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2903 : I.— Anaphatjla gaditella, Stgr. 



Gelechia gaditella, Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 243, No. 91 (1859) ^ ; 

 Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 115, No. 1713 (18GI)2; Sen. Tin. S-Eiir. 

 141, 150, No. 30, 334 (1SG9) '\ Ttoryphora ? gaditdln, Stgr-Wk. Cat. 

 Lp. Eur. 298, No. 2039 (1871) '; Ilrtm. MT. Miincli. Ent. Ver. IV. 

 23, No. 2039 (1880) \ Gelechia {Lit a) (jaditella, Stgr-llbl. Cat. Lp. 

 Pal. IL 147, No. 2658 (1901) «. Gelechia gaditella, Wlsin. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. XXXIX. 182-3 (1903) ". 



Hah.: SPAIN (Andalusia) 17. Cadiz — Cadiz, 29.T.1858, 

 •'2. 5 ; 28.1.1902, 14-15.V.1902. Larva, Atriplex halimiis, 14.V., excl. 

 1.VI.1902 {Wlsm.). 



TLe larva mines and eats the small leaves of Atriplex halimus. 



348.— SYMMOCA, Hb. 



3030 : 1. — Symmoca petrogenes, sp. n. 



Antennae f , rather wirle and flattened ; black. Palpi slender, porrect, reaching 

 more than the lengtli of the head beyond it, median joint moderately and smoothly 

 scaled, terminal joint at least as long as the median, slender ; white, a few black 

 scales on the onter side of the median, the extreme apex of the terminal also black. 

 Send roughly clothed ; pure white. Thorax white, faintly sprinkled with fuscous. 

 Forewings moderately broad, short, obtuse ; chalky white, sparsely sprinkled with 

 mixed ferruginous and black scales ; there are three narrow, black, costal patches, 

 the first somewhat elongate, at the base, with a small semidetached spot beneath it; 

 the second, shorter, at one-third, with a detached, partly ferruginous, spot beneath 

 it ; the third, beyond the middle, with a partly ferruginous spot beneath it at the 

 end of the cell, blending with a diffused patch of black scaling which reaches the 

 dorsum before the tornus ; the termen, together with the white cilia, lightly 

 sprinkled with black and some ferruginous scales. Exp.al. II mm. Hindioings 1; 

 brownish grey ; cilia paler, with a slight ochreous tinge along their base. Abdomen 

 brownish grey. Legs very pale brownish grey, the tarsi smeared with fuscous 

 externally. 



Type, S (90075). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : GIBRALTAR, 3. VI. 1903. Two specimens. 



Intermediate between signatella, HS., and nigromaculella, Rgt., 

 from the former it differs conspicuously in the absence of a strong 

 antemedian oblique detached streak crossing the fold, this is reduced 

 to a small spot ; it also differs noticeably in the spot at the base of the 

 costa being somewhat produced outward along the costa, rather than 

 being limited to the extreme base, and in the consequently much 

 shorter distance between this and the second costal spot, moreover, 

 although there are a few ferruginous scales, there is no suffusion of 



