La Laguna and Tegeste : after comparing them with
a series bred from leaves of Juglans, at Cannes, I am quite unable
to separate them, but I failed to find any larvae on Juglans in
Tenerife, although some trees grew at no great distance from the
spot where most of my larvae were taken.

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982 LORD WALSINGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26,

99. (4057-1) GRACILARIA STAINTOXI Wlstn. (Plate LIII. fig. 14.)

Gracilaria staintoni Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). I. 122 (1858) x :
Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 854 no. 24 (1864) 2; Wlsm. Tr. Ent.
Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555 no. 62 (1894) 3; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lep.
Pal. II. 206 no. 4049 (1901) \

Antennae pale brownish yellow. Labial Palpi white, smeared
with tawny reddish on the outer side of the terminal joint, and
toward the apex of the median. Maxillary Palpi white, tipped
with tawny reddish. Head pale yellowish brown ; face whitish.
Thorax bright golden yellow above ; the tegulae reddish brown.
Forewings very long and narrow ; shining, bright, pale golden
yellow, with a purplish lilac suffusion spreading over the dorsal
half and becoming rather darker across the apex ; at the upper
edge of the purplish shade are two or three slight projections of
a rather more intense colour, and, on either side of the middle of
the costa above them, are one or more minute black dots ; cilia
reddish purple above the apex, reddish ochreous below it, dark
tawny grey along the dorsum. Exp. al. 13-14 mm. Hindwings
shining, leaden grey ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen leaden grey,
silvery white beneath. Legs pale grey, the tarsi fading to whitish,
and very faintly spotted.

Type o (no. XL) Mus. Br. ; CT. rf (99127) ; $ (14175) Mus.
Wlsm.

Hob. Madeiras1'4— MADEIRA1'4: Funchal, 16. IV. 1904
(Eaton) ; The Mount, 1855 (IVollaston)1' 3. Canaries — TENERIFE :
Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 (Eaton):, Taganana, 27. V. 1907;
Agua Garcia, Tacaronte, 31. V. 1907 (IVlsm.) ; La Laguna, 0
Laurus canariensis, 19. V, excl. 12. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

This species was captured at Taganana, and at Agua Garcia,
near Tacaronte, and subsequently bred from larvae feeding in
large cones on the leaves of Laurus canariensis, which were un-
distinguishable from the cones made by roscipennella on the
same tree. Mr. Eaton took this species at Funchal, and at Las
Mercedes, in 1904.

100. (4057-2) GRACILARIA SCHINELLA, sp. n.

(Plate LIII. fig. 13.)

Antennae pale brownish ochreous, faintly dark-barred above.
Palpi brownish ochreous, smeared with rust -brown externally.
Head and Thorax brownish ochreous ; the tegulae touched with
purplish. Forewings pale ochreous, suffused with reddish lilac,
more strongly at the base of the costa than elsewhere, and
notably less on a pale, elongate, mediocostal patch extending to
the fold, which, however, like the rest of the wing-surface, is
distinctly iridescent ; the more suffused portions exhibit every
possible variety of iridescence, from purple to green, and cupreous,
according to the incidence of light ; there is a purplish shade in
the cilia below the apex, but the dorsal cilia are pale, iridescent,
bronzy greyish. Exp. al. 11—14 mm. Hindwings | ; pale leaden
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grey; cilia iridescent, greyish cupreous. Abdomen grey, anal
tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous ; the femora and tibiae of the
anterior and median pairs thickly clothed with tawny reddish
fuscous.

T we <$ (99130); $ (99131) Mus. Wlsm.

liah. TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 3. I. 1907, 0 Schinus molle, 27.
XII - 11. I, excl. 22. 1-7. III. 1907. Fifteen specimens.

This species is exceedingly common at Santa Cruz, where the
young larva mines the leaflets of ScMnus molle. It subsequently
forms a blister, like that of a Phyllonorycter, and eventually rolls
a whole leaflet into a compact cone, sometimes pupating within
it, but frequently leaving it and forming a smooth, silken cocoon
under another leaf. It is remarkable that this species should
have escaped observation so long, the tree on which it lives being
so commonly introduced in all parts of the south of Europe. It
is probably not indigenous in Tenerife, but, if this be the case, it
is one of the very rare instances of the introduction of an exotic
insect with an imported plant.

~ 101. (4057-3) GRACTLARIA AURANTIACA Wlstn.
(Plate LIII. fig. 12.)

Gracilaria? aurantiaca Wlstn. Ann-Mag. KH. (3 s.). I. 122
(1858) !; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 854 no. 25 (1864) a, Blas-
tobasis (?) aurantiaca Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 552
no. 53 (1894) 3; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 164 no. 3066 (1901) 4.
Gracilaria sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 39, 44 no. 238
(1906) \

Antennae ochreous, faintly barred above with chestnut-brown.
Palpi ochreous, the median joint chestnut-brown on its outer
side. Head ochreous. Thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae tinged
with reddish. Foreivings rich brownish ochreous, suffused with
tawny red toward the apex ; with a broad, rich tawny red,
triangular patch, commencing at the base of the costa and ex-
tending two-thirds the length of -the wing, its lower angle slightly
crossing the fold before the middle ; from the tornus arises an
inverted, short, diffused streak of tbe same colour, the cilia also
are tawny reddish, except on the costa before the apex, where
they are pale cinereous. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. Hindwings shining,
pale grey ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs pale
cinereous, unspotted.

Typeo (no. XXXIX) Mu s. Br. ; CT. 3 (99145); $ (99146)
Mus. Wlsm.

Hal. Madeiras1"1— MADEIRA1'3: 1855 (Wollaston)1'3. Canaries
—TEXERIFE : 1905 (White) 3 : Villa Orotava, 19. II. 1907 ; Guimar,
0 Hypericum grandifolium, 19. Ill, excl. 5-26. IV. 1907(JP/sm.);
Cruz de Afur, 5. IY. 1904 (Eaton) ; Arafo, 13. IV. 1907 ; Puerto
Orotava, 23. IV - 10. V. 1907; Realejo, 7. V. 1907; Taganaria,
27. V. 1907; Las Mercedes, 31. V. 1907; La Laguna, 3. VI.
1907 (Wlsni.).

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984 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

This species is extremely common in all the barrancos about
Guimar, and Villa Orotava, and probably everywhere from 1000-
3000 ft. It forms cones on at least two species of Hypericum
(grandifolium, canariense, etc.). It is the Gracilaria sp., no. 238
of Rebel's List, and on comparison proves to be the species
described as Gracilaria ? aurantiaca by Wollaston, from Madeira,
which I erroneously listed as Blastobasis ? aurantiaca (I. c. 3).

49. (423) BEDELLIA Stn.
102. (4107) BEDELLIA SOMNULEXTELLA Z.
n. syTL.=*dapkneella Wlsm. (nee Stgr.).

Lyonetia somnulentella Z. Isis 1847. 894-5 no. 432 \ Bedellia
somnulentella Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 214 (1859) 2; Wlsm.
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 542 no. 24 (1894) 3. *Phytto-
brostis *daphnedla Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555
no. 66 (1894) 4. Bedellia sommdentdla Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XI. 137, 147 no. 213 (1896) 5; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXIII.
243-4 (1900)°; Stgr- Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 210 no. 4107 (1901)7;
Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 557 no. 6337 (1902) 8 ; Wlsm. Fn.
Hawaii. I. 723-4 no. 430. PI. 25 • 28 (1907) 9.

Rah. C-S. EUROPE1'7'9: 0 Convolvulus spp. (althaeoides,
arvensis, cantabrica, mauretanica, sepium) 9, Ipomoea purpurea 9-
SPAIX : MALAGA : Malaga, 0 Convolvulus althaeoides, 30. XII,
excl. 16. II. 1901 (Wlsm.); Torremolinos, 29. I, excl. 3. III.
1901 (Wlsm.). N. AFRICA— ALGERIA: Biskra, 5-12. III. 1903
(Wlsm.), 21. IV. 1895, 3. VI. 1893 (Eaton) ; El-Guerrah, 27. V.
1903 ( Wlsm.). Madeiras 2' '• 7- 9— MADEIRA •"• : The Mount ( Wol-
laston) 4. Canaries 5> 7) ° — TEXERIFE 5 : Santa Cruz, 0 Convolvulus
althaeoides, 10. I, excl. 22. I - 10. III. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Guimar, 2.
III. 1907 (Wlsm.)- Puerto Orotava, 23. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)5.
UNITED STATES •• 5-9 : 0 Ipomoea, Pharbitis 9. HAW AHA9.
AUSTRALIA 9. N. ZEALAND 9.

Common on various species of Convolvulus : I have recognised
the mines on Convolvulus Jloridus,a,ind bred it from C. althaeoides.

The record of the occurrence of u Phyllobrostis daphneella Stgr."
in the Madeiras [Wlsm. Tr. Ent. JSoc. Lond. 1894. 538, 555
no. 66] must be corrected : examining again the fragment, thus
identified at the time, I find it to be a remnant of Bedellia
somnulentella Z., which Stainton had already recorded from
Madeira.

50. (426)TISCHERIAZ.

(^ 103. (4210-1) TlSCHERIA TAXTALELLA, Sp. n.

Antennae pale fawn-ochreous. Palpi, Head, and Thorax pale
fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale fawn-ochreous, thickly sprinkled
with yellowish, and some fawn-brownish, scales, the latter con-
densed in a narrow streak along the base of the costa, and in a
small, but conspicuous tornal spot ; cilia brownish grey. Exp. al.
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8 mm. lUiHln'imjx pale grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen
grey above, pale yellowish at the sides and beneath. Legs shining,
fawn- whitish.

Type 3 (98990) Mus. Wlsni.

Hob. TEXERIFE: Gnimar, 2. III. 1907. Unique.

The most persistent searching failed to secure a second specimen ;
there was no oak anywhere near where it occurred. It appears
to be more nearly allied to North American than to European
species.

104. (4215) TlSCIIERIA LOXGICILIATELLA Rbl.

Tischeria longiciliatella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 141-2, 147
no. 218 (1896)1: XXI. 44 no. 243 (1906) 2 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 217 no. 4215 (1901) 3.

Hab. TENERiFE1'3: Yilla Orotava, 0 Rubus Jruticosus, 19. II,
excl. 27. II - 22. III. 1907 (Whm.}- Guimar, 28. II - 19. III.
1907, 0 Rubus fruticosus, 27. II, excl. 17. Ill - 13. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.); Las Mercedes, 2000 ft., 7. III. 1904 (Eaton}; Forest
de la Mina, 7. IY. 1904 (Eaton}-, Puerto Orotava, 15-17. IY.
1895 (Hedemann)1, 3-14. Y. 1907 (JFZsw.); La Laguna, 8. IY.
1904 (Eaton), 9. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

I have bred this species from Rubus fruticosus, amongst which
it was found by von Hedemann, and Eaton. Rebel described
his type as dark brownish, remarking that his second specimen,
which was somewhat worn, had traces of brassy yellow colouring.
Some specimens show much more ochreous spotting than the
typical form, of which I have several caught and some bred
specimens, in which the small yellow dorsal spot before the torn us
is almost obsolete ; others again, bred and caught, show three
strong yellow patches on the outer half of the wing, more or less
connected with each other, and another at the base of the costa.
The many intermediate gradations clearly prove that these are
mere variations of one species.

Tischeria lonyiciliatella Rbl. must not be confused with the
Texan Tischeria longeciliata Frey and Boll [Stett. Ent. Ztg.
XXXJX. 259 (1878), 0 Helianthus], which Prof. Rebel probably
overlooked when naming the Tenerife species.

51. (446) ACROLEPIA Crt.
105. (4478) ACROLEPIA VESPERELLA Z.

Rosier stammia vesper ella Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XI. 156-7 no. 158
(1850) \ Acrolepia vesperella Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Yer. IV. 4
no. 1529 (1880) 2; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 232 no. 4478
(1901)3.

Hab. S. EUROPE l'3 : 0 Smilax aspera, Y, X, excl. IV, IX 2—
ITALY : Rome, 10-25. IY. 1893 (TFZsw.)— FRAXCE : Monte Carlo
19-22. VI. 1898 (Wlsm.). X. AFRICA 3— MOROCCO : Tangier,
30-31. XII. 1901 (Wlsm.)— ALGERIA: El-Biar, 2. Ill - 7. IV

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986 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

1893 (Eaton) • Ruisseau cles Singes, Medea, 26. VII. 1893 (Eaton*).
Canaries — TENEEIFE : Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 (Eaton),
29. V - 7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Cruz de Afur, 5. IV. IW4: (Eaton) ;
Forest de la Mina, 9. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ; Guimar, 10. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.); La Laguna, 23-31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.); Tacaronte, 31.
V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Found commonly at various localities : not previously recorded
from the Canaries.

Q ^ 106. (4489*1) ACROLEPIA PAPPELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 15.)

Antennae, fuscous, clearly spotted with white along their under
sides. Palpi cinereous, shaded transversely with fuscous on each
joint beneath. Head and Thorax cinereous, mixed with fuscous.
Forewings pale cinereous, partially suffused with pale fawn, and
speckled with fuscous ; a series of black specks along the basal
third of the costa, and some small, obscure, fuscous cloud-spots
on the outer half of the costa ; two rather larger cloud-spots on
the dorsum, preceded and followed by white scaling, the white
patch between them containing two short upright streaks of
blackish speckling ; a fuscous line along the termen, and a
broader shade of the same on the outer half of the pale cinereous
terminal cilia. Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings pale steely grey ;
cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs greyish ; the
tarsi with pale spots at the joints.

Type $ (99151); 3 (99152) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : Guimar, 28. II. 1907, ® Attagopappus dicho-
tomus, 28. II, excl. 30. III. 1907; Villa Orotava, ®, 19. II,
excl. 19-30. III. 1907; Puerto Orotava, 0, 20. IV, excl. 27-30.
IV. 1907. Twelve specimens.

Larva on Attagopappus dichotomies, mining the leading leaves,
and 'pupating in a white open network cocoon among these, or
on the stems. Two specimens taken on the wing at Guimar,
where larvae were found the same day, and on different dates at
Orotava.

52. (292) PLUTELLA Sclirk.

107. (2447) PLUTELLA MACULIPEXNIS Crt.
= cruciferarum Z.6

Cerostoma macidipennis Crt. Br. Ent. IX. PI. 420, expl. p. 2
(1832) \ Plutella crudferarum Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. IV. 281-3
(1843) 2; Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3s.). III. 212 (1859) 3; Rbl. Ann.
KK. Hofmus. VII. 272, 283 no. 53 (1892) 4; Wlsm. Tr. Ent.
Soc. Lond. 1894, 537, 542 no. 26 (1894) 5. Plutella macidipennis
Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIII. 173-5 (1897) 6; Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 137 no. 2447 (1901)7; Dyar Bull. US.
Nat. Mus. 52. 492 no. 5503 (1902) 8; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 44 no. 207 (1906)°; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXXII.
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145-6 no. 284 (1907) 10 ; Wlsm. Fn. Hawaii. I. 652-3, 751 no. 330
(1907) u.

//^,. EUROPE1"-7'11. ASIA11. AFRICA11. Madeiras '"'- 9
— MADEIRA*"'': Fimchal (Wottaston)'; San Antonio da Serra
(WoUaston)5. Canaries1"1 —TEXERIFE: La Laguna, 1. IV.
1904 (Eaton), 10. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.); Santa Cruz, 31. XII. 1906
(Wlsm.).— ALEGRAxzA4' 9 : 12. IX. lBW(Simony)\ AMERICA8.
HAWAIIA11. OCEANIA11. AUSTRALIA10. NEW ZEA-
LAND 1().

Abundant everywhere.

53. (269) PORPE Hb.
= *CffOREiTis (Hb. p.) Stgr-Rbl.
Type Tinea bjerkandreUa Thnb. ( = vibrana Hb. 202) Hb. (1826).

PORPE Hb. Verz. Schm. 373 no. 3579 (1826). *CHOKEUTIS Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 129 no. 269 (1901) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat
Mus. 52. 493-4 (1902).

Choreutis Hb. is a synonym of Hemerophila Hb., the type of
both being Phalaena (Tortrix) pariana Cl. ; Hiibner's geneonym
Porpe must therefore be used for bjerkandreUa and its allies
instead of Choreutis.

108. (2311) PORPE BJERKAXDRELLA Thnbg.

Tinea bjerkandreUa Thnbg. Diss. Ent. Ins. Suec. I. 24. PI. [1
24-5] (1784) l: Diss. Ac. Upsal. III. 36. PL 4' 24-5 (1801) 2
Xylopoda pretiosana Dp. HN. Lp. Fr. Sppl. IV. 182 no. 362.
PI. 65 • 9 (1842)3. Choreutis bjerkandreUa E. Wlstn. Ann-Mag.
NH. (5s.). III. 342 (1879)4: Lp. St. Helena 29-30 (1879)4;
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 545 no. 36 (1894) 3.
Choreutis pretiosana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 266, 282
110. 43 (1892) 6: XI. 122, 146 no. 173 (1896) 7 : XXI. 44 no. 202
(1906)\ Choreutis bjerkandreUa Thnbg. + pretiosana Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 129 no. 2312a (1901) 9. Choreutis bjerkandreUa
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXXII. 109 no. 203 (1907) 10.

JIab. ASIA 9. EUROPE 9. Madeiras 5"G' 9— MADEIRA * :
Fimchal (Wotta*ton)s. Canaries 3"! -TEXERIFE 5 : Santa Cruz,
10. 1-7. II. 1907, ® Inula viscosa, 18. I, excl. 9-13. II. 1907
(Wlsm), 3. V. 1895 (Hedemann)7, 9. VIII. 1889 (Simony)6',
La Laguna, 15-16. III. 1902, 6. IV. 1904 (Eaton)', Guimar,
® Giiaphdllum luteoalbum, 25. II, excl. 1 1-23. III. 1907 (\Vlsm) ;
IV. 1884 (Leech); Puerto Orotava, 1895 (Hedemann)\ 3. V.
1907, ® Thistle, 3. V. excl. 16. V. 1907 (Wlsm.). St. Helena4:
Plantation ; Cleugh's Plain ; West Lodge (E. Wollaston) *.
AUSTRALIA10.

Taken and bred from Gnaphalium at Guimar, taken and bred
from Thistles at Puerto Orotava, and bred from Inula at Santa
Cruz : no difference can be found between the specimens.

PROC. ZOOL. Soc.— 1907, No. LXVL 66

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988 LORD WALSIXGHAM ox THE [Nov. 26,

54, (270) HEMEROPHILA Hb.

HEMEROPHILA Hb. (1806), Frnlcl., Dyar; = §ANTHOPHILA Hw.

(1811); = SIMAETHIS Leach (1815), Stgr-Rbl.; [ = TEBEN.\A Blbg.
(1820) LN.'\\ = ^XYLOPODE Ltr. (1825); = CHOEEUTIS Hb.
(1826); =EUTHOMULAYYQ\. (1828); = XYLOPODA Ltr. (1829);

= EXTOMOLOMA Rgt. (1875).

Type 1. Phalaena Tortrix pariana 01. (Hb. 1806).

HEMEROPHILA Hb. Tent. p. [2] (1806). CHOBEVTIS Hb. Yerz.
Schm. 373 (1826). EUTUOMULA Frbl. Enum. Tort. Wiirt. 11
(1828).

Type 2. Phalaena Tortrix fabriciana L. (Leach 1815).

§ ANTHOPHILA Hw. Lp. Br. 471 (1811). SIMAETHIS Leach, Brew-
ster's Edinb. Encycl. IX. 135 no. 466 (1815). [TEBENNA Blby.
Enum. Ins. Mus. Blbg. 90 (1820) LN.~\. 4. XYLOPODE Ltr. Fam.
Nat. Regne An. 476 (1825). XYLOPODA. Ltr. Cuv. Regiie An.
(2 eel.). V. 412 (1829).

Type 3. Tortrix nemorana Hb.

* XYLOPODA (Ltr.) Dp. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. III. 448-9 no. 21
(1834): HN. Lp. Fr. IX. 24, 456 no. 21 (1834). EXTOMOLOMA
Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLIY. (5 s. Y: 1875). p. xliii (1875).

Choreutis Hb. must be sunk as a synonym of Hemerophila Hb.,
the type of both being pcvriana 01. : Simaethis Leach (type
fabriciana L.) and Entomoloma Rgt. (type nemorana Hb.) are
potential geneonyms.

109. (2314) HEMEROPHILA XEMORAXA Hb.

Tortrix nemorana Hb. Smlg. Schm. Eur. VII. PI. 1 • 3 (1797) \
Choreutis nemorana Hb. Yerz. Schm. 373 no. 3577 (1826)-.
Simaethis nemorana Hrtm. MT. Miinch. Ent. Yer. III. 194
no. 1305 (1879) 3; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 545
no. 37 (1894) 4; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 266, 282 no. 44
(1892) ': XI. 122,146no. 173 (1896)°: XXI. 44 no. 203 (1906) 7 :
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 129 no. 2314 (1901) 8.

Hob. WO. ASIA8. S. EUROPE8 : © Ficus VIII-IX, oxcl.
IY-YI3- S. SPAIX : Granada, 0 Ficus, 4-11. VI, excl. 11. VI -
4. VII. 1901 (Wlsm.). N. AFRICA 8— ALGERIA ' : Constaiitiiie,
28. V. 1895 (Eaton); Medea, 21. VII. 1893 (Eaton); Azazga,
2. IX. 1£93 (Eaton). Madeiras l> G —MADEIRA4: The Mount
(Wollastoii,)*. Canaries'" -LA PALMA 5~7 : 20. VIII. 1889
(Simony) 5— HIERRO 5'7 : 28. VIII. 1889 (Simony) 5— TENERIFE *"*:
Santa Cruz, 3. Y. 1895 (Hedemann) G ; Puerto Orotava, 4-14. Y.
1907 (Wl&m.).

Taken and bred from Fig-trees : obviously an introduced
species.
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110. (2318) HEMEROPIIILA FABRICIAXA L.
= oxyacanthella L.

P/tftlaena Tortrix falriciana L. Syst. Xat. (ed. XII.). I. 880
no. 324 (1767)1. Pkalaena Tinea oxyacanthella L. Syst. Nat.
(c<l. XII.). I. 886 no. 357 (1767)'. SirafuMi fabric'iana Stph.
List Br. An. BM. V. Lp. 248 (1850) :!; Stn. Ann-Mao-. XH
(3 s.). III. 210 (1859) l. Simaethis <>,<•>/« conthella Hrtm. M'l'
Miinch. Ent. Ver. III. 194 no. 1309 (1879) 5 ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent.
Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 545 no. 38 (1894)°. Simaethis fabriciana
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 129 no. 2318 (1901) 7.

/fnh. WC. ASIA7. EUROPE T'7: ® Vrtica, Parietaria5.
Idadeiras 4i °"7 — MADEIRA * : ( Wollaston) 4> t;. Canaries — TEXERIFE :
IV. 1884 (Leech).

I have a single specimen (61978), taken in Tenerife, in April
1884, by the late Mr. J. H. Leech, but did not myself meet with
this species, which has not been recorded from the Canaries.

55. (272) GLYPHIPTERYX Hb.
111. (2333) GLYPHIPTERYX PYGMAEELLA Rbl.

Glyphipteryx pygmaeeUa Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 132-3, 147
no. 247 (1896) x: XXL 44 no. 204 (1906) a: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 130 no. 2333 (1901) 3.

Hob. Canaries 1'3— TEXERIFE ^ : Cruz de Afur, 5. IV. 1904
(Eaton) ; Puerto Orotava, 22. IV. 1895 (Hedemann) l ; La Laguna,
7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.)— GRAX CAXARiA1"2: Las Palmas, 10. V.
1895 (Hedemann)1.

One specimen only of this species was met with at La Laguna,
on June 7th, I have also one from Mr. Eaton, taken near the
Cruz de Afur, on April 5th.

112. (2336-1) GLYPHIPTERYX FORTUNATELLA, sp. 11.
(Plate LII. fig. 18.)

Antennae bronzy fuscous. Palpi white, spotted with fuscous
along their outer sides. Head cupreous. Thorax bronzy fuscous.
For ew ings bronzy fuscous, blending to brownish cupreous beyond
the middle-; with five distinct white costal streaks, the first, about
the middle of the costa, tending obliquely outward, longer than
the second, which is a little beyond it, also oblique, but not
parallel, tending rather to converge ; after a space, at least equal
to that which divides the first pair of streaks on the costa, there
follows a series of three shorter streaks, their points slightly
converging in the direction of a short, white, curved, terminal
incision below the apex; beyond these the cilia form a sharply
uncate apex, owing to the outer extremities of those below it
bt-ing pure white, while their basal halves are bronzy «jn-y
surrounding a black apical spot; the whitened cilia, after con-

66*
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990 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [l^OV. 26,

tributing to the subapical incision, are continued along the termen
to the tornus, with their basal halves bronzy cupreous ; at the
tornus is a short, silvery white, triangular spot, and from the
middle of the clorsum arises a rather slender, slightly curved,
outwardly oblique, white silvery streak, which nearly reaches to
the apex of the first costal streak above it. Exp. al. 6-6'5 mm.
Hindwings bronzy grey; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen bronzy
fuscous. Legs bronzy greyish, the spurs and joints white.

Type $ (99102); rf (99103) Mus. Wlsm.

Hal. TENERIFE: Guimar, 10-14. IY. 1907; Villa Orotava,
26. IV. 1907 ; Realejo, 7. V. 1907. Nineteen specimens.

Nearly allied tofischerieUaZ.,l)iit differing in the middle white
costal streak being always nearer to the following than to the
preceding pair, whereas in Jischeriella it is equidistant between
them. It also differs in the more evenly slender, and more pro-
duced, oblique dorsal streak, which always reaches as far as, or a
little beyond, the apex of the first costal. G. fortunatella is
smaller than pygmaeella, and is common in the neighbourhood of
Guimar, in the Barranco Badajos ; it occurs also at Villa Orotava
and Realejo.

V. PHALONIADAE.

56. (235) LOXOPERA Stph.
— -^LOZOPEEA Stph., Stgr-Rbl.

113. (1646) LOXOPERA FRAXCILLOXAXA F.

= t francillana F., Stgr-Rbl. ; = *flagellana Rbl. (nee Dp.).
Pyralis francillana F. Ent. Syst. III. (2). 264-5 no. 94 (1794) \
Lozopera francillonana Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIV. 71-2.
PL 2- la-d (1898) 2. Conchylis *flagellana Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. XI. 119, 146 no. 166 (1896) 3. Lozopera francillana
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 94 no. 1646 (1901) 4. Conchylis
francillana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 37, 43 no. 193
(1906) 5.

Hal. WC. ASIA \ EUROPE M' * : ® Daucus carota, Ferula
communis 2. Canaries 3" —TENERIFE 3~5 : Santa Cruz, 0 Todaroa
aurea, 12. II, excl. 17. IV- 29. V. 1907 (Wlsm.), 3. V. 1895
(Hedemann) 3.

Prof. Rebel (I. c. 5) records francillonana from Tenerife, on the
strength of a specimen in Mr. White's collection, remarking that
it was almost certainly the same as the specimen collected by
von Hedemann, at Santa Cruz, May 3rd, 1895, which (I. c. 3)
he had identified as *flagellana. I met with francillonana, also
at Santa Cruz, in February, feeding among the seeds of Todaroa
aurea, an indigenous Umbellifer. The larvae soon left the seed-
heads, and as I had taken no stems of the plant, when leaving
Santa Cruz, they travelled restlessly round the bottles for many
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1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTEBA OF TENERIFE. 991

clays after reaching Guimar: on being supplied with small pieces
of Bambusa, and of the first Umbellifer I could find, they quickly
gnawed their way into both of these and pupated, the moths
emerging from April 17th to May 29th.

114. (1647) LOXOPERA BILBAfiNSIS Rslr.

Conchylis francillana F. -f bilbaensis Rslr. Stett. Ent. Ztg.
XXXVIII. 372 (1877) l. Lozopera bilbaensis Wlsm. Ent. Mo.
Mag. XXXIV. 72-3. PL 2" 2a-d(1898)2; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 94 no. 1647(1901)1

Nab. S. EUROPE 1"3 : 0 Crithmum maritimum 2. Canaries
— TENERIFE: La Laguna, 6. IV. 1904 (Eaton); Puerto Orotava,
4. V. 1907, 0 Crithmum maritimum, 29. IV, excl. 9. V - 17.

VII. 1907, 0 Ferula sp., 29. IV, excl. 29. VII. 1907 (Wlsm.);
Bajomar, 0 Aslydamia canariensis, 22. V, excl. 3. VI — 19.

VIII. 1907 (TFZsw.).

Larvae found in stems of Crithmum maritimum, at Puerto
Orotava, in May, produced paler and darker varieties from the
beginning of May to the middle of July. I subsequently found
it in great abundance in stems of Astydamia canariensis, at
Bajomar, from which I reared a series of twenty specimens :
a careful examination of the chitinous genital appendages shows
them to be the same as in the Crithmum- feeder, and in a series
of Spanish and Corsican specimens, also reared from Crithmum.
A single specimen was also bred from the stems of a species of
Ferula, found at Puerto Orotava. Were it not for the differences
in the form of the uncus and claspers it would be exceedingly
difficult to separate this species from francillon ana, but the hind-
wings are almost invariably paler. A somewhat worn specimen
taken by Mr. Eaton, at La Laguna, in April 1904, is unfor-
tunately a $ , but I think it is certainly bilbaensis.

57. (236) PHALONIA Kb.
= CONCHYLIS Tr., Stgr-Rbl.

115. (1666) PHALONIA CARPOPHILANA Stgr.

Cochylis carpophilana Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 228-9 no. 45
(1859)1. Conchylis carpojyhilana Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 95
no. L(>66 (1901) 2. Phalonia carpophilana Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag.
XXXVII. 235 (1901) 3.

I lab. S. EUROPE— S. SPAIN 1-3 : HUELVA : Coto, 0 Asphodelus
ramosus, IV«, excl. 6-28. V. 1901 (Wl#ni.)\ N. AFRICA-
ALGERIA: Constantine, 16. VI. 1894 (Eaton). Canaries—
TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 22. I - 11. II. 1907; Guimar, 6-16. IV.
1907, ® Asphodelus ramosus, 2-9. IV, excl. 13. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.).

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992 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

Taken at Santa Cruz, in January, and at Guimar, in April —
also bred from seeds of Asphodelus ramosus at the latter place,
the bred specimen being much larger (exp. al. 17 mm.) than any
individual of my Spanish bred series. The larvae were also
observed at Puerto Orotava.

116. (1762-2) PJIALOXIA CONVERSANA, sp. n.

(Plate LIII. fig. 6.)

Antennae pale greyish. Palpi white, brownish fuscous on the
outer side of the median joint. Head and Thorax white. Fore-
wings white, with a faint subochreous suffusion, and a few sparsely
sprinkled black scales, between, but not contiguous to, the dark
markings, which consist of more or less thickly sprinkled black
scales on a browner, or greyish brown, ground ; the dark markings
are as follows : an elongate streak from the base of the costa,
a narrow medio-costal spot, a larger costal spot between this and
the apex, with a small one beyond it before the a.pex ; an oblique,
straight, dorsal streak, of even width, terminated on the cell, and
a faint shade above, forming a subcoritinuous fascia with the
medio-costal spot ; a rather triangular dorsal spot, beyond the
middle, half-way between the oblique streak and the tornus, with
some dark sprinkling above it, running obliquely in the direction
of the larger costal spot, and a narrow shade along the termen,
followed by parallel dark lines running through the cilia. Exp.
al. 9-14'5 mm. Hindwings slightly sinuate ; pale brownish grey ;
cilia shining, silvery grey, becoming shining white on their outer
halves. Abdomen pale brownish grey. Legs almost white,
unspotted.

Type c? (99104); $ (99105) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: Guimar, 25. Ill - 9. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.);
La Laguna, 6. IV. 1904 (Eaton); Puerto Orotava, 26. IV. 1907
(JFZsm.). Thirty-two specimens.

Taken among Artemisia canariensis, from which, but from no
other plant, they were easily dislodged by beating : I was unable
to discover the larva. Differing from versana Wlsm. in its more
distinct and darker markings, and especially in the form of the
oblique dorsal streak, which is rather more oblique, and of even
width throughout.

58. (237) PHARMACIS Hb.
= EuxANTinsHb., Stgr-Rbl.

117. (1723) PHARMACIS CHAMOMILLANA HS.

Cochylis chamomillana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. 183 no. 128,
chamomilana PI. 53 ' 377 (1851)1. Conchylis chamomillana Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 97 no. 1723 (1901) 2. Pharmacis chamo-
millana Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIX. 181 (1903) 3.

Hab. WC. ASIA2. S. EUROPE1-2. N.

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-MOROCCO: Tangier, III. 1885 (Leech\ 21. IV. 1902 (Whin.) .
Canaries— TENERIFE : Miramar. Santa Cruz, 1. 1. 1907.

A single specimen of this rare species occurred near M inunar.
t\v<> miles from Santa Cruz, on January 1st.

This species, as also <>l(ni<j(tiia FR. (1724), and impurana Mn.
(17:25), must be removed from Phalonia to Pkarmacis.

VI, TORTRICIDAE.

TORTRICINAE.

59. (221) EPAGOGE Hb.
UA Gn., Stgr-Rbl.

118. (1490) EPAGOGE COXSTAXTI Rbl.

Dichelia constantiUU. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17, 85-6 no. 149
(1894) ' : XXI. 43 no. 184 (1906) 2: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
84 110. 1490 (1901) 3.

/ff(b. TEXERIFE 1"3 : La Laguiia, 0 Datura stramonium, excl.
V-VI (Cabrera) \

This is one of the very few species, recorded from Tenerife,
which I was unable to find, although I searched on Datura stra-
ii>onui>i>, at La Laguiia, in May and June — the time and place of
its recorded occurrence.

60. (227) TORTRIX L.

I fear I may be in part responsible for the too-extended use of
the geneonym Pandemis Hb., having placed in that genus certain
South African species possessing a very faint indication of a notch
at the base of the antennae : neither in these, nor in any of the
Tenerife species with which I am acquainted, is there any sufficient
indication of this character to justify their separation from Tortrix
L. I might have been disposed to place themiii Dipterinal&syY.,
separated from Tortrix L. by Meyrick 011 account of the presence
of a distinct secondary cell in the forewings, by the stalking of
veins 6 and 7 in the hind wings, and by the long ciliation of the
cJ antennae ; but an examination of Dipterina tasmaniana Wkr.
shows that veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings are not truly stalked,
although tending to coincidence towards the base, the secondary
cell is less strongly indicated than in Clepsis Gn. (rusticana Tr.),
with which it agrees in the long ciliation of the antennae.
Meyrick has himself placed rusticana in the genus Tortrix,
evidently regarding the ciliation of the antennae as merely a
question of degree; our Tenerife species, possessing no well-
indicated secondary cell, must therefore be included in the older
and more generally recognised ^enus Tortrix L.

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119. (1542) TORTRIX SIMOXYI Rbl.
= t symonyi Rbl.

Pandemis simonyi Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 263-5, 282
no. 40. PI. 17 ' 8 tf-9 $ (1892) \ Pandemis symonyi Rbl. Ami.
KK. Hofmus. IX. 17, 82 no. 145 (1894)*: XXI. 43 no. 186
(1906)3. Pandemis simonyi Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 87
no. 1542 (1901) 4.

Hub. Canaries T~4 — -LA PALMA 1"3 : Barranco de las Angustias,
900 m., 16-18. VIII. 1889 (Simony) l— TENERIFE *~* : Montana
de Guerra, VI. (Cabrera) 2— GRAN CANARIA 1"3 : (Richter)\

My series of persimilana seems to contain forms agreeing with
simonyi, but having no specimens from La Palma, I hesitate to
unite the two species, as Rebel had both before him when describing
persimilana.

120. (1543) TORTRIX PERSTMTLAXA Rbl.
n. syn. = mactana Rbl.

Pandemis persimilana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17, 82 no. 144
(1894) l: XL 117-8, 146 no. 160 (1896) 2. Pandemis mactana
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 116-7, 146 no. 158. PI. 3 • 4 d"
(1896) 3: XIII. 376, 380 no. 172 (1899) 4: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 87 no. 1544 (1901) *. Pandemis persimilana Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 87 no. 1543 (1901) ° : Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXL
43 no. 187 (1906) 7. Pandemis mactana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXL 43 no. 188 (1906) 8.

Hal. Canaries1-*— TENERIFE^: "?Cafira," 14. II. (Alluwid)3 ;
Los Silos, 25. II. 1898 (Hintz) l ; Guimar, 2. Ill -12. IV.
1907, QRosa banksiae, 27. II, excl. 23. III. 1907, 0 Rubus
fruticosus, 25. II, excl. 24. III. 1907, 0 Globularia salicina, 27.

III, excl. 12-26. IV. 1907, ® Pelargonium, 27. Ill, excl. 22.

IV. 1907, 0 Jasminum odoratissimum, 27. Ill, excl. 27. IV.
1907 (mam.); Santa Cruz, 0 Coffea arabica, 1. I, excl. 23.
III. 1907 (Wlam.); Toso, 25. III. 1898 (Hintz) 4 ; IV. 1884
(Leech) l ; Cruz de Afur, 5. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ; Forest cle la Mina,
9. IV. 19Q4 (Eaton); Arafo, 13. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Pedro Gil,
0 Cytisus proliferus, 19. IV, excl. 8. V. 1907 (TFZsm.) ; Las
Mercedes, 29. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Puerto Orotava, 1896 (Cronipton),
0 Globularia salicina, 7. V, excl. 29. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; La
Laguna, 30. V. 1907, 0 Adenocarj)us foliolosus, 18. V, excl. 7-14.
VI. 1907, 0 Erica arborea, 23. V, excl. 13. VI. 1907 (Wlam.)—
GRAN CANARIA 2~4' ^ : Las Palmas, 8-11. V. 1895 (ffedemonn)'2'3.

Comparing the types of persimilana Rbl. (60994 $, 61000 $ :
Mus. "Wlsm.) with a considerable series of bred and captured
specimens, and bearing in mind the examples of Pandemis mact-
ana Rbl. in Mr. White's collection, at Guimar, I am forced to
the conclusion that these names are applied to different varieties
of the same species. Many of the <5 6 agree perfectly with
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Rebel's description of mactana, although paler forms, less reticu-
lated on the under side of the forewing, also occur: there is however
no possible line of demarcation between them. Some very fine
f {isolated $ $, with typical persimilana $ $ , and typical tnactana
3 3 , were bred from larvae on Globularia salicina, at Guimar, in
April and May, 12 specimens in all, including a single d bred
from the same plant at Puerto Orotava. I have also bred six
similar forms from Adenocarpus foliolosus, at La Laguna, in June ;
1 rf, in March, on Banksia rose, Guimar; 1 $ , March, on
Rubus fruticosus, Guimar ; 1 $ , April, on Geranium, Guimar ;

1 $ , May, on Cytisus proliferus, Pedro Gil ; 1 <? , March, on
Schinus molle, Santa Cruz ; 1 J , March, from Coffee-plant, in a
garden at Miramar, near Santa Cruz ; 1 $ , June, on Erica arborea,
La Laguna ; 1 $ , April, from Jasminum odoratissimum, Guimar ;
16 caught specimens make up the series of 42, to which I can add,

2 received from Mr. White, and 6 previously in my cabinet from
the late Mr. J. H. Leech, and from Mr. Eaton : 50 in all.

121. (1545) TORTRIX BRACATANA Rbl.

Pandemis bracatana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17, 82-4 no. 146
(1894) *: XXL 43 no. 189 (1906) 2: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
87 no. 1545 (1901) 3.

Hal). TEXERIFE1"3: Agua Garcia, VI. 1892 (Cabrera)1, 0 Vi-
burnum rugosum, 31. V, excl. 17. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.).

A fine and distinct species, of which I have only a single
specimen, bred from a larva found rolling the leaves of Viburnum
rugosum at Agua Garcia ; the type was taken in. the same locality
by Cabrera in 1892.

-•122. (1594-1) TORTRIX CANARIENSIS Rbl.
=* subcostana Rbl. (nee Stn.).

Cacoecia* subcostana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 16, 81-2 no. 143
(1894) \ Tortrix (*subcostana Rbl.) Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.
1894. 539 (1894)2. Tortrix subcostana Stn. + canariensis Rbl.
Ann. KK. Hofmus. XL 116, 146 no. 157 (1896) 3 : Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 90 no. 1594a (1901) \

Hab. Canaries 1"t— TENERIFE 1'3 : Guimar, 9. Ill - 16. IV. 1907
(Wlsm.)- Las Mercedes, 17. III. 1902, 29. III. 1904 (Eaton), 19.
V-7. VI. 1907 (msm.); IV. 1885 (Leech)1'2; Tejina, 7. IV.
1904 (Eaton); Arafa, 13. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); Realejo, 7. V. 1907
(Wlsm.)', Villa Orotava, 14. V. 1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 21. V.
1889 (Krauss) \ 23. V- 9. VI. 1907 (Wlxm.) ; Santa Cruz, 25. V.
1889 (Krauss)1; Tacaronte, 31. V. 1907 (Wlam.).

This is an exceedingly variable species, and at first sight seems
very distinct from the larger and more distinct form which I have
received from Madeira. A series of 74 specimens, taken in various
localities, enables me to separate them satisfactorily : in subcostana
Stn. the dark fascia is always more oblique, and its inner margin

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always less irregular than in canariensis. It occurs on high
ground among Hypericum, at a lower elevation among Erica
arborea, and lower yet, at La Laguna and elsewhere, among Rubus.
I was at first disposed to regard the larger specimens, beaten
from Hypericum, as distinct from those among Rubus, but this
cannot be maintained.

123. (1596) TORTRIX CORIACAXA Rbl.
ts»*longctna Rbl. ( + 3 *stratana Rbl.) nee Hw., nee Z.

Sciaphila*longana ( + 3 *stratana) Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII.
265-6, 282 no. 413 (1892) \ Heterognomon coriacanus Rbl. Ann.
KK. Hofmus. IX. 17, 84 no. 148 (1894) 2 : XI. 118, 146 no. 163
(1896) 3: XIII. 376-7, 380 no. 177 (1899) 4: XXI. 43 no. 191
(1906)* : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 90 no. 1596 (1901)°.

Hub. Canaries1^— TENERiFE1'3: Santa Cruz, 21. XII -16. II.
1907, @ Psoralea bituminosa, 5. I, excl. 30. I. 1907, 0 Rhamnus
crenulata, 16. I, excl. 10. 11.1907, @ Periploca laevigata, 27.

I, excl. 4. III. 1907, 0 Artemisia argentea, 11. II, excl. 7.

III, 1907, QFagonia cretica, 26. I, excl. 21. 11-10. III.
1907 (Wlsm.), 12. V. 1889 (Krauss)*, 1895 (Hedemann)3 ; La
Laguna, 13. I. 1907 (Wlsm.), 23. II - 8. IV. 1904, 17. III. 1902
(Eaton), 21. V. 1889 (Krauss)\ 23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Cafira, 14.

II. (Alluaud) 3 ; Villa Orotava, 19. II. 1907, 0 JKkus coriaria, 28.

IV, excl. 2. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Los Silos, 22. II. 1898 (ffintz)*;
Guimar, 28. 11-14. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.), 21. III. 1904 (Eaton),
^Poterium sp., 26. II, excl. 18. III. 1907, ® Rubus fruticosus,
25. II, excl. 21. Ill -4. IV. 1907, ® Rumex lunatus, 19. Ill,
excl. 26. IV. 1907, Q&otocMaenamarantae, 27. II, excl. 31. III.
1907, 0 small Crucifer, 3. Ill, excl. 31. III. 1907, © Artemisia
canariensis, 19. Ill, excl. 5-20. IV. 1907, 0 Pyrus mains, 3. IV,
excl. 14. IV, 1907, 0 Psoralea bituminosa, 1. Ill, excl. 27. IV.
1907, 0 Cistus monspeliensis, 8. IV, excl. 6. V. 1907, 0 Phelipaea
sp., 15. IV, excl. 8. V. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto Orotava, 13. III.
1904 (Eaton), 10-28. IV. 1895 (ffedemann)3, 23. IV- 10. V.
1907, 0 Senecio kleinia, 26. IV, excl. 21. V. 1907, 0 Ononis sp.,

27. IV, excl. 8. VI. 1907, ® Tamarix gallica, 5. V, excl. 12. VI.
1907 (Wlsm.) ; Tejina, 18. III. 1902 (Eaton) ; IV. 1885 (Leech)'2 ;
Forest de la Mina, 7. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ; Bajomar, 0 Asty 'damns
canariensis, 22. V, excl. 29. V- 15. VI. 1907, 0 Lotus sp., 25.

V, excl. 1-17. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Loma de la Vega, Icod de los
Vinos, 3. VIII. 1889 (Simony) l — GRAN CANARIA 3"5 : 1895
(ffedemann)5; Las Palmas, 0 Plocama pendula, 15. VI, excl.

28. VI. 1907 (ir/sm.)— LANZAROTE1' 4'5: Yaiza, 4. X. 1890
(Simony) \

Here again we have a species which varies greatly within certain

limits, but is easy to recognise. It reminds one at first sight of

canariensis Rbl., but the wings are more pointed, the costa being

somewhat less arched, and the termen more obliqiie. I have bred

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it from Psoralx. Artemisia, Ilttlmx, I^m/on'm. /,7/^x. l!lni.n>mix,
Asiydamia, Cistus, Tamarix, Ononis, L<>t>rs, SdtrcJo,
f, 1!» n><>. >\ r<'r'i}>loca, dry aborted apples, small <'i-nriferae,
and even from Phelipaea,.

ffeterognomon hyercewtts Rbl. Ann. K K. Hofmus. IX. 17, 84
no. 147 (1894) \ Dichelia hyerana Ilhl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI.
43 no. 185(1906)2.

Hal. TEXERIFE l~~ : La Laguna, Y (Cabrera) l.

I have many $ $ of Tortrix coriacana Rbl. which greatly
resemble Milliere's species in appearance, and am strongly
convinced that the condition of the specimen examined and
recorded by Rebel must have misled him. The reference to
Dichelia (when the specimen was not available for study of neu-
ration) can hardlv be held to confirm the original determination,
in the absence of information as to whether veins 7 and 8 were
separate or stalked in the specimen recorded. It wrill probably
be found that hyerana does not occur in Tenerife.

[228. CNEPHASIA Crt.]
124. (1608) TORTRTX LOXGAXA Hw.
= *segetana Rbl. (nee Z.) ; —*fracjosana Rbl. (nee Z.) 5.

Tin-tri.'-. lonyaita Hw. Lp. Br. 463-4 no. 221 (181 1)1. Sciaphila
loiKjuna ( + ictericana Rbl., -\-*stratana Rbl.) Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. VII. 265-6, 282 no. 41 M (1892) u : IX. 17, 86 no. 150
(1894)3. Sciaphila *fragosana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17,
80 no. 151 (1894)4. Sciaphila longana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XI. 119, 146 no. 165 (1896)5. Cnephasia longana Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 91 no. 1608 (1901)°: Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI.
37, 43 110. 192 (1906) 7.

I I<il>. WC. ASIA0. EUROPE 1'7— CORSICA : He Rousse, 5.
VI. 1898 (Wlsm.).— S. SPAIN: MALAGA: Gala Moral, 4. V. 1901
(MY.™?..): CADIZ: Cadiz, 14-15. V. 1902 (Wlsm.)— GIBRALTAR :
QXtachys circinata, 2. Ill, excl. 9. V. 1901 (INsm.). N.
AFRICA— ALGERIA : Constantino, 10. V. 1895, 14-15. VI. 1894
(Eaton). Canaries2"7 — TEXERIFE 3"3> ~ : Santa Cruz, 26. I -11.
II. 1907, QFagonia cretica, 26. I, excl. 28. II. 1907, ® Stachys
s/>., :-il. I, excl. 5. III. 1907, 0 Argyranthemum pinnatifidurn, 10.
II, excl. 2. IV. 1907 (JTZsw*.), 3. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 10. IV -4. V.
1 S!i:> (Ifatemann)5, 3. V- 1. VI. 1889 (Krauss)3 ; Guimar, 1906
(Il7tilfi)\ 4. Ill- 16. IV. 1907, 0 Psoralea bituminosa, 1. Ill,
excl. 10. IV. 1907 (THsw.); IV. 1885 (Leech)1 ; Puerto Orotava.
\'2 '24. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)*, 10. V. 1907 ( Wlsm.) ; LaLairuiiM.
16. III. 1902, 26. Ill- 6. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 2. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)
— GRAX CAXARIA ~~*' '' 7 : (Richter) \

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Very common everywhere, and exceedingly variable, ranging
from unicolorous chalk-white, through various gradations of
greyish ochreous and brownish grey, to slightly, and conspicuously
fasciated forms, more or less speckled between the fasciae. I bred1
it from Argyranthemum pinnatifidum, from Fagonia cretica, from
Psoralea bituminosa, and from Stachys sp. : a series of thirty- two
selected specimens was preserved, in addition to several specimens
received from the late Mr. J. H. Leech, and from Mr. Eaton.

OLETHREUTINAE.

61. (247) ACROCLITA Ldr.

125. (1966-01) ACROCLITA GUANCHAXA, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 5.)

Antennae hoary greyish. Palpi porrect, slightly dependent,,
stretching the length of the head beyond it, densely clothed,
especially above, terminal joint short, smooth ; hoary grey, fuscous
on the outer sides. Head hoary greyish, with some mixture of
reddish brown scales. Thorax reddish brown. Forewinys elon-
gate, narrow, costa moderately arched, termen oblique, sinuate,
tornus evenly rounded'; tawny reddish brown, with some black
scaling which is sometimes reduced to a few marginal specks, but
in some varieties forms an elongate series of streaks or spots, more
or less connected, or detached, commencing at the middle of the
base, exhibited again along the cell beyond it to the apex ; in
one dark variety (99115) these streaks form an almost con-
tinuous line, with a diverging point along the fold ; in another,
paler, and faintly mottled form (99116) they are broken into
three separate streaks, one from the base along the first half of
the fold, a shorter one toward the end of the cell, and an outer
one beyond the cell to the apex, with two minute spots below the
intermediate spaces and one near the base of the dorsum ; in the
paler varieties there is also some indication of lighter geminated
costal streaks, with alternating faint shade-spots ; cilia slightly
paler than the wing, with a distinctly paler line along their base,
followed by parallel shade-lines running through them. Exp.
al. 12-15 mm. Hindwings broader than the fore wings, with
oblique, sinuate, termen ; grey with a slight rosy tinge ; cilia
paler, with a faint shade-line a little beyond their paler base.
Abdomen and Legs griseous, varying to subochraceous ; hind tarsi
faintly shaded, except at the joints.

Type c? (99115); $ (99118) ; var. rf PT. (99116-7) Mus. Wlsm.

Hal. TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 3000ft., 3. I. 1907, 0 Hypericum
grandifolium, 3. I, excl. 29-31. I. 1907 (Wlsm.); Villa Orotava,
19. II. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Forest de la Mina, 7. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ;
Guimar, 10. IV. 1907, ® Hyperi&um grandifolium, 25. II, excl.
7. IV - 4. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Las Mercedes, 14. V. 1907 (Wlsm.) ;
Tacaronte, 31. V. 1907 (\Ylsm.). Fifteen specimens.
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The larva contorts the leading leaves of Hi/pericum yrandifolium :
I met with it first at the Barranco del Bufadero, near Santa Cruz,
the beginning of January, and bred specimens from the end of
that month till the beginning of May.

126. (1966) ACROCLITA SUBSEQUANA HS.
126 -|- a. (1966 + a) SUBSEQUANA HS. + SUBSEQUANA HS.

= consequana HS. * ; = littorana Oust.

Semasia subsequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. 247 no. 337 (1851) \

Tortrix consequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. PI. 59' 423 (1854) 2.

Acroclita consequana Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 110 no. 1966

(1901)3.

Hob. EUROPE 1-3 : 0 Euphorbia spp.

126 + b. (1966 + b) SUBSEQUANA HS. + CONVALLEXSIS, var. n. (an
sp. n. ?).

=* littorana Rbl. (nee Cnst.).

Acroclita consequana US. -\-littorana~Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII.
266, 282 no. 42 (1892) l: XI. 121, 146 no. 169 (1896) a: XXI.
43 no. 196 (1906) 3.

Nab. Canaries 1~3— TENERIFE 2"3 : Santa Cruz, 25. I. 1907,
0 Euphorbia regis-jubae, 27. XII, excl. 28-31. I. 1907 (Wlsm.) ;
Guimar, 6. Ill - 10. IV. 1907 (Wlsm,); IV. 1884 (Leech) ; Puerto
Orotava, 18. IV. 1895, 0 Euphorbia arborescens, excl. 10-13. V.
1895 (HedemannY — GRAN CANARIA * : (Richter) ] — MONTANA
CLARA1'3 : 238 m., 8. IX. 1890 (Simony)1.

I did not meet with any form of Acroclita that can well be
compared with littorana Cnst., which is merely a small pale
variety of the ordinary South European subsequana HS. There
is however one point of difference by which my Tenerife series
of twenty-three specimens might be separated from European
specimens : the basal patch always tends to throw out a pointed
projection along the dorsum, they also range to a much larger
average size (exp. al. 13-22 mm.), and I propose the neonym
convallensis (var., an sp. ?), to distinguish them.

Type rf (99171); $ (99172) Mus. Wlsm.

127. (1966-1) ACROCLITA SONCHANA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.)

Antennae hoary, with blackish annulations, sometimes entirely
suffused with black. Palpi whitish, thickly sprinkled with dark
fuscous externally ; sometimes fuscous throughout. Head dirty
white, varying to dark fuscous. Thorax whitish, or dark fuscous ;
sometimes with chestnut-brown tegulae. Foreivings dark fuscous,
sprinkled and mottled with shades of chestnut-brown, with some
paler spaces ; a dark basal patch, extending to one-third, projects
outwardly above the fold receding to the costa and nearly to the
clorsum ; this is followed by an irregular fascia, running from the

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middle of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, throwing a
projection inward from its middle and slightly bulging outward
above its lower extremity ; beyond it is a triangular shade-patch,
more or less furcate to the costa, the apex and termen being also
narrowly shaded; in some specimens (99110) the intermediate
spaces between these markings, as well as the dorsal portion of the
basal patch are white, sparsely sprinkled with brownish scales ; in
other specimens (99109) they are entirely suffused with dark steely
greyish fuscous, paler only at the edges of the dark markings ; about
four pairs of geminate costal streaks are visible on the outer half
of the wing ; cilia fuscous, with a more or less denned shade-line
along their base. Exp. cd. 14-17 mm. Hindwings brownish
cinereous, with a slender pale line along the base of the rather
more smoky cinereous cilia ; in the paler specimens the hind wings
are also of a lighter shade. Abdomen arid Legs corresponding to
the hindwings in colour ; tarsi darkly shaded between the pale
joints.

Type 2 (99108); rf (99109); 0(99111); var. $ PT. (99110)
Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Guimar, 7. IY. 1907, ® Sonchus gvmmifer,
9-27. Ill, excl. 4. Y - 12. YI. 1907 ; Puerto Orotava, ® Sonchus
gummifer, 23. IY, excl. 13. Y- 19. VI. 1907, ® Sonchus lepto-
cephalus, 22. IY - 11. Y, excl. 5. VI - 2. VIII. 1907. Fifteen
specimens.

The larva, which is dull greyish, turning to bright red before
pupation, feeds on the leaves outside the stems of Sonchus gum-
mifer and leptocepl talus. The moth is extremely variable, some-
specimens being almost black, on which the pattern, although
easily traceable and very consistent, is much obscured, while in
others all the intermediate spaces being white, the darker markings
sta.nd out very conspicuously. As compared with consequana HS.,
it is somewhat similar in general design, but the outer fascia is
less oblique and less prominently angulated outward below the
middle, while the space between this and the apex is more occu-
pied by darker patches and the costal streaks are less confluent
and less oblique.

62. (243) POLYCHROSIS Rgt.
128. (1954-1) POLYCHROSIS NEPTUNIA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 1.)

Antennae ochreous, varied with black above. Palpi ochreous.
Head and Thorax ochreous, varying to reddish fuscous in some
specimens. Forewings ochreous, varying to brownish ochreous, and
even to reddish fuscous, the darker shades prevailing especially
towards the dorsum ; the costa is delicately speckled with fuscous
throughout ; before the middle is an outwardly oblique, greyish
white fascia, somewhat contracted on the fold, terminating on the
middle of the dorsum, its upper half slightly reticulated, or speckled,
with the ochreous ground-colour ; beyond it a narrow dark space
separates it from a broad, irregular, second fascia of the same
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colour, tending to become widely furcate toward the costa, :iml
ii;trro\\iy furcate where it is inverted to the dorsum before the
tornus ; the outer portion of this fascia is usually joined to a
sinuate stivak, which, cutting off the dark apex of the wing,
descends to the middle of the termeii; these markings all contain
more or less, short, parallel, wavy streaks of the darker ground-
colour ; cilia varying from ochreous to greyish, sometimes slightly
mottled. Exp. al. 9-12 mm. Hirtdwings pale brownish grey;
cilia pale cinereous with a slender shade-line running through
them near their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs pale
browrnish cinereous, the tarsi very faintly spotted.

Type ¥ (99106); rf (99107) ex 0 Statice, Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : Guimar, 17. III. 1907, 0 Frankenia ericifolia,
6. Ill, excl. 9. Ill - 22. IV. 1907, 0 Statice pectinata, 6. III.
excl. 20. Ill - 18. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)- Tejina, 18. III. 1902
(Mttott); Puerto Orotava, 21. IV - 14. V. 1907, 0 Frankenia
ericifolia, 21. IV, excl. 3-4. V. 1907, 0 Statice pectinata, 21. IV,
excl. 26. V - 7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.). Thirty-two specimens (13 ex
Statice, 10 ex Frankenia, 9 captured).

The larva feeds on /Statice pectinata and Frankenia ericifolia,
at Guimar and Puerto Orotava, from both of which plants I have
bred it.

Most nearly allied, perhaps, to limoniana Mill., but differing
in the markings being intermediate between those of that species
and botrana S-D.

63. (255) BACTRA Stph.
129. (2017) BACTRA LAXCEOLAXA Hb.

Tortrix lancealana Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. VII. PI. 13 • 80(1 797) \
Ancylis lanceolana Hb. Verz. Schm. 376 no. 3614 (1826) -. Aphe-
lia lanceolana Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881. 231-2 (1881) 3 ;
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. VI. 651-2 (1881) '. Bactra lanceolana
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 540 no. 9 (1894) 8 ; Rbl.
Ann. KK. Hofnms. IX. 17. 86-7 no. 152 (1894)°: XI. 120-1,
146 no. 168 (1896)7: XXI. 43 no. 197 (1906) " ; Wlsm. Pr. Z.
Soc. Lond. 1897. 121-2 no. 162 (1897) 9: Ann-Mag. NH. (7 s.).
VI. 333-4 no. 1006 (1900) 10: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 113
no. 2017 (1901) u; Frnlcl. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 449 no. 5006
(1902) '-.

Nab. EUROPE l-*>ll:®Juneu8,Cyperu8*. AFRICA3. ASIA10.
MALAYSIA10. AUSTRALIA1. NEW ZEAL AND4. S.AME-
RICA'. N. AMERICA12. W.INDIES". Madeiras5— MA-
DEIRA ': San Antonio da Serra (Woltaston) r> ; Machico, 23. IV.
1904 (Eaton). Canaries G~8— TENERIFE °ws : Guimar, 4. Ill - 7. IV.
11)07 (Wlsm.)', IV. 1884 (Leech)] Puerto Oi-ot.-sva. 14. V. 1U07
(IIV.s///.); 1895 (Hedememrt)7 ; Santa Cruz, 26. V. 1889 (Krauss)*
— GKAX (.'AXAiiiA7: Las Palmas, 7. V. 1895 (Heden>a>ni)~ '.

The examples of this species which I met with in Teiierife could

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by no possibility have fed upon rushes ; they were taken on
an absolutely dry spot, in a barranco near Orotava, where no
rushes could be found. I also took three specimens at Guimar.
Mr. Eaton notes it as taken amongst Carex, in a wet place, near
Machico (Madeira).

64. (241) RHYACIONIA Hb.

RHYACIOXIA Hb. Verz. Schm. 379 (1826) ; Wlsm. Ann-Mag. NH.
(7 s.). VII. 124 (1900) ; =*EVETRIA (Hb.) Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 102 no. 241 (1901).

130. (1845) RHYACIOXIA WALSIXGHAMT Rbl.

Retinia walsinyhaini Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 119-20, 146
no. 167, PL 3' 6 $ (1896) \ Evetria ivalsinghami Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. 102 no. 1845 (1901) 2: Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 43
110. 194 (1906) 3.

Hah. TENERIFE 1"3 : Puerto Orotava, 0 Pinus canariensis, 18. II,
excl. 3. Ill - 10. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.), 11-14. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)\
21-29. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.).

A rare species, not met with by Mr. Eaton, and represented, so
far as I am aware, only by von Hedemann's three original
specimens, and one or two in Mr. White's collection. During a
lucky half-hour, spent in the garden of the Hotel Humboldt,
during a flying visit to Orotava, on the 18th of February, I found
three pupae in the shoots of Pinus canariensis, all of which pro-
duced the moths in March and April. During a subsequent visit
three other specimens were taken on the wing, in the same place,
from the 21st to 29th of April. I have observed traces of the
larvae in the pine-forests, to the south of Pedro Gil, but it does
not appear to occur to the west of Guimar, where I searched the
pines unsuccessfully.

65. (248) CROCIDOSEMA Z.
131. (1968) CROCIDOSEMA PLEBEIAXA Z.

n. syn. = obscura E. Wlstn. ; = blackburnii Btl. 7; =*signatana
Wlsm. (nee Dgl.).

Crocidosema plebejana Z. Isis, 1847. 721-2 no. 283 (1847) \ Ste-
yanoptycha obscura E. Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (5 s.). III. 341
(1879) 2: Lp. St. Helena 28-8 (1879) 2. Crocidosema plebeiana
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. N.S.W. VI. 659-60 (1881) 3. Steyanoptycha
*signatana Wlsm.Tr. Ent. Soc, Lond.1894. 537,541 no. 14 (1894)4.
Crocidosema plebeiana Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897. 127 110. 174
(1897)5; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 110 no. 1968(1901)°; Wlsm.
Fn. Hawaii. V. 675-6, 736, 752 no. 366, PI. 10 • 15 (1907) 7.

Hah. ASIA6— CEYLOX : Pundaloya, 4000 ft., II. 1890 (Green)—
PALESTINE: (Tristram)— SYRIA6. S-C. EUROPE1' 6 : ® Alt/tea
rosea"; Lavatera arborea5 — FRAXCE : Mentone, 13. III. 1893
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w.)— SPAIN: MALAGA: Malawi, 8. IY. 1901 (f!7.s-m.). N.
AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tangier, 13. IY. 1901, 12. Y. 1902 ( H7*/,<.)
—ALGERIA: 15i.skr.-i. :> ]:'>. 111. U)0:i ( IJV.s-///.). Madeiras'
MADEIRA 4 : The Mount ( ll'olI<iNt<>n) '. Canaries — TKXEIUFU : ( ! ui-
mar, 13. III. 1907; Puerto Orotava, 0 JA///v, />«rr(i!nra, 29. IY,
excl. 11-2(5. Y. 1907; La La-una, '1\\. \ . 1 <H>7 ;' Santa Cruz.
iM. V. 1907 (H7.w.). St. Helena^ : Cleu-lrs Plain (AT. FF<rffa«fo»)2.
WEST INDIES5. CENTRAL AMERICA0. SOUTH AME-
RICA5. AUSTRALIA3. HAWAIIA 7.

A single specimen (13575), in poor condition, to which I
wrongly attributed the name " 8t*gevn&ptych<t siynatana Dgl."
(/. c. 4), was collected in Madeira by VVollaston. I hiving now met
with Crocidosema plebeiana at Santa Cruz, La Laguna, and
Guimar, (where I also saw it in Mr. White's collection), and
having bred two specimens from larvae feeding on Malva parvi-
flora, at Puerto Orotava,, I take this opportunity of correcting the
previous error, while recording the species for the first time from
Tenerife, and extending its range from Ceylon to St. Helena. I
have examined the type of Steganoptycha obscura E. Wlstn. in
the British Museum and find it to be Crocidosema plebeiana Z.,
a with the characteristic tuft.

66. (260'OD STREPSICRATES Meyr.

§ STREPSICEROS Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. VI. 678-9 (1882).
STREPSICRATES Meyr. Tr. NZ. Inst. XX. 73 (1887); Wlsm. Pr.
Z. Soc. Lond. 1891. 506-7 (1892).

132. (2067*01) STREPSICRATES FEXESTRATA, sp. n.

Antennae missing, except sufficient of the compressed, whitish
cinereous, ba,sal joints to identify the genus. Palpi erect, with
very short terminal joint; much worn, but apparently fuscous
externally. Head whitish cinereous. Thorax whitish cinereous
along the centre, brownish fuscous at the sides. Forewings with
a very deep costal fold, reaching to beyond the middle of the
wing ; dark brownish fuscous, slightly mottled with whitish
cinereous, tending to indicate oblique, but slightly curved, trans-
verse lines before the apex, rea.ching from costa to termen,
and one reaching the dorsum before the tornus, but this latter
appears to form the outer margin of the more intensely dark
colouring which pervades the wing thence to the base, except
along the dorsum ; here is a large reduplicated patch of whitish
cinereous, commencing at one-fourth, indented at its upper edge
about the middle, and thence extending again nearly to the outer
end of the fold ; there is also a pale patch at the tornus- — these
are slightly sprinkled with pale brownish fuscous scales, usually
in the form of narrow dorsal streaks; the cilia appear to be
moltled with darker and paler alternations at the base. Exp.
al. 15 mm. Hindivings semitran spa rent, subiridescent, brownish

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1004 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

grey, with a conspicuous scaleless fenestrum below the base of the
cubitus, reaching nearly to the origin of vein 2 ; cilia brownish
grey. A bdomen brownish grey ; anal tuft paler. Legs pale
brownish cinereous.

Type rf (13525) Mus. Wlsm.

Nab. TENERIFE : Guimar (White).

A single $ , given to me by Mr. White, is in extremely poor
condition ; I should certainly not have described it had it not
been for the peculiar character of the fenestrum in the hindwing.
It was taken from a series in his collection, which included more
than one species. I certainly recognised Crocidosema plebeiana
Z. among them, and there were others similar to the one here
described.

(260) EUCOSMA Hb.
=EPIBLEMA Hb., Stgr-Rbl.

(2090-1) EUCOSMA SP. 198 Rbl.

Epihlema sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 37-8, 43 no. 198
(1906) \

Hob. TENERIFE1: 1905, 1906 (White)1.

Unnamed specimens in Mr. White's collection ; not in good
enough condition for identification. I did not meet with the genus
Eucosma in Tenerife.

67. (257) THIODIA Hb.
=SEMASIA Stph., Stgr-Rbl.

. 133. (1980'1) THIODIA GLANDULOSANA, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 2.)

Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi varying from ochraceous
to brownish fuscous. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous above ;
the tegulae paler, sometimes ochraceous. Forewings with the
costa evenly arched, termen slightly sinuate ; ochraceous, more
or less suffused with brownish, or dark fuscous scaling, the
markings indicated by black patches ; in an ordinary variety
the wing is much mottled and traversed by sinuous streaks, the
costa being streaked and spotted throughout; a strong dorsal
patch is indicated, coming from the base below the fold, angulated
above the fold at one-third, and produced along the more or less
spotted dorsum to an obliquely erect antetornal patch of the same
colour, terminating a little below half the width of the wing ; in
some varieties a curved band of similar blackish patches descends
from the middle of the costa, bending outward through the end
of the cell, and attenuated to the apex, but this is sometimes quite
obsolete ; a narrow blackish line, broken into spots above the
tornus, follows the termen before the ochraceous cilia, which are
mottled with brown and blackish above the middle and at the
apex, but always with a pale line along their base; in some
varieties the upper edge of the dorsal patch and the lower half of
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the termen, as well as the base of the cilia about the tornus, are
touched with shining white, some steely grey scales appearing on
the dark patch and before the apex of the wing. Exp. al. 1 3-21 mm.
l/i n<l trinys greyish fuscous ; cilia paler, with a shade-line running
through them. Abdomen greyish fuscous, anal tuft and Legs
inclining to ochreous ; hind tarsi faintly barred.

'/'///* rf (99114); $ (99112); var. £ PT. (99113) Mus. Wlsm.

Ihib. TKXERIFE : Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 (Eaton), 19-29. V.
1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguiia, 0 Rhamnus glandulosa, 19. V, excl.
<> -23. VI. 1907(JFZsm.). Thirty specimens.

The larva rolls the leaves of Rhamnus glandulosa and is com-
mon between La Laguna and Tegeste, and in the Mercedes
Forest. It is an extremely variable species allied to signatana
Dgl.

68. (261) LASPEYRESIA Hb.
= § GRAPHOLITHA Tr., Stgr-Rbl. (nee Hb.).

134. (2168) LASPEYRESIA ADEXOC'ARPI Rgt.

Grapholitha adenocarpi Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLIY. (5 s. Y :
1875). p. Ixxiii no. 5 (1875) L: Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLY. (5 s.
YI : 1876). 406-8 no. 4. PI. 6 • 4 (1876 2); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 121 no. 2168 (1901) 3.

Hob. WC. ASIA— HALEB : Shar Devesy, 1893 (Nat. Coll. :
Leech). S. EUROPE— SW. FRANCE: Dax, 0 Adenocarpus
parvifolius'*'2, Sarrothamnus scoparius2, excl. YI — IX2 — S. SPAIN :
CADIZ: Chiclana, 25. II. 1901 : MALAGA: Malaga, 13. III. 1901 :
GRAXADA : Granada, 5. Y - 14. YI. 1901 (Wlsm.). Canaries — -
TEXERIFE: IV. 1884 (Leech).

Two specimens were taken in Tenerife, in April 1884, by the
late Mr. J. H. Leech, who gave them to me the following year.
I did not meet with this species.

135. (2188) LASPEYRESIA XEGATAXA Rbl.
— *salvana Rbl. (nee Stgr.).

Grapholitha (Phthoroblastis) ? *salvana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
IX. 17, 88 no. 155 (1894)1. Grapholitha negatana Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. XL 121-2, 146 no. 171, PI. 3 • 8 3 (1896) 2: XXI. 43
no. 199 (1906) 3: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 122 no. 2188
{1901) 4.

Hob. TEXERIFE1"4: La Laguna, 16. III. 1902 (Eaton), 30. Y -
9. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.); Las Mercedes, 29. III. 1904 (Eaton); IV.
1884 (Leech)1; Guimar, 6. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
14. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)'2.

Found flying somewhat plentifully, on one occasion only, about
Adenocarpus foliolosus, above Guimar, in the direction of the
BaiTsmco del Rio, on April 6th; found again sparingly at La
Liiguna, at the end of May and the beginning of June.

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1006 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

69. (264) CYDIA Hb.
= CAEPOCAPSA Tr., Stgr-Rbl.

136. (2257) CYDIA POMONELLA L.
136 + a (2257 -fa) POMONELLA L. + POMONELLA L.

Phalaena Tinea pomonella L. Syst. Nat. (ed. X). I. 538 no. 270
(1758)1. Carpocapsa pomonella Stn., Godmari's NH. Azores 106
no. 27 (1870) 2; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. YI. 657. (1881) 3;
Slngrld. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stn. Ent. Div. Bull. 142. 3-60,
fig. 126-146 (1898) 4. Cydia pomonella Wlsm. Ann-Mag. NH.
(7 s.). VI. 435 no. 1181 (1900) 5. Carpocapsa pomonella Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 125-6 no. 2257 (1901) G. Cydia pomonella
Frnld. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 471 no. 5296 (1902) T.

Hab. ASIA5'0. EUROPE1"7. AFRICA4'6. Azores2—
TERCEIRA: (Godman)2. N-S. AMERICA4'7. AUSTRALIA3.
NEW ZEALAND3.

0 Apples, and other fruits, Walnuts, etc.

136 + b (2257 + b) POMONELLA L. + PUTAMINANA Stgr.

Carpocapsa putaminana Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 232 no, 56
(1859)1. Carpocapsa pomonella L. -{-putaminana Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 126 no. 2257il (1901)-; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XXI. 38,44no. 201 (1906)3. .

Hab. WC. ASIA 2. S. EUROPE 1-2. Canaries 3— TUXEEIFE 3 :
1905 (White)3.

1 did not meet with this species : the typical form was recorded
in 1870 as having been taken in the Azores.

70. (261'D EUCELIS Hb.
£ --137. (2197) EUCELIS MADERAE Wlstn.

Ephippiphora maderae Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). I. 120
(1858) \ Grapholita maderae Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 990
(1864) 2. Grapholiiha maderae Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894.
537, 540 no. 11 (1894) 3; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17,
87-8 no. 154 (1894) 4: XL 121, 146 no. 170. PI. 3 • 8 rf (1896) 5:
XXL 44 no. 200 (1906) c : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 122 no. 2197
(1901) 7: Eacelis maderae Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIX. 214
(1903) 8.

Type o (no. XVIII) Mus. Br.

Hab. Madeiras1'5'8— MADEIRA1'5: The Mount (Wollaston)\
Monte, 1100 ft., 6. III. 1902 (Eaton}', Funchal (Wollaston)*, 14.
IV. 1904 (Eaton); Canigal, 21. IV. 1904 (Eaton); V. 1886
(Leech) \ Canaries 3'7— TENERIFE 3'7 : Santa Cruz, 10. I. 1907
(Wlsm.) ; Guimar, 4. Ill - 4. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava,
16-22. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)5, 26. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)] IV. 1884
(Leech)*; Realejo, 25. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)5.

Taken at Santa Cruz, Orotava, and Guimar, in January, March,
and April, but not common.
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- 1:58. (2197-2) EUCELIS MARUUBIANA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 4.)
= '^indusiana Rbl. (nee Z.).

P<)b/chro»is? indusiana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 37,43
no. 195 (1906)1.

Aiili'miae pale brownish grey. Palpi hoary grey, sprinkled
with fuscous. Head and Thorax hoary grey, with sonic fuscous
speckling; the latter with a slight, blackish sprinkled, thoracic
tuft posteriorly. Fore wings greyisli white, with pale olivaceous
brownish suffusion, tending to indicate two transverse fasciae,
one at one-third, bounding the outer side of an obscurely speckled
and shaded basal patch, the other, in the middle, accompanied
on its outer side by small spots of fuscous and blackish scaling,
the intermediate pale space contains a narrow fluctuate line
parallel to the equally sinuate outer edge of the first fascia ;
beyond the middle of the wing some blackish scales are sparsely
sprinkled below the middle, near the central fascia, and again in
a patch between the upper angle of the. cell and the apex, this
patch containing three or four black dots ; the termen is narrowly
shaded with olivaceous brownish, a narrow black line preceding
the cilia ; along thecosta is a series of outwardly oblique brownish
streaks, of varying sizes, with more or less sprinkling of black
scales, some short dark streaks also along the dorsum ; cilia greyish
white, delicately sprinkled and shaded with brown and black.
Exp. al. 8 %5- 13 mm. Hindwings brownish grey ; cilia shining,
paler, with a shade-line near their base. Abdomen hoary griseous.
Legs hoary, the tarsi spotted above with fuscous.

Type $ (99051); 3 (99052) Guimar, Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. S. FRANCE: Monte Carlo, 1. VI. 1889 (Wlsm.)— S. SPAIN:
MALAGA: Malaga, 29. IV - 2. V. 1901 (Wlsm.). Canaries1—
TENERTFE J : 1 905 ( White)1 ; Guimar, 4-25. III. 1 907, 0 MarruUum
vulgare, 14. Ill, excl. 21-24. III. 1907 (Wlsm.). Nineteen
specimens.

Taken, and bred ; very common on the top of the hill west of
Guimar. The larva feeds on the seeds of Marrubium, the empty
pupa-cases protruding conspicuously from the dry seed-vessels of
the previous year.

This is the species which stands in Mr. White's collection,
named by Prof. Rebel, " Polychrosis ! indusiana Z." In ap-
pearance it is undoubtedly extremely similar to Polychrosis por-
rectana Z., next to which Rebel (Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 109),
following Zeller, places indusiana. The true indusiana Z. is
however quite unlike marrubiana and porrectana. Anyone
seeing the type of indusiana would at once place it next
to staticeana Mill., from which indeed I am quite unable to
separate it, and there is no doubt that Milliere's name must fall
as a synonym.

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The following correction should be made in the European Lists : —

(1957) POLYCHBOSIS INDUSIANA Z.

n. syn.= staticeana Mill.

Sericoris in&usiana Z. Isis 1847. 667 no. 274 l. Penthina indusiana HS. SB.
Schm. Eur. IV. 232-3 no. 292 (1851), PI. 50 • 353 (1849) 2. Lobesia staticeana
Mill. Ic. Chen-Lp. II. 430-2. PI. 95-9-14 (1868) 3. Polychrosis staticeana Stgr-
Pvbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 109 no. 1957 (1901) 4. Polychrosis indusiana Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 109 no. 1959 (1901) 5.

Hab. S, EUROPE i-5— SICILY : Catania, 3. VII. 1844 (Zeller) l~2— S.
© Statice cor data 3.

VII. TINEIDAE.

71. (435) STIGMELLA Schrank.

n. syn. = NEPTICULA Hdn., Z.;=*.*MICROSETIA (Stph.) Kby. (nee
Stph-Wstwd.).

Type 1. Phalaena Tinea anomalella Goeze (Schrank 1802).
.STIGMELLA Schrank Fn. Boica II. (2). 169 (1802).
1 (Type) anomalella Goeze [ = rosella Schrank Fn. Boica II. (2).
139 no. 1890 (1802)].

When describing the genus Stigmella, Schrank inadvertently
omitted to give the cross-reference to his type, which should
have read thus : —

" Hieher gehort :
1. Stigmella rosella.

Tinea rosella meiner Fauna n. 1890."

It is however obvious that his remark " Ich meyne, dass die
mir nicht hinliinglich bekannte Motte, welche die Rosenbliitter
gangweise minirt, hieher gehore ", refers to rosella Schrank
(Rosenblatt G. 1890), having its " Wohnort : unter der Oberhaut
der Bosenblatter, welche die Raupe gangweise minirt."

Schrank regarded his species as identical with that figured by
Degeer (I. PI. 31 '13-21), to which the name anomalella wTas
given by Goeze, and Tutt [KE. Br. Lp. I. 206 (1899)] confirms
Schrank's identification. It is therefore evident that Stigmella
Schrank is the oldest geneonym for species hitherto placed in
Nepticula.

Type 2. Tinea aurella F. (Tutt 1899).

NEPTICULA Hdn. Ber. Yers. Naturf . Mainz 1843. 208 ; Z. Lin.
Ent. III. 249, 301-3 (1848) ; Tutt NH. Br. Lp. I. 184-5 (1899) ;
Stgr-Rbl., etc.

Type 3. Nepticula micr other iella Stn. (Kby. 1897).

*MICEOSETIA (Stph.) Kby., Lloyd's NEL, HB. Lp. Y. 313-4.
PI. 108-8(1897).

Kirby adopts Microsetia Stph., sinking Nepticida Z. as a
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synonym, overlooking that Westwood [Syn. Gen. Br. Ins. 112
(1840)] had cited as the type of Microsetia Stph., stipella (Hb.
20-138) Stph. 111. IY. 265, Wd. 1347 (=Wstwd. II. 212 no. 5.
PI. 112 ' 34) — apparently an Aphelosetia : but in any case micro-
theriella Stn. cannot be the type of Microsetia Stph.

(^ 139. (4303-1) STIGMELLA RUBICURRENS, sp. n.

Antennae steel-grey ; eye-caps, steely yellowish. Head black
above. Thorax bronzy greyish. Fore wings pale greenish bronzy
greyish, a broad copper patch preceding the paler shining grey
cilia. Exp. al. 4 mm. Hindwings and cilia steely grey-
Abdomen fuscous. Legs steely grey.

Type £ (14160) Mus. Wlsm.

Hal). TENERIFE : La Laguna, ® Rubus, 8. Ill, excl. 26. III.
1904 (Eaton). Unique.

This differs from fletcheri Tutt in the distinctly copper, not
purplish, patch at the apex.

Mr. Eaton bred a single specimen from a larva found mining a
bramble leaf in the barranco below La Laguna, at about 1700-
1600 ft., on March 8th. Mines, obviously narrower than those of
aurella F., occurred on Bramble at Puerto Orotava, but I failed to
breed the species. This is probably the same as the larva found by
von Hedemaim at Orotava, mining Bramble, in April 1895, and
recorded by Rebel as Nepticula sp. [Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 143,
147 no. 220 (1896) : XXI. 44 no. 245 (1906)]. A single specimen
(99173), taken at Puerto Orotava, 14. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.), is pos-
sibly a worn example of this species, but it shows only a slight
coppery tint, instead of the distinct copper patch of the bred
specimen.

140. (4333) STIGMELLA AURELLA F.

Tinea aurella F. Syst. Ent. 666 no. 65 (1775)1. Nepticula
aurella Tutt NH. Br. Lp. I. 228-33 (1899) 2 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp.
Pal. II. 223 no. 4333 (1901) 3.

Hal). EUROPE1-3: Rubus fruticosus °-3. N. AFRICA2'3—
MOROCCO : Tangier, 10. IY. 1902 (Wlsm.). Canaries— TENERIFE :
Guimar, 1. Ill- 14. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 7-8. III.
1904 (Eaton); Yilla Orotava, 0 Rubus fruticosus, 19. II, excl.
17-30. III. 1907 (Wlsm.).

First received from Mr. Eaton, who met with it at La Laguna ;
I took it at Guimar, and bred it from Rubus fruticosus at Yilla
Orotava, where the larvae were abundunt.

.^ 141. (4368-1) STIGMELLA STATICIS, sp. n.

Antennae blackish ; eye-caps pale ochraceous. Head rust-
brown. Thorax and Forewings black, minutely irrorated with
pale leaden grey ; cilia pale leaden grey, with black speckling.

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1010 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [iSfoV. 26,

Exp. al. 3—4*25 mm. Ilindivings and cilia pale leaden grey.
Abdomen gre}. Legs pale grey.

Type 2 (99201); rf (99202) Mus. Wlsm.

Zfa6. TENERIFE : Puerto Orotava, 0 Statice peclinata, 4. Y,
excl. 29. Y - 21. VI. 1907 ; La Laguna, 20. V. 1907. Thirteen
specimens.

Perhaps most nearly allied to helianthemella HS., but the head
is ochreons, and there is 110 pale fascia in either sex : the
antennae are long, and there is no dark dividing line in the
cilia.

Bred from larvae mining the leaves of Statice pectinata : the
green larva, making small, tortuous, mines in the little leaves, is
fairly abundant, but very inconspicuous ; the cocoon is whitish.
The mines were collected at Puerto Orotava ; a single specimen
taken on a table in. the hotel at La Laguna probably escaped from
my bottles.

C 142. (4368-2) STIGMELLA SANCTAECRUCIS, sp. n.

Antennae greyish fuscous, paler beneath ; eye-caps dull ferru-
ginous, speckled with fuscous. Head dull ferruginous. Thorax
greyish fuscous. Forewings pale cinereous, profusely speckled
.with greyish fuscous, almost entirely obliterating the paler ground-
colour, which is confined to the bases of the rather coarse scales,
but shows more clearly where the scales become lengthened, as in
the cilia. fJxp. al. 4*5-5 mm. Hindwings and cilia very pale
greyish. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs pale cinereous.

Type <$ (99214) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: Santa Cruz, 15-17.1. 1907. Six specimens.

I found this species at Santa Cruz, only among plants of
Lavandida abrotanoides, on which I noticed mines that appeared
to differ from those of Perittia lavandulae "Wlsm. (ante, p. 971
no. 83) : they were more slender, and more tortuous, and probably
belonged to a Stigmella.

£, 143. (4378-1) STIGMELLA MICROMERIAE, sp. n.

Antennae grey ; eye-caps silvery white. Head yellowish.
Forewings steely white, profusely sprinkled with coarse dark
grey, or fuscous, scales ; a straight silvery white transverse fascia,
at two-thirds from the base, is sometimes slightly interrupted by
a few of the dark scales ; cilia steely whitish, with a slight
sprinkling at their base. Exp. al. 3 '5-4 mm. Hind wings and
cilia pale steely grey. Abdomen grey. Legs greyish.

Type £ (99220) \ <$ (99221) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFE: Guimar, 14. Ill - 12. IV, ® Micromeria varia,
25. II, excl. 1-9. IV. 1907. Twenty.two specimens.

The larva feeds on Micromeria varia>, and I think also on
Micromeria origanifolia, making small tortuous mines. It is
decidedly common.
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144. (4416-1) STIGMELLA JUHAK, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 7.)

Anti'-iiiHi-e yellowish, delicately annulate \\iili black ; eye-caps
whitish. Head bright, yellow. Tlnn'n.i'. black. /<\tri'irinij* while,
with M broad l)l;ick central fascia through which the ground colour
is visible only in small specks; :i black basal patch, angulated
outward in the middle, Leaving only a narrow, curved, orangulated,
white fascia between it and the median hand, and a black patch
occupying the whole apex and tennen, the ground-colour showing
before it in a narrow, white, rather oblique, bar, sometimes divided
into two nearly opposite spots ; this patch also shows some pale
speckling; cilia whitish at the apex and termen, with a line of
black scales running through them ; greyish on the dorsum.
E.i-/>. al. I'T) -.")•;") mm. Hindwings and cilia pale grey. Legs black,
with white speckling.

Tup? 2 (99119); J (99121) Mus. Wlsm.

Hab. TENERIFR: Santa Cruz, 0 Kn^liorlln rt't/is-jifbae, 4. II,
ex<-l. 8-17. III. 1907; Guimar, 9. Ill - 10. IY, 0 Euphorbia
ri'(/ix-jtil>ae, 9. Ill, excl. 11-15. Y. 1907. Eight specimens.

The larva makes narrow, tortuous, mines in the leaves of
Euphorbia ref/is-jiibae, and is not uncommon near Santa Cruz,
and near Guimar, in February and March ; like that of e>ij>lior-
biella Stn., it is pale yellowish. The species is nearly allied to
the South European euphorlnella Stn., but differs in the white,
not creamy, ground-colour being much more obscured by black
scaling.

— 145. (441 6'2) STIGMELLA XIGRIFASCIATA, sp. n.

Antennae greyish : eye-caps white. Head greyish, with some
white sprinkling. Thorax fuscous. Forewings white, with a
smoky, ill-defined, basal patch, extending to one-third and speckled
with black; a straight, rather narrower, median fascia, also
thickly black-speckled:, and an apical patch of the same colour
including the cilia, except at their pale greyish outer ends. Exp.
al. 4 nun. ffindrwings and cilia pale greyish. Abdomen fuscous.
Legs whitish, spotted with fuscous.

Type ^ (99:>42) AFus. Wlsm.

lla1). TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 14. II. 1907. Two specimens,
ill excellent condition.

Much Smaller and more fasciated than jubae, but not unlike it
in colour.

(2 ^, 146. (4418-1) STIGMELLA RLDICULOSA, sp. n.
Antennae pale fawn; eye-caps fawn-whitish. Head- fawn-
whitish, inclining to yellowish. Thorax fawn-whitish. Forewings

fawn-whitish, profusely speckled with- fawn-brown, this colour
confined to the tips of the scales; cilia fawn-whitish, with very
slight speckling. A>/>. al. 4-4'"> mm. IHinI-ii-ingx very pale
greyish ; cilia fawn-whitish. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs
fawn -whitish.

T>,pe $ (99255); rf (99257) Mus. Wlsm.

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1012 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,.

Hob. TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 8-14. II. 1907 ; Guimar, © Lotus
sessilifolius, 6. Ill, excl. 6-8. IY. 1907. Eighteen specimens.

An inconspicuous species belonging to the group of cistivora
Peyr. The larva occurs at Santa Cruz, and Guimar, mining the
minute leaflets of Lotus sessilifolius. Although very minute and
inconspicuous, it is easily disturbed among its food-plant, and is
not difficult to breed, if the obviously-mined leaves are collected
without regard to the presence or absence of the larvae.

72. (431) BUCCULATRIX Z.
(\ 147. (4246) BUCCULATRIX CHRYSANTIIEMELLA Rbl.

Bucculatrix chrysanthemella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 142,
147 no. 219 (1896) T : XXI. 44 no. 244 (1906) 2 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 219 no. 4246 (1901) 3.

Hob. TENERIFE1'3: Guimar, 28. II. 1907, © Chrysanthemum
frutescens, 27. II, excl. 7. Ill - 7. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto
Orotava1, 23. IV - 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.), © Chrysanthemum
frutescens, excl. 25-28. IY. 1895 (Nedemann)1.

Common on Chrysanthemum frutescens, at Santa Cruz and
Guimar ; I bred it from larvae and cocoons found on this plant.

r 148. (4246-1) BUCCULATRIX CANARIENSIS, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 10.)

Antennae dirty whitish, transversely barred above with greyish
fuscous. Head greyish fuscous, hoary whitish at the sides.
Thorax whitish, thickly sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings
whitish, profusely sprinkled with greyish fuscous, and with some
blackish scaling ; the pale ground-colour is chiefly apparent in a
streak, commencing at the base below the costa and extending
to the end of the cell, ill-defined, but somewhat dilated about its.
middle, where there is a small black dot at its upper, and another
at its lower edge, some black scaling running along the fold
between this and the base ; there is also a sprinkling of black
scales around the end of the cell, and a double line of the same
in the terminal cilia ; dorsal cilia pale cinereous. Exp. al.
7-8 mm. Hindwings shining, pale stone-grey ; cilia pale
brownish cinereous. Abdomen shining, pale cinereous. Legs
pale brownish cinereous, with faintly spotted tarsi.

Type ^ (99276) ; $ (99279) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Santa Cruz, 11-16.II. 1907 ; Guimar, 28. II -
13. III. 1907 ; La Laguna, 9. YI. 1907. Sixteen specimens.

This species occurs at Santa Cruz, Guimar, and La Laguna,
and probably everywhere where Artemisia canariensis is found ;
I did not actually breed it, but I found one or more larvae, and
saw empty cocoons upon the plant. I have so far been unable to
identify it with any known European species : it is an obscure
insect, with no clearly defined markings — my specimens are in
very good condition.
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149. (4256'1) BUCCULATRIX PHAGNALELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 9.)

Antennae cinereous, faintly barred with fuscous. Head and
Thorax whitish, the former with a strong admixture of dark rust-
IU-OWM scales, especially on the middle of the crown; face and
eye-caps white beneath. Forewings white, thickly besprinkled
with fuscous and fa vvii- brown scaling; a blackish blotch, on the
middle of the dorsum, is produced outward at its upper edge, and
diluted in the direction of the apex, meeting, beyond the end of
the cell, a corresponding shade bent downward from the middle
of the costa, along which it can be traced narrowly to the base ;
the white ground-colour is always more clearly exhibited alongside
of the darker shades and patches ; apical cilia white, sprinkled
with black scales, dorsal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 7-8 mm.
Hindwings shining, pale grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen
grey. Legs brownish grey.

Type d (99292) ; $ (99293) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE': Guirnar, 23-30. III. 1907, ® *Pkagnalon
saxatile, 27. II, excl. 24. Ill - 12. IV. 1907. Twenty-two
specimens, nineteen bred.

Nearest to fatigatella Hdn., but the costal shade is less pro-
nounced, and more limited to the costa, tending to spread, not
toward the dorsum, but rather toward the tornus. The larva is
common at Guimar on Phaqnalon saxatile.

73. (431'D EREUNETIS Meyr.

EREUNETIS Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. V. 258 (1880) : Tr. NZ.
Inst. XX. 92 (1888): Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. (2 s.). VII. 480, 562-3
(1893).

150. (4275-1) EREUNETIS UNDOSA, sp. n.

Antennae dark brown. Palpi slender, drooping ; brownish.
Head white, a brownish band above between the eyes. Thorax
white ; tegulae streaked with brown. Forewings dark chocolate-
brown, with a broad white band along the dorsum, extending
from base to apex, but almost interrupted at the tornus by over-
flow of the dark brown slightly overlapping the end of the fold ;
there is also a slight overlap at one-third from the base, while the
white band projects a little across the fold at two-thirds ; apex
white, with a few brown scales ; cilia white, with some greyish
tinge about the tornus. Exp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings shining,
pale steely grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen steely grey;
flattened at the base, with long projecting ovipositor. Legs
yellowish white ; hind tibiae with long hairs above.

Type $ (99174) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: Puerto Orotava, 2. V. 1907. Unique.

Allied to seminivora^\7lxw. [Ind. Mus. Notes IV. 107. PL 7 '
2a~d (1899)], which differs in its brown face and pale antennae.

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1014 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

74. (470) OENOPHILA Stph.
= t OINOPHILA Stph., Stgr-Rbl.

151. (4621) OENOPHILA V-FLAVA Hw.

Gracillaria v-flava Hw. Lp. Br. 530 no. 14 (1828)1. Oinophila
flava Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 214 no. 24 (1859) 2. Oeno-
phila v-flavum WJsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 542 no. 24
(1894) 3. Oinophila v-flavum Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmua. XI. 125,
146 no. 183 (1896) 4: XXL 44 no. 254 (1906) 3: Stgr-Rbl. Cat.
Lp. Pal. II. 240 no. 4621 (1901)°.

Jfctb. EUROPE l~** G : ® on fungus in cellars, on corks.
Madeiras2'1' "—MADEIRA2"4' G: (Wollaston)2 ; Funchal, 27. IY.
1904: (Eaton). Canaries 4"°— TENERIFE 4"G : Tacaronte, 18-28. II.
1907 (Wlsm.) ; La Laguna, 1800 ft., 22. II. 1904 (Eaton), 2100-
500 ft., 17. III. 1902 (Eaton), 30. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.); Guimar,
6. III. 1907 (Wlsm.), 23. III. 1904 (£otPf»), 14. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.);
Puerto Orotava4, 13. III. 1904 (Eaton), 23-30. IV. 1895 (Ifede-
rnann)*, 24. IV - 2. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Ha worth's idionym " v-Jlava " has been changed to " v-jlavum,"
despite its acceptance, with explanation of derivation, by the
Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge [Ace. List Br.
Lp. 90 (1858)], and Stephens' genus is still written " Oinophila"
although corrected to " Oenophila." by the same Societies (I. c.).
Smith (Smaller Lat-Eng. Diet. '596) writes of the letter V :
" V, indecl. n. or (litera, subaud.) f" Haworth's idioiiym is
therefore correctly formed, and the alteration unnecessary.

- — 152. (4621*1) OENOPHILA NESIOTES, sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 11.)

Antennae pale olivaceous brownish, with a bronzy sheen above ;
pale yellowish beneath. Palpi short, divergent ; pale ochreous,
a brownish shade on the outer side of the terminal joint. Head
ochreous, with a raised rust-brown crest between the antennae ;
face shining, pale yellowish ochreous. Thorax ochreous. Fore-
wings dark olivaceous brown, with two shining, pale ochreous,
transverse fasciae ; the first, at one-third from the base, angulated
outward at the middle, the angle produced outward along the
cell, forming a continuous bar reaching to the middle of the
outer fascia, at three-fourths from the base, which is inverted
obliquely from costa to dorsum ; this median bar is continued, in
a diffused and rather obscure band, from the inner side of the
first fascia to the base, leaving the dark ground-colour broader
above it, and narrower below it along the margins — it is also
continued beyond the outer fascia, with slight interruption, along
the termen and through the cilia around the apex ; cilia smoky
brownish grey; underside strongly iridescent, with scattered
metallic scales on a bronzy fuscous ground. Exp. al. 8-9 mm.
Hindwings bronzy brownish, with a few iridescent metallic scales
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about the apex : cilia brownish grey. Abdomen greyish fuscous,
richly sprinkled with iridescent metallic scales. Leys brownish
grey, the tarsi faintly spotted with pale ochreous.

7V' c? 0><)17(>); $ (99177) Mus. Wlsiu.

llal). TEXEKIFE : La Laguiia, 23. V. 1907. Twenty-four
specimens.

A single specimen of this species would certainly be regarded
as a variety of v-flava Hw., but the evidence pointing to the
contrary is so strong that it must at least command attention.
Should it in future be decided, by someone more fully acquainted
with the larval history of both forms, that they are not con-
sistently different and separable, the name nesiotes will sink as a
varietal synonym. In general appearance the new species is
rather more slender and elongate — the forewings longer in pro-
portion to their width. In markings it differs in the invariable
presence of a connecting bar along the cell, between the two pale
transverse fasciae : this arises from the angulate outer edge of
the first fascia, and is also more or less traceable on the basal side
of the fascia, where it is sometimes quite as conspicuous as
beyond it. In v-flava, the angle of the )>- shaped fascia is often
produced outward, and is occasionally traceable as far as the
second, or outer, fascia, but among all the European and British
specimens that I have seen there have been none in which the
central pale longitudinal bar is produced inward to the base of
the wing. I brought home 28 specimens of v-flava, from various
localities in Tenerife, and have 5 received from Mr. Eaton :
I have also 5 specimens from Madeira. None of these possess,
the characters of nesiotes, although many of them were selected
from a larger number of captures on account of some tendency to
Variation : they cannot be separated from European specimens of
v-flava. Of nesiotes I have 24 specimens, all taken in one spot,
about ten yards square, in brushwood under a clump of fir-trees,
north of the road between La Laguna and Tacaronte, about two
or three miles from the former. In that spot they were flying
in hundreds : I netted twenty at a time, and could easily have
taken a thousand, or more, had I wished to do so. A search for
larvae proved that they must have been feeding between layers
of dead leaves on the ground : there were signs of web and frass,
and the moths were dislodged in plenty as the leaves were turned
over, but I was somewhat hurried and did not actually find any
larvae. The typical v-flava did not occur among them, nor could
I find it anywhere near the spot.

75. (433) OPOGONA Z.
153. (4277) OPOGOXA PANCHALCELLA Stgr.

Opogona panchalcella Stgr. Berl. Ent. Zts. XIV. 325 no. 110
(1870) T; Chr. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XII. 230 (1876)'; Stgr.
Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. XV. 419 (1880) 3 : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal.
II. 220no. 4277 (1901) \

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1016 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

Hab. SE. EUROPE 1'4— RUSSIA l"* : ASTRACHAN : Sarepta1' 3~4,
3. VII. 1867 (Christoph) ; DAGHESTAN : Dei-bent2'3, 2. VII. 1870
(Christoph). WC. ASIA 2" — TRANSCAUCASIA 2~4 : Kasumkent 2~3 ;
Lenkoran 2 — LYDIA 3"4 : Smyrna 3. N. AFRICA — ALGERIA :
Hammam-es-Salahin, 3-15. IV. 1904 (Wlsm.); Biskra, 8-21. IV.
1903 (Wlsm.)', B6ne, 30. IV. 1896 (Eaton}', Le Tarf, 2. VII.
1896 (Eaton). Canaries — TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 2. I. 1907
{Wlsm.).

A single specimen of Opogona panchalcella was taken at Santa
Cruz, 2. I. 1907, flying at dusk near a field in which Sorghum,
or maize, had probably been grown : I am also able to record this
species from Algeria.

76. (449) SETOMORPHA Z.
=*LTXDEBA Rbl. (nee Blanch.).

154. (4494) SETOMORPHA INSECTELLA F.

n. syn. = rutella Z. <$ $ ; = rupicella Z. <$ ; = operosella Z. $ ;

= inamoenella Z. d ; = ruderella Z. $ ; = multimaculella Chmb.

$ ; = dryas Btlr. $ ; = corticinella Snln. c? $ ; = (*bogota-
tella Alphk. $ — nee Wkr.) ; = discipunctella Rbl. <$ $ .

Tinea insectella F. Ent. Syst. III. (2). 303 no. 72 (1794) l : Sppl.
Ent. Syst. 489 no. 47 (1798)'2. Setomorpha rutella Z. Lp-Micr.
Caffr. 94-5 (1852) 3: Hndl. Kngl. Vet-Ak. 1852. 94-5 (1854) 3.
Setomorpha rupicella Z. Lp-Micr. Caffr. 95-6 (1852)4: Hndl.
Kiigl. Vet-Ak. 1852. 95-6 (1854)4. Setomorpha rutella Wkr.
Cat. Lp. BM. XXIX. 708 (1864)5; Z. VH. Z-B. Ges. Wien
XXIII: 1873. 223 (1873)°. Setomorpha rupicella Z. VH. Z-B.
-Ges. Wien XXIII : 1873. 223 (1873) 7. Setomorpha operosella Z.
VH. Z-B. Ges. Wien XXIII : 1873. 223-4 (1873) 8. Setomorpha
inamoenella Z. VH. Z-B. Ges. Wien XXIII: 1873. 224-5
(1873) 9. Setomorpha ruderella Z. VH. Z-B. Ges. Wien XXIII :
1873. 225 (1873) 10. Setomorpha rutella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross.
XIII. 206 (1877) u. Gelechia multimaculella Chmb. Bull. US.
GG. Surv. IV. 89-90, 145 (1878) 12. Setomorpha operosella Chmb.
Bull. US. GG. Surv. IV. 162 (1878) 13. Setomorpha inamoenella
Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. IV. 162 (1878) u. Setomorpha
ruderella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. IV. 162 (1878) I5. Seto-
morpha rutella Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881. 274, 287 (1881) 1G.
Chrestotes dryas Bblr. Ann-Mag. NH. (5 s.). VII. 401 no. 39
(1881)17. Gelechia multimaculella Hgn, Pap. IV. 99 (1884) 18.
Setomorpha corticinella Snln. Tijd. Ent. XXVIII. 24-5 no. 10.
PL 2- 12 cJ-15$ (1885) 1<J. Setomorpha rutella Snln. Tijd. Ent.
XXVIII. 24 (1885) 20. Setomorpha *bogotatella Alphk. Mem.
Lp. V. 231 no. 55 (1889) 21. Setomorpha rutella Wlsm. Tr. Ent.
Soc. Lond. 1891. 81-2. PI. 7 • 73 $ (1891)22; Cotes Ind. Mus.
Notes II. 9-10 (1891) 23. Setomorpha operosella Riley, Smith's
List Lp. Bor-Am. 96 no. 5134 (189 1)24. Setomorpha inamoenella
Riley, Smith's List Lp. Bor-Am. 96 no. 5135 (1891) 25. Seto-
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1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 1017

ii>or/>ha ruderella Riley, Smith's List Lp. Bor-Am. 96 no. 5136
(1891)-°. Oelechia multijiiaculella Riley, Smith's List Lp. l.nr-
Am. 96 no. 5414 (1891) ~\ Setomorpha rupicella Wlsm. PP. Z.
Soc. Lond. 1891. 511, 544 no. 48 (1892)2S. Setomorpha disci-
ixinctdla Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofnms. VII. 267-8, 283 110. 46. PI. 17 '
16 £ (1892) -\ *Lindera *bogotatella Rbl. Aim. KK. Hofmus.
VII. 267, 268, 283 no. 47 (1892) 30. Setomorpha operosella Rbl.
Ami. KK. Hofmus. VII. 268 (1892) 31. Setomorpha rutella Rbl.
Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 268 (1892) 32. Setomorpha corticinella
Rbl. Ann. KK, Hofmus. VII. 268 (1892) 33. Setomorpha rutella
Cotes Iiid. Mus. Notes II. 164 no. 152 (1893) 34. Setomorpha
discipunctella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17 no. 159 (1894) 33.
*Lindera *bogotatella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17 no. 160
(1894) 3G. Setomorpha *bogotatella White, Bfl. & Moths Teneriffe
95 no. 19 (1894)37. Setomorpha discipunctella Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. XI. 122-3, 146 no. 175 (1896) 3*. Setomorpha rutella
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 123 (1896) 39. *Lindera*bogotateUa
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 146 no. 176 (1896) lo. Setomorpha
,'upicdlaWism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897. 168 no. 281 (1897) 41.
Setomorpha disdpunctella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XIII. 377,
381 no. 189 (1899) 42. *Lindera *bogotatella Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. XIII. 381 no. 190 (1899)43. Setomorpha discipunctella
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 233 no. 4494 (1901) 44. Plutella (?)
multimaculellaBusckJr.N-Y. Ent. Soc. X. 97 (1902) 45 ; Dyar
Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 492 no. 5509 (1902) 4G. Setomorpha
operosella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 575 no. 6549 (1902) 47.
Setomorpha inamoenella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 575
no. 6550 (1902)48. Setomorpha ruderella Dyar Bull. US. Nat.
Mus. 52. 575 no. 6551 (1902) 49. Setomorpha rutella [de Niec.J
Iiid. Mus. Notes V. 201-2 (1903) 50; Dietz Tr. Am. Ent. Soc.
XXXI. 14-15 (1905) 31. Semiota operosella Dietz Tr. Am. Ent.
Soc. XXXI. 18-19, 91 (1905) 52. Semiota inamoenella Dietz Tr.
Am. Ent. Soc, XXXI. 18, 19, 91. PI. 6 • 4 <$ (1905) 53. *Lindera
*bogotalella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 24 no. 7 (1906) 54.
Setomorpha discipunctella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 24, 40,
44 no. 246 (1906) ". Setomorpha operosella Busck Pr. US. Nat.
Mus. XXX. 734-5 fig. 9 tf -10 $ (1906) 5G. Setomorpha rupicella
Wlsm. Fn. Haw. I. 726 (1907) 5T. Setomorpha discipuntella
Wlsm. Fn. Haw. I. 726 (1907) 5S. Setomorpha dnjas Wlsm. Fn.
Haw. I. 726 no. 434 (1907) 3n. Setomorpha rutella Wlsm. Fn.
Haw. I. 754 no. 434 (1907) G0.

Hal. HAWAIIA 17' 59 — OAHU : Honolulu 17' 59 — HAWAII :
Kaawaloa, Kona 1500 ft., VI59. N. AMERICA (UNITED

STATES) 8"10> 12"13> ls> 2l"7> 3l> l)"9> ''~"3' 56 TEXAS 8"10> 18> 4G> "~3 ( =

" Mass.") 17'1J : BOSQUE co.12 : Waco 18— KANSAS 52. C. AMERICA
—MEXICO : GUERRERO : Amula, 6000 ft., VIII (H. II. Smith)—
GUATEMALA: Balheu (Vera Paz, Champion):, San Geroninio
(Champion)— Co&tA RICA : Irazu, 6-7000 ft. (Rodgers). S. AME-
RICA41'57— 35HAXH, " •"'7: Para, X-XII 41— COLOMBIA : Bogota
(XoMen). WEST INDIES ^ 7' 28> 41' 5T— CuBA4' 7> 28' 41 : Ha-

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vannah4' 2S) 41 — JAMAICA: Moneague, 5. 1. 1905 (Wlsm.); Runaway
Bay, 23. II. 1905 (Wlsm.). Canaries 21> 2°-30> 35'8' 40' 42~4' 54-5—
TENERIFE 21- 29~30' *6"*' 40' 42~4' 54"5 : Santa Cruz, XII. 1897 (Hintz) 12,
8-31.1. 1907 (Wlsm.); Guimar, 6. Ill- 18. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.);
Puerto Orotava, 1896 (Douglas- Crompton), 11. III. 1904 (Eaton),
12. IV. 1895 (Hedemann)™ ; Agua Mansa, 30. VII. 1889
(Simony) 29. AFRICA I-3»«-8' »• 10> 20> S2' 39< 4l : in Insectis f&w?) 1-a
—SIERRA LEONE : ® in moss, excl. 24. VIII- 13. IX. 1895 (Clements)
— GOLD COAST : Accra (Carter)— CONGO : Kasongo , ® "in mus-
cular fibre, on skull of Hippopotamus collected by Dr. Todd,"
excl. 18. IX. 1905 (Newstead) — CAFFRARiA3' n : Limpopo-
Gaiiep 3' ". ASIA 10> 2:3' 33~4' 50— INDIA 23> 34> 50 : Calcutta 23> 34> 50,
Aliwal50, © in blanketing, excl. 20-29. XII 50— CEYLON: 0 "bred
from moths received from Ceylon," excl. 15. IX. 1899 (Burrows)
—ASSAM : Margherita, 1889 (Dotierty)— CELEBES 19' 33 : Saleijer 10 ;
Makassar 19 ; Maros 19. AUSTRALIA — QUEENSLAND : Toowong,
1896 (Dodd).

Types d1 $ : rutella Z. rf $ (Mus. Stockholm ; $ Mus. Wlsm.) ;
rupicella Z. $ (Mus. Wlsm.) ; operosella Z. 5 , inamoenella Z. $ ,
ruderella Z. $ , and multimaculella Chmb. $ (Mus. Cambr- Mass.) ;
dryas Btlr. $ (Mus. Br.).

A careful comparison of the type of rutella Z., with all the
specimens of /Setomorpha in my possession, shows that in the c? J
no difference can be detected sufficient to separate the five supposed
species described from Caffraria, Cuba, the United States, Celebes,
and Tenerife respectively.

Busck [Pr. U-S. Nat. Mus. XXX. 734-5 (1906)] has published
the synonymy of the North American form, and this must now be
combined with that of our Tenerife insect. I possess a long series
of rutella Z. from Sierra Leone, bred from " moss," 24. VIII - 13.
IX. 1895, by Dr. W. G. Clements (to whom I am indebted for this
and other valuable material) ; there is absolutely no difference
between these and the Tenerife specimens. I have also specimens
bred, in Liverpool and at Morton, from muscular fibre attached to
the skull of a Hippopotamus obtained by Dr. Todd at Kasorigo
(Congo : 5° S.) — for these I am indebted to Mr. R. Newstead.
In India the larva has been found destructive to bales of country
blanketing [Ind. Mus. Notes II. 9-10 (1891): V. 201-2 (1903) J,
and I have a specimen bred in England, by the Rev. C. R. Ni
Burrows, " from moths received from Ceylon." Dr. Clements'
experience seems somewhat inconsistent with these records, but it
is possible that the " moss " referred to by him may have been
used for packing woollen goods, or skins, or may have contained an
admixture of woollen rubbish ; I am however without data on this
subject. I have 110 <$ of corticinella Snln. (Celebes), but this has
been figured by Snellen and agrees with those already mentioned ;
I cannot regard this or rupicella Z. (Cuba) as distinct from
mtella Z. Setomorpha tineoides Wlsm. [Pr. Z. Soc. Loud. 1886.
465. PL 41' 8 (1886)], having forewings 12 veins, all sepa-
rate, and hiiidwings 8 veins, all separate, must be removed from
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Setomorpha and referred to Ainydria Clms. Setomorpha grena-
della Wlsm. [Pr. Z. Soc. Loud.' 1897. 168-9, no. 282 (1897)]
has strongly developed, folded, ma.\ill;iri<>s arid must be placed in
Dendromura Wlsm. The genus Setomorpha Z. is thus regain led
as consisting of the single species insectella F., of which the
Miioiiyrny is given above.

There seems little doubt that Fabricius described rutella Z. under
the name insectella: in his description "posticoe" appears to be
used in the sense of " postice " (possibly a misprint) and to apply
to the forewings.

77. (475) DYSMASIA HS.
155. (4644) DYSMASIA INSULARIS Rbl.

Dysmasia insularis Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 125-6, 146
no. 184. PL 3 • 9 3 (1896) ' : XXI. 44 no. 257 (1906) 2 : Stgr-Rbl.
Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 241 no. 4644 (1901) 3.

Dysmasia insularis Rbl. -\-instratella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI.
125-6, 146 no. 184 (1896) »: XXI. 44 no. 257 (1906) a: Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 241 no. 4644* (1901) 3.

Hab. TENERiFE1'3: Santa Cruz, 8.1. 1907 (Wlsm.)', LaLaguna,
8. III. 1904 (Eaton), 20. Y - 7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Guimar, 30.
Ill- 16. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto Orotava, 18-30. IV. 1895
(Nedemann) l, 23. IV - 14. V. 1907, 0 in rubbish among roots, 24.
IV, excl. 31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Mr. Eaton made the following note on his series of Tinea
immaculatella Rbl. arid his single specimen of this species : — " Out
of dead Agave (aloes). I believe they also breed in dead Opuntia"
I bred a single specimen, May 31st, from a larva found at Puerto
Orotava, in rubbish among roots on April 24th.

78. (475'1) STATHMOPOLITIS, gn. n.
(<7ni0/uos = a stable; 7roX/rts = a citizen.)
Type Stathmopolitis tragocoprella Wlsm.

Antennae slightly longer than the forewings, simple ; basal trt
joint without pecten. Labial Palpi porrect, median joint with
dense brush beneath ; terminal joint as long as the median,
slender. Maxillary Palpi, Ha ustelhim, and Ocelli obsolete. Head iAj
and face rough -haired. Thorax smooth. Forewings somewhat
elongate, costa and dorsum evenly curved to apex, dorsum slightly
impressed at vein 1 : neuration 1 1 veins, all separate ; 9 absent
(coincident with 8 ?), radius subobsolete between 8 and 10, internal
radial strong and acting as substitute ; media strongly forked, its
branches going to between 4 and 5, and 5 and 6, the latter veins
somewhat approximate ; 7 to costa. ffindwings with margins
evenly curved to the blunt-pointed apex : neuration 8 veins ; 5
and 6 stalked, rest separate ; branches of media strong, to 4, and

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1020 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

to stalk of 5 + 6, between which discoidal is obsolete. Abdomen
rather long, flattened. -Legs, hind tibiae hairy.

This genus differs noticeably from Dysmasia HS. in the
stalking of veins 5 and 6 of the hind wings : it would appear to
have some affinity to Nary da Stph.

156. (4644-l) STATHMOPOLITIS TRAGOCOPEELLA, sp. n.
(Plate LIU. fig. 16.)

Antennae dark fuscous. Palpi with the median joint dark
fuscous ; terminal joint pale fawn, shaded with fuscous. Head
and Thorax dark fascous. Forewings pale fawn, mottled with
dark fuscous, the patches somewhat evenly distributed over the
wing, the more conspicuous of these occurring around the margins,
especially a medio-dorsal patch, with one equally well-marked at
the end of the cell ; between the larger spots is a sprinkling of
smaller ones, those around the termen and apex throwing dentate
streaks through the pale fawn cilia. Exp. al. ( tf ) 12-20 ( $ ) mm.
Hindwings pale greyish fuscous, with a purplish iridescence ;
cilia brownish grey. Abdomen pale greyish fuscous. Legs sub-
olivaceous, the tarsi faintly shaded with fuscous.

Type <$ (99094) ; $ (99095) ; ® (99097) Mus. Wlsm.

Hah. TEXEBIFE: Tacaronte, 18. II. 1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna,
17. III. 1904 (Eaton); Puerto Orotava, 23. IV - 12. Y. 1907,
® in dry goats' dung, 23. IV - 26. Y, excl. 19. Y- 18. YI. 1907
(Wlsm.). Thirty specimens (11 bred).

The larva, which is of a semitransparent ivory-white, with pale
yellowish brown head, and with inconspicuous, much paler,
pronotal plate, feeds in the old pellets of goats' dung. It is
extremely abundant about the caves, on cliffs east of Puerto
•Orotava, and in similar situations.

Having regard to the great abundance of this insect, and to its
strong superficial resemblance to Lindera tessellatella Blnchrd.
( = bogotatellaWkr.), which is much more marked than in the
case of 8etomorpha insectella F., it seems extremely probable that
Alpheraky had this species before him when recording " Seto-
morpha bogotatella" from Tenerife, but I have not thought it
necessary to dispute Prof. Rebel's expressed opinion on the
identity of the specimen which forms the subject of this bare and
unsatisfactory record.

79. (465) TRICHOPHAGA Rgt.
157. (4538) TRICHOPHAGA ABRUPTELLA Wlstn.
= bipartitella Rgt.7; =*'tapetzella Rbl. (nee L.)7.

Tinea abruptella Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). I. 120 (1858)

'

Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 1003 (1864) a'. Tinea bipartitella
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892. p. Ixxxii (1892) 3. Tinea tapetzella Rbl.
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Ann. KK. Hofmus. YIL 268-9, 283 no. 48 (1892) l: IX. 17
no. 161 (1894)\ Trichoph(«j«. />i/,<n'l!t<>,lf(/, l.lgt. Aim. Soc. Ent.
IM-. L.\ I II : 1894. 121-4(1894) '. 7V/W//Y'/"///"- abrupteUa Wlsm.
Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 541 110. 16 (1894) 7; Rbl. Ann.
KK. llofimis. XL 123, 146 no. 177 (1896)s : Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc.
Loud. 1896. 281 (1896) 9 ; Stgi'-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236 no. 4538
(1901) 10 : Rbl. Ami. KK. Hofmus. XXL 44 no. 248 (1906) u.

/fftl>. SW. ASIA9— ARABIA9: Aden, 30. IY. 1895 (Nurse) 9.
AFRICA 3'G-10— SoMALiLAND9: Zaila, 21. Y. 1895 (Nurse)9-
EGYPT ^ : 1887 (Fortescue)— TUNIS 3« G'vo : Gabes (Dattin)™.
Madeiras l~a- *'5> 7~10— MADEIRA l : ( Wollaston} 1~2— PORTO SANTO
(Wottaston)1'*'7'9. Canaries l~:'7"11— TEXERIFK s ll : Guimar, 1.
IY. 1907 ( Wlsni.) ; Puerto Orotava, 14-18. IY. 1895 (Hedeinann) \
—GRAN CAXARIA : (Rwhter) ^5> s~"' u— LOBOS : (Alluaud) 8'9' u.

I took a single specimen of this species at Guimar, on April 1st.

158. (4539) TRICHOPHAGA TAPETIELLA L.
= f tapetzella L.

Phalaena, Tinea tapetzella L. Syst. Nat. (ed. X). I. 536 no. 253
(175S)1; Swinh-Cotes Cat. Moths Iiid. 705 no. 4804 (1889) 2;
\Vlsm.Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891. 86 (1891) 3 ; Rbl. Ann. KK.
Hofmus. YII. 283 no. 48 (p.) (1892) \ Tinea tapetiella Meyr.
Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. (2 s.). VII. 535 no. 78 (1893) \ Trichophaga
tapetiella Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 785-6 (1895)". Trichophaga tapet-
zella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236 no. 4539 (1901) 7; Dyar
Bull. ITS. Nat. Mus. 52. 573 no. 6532 (1902) 8. Trichophaga
tapetiella Dietz Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXI. 34 (1905)9.

Halt. EUROPE1'7. ASIA2'4'7. AFRICA3'0. Canaries—
TEXERIFE: Guimar, 9. III. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto Orotava,
26. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.). N. AMERICA8'9. S. AMERICA-
BRAZIL: Castro, Parana, 1896 (E. D. Jones); Santa Catherina — -
CHILI: Quillota, 1^7 (Paulson). AUSTRALIA 5— QUEENSLAND :
Toowong, 1896 (Dodd). NEW ZEALAND'.

Single specimens were taken at Guimar, and at Puerto Orotava.

80. (464) MONOPIS Hb.

159. (4529) MONOPIS IMELLA Hb.

Tinea imella Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. YIIL PI. 50' 347 (1816) \
Abebaea immella Hb. Yerz. Schm. 408 no. 3937 (1826) 2. Monopis
imella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236 no. 4529 (1901) 3.

II«J>. WC. ASIA 3. EUROPE l7t. Canaries— TEXERIFE : Gui-

in.-.r, I:! 28. III. 1907 (Wlsm.).

rl\\o specimens of imella Hb. were taken at Guimar, on the
13th and 28th of March.

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1022 LOED WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,.

160. (4530) MONOPIS NIGRICANTELLA Mill.

Tinea nigricantella Mill. Pet. Nouv. Ent. 1. 1 72 (1872) \ Monopis
nigricantella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236 no. 4530 (1901) 2 :
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 40, 44 no. 247 (1906) 3.

Hob, S.EUROPE1'2— CORSICA: Ajaccio, 4-8. Y. 1896 (JFte.);
Corte, 9-14. VI. 1893 (IFZsw.)— S. FRANCE1'2 : Cannes, V. 1890
(Wlsm.)\ Monte Carlo, 18. VI. 1898 (Wlsm.). N. AFRICA-
ALGERIA : Biskra, 5. Ill - 9. IV. 1903 (Wlsm.)', El-Kantara,
24. IV - 22. V. 1903 ( Wlsm.)— MOROCCO : Tangier, 12. Ill -
18. V. 1902, 13. IV. 1901 (JFZsm.); Rabat, 4. IV. 1902 (Wlsm.).
Canaries 3— TENERIFE 3 : 1905(0Me)3; Guimar, 6-19. III. 1907
(Wlsm.)] Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 (Eaton); La Laguna,
8. IV. 1904 (Eaton).

161. (4534) MONOPIS CROCICAPITELLA Olms.

ssshyalineUa Stgr. ; = lombardica Hrng. ; •=*ferruginella Dyar
(nee Hb.).

Tinea crocicapitella Olms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. XI. 257, 258
(1859) x ; Clms-Stn. Tin. N. Am. pp. viii, 49, 51 (1872) 2. Tinea
hyalinella Stgr. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. VII. 229 (1870) 3. Blalo-
phanes lombardica Hrng. Stett. Ent. Ztg. L. 295-9 (1889) 4.
Monopis lombardica Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236 no. 4534
(1901)5. Monopis hyalinetta Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 236
no. 4535 (1901) G. Monopis ferruginella Dyar Bull. US. Nat.
Mus. 52. 570 no. 6488 (1902) ~. Monopis crocicapitella Dietz Tr.
Am. Ent. Soc. XXXI. 31, 33-4 (1905) 8; Wlsm. Fn. Hawaii.
728, 737, 754, 757, 758 no. 437 (1907) 9.

Nab. EUROPE 3~6- 9. N. AFRICA— MOROCCO : Tangier, 8. V.
1902 (Whm.). Canaries9— TENERIFE : La Laguna, 13. I. 1907
(Wlsm.), 14-15. III. 1902, 18. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 23. V - 9. VI.
1907 (Wlsm.)] Tacaronte, 18-19. II. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Puerto
Orotava, 23. IV - 16. V. 1907 (Wlsm.). UNITED STATES 1'2> ~~9
— FLORIDA : 1884 (Morrison). CANADA — BRITISH COLUMBIA :
New Westminster, 30. V - 21. VI. 1900 (C. W. Durrant).
HAWAIIA 9.

This species occurred at La Laguna, Tacaronte, and Puerto
Orotava, from February to June.

81. (466) TINEA L.

~^ 162. (4558-1) TINEA TOECHOPHILA sp. n.
(Plate LIII. fig. 17.)

Antennae f ; whitish, faintly annulate with fuscous. Palpi
short, drooping, slender ; greyish. Head and face rough ; yellowish
white. Thorax chocolate-brown. Fortwings dark chocolate-
brown, with clearly defined silvery white markings ; first, a very

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short patch across the base, then an almost straight transverse
fascia, at one-fourth, scarcely broader on the dorsum than on the
cost a : a sliort triangular >pot on the middle of the costa, followed
by a larger triangular costal spot, before the apex, which nearly
touches the outer side of a more acutely triangular dorsal spot
preceding it ; at the apex is a curved, narrow, white terminal
hand, running through the costal and terminal cilia, leaving
those of the apex as a dark rounded spot within it ; tornal cilia
brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 7-9 mm. J find wings pale, shining
greyish; cilia pale brownish cinereous. A bdomen brownish fus-
cous. Legs greyish, with pale spotted tarsi.

Type £ (14076); rf (99098) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE: La Laguna, 22. II - 9. III. 1904 (Eaton);
Forest de la Mina, 17-30. III. 1902 (Eaton) ; Las Mercedes,
30. III. 1904 (Eaton), 7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.); Taganana, 27. V.
1907 (Wlsm.); Tacaronte, 31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.). Thirty-five
specimens.

Mr. Eaton found this common on a wall, partly overgrown
with lichens, at La Laguna, 22. II. 1904, and common amongst
lichen-covered trees, at Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904.

In the (5* the forewings are usually broader, and less conspi-
cuously marked than in the $, the pale spots and bands con-
taining a few dark scales, therefore less purely white, and frequently
smaller than in the .

— 163. (4575). TINEA IMMACULATELLA Rbl.

Tinea merdella Z. ?var. immaculatella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
VII. 269-70, 283 no. 50 (1892)1. Tinea immaculatella Rbl. Ann.
KK. Hofmus. XL 123-4, 146 no. 180 (1896) 2: XXI. 44 no. 249
(1906) 3: Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 238 no. 4575 (1901) \

Jfab. Canaries 1"4— TENERIFE ~~* : Santa Cruz, 23. XII - 20. II.
1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 8. Ill - 6. IV. 1904 (Eaton); Guimar,
13-28. III. 1907 (Wlsm.); Puerto Orotava, 19-28. IV. 1895
(Hedemann)'2, 12. V - 6. VI. 1907 ( Wlsm.)— FUERTEVENTURA 1'3 :
Barranco del Rio Palma, 20. X. 1890 (Simony) \

Tinea immaculatella is by far the most abundant species in the
Island; it is evidently attached to Opuntia. Mr. Eaton made
the note : " Out of dead Agave (aloes). I believe they also feed
on dead Opuntia" The larva probably feeds on the fibrous inte-
rior of the dead, or half-dead, stems of Euphorbia canariensis,
, and Opuntia cochinelifera : I did not however observe it.

164. (4583) TINEA FUSCIPUNCTELLA Hw.

Tinea fuscipunctella Hw. Lp. Br. 562 no. 4 (1828)1 ; Wlsm. Tr.
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881. 242 (1881) 2; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW.
(2 s.). VII. 534-5 no. 76 (1893) :i ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 238
no. 4583 (1901) 4; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 571 no. 6503

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1024 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,,

(1902) 5; Dietz Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXI. 44, 45, 47 (1905) G;
Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmns. XXI. 40, 44 no. 250 (1906)7; Wlsm.
Ent. Mo. Mag. XLIII. 267 no. 4583 (1907) 8 : Fn. Hawaii. 729,
754, 757, 758 (1907) u; etc.

Hob. EUROPE1'4'8— S. FRANCE: Monte Carlo, 2. IY. 1879
(Wlsm.)—S. SPAIN: Granada, 22. Y - 14. VI. 1901 (Wlsm.)..
ASIA4. AFRICA2' -MOROCCO : Tangier, 27. II. 1902 (Wlsm.)
— ALGERIA : Azazga, 16. IX. 1893 (Eaton). Madeiras — MADEIRA:
(Wollaston); Funchal, 27. IY. 1904 (Eaton). Canaries7—
TENERIFET: (White)7; Guimar, 12. Ill - 14. IY. 1907 (Wlsm.) ;
La Lagtma, 26. III. 1902, 8. IY. 1904 (Eaton). K AMERICA 5-6.
HAWAIIA 9. AUSTRALIA \ NEW ZEALAND 3.

£^165. (4583*1) TINEA THECOPHORA, sp. n.

Antennae -| ; bronzy fuscous. Maxillaries folded. Labial
Palpi porrect, moderately clothed, terminal joint shorter than
median, the latter with a few lateral bristles ; fawn-brown, paler
on their inner sides. Head arid Thorax dark fawn-brown, mixed
with ochreous. Forewings ochreous, thickly sprinkled with dark
fawn-brown, tending to fuscous ; a small black spot in the fold at
l from the base, another at the end of the cell, the costa and
termen having a mottled appearance through aggregation of the
brownish fuscous scales ; in the more or less ochreous cilia are two
darker shade-lines, the one near the base interrupted at short
intervals, the other near their outer ends uninterrupted, but
sometimes very faint. Exp.al. 11-14 mm. Hinclwings shining,
yellowish grey, with a brassy sheen ; cilia pale bronzy grey.
Abdomen and Legs shining, pale bronzy.

Type rf (98331); $ (98336) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. TENERIFE : 0 in cases on walls in houses : Santa
Cruz, 25. XII -25. I. 1907; Guimar, 28. II - 10. IY. 1907,
® III, excl. 29. Ill - 29. Y. 1907 ; Puerto Orotava, 0 IY, excl.
21. IY. 1907. Thirteen specimens.

Case dust-coloured, elongate, ovate, flattened ; very distinct
from that of pellionella L. or allutella Rbl. It is not bottle-
shaped, nor visibly indented on any part of the margin, and is
formed of grains of dust and woolly refuse, but is smooth and
dense in texture, and is open at both ends, cleanly cut, evenly
rounded, and without ragged edges.

Differs in the plical spot being nearer to the base than in
fuscipunctella Hw., also in the absence of a first discal spot above
it. The more general sprinkling of dark scales causes the sub-
ochreous ground-colour to be less visible, and gives it a more
suffused appearance. The possession of a larval case is also a
very notable distinction. Tinea fuscipunctella may be at once
distinguished by having a discal spot above and before the plical.

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1 (')('). (4584) TINEA PELLIOXELLA L.

ri,«l<i<>na T'ux'a j>,'l!',onella L. Syst. Nat. (eel. X,). I. 536 no. 25-t
(1758) \ Tinea peUiondla Stn. Ami-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 212
no, 13 (1859) 'J ; E. Wlstn. Ann-Mag. Nil. (5s.). III. 422 (1879) ! :
Lp. St. Helena 37 (1879) 3; Swinh-Cotes Cat, Moths Ind. 70:5
no. 4800 (1889) 4; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofinns. VII. 209, 283 no. 49
(1892) 5 : IX. 17, 88 no. 162 (1894) a : XXI. 44 no. 251 (1906) 7 ;
Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. (2 s.). VII. 532, 535 no. 77 (1893) a ;
Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 541 no. 17 (1894) " ; Stgr-
Rbl. Cat, L,). Pal. II. 238 no. 4584 (1901) 10; Dyar Bull. US.
Nat. Mus. 52. 572 no. 6520 (1902) n ; Dietz Tr. Am. Ent. Soc.
XXXI. 45, 51 (1905) 1J; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XLIII. 2<>7
no. 4584 (1907) 13.

Hal. ASIA4- 10— WC. 10— CEYLON 4— JAPAN 10. EUROPE
-S. SPAIN : Granada, 14. VI - 6. VII. 1901 (TFfem.). N. AFRI-
CA5' 10 :— MOROCCO : Zi<r, 9. IV. 1902 (Wlsni.) ; Tangier, 14. IV
-9. V. 1902 (Jf7.w?.). Madeiras3'*'8 -MADEIRA -'9: (Wolhtr.-
ton)'2-"- Machk-o. 23. IV. 1904 (Eaton). Canaries '" -TENE-
RIFE'-7-10: IV. 1885 (Leech)('", Guiinar, © on walls, 27. IV,
excl. 6. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)', Las Mercedes, 29. Ar. 1907 (JFfcwV) ;
Caradiico. ^:)>. IX. 1889 (Xhnoin/y. St. Helena: (E.Wollaston)\
N. AMERICA 10-1J. AUSTRALIA 8. NEW ZEALAND 8.

^ 167. (4596) TINEA LAPELLA (Hb. ?) Rbl.

{Tinea, lapella HI). Smlj?. Sclmi. Ear. VIII. PI. 37' 252 (1796) \
Acedes lapella Hb. Verz. Schin. 401 no. 3871 (1826) 2. Tinea
lapella Stgr-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal. II. 239 no. 4596 (1901) 3].
Tun'a? lapella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmns. XXI. 40, 44 no. 252
(1906) ;.

Jfab. [EUROPE1'3. WC. ASIA3]. Canaries 4— TENERIFE 4 :
Gnimar, 1906 (W. White) '.

Prof. Rebel records a single worn specimen, in Mr. White's
collection, from Gtiimar, as " ? lapella Hb." I examined Mr.
White's specimen and do not think it is lapella Hb., the wings
seem broader, and there is no spot at the end of the cell, the
colour also looks wrong ; I did not myself meet with the species,
and was therefore unable to compare it with European specimens.

168. (4605) TINEA SIMPLICELLA HS.

Tinea simplicella HS. SB. Schm. Eur. V. PI. 47 • 322 (1851), p. 73
no. 54 (1854)1; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmns. IX. 18, 89 no. 163
(1894) 2 : XXI. 44 no. 253 (1906) :! : Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II.
239 no. 4605 (1901) '.

I lab. EUROPE l"4— CORSICA : Ajaccio, 6. V. 1896 (Wlsm.)—
SPAIN: GRANADA: Granada, 19. V - 16. VI. 1901 (Wlsm.).

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1026 LORD WALSINOHAM ON THE [Nov. 26,

Canaries 2'4— TENERIFE 2"4 : IY. 1 885 (Leech] - ; La Laguna, 23. Y.
1907 (Wlsm.).

Two specimens taken at La Laguna on May 23rd.

82. (471) TINEOLA HS.
169. (4623) TINEOLA ALLUTELLA Rbl. -

Tineola allutella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 270-1, 283 no. 51,
PI. 17-3 <3 (1892) ': XL 124-5, 146 no. 181 (1896) 2 : XXI. 44
no. 255 (1906) 3 ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 542 no. 22
(1894) 4 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 240 no. 4623 (1901) ".

Hob. Madeiras 2; 4"5 — MADEIRA4 : (Wollaston]*. Canaries 1-5 —
LA PALMA 1'3 : Los Sauces, 25. VIII. 1889 (Simony] T— TENERIFE x :
1889 (Simony]1] Santa Cruz, 2-20. I., 24. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.)',
Guimar, 16. IY. 1907, 0 on walls, 27. IY, excl. 24. Y. 1907
(Wlsm.) ; Puerto Orotava, ® on walls, excl. 24. IV - 9. Y. 1895
(Hedemann) 2, 24. IV - 12. Y. 1907, © 23. IY, excl. 1. VI. 1907
(Wlsm.); Realejo, 10. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 23. Y. 1907
(Wlsm.).

Taken, and bred, from January to June, at Santa Cruz, Guimar,
Puerto Orotava, Realejo, and La Laguna.

170. (4624) TINEOLA BISSELLIELLA Hml.
= -f biselliella Z., Stgr-Rbl., etc.

Tinea bisselliella Hml. Essais Ent. III. 6-12, 13-14 (1823) \
Tineola biselliella Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. (2 s.). VII. 554
no. 116 (1893) 2; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 542
no. 21 (1894) 3; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 240 no. 4624 (1901) 4 ;
Dietz Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. XXXI. 72 (1905) 5. Tineola bisselliella
Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 570 no. 6487 (1902) 6.

Hob. EUROPE 1 ' 4. N. AFRICA 4. Madeiras 3— MADEIRA 3.
Canaries— TENERIFE : Santa Cruz, 28. I - 10. II. 1907 (Wlsm.).
N. AMERICA5'6. AUSTRALIA2. NEW ZEALAND2.

It should be noted that Hummel named this species : " bisselli-
ella. Du mot latin bissellium, canape."

Q ^ 171. (4626) TINEOLA BIPUNCTELLA Rgt.

Tineola Upunctella Rgt. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLIII. (5 s. IV :
1874). 579-80. PI. 11 • 1 rf (1875) x; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus.
XI. 125, 146 no. 182 (1896) a: XXI. 44 no. 256 (1906) :i ; Stgr-
Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 240 no. 4626 (1901) \

Ilab. EUROPE '• 4— SPAIN l« 4. N. AFRICA 4— MOROCCO :
Tangier, 4-18. XII. 1901, 5. IV - 20. Y. 1902 (Wlsm.). Cana-
ries 2-4— TENERIFE 2-i : Santa Cruz, 22-25. 1. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Puerto
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1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 1027

Orotava, 13-29. IY. 1895 (ITedenumn)*, 3. V. 1907 (JPZsm.);
( Juiiuar, © on walls, 1. IY, excl. 2. VI. 1907 ( H7sm.).

Taken at Santa Cruz, and Puerto Orotava, and a single specimen
bred from a case found on a wall at Guimar.

83. (441) LUFFIA Tutt.

-172. (4435-01) LUFFIA REBBLI, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 18.)
n. Byn..—* lapidella Rbl. (nee Goeze).

Talaeporia (!) lapidella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 267-8, 282
no. 45 (1892) l: IX. 17, 88 no. 158 (1894) 2 : XXI. 42 no. 122
(1906)3. Luffia lapidella (p.) Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 230
no. 4435 (1901) \

Antennae -|-, bipectinate, pectinations commencing on joint 4,
each biciliate ; pale stone-grey. Head and Thorax reddish fuscous.
Forewings shining, sericeous, pale stone-grey, rather coarsely
mottled with greyish fuscous, the groups of this darker scaling
somewhat more conspicuous along the margins than in the middle
of the wing ; the strongest of these groups are — one arising from
the dorsum near the base, overspreading the fold, and diffused
across the base of the cell toward the costa ; another, arising from
scarcely before the middle of the dorsum, crossing the fold and
diffused upward across the cell, and two or three on the outer
half of the costa ; cilia shining, sericeous, mottled with pale
greyish fuscous along their basal half. Exp. al. 8-12 mm. Hind-
wings pale mouse-grey; cilia slightly paler and more shining.
Abdomen pale mouse-grey. Legs pale stone-grey.

Type 6 (99066); $ (14094) Mus. Wlsm.

Hob. Canaries 1~l— TENERIFE 1-4 : Las Mercedes, 2100 ft., 29. II.
1904 (Eaton) ; La Laguna, 15. III. 1902, 16-25. III. 1904, © in
cases on walls and rocks, 22. II - III, excl. 23. Ill - 10. IV.
1904 (Eaton) ; IY. 1885 (Leech)2- Puerto Orotava, 23. IY. 1907,
0 on rocks, 24. IV, excl. 10-20. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Pedro Gil,
1300-1500 m., 30 VII. 1889 (Simony) \ Seventeen specimens.

This is the species recorded by Rebel as " lapidella Goeze,"
but it is a much larger and more distinctly marked species.
The small cylindrical cases are extremely abundant on walls, and
rocks, at Santa Cruz, Guimar, Orotava, and La Laguna, but
unless obtained about the time of pupation, when through want
of movement they can scarcely be distinguished from the nume-
rous empty cases of previous generations, the larvae are very
difficult to rear. It is almost impossible to keep a supply of small
lichens, such as they feed upon. I first received this species from
the late Mr. J. H. Leech, who took it in April 1885 ; Mr. Eaton
took several specimens, and bred three tf 6 and two £ $ in
1904. There may possibly be some allied species in the Island,
but I only met with rebeli.

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1028 ON THE MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. [Nov. 26.

IV, PSYCHINA.
I. PSYCHIDAE.

84. (733) AMICTA Heyl.
173. (4453) AMICTA CABRERAI Rbl.

Psyche cabrerai Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 10, 46-8 no. 39
(1894) ' : XI. 105-6, 144 no. 39. PI. 3" la-c(1896)2 : XIII. 364,
378 no. 39 (1899) 3 : XXI. 42 no. 121 (1906) 4. Amicta cabrerai
Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. I. 394 no. 4453 (1901) 3.

Hob. TENERIFE l~5 : Montana de Gtierra, 0 Euphorbia (Ca-
brera) : ; IY. 1894 (KraepeUn) 2 ; 0 Rubus idaeus, 1898 (Kilian) 3 ;
Santa Cruz, 15. YI. 1898 (Hintz) 3 ; La Laguna, 1600-1700 ft.,
0 Rubus, Gytlsus, 8. Ill, excl. 24. YIII. 1904 (Eaton) ; Guimar,
0 Euphorbia, Rumex canariensis, etc., 1-13. IY, excl. 25. YIII
-5.X. 1907 (Wlsm.).

Larva common everywhere, on various plants, Euphorbia,
Rumex, etc., etc. ; two specimens, one bred at the end of August,
the other in the beginning of October,

Of the 173 species above noticed as occurring in Tenerife I have
been able to observe the life-histories of 96, of which number
40 only were previously known ; the larvae of 28 others having been
already recorded elsewhere, 49 now remain to be discovered.

EXPLANATION OF PLATES LI., LIL, & LI II.

(See Description facing the Plates.)

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PLATE LI.

1030 MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. [Nov. 26.

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LI.

Page
Fig. 1. Pterophorus melanoschisma (Type J 98934) ... 920

2. Alucita bystropogonis (Type $ 98768) ... 915

3. Alucita particiliata (Type rf 98810) ... 916

4. Metzneria dichroa (Type rf 98304) ... 927

5. Metzneria monochroa (Type rf 98309) ... 927

6. Apodia guimarensis (Type rf 98979) ... 930

7. Chrysopora boseae (Type rf 98991) ... 931

8. Aproaerema genistae (Type $> 98993) ... 933

9. Aproaerema thaumalea Wlsm.... ($ (-foimar, 98995) 934

10. Pragmatodes fruticosella (Type $ 98969) ... 929

11. Aproaerema mercedella (Type c? 14107) ... 934

12. Telphusa schizogynae (Type rf 98997) ... 936

13. Gelechia lunariella (Type <$ 99001) ... 939

14. Gelechia sciurella (Type $ 14290) ... 941

15. Telphusa canariensis (Type $ 98999) ... 936

16. Trichotaphe convolvuli (Type $ 99004) ... 944

17. Chersogenes victimella (Type rf 99008) ... 947

18. Ambloma brachyptera (Type rf 99007) ... 947

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TENERIFE MICROLEPIDOPTERA .

PLATE III.

1032 MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. [Nov. 26.

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LII.

Page
Fig. 1. Symmoca canariensis RU (c? 99101) 949

2. Symmoca aegrella (Type <$ 99009) ... 949

3. Apatema luciclum (Type 3 98242) ... 945

4. Blastobasis velutina (Type rf 98258) ... 952

5. Prosthesis exclusa (Type d1 98291) ... 953

6. Zenodochium polyphagum (Type 3 98227) ... 954

7. Agonopteryx cinerariae (Type 3 99011 ) . . . 955

8. Agonopteryx perezi (Type 3 99018) ... 957

9. Depressaria tenerifae (Type $ 99020) ... 958

10. Cosmopteryx coryphaea (Type 3 99029) ... 964

11. Aphelosetia hypoleuca (Type 3 99036) ... 968

12. Perittia cedronellae , (Type 3 99047) ... 970

13. Polymetis carlinella (Type rf 99037) ... 969

14. Mendesia symphytella (Type $ 99045) ... 970

15. Scythris fasciatella Egt ( rf CT. 99087) ... 973

16. Scythris arachnodes (Type 3 99082) ... 972

17. Scythris petrella (Type 3 99085) ... 972

18. Glyphipteryx fortunatella (Type 9 99102) ... 989

P. Z.S.1907. P1.LII

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12,

18,

F.WJrohawkdel.AJ.V/endellith. EWM.Trap Chromo.

TENERTFE MICROLRPTDOPTRRA .

PLATE LIIL

1034 MICROLEPTDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. [Nov. 26,

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LIII.

Page

Fig. 1. Polychrosis neptunia (Type $ 99106) ... 1000

2. Thiodia glandulosana (Type $ 99112) ... 1004

3. Acroclita sonchana (Type $ 99108) ... 999

4. Eucelis marrubiana (Type $ 99051 ) . . . 1007

5. Acroclita guanchana (Type rf 99115) ... 998

6. Phalonia coiiversana (Type c? 99104) ... 992

7. Stigmella jubae (Type $ 99119) ... 1011

8. Phyllonorycter foliolosi (Type rf 99092) ... 978

9. Bucculatrix phagnalella (Type rf 99292) ... 1013

10. Bucculatrix canariensis (Type rf 99276) ... 1012

11. Oenophila nesiotes (Type rf 99176) ... 1014

12. Gracilaria aurantiaca Wlstn. ..".(<? CT. 99145) ... 983

13. Gracilaria schinella (Type <$ 99130) ... 982

14. Gracilaria staintoni Wlsln (<$ (7^.99127) ... 982

15. Acrolepia pappella (Type $ 99151) ... 986

16. Stathmopolitis tragocoprella ... (Type rf 99094) ... 1020

17. Tinea toechophila (Type <$ 99098) ... 1022

18. Luffiarebeli (Type <J 99066) ... 1027

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