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SPANISH AND MOORISH MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY THE RT. HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D.. P.R.S., &c. 



{Continued from page 187). 



2171 : 1. — Laspetresia ilipulana, sp. n. 



Anfeiune whitish cinereous. Palpi white (including the terminal joint). 

 Head whitish-cinereous. T'Aoraj? whitish, transversely mottled with greyish fuscous. 

 Fore-wings greyish white on the basal half, mottled transversely with greyish fuscous, 

 the costal marks oblique, the dorsal erect ; the outer half of the wing dark 

 olivaceous brown, this colour extending inward on the costal third to a little before 

 the middle (there is no pale break in the dark colouring as between the terminal 

 and costal areas), its anterior limit is clearly defined being usually biangulate on 

 the dorsal half, one angle above, the other below the fold, the white base-colour 

 projecting to a point above the upper angle, but not continuing to the costa or apex ; 

 the ocelloid patch contains several short black streaks, or elongate dots, and is 

 enclosed by a broad shining metallic steely bar preceding, and a narrower similar 

 bar following it, the latter broken in the middle, its lower half reverting obliquely 

 towards the tornus ; in the dark brown shaded portion are five pairs of geminated 

 whitish streaklets, the first and third pairs throwing oblique steel-grey lines outward, 

 one to the ocelloid patch, the other longer reaching the termen at an indentation 

 below the rounded apex ; cilia steely grey. Exp. al. 12 — 15 mm. Hind-wings 

 pale brownish grey ; cilia still paler, steely grey, a slightly darker line separating 

 them from the margin ; under-side scarcely reticulated, except at the extreme apex. 

 Abdomen pale brownish grey, with shining paler segmental divisions. Legs pale 

 brownish grey, v;ith whitish tarsal annulations. 



Ti/pe, ^ (86974) ; ? (86975). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab.: SPA.IN— Granada — Granada, 24.V.1901. Seventeen 

 specimens. 



This species might easily be mistaken for the common succedana, 

 Frol., to which it is undoubtedly nearly allied. Although subject to 

 slight variability it possesses one character by which it can be easily 

 distinguished ; the dark clouding on the apical half of the wing 

 reaching invariably to the costa without interruption, and with equal 

 intensity throughout, moreover, although some few varieties of suc- 

 cedans may approach it in this respect, in so far that they do exhibit 

 dark shading about the middle of the costa, this is not connected in 

 the same way with the terminal and tornal area. The palpi of ili- 

 pulana, also, are uniformly white, whereas in succedana the terminal 

 joint is almost invariably blackish, or at least much darker than the 

 median. 



T found this species abundant at Granada by beating isolated 

 bushes of Dorycnium, where no Genista or JJlex occurred, and although 

 the true succedana is not uncommon in the south of Spain, I did not 



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