74 The Butterflies and Moths of Teneriffe. 



Rogenhofer in the " Verhandlungen des Kaiserlich- 

 Konigliclien Zoolo gisch - botanischen Gesellscliaf t in 

 Wien," vol. 41 (for 1891), p. 566. The specimen 

 illustrated was drawn from one of two presented to the 

 South Kensington Museum by the Hev. 0. E. Benthall, 

 who found the chrysalides on trunks of the Canary pine 

 near Guimar, Teneriffe, about 2,000 feet above the sea, 

 and as far as the author can ascertain it has not before 

 been recorded as occurring in Teneriffe. 



DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA. 



Plate IV.— Fig. 9. 



This beautiful little moth, expanding about one and 

 a half inches, is a very rare insect in Teneriffe at the 

 present time, though two or three years ago it was 

 found in great abundance near, and along, the coast 

 during the spring months.* It has yellowish white 

 fore-wings freely spotted with black, alternated with 



* A single specimen was taken by the Kev. 0. E. Benthall at Guimar 

 in 1893. 



