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3613 : 1. — Stagm.vtophora. teucrii, sp. n. 



Aniennae black. l'ali>i rather stout, reaching above the crown, median joint 

 densely clotlied, teriiiinal joint as long as the median, comparatively smooth ; 

 milk-white, a short black shade around the base of tlie median, and a black ring 

 a little before tlie apex of the terminal joint. Head milk-white. Thorax black. 

 Forewliigs bronzy black, with tiireo white costal patches, the first narrow, tending 

 obliquely outward at one-sixth from the base, becoming pale golden a little below 

 the costa, and slightly overlapping the fold at its lower extremity ; the second on 

 the middle of the costa, wider and shorter than the first, somewhat triangular, 

 becoming pale golden toward the apex, which is slightly bent outward on the upper 

 edge of the cell — beneath it is an opposite pale golden spot, scarcely separated from 

 the dorsum ; the third white patch, at the commencement of the costal cilia, is yet 

 wider than the others, cuneiform, with its point directed inward and showing a few 

 pale golden scales at its apex, where it nearly touches an irregular, upright, patch of 

 golden scales arising from the dorsum ; a small pale golden spot lies at the extreme 

 apex of the wing ; cilia smoky blackish, becoming paler and more brownish on the 

 dorsum ; the whole wing-surface is coarsely scaled, with a tendency to raised sealing 

 towards the base on the dorsum — the pale gold metallic scales shine very brilliantly. 

 Exp. al. 22 mm. Hindioings shining, leaden grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen 

 pale brownish ochreous at the base above, more silvery at the sides, broadly banded 

 behind and beneath with dark greyish fuscous. Legs creamy white ; with greyish 

 fuscous bands on the hind tibiae and on the basal joint of the tarsi, a few scales 

 only on the distal joints ; the anterior and median legs much more distinctly dark- 

 banded. 



Type, ? (14029). Mus. Wlsm. 



Larva rather stout, tapering to either extremity ; white, without markings. 

 Head black ; pronotal plates olivaceous greyish, darkened along the edges of the 

 suture and posteriorly ; thoracic legs dark olivaceous greyish, with two whitish 

 annulations ; anal plate whitish. Long. 11 mm. 



Type, Larva (88264 : Tangier, 3.VIII.1902, Wlsm). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : MOROCCO — Tangier. Larva in galls, Teucriumfruticans, 

 II— VIII {Wlsm.), VIII, excl. 25.IX~26.X.1903 ( Vaucher). SPAIN 

 —Cadiz: Chiclana {Wlsm.)- GIBRALTAR (^/s;«.). Two speci- 

 mens. 



In 1901, when collecting at Chiclana in the south of Andalusia, 

 I observed some elongate galls on the wood}'^ stems and branches of 

 Teucrium fruticam. They were not abundant, and all that I opened 

 contained either empty pupa-cases, or the remains of parasites which 

 had destroyed the larvae, nor was I able to discover at that time any 

 freshly made galls. Meeting with the same shrub in the following 

 year in the neighbourhood of Tangier, in Morocco, I collected a 

 considerable number of galls, many of which contained living larvae, 

 although the majority, for the most part on the old wood, were 

 occupied by mere remnants as before, and the percentage of those 



