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Ilnh : SPAIN (Andalusia) '• 2. ^—Malaga— Mala^^a. Larva, 

 Lavandula, cxcl. m-e. V ^. S. FliANCE ^~^ — ALr-MAU —Cannes, 

 V^; Larva, Lavandula s/aechas, liib., excl. VI — Vll^; Agay, Larva, 

 Lavandula 6-faechas ^, lO.V., excl. 'I-lO.YU.l-^dO {Whm.) : Pstr-Or. 

 — Vernet, Larva, Lav. utaech., L'6.V., excl. 23.V1.L.SI)9 {Wlsm.). 

 CORSICA -Corte, Larva, Lav. staech., 24.V., excl. 17.V1— lO.VlI. 

 189G (Wlsvi.). 



3051 : 2. — Tecmerium spermophagia, sp. n. 

 = Blastobasls sp. ? {ex Fhlomis), VVlsui. Eiit. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 

 234,2:37 (1901). 



Antennae and I'aipi brownish grey. Head and Thorax pale cinereous, dusted 

 with brownish grcj'. Forewings whitish einereous, profusely dusted with brownish 

 grey, especially along the costa and toward the apes, where it tends to follow the 

 lines of the neuration ; a discal spot scarcely before the middle is faintly indicated, 

 as is also a slight upright tornal spot ; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. It — 17 

 mm. Hindwings shining, pale brownish grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen 

 brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous. 



Type, ^ (97905); ? (9796G). Mus. Wlsm. 



Rah. : SPAIN — Cadiz — Chiclaua, Larva in seed-whorls of 

 Fhlomis purpurea, 25.11, excl. 2-18. IV, 14. VI, 1S.V11I.1901. Twelve 

 specimens. 



An obscure species, having much the appearance of a Blasiobasis 

 of the phycidella, Z., type, but its neuration and the structure of the 

 antennae at once distinguish it. It agrees with Tecmerium anthophaya, 

 Stgr., in the coincidence of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings, but differs 

 in having 4 ami 5 stalked, connate with 3, and the margin is scarcely 

 impressed on vein 1*= ; in the hindwings the neuration is as in antho- 

 pharja, but there is no cross-vein between 7 and 8, and the discoidal 

 is subobsolete. The palpi also are shorter and scarcely recurved. 



Several specimens were bred from seed-whorls of Phlomis purpu- 

 rea, collected owing to the presence of larvae of Phalonia moribundana, 

 Stgr. ; I also bred a single specimen (97976) from among rubbish on 

 Thymus sp. ?, but this may perhaps be accounted for by mere acci- 

 dental mixture in my bottles. 



In Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVII. 182-3 (1901) I published my 

 reasons, apparently good and sufl&cient, for regarding Symmoca 

 staechadella, Cnst., as a synonym of Blastobasis anthophaga, Stgr., 

 referring to the s[)ecimen (S. France, G827) which I had purposely 

 obtained from Staudinger with a view to decide this point. My 

 Spanish collection naturally caused me to refer again to Staudinger's 



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