550 Lord Walsingham’s catalogue of the Pterophoride, 
Pterolonche (?) maderensis, Stn., Ann. and Mag. 
N.“H. (3 s.), TI., 203 4859)? W kr, Cat. ip. ins 
B. M.. XXIX., 666 (1864). 
Coleophora desertorum, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M., 
XXX., 879 (1864).4 
Northern Deserta,"? Porto Santo;? Funchal, nine 
specimens (Baker). 
The specimens of Coleophora desertarum in the British 
Museum are small and somewhat more strongly marked 
varieties, but are evidently the same _ species as 
maderensis. 
Blastobasis desertarum, Wlstn. + radiata, Wlsm., var. n. 
Antenne notched at the base in the ¢, basal joint enlarged, 
with a pecten ; fawn-grey. Palpi porrect, the second joint pro- 
jecting beyond the head and clothed with loose scales beneath 
towards the apex, apical joint short, not recurved ; whitish. Head 
and Thorax whitish, the latter shaded with pale fawn-brown. 
Forewings whitish, a pale fawn-brown streak extending from the 
base immediately below the costal margin and gradually widening 
outwards to the end of the cell, whence it is continued to the apex, 
covering half of the outer portion of the wing, the costal margin 
above it being narrowly pale beyond the middle ; a second pale 
fawn-brown streak from the middle of the base extends to the 
anal angle and along the base of the cilia nearly to the apex, but 
not extending beneath the fold, and having above the anal angle 
a small blackish dot opposite to a still smaller one at the lower 
margin of the upper streak; there is also an indication of a 
blackish dot near the outer end of the fold, and the pale inter- 
mediate spaces are slightly speckled with blackish scales ; cilia 
fawn-grey. i/indwings shining, fawn-white; cilia pale whitish- 
ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, the segments indicated by 
slender dark cross-lines. Legs whitish-ochreous, hind tibiz clothed 
with long loose hair-like scales. Hyxp. al, 14 mm. 
Type. o&. Mus. Wism. 
Hab. Madeira; Funchal, one specimen. 
Blastobasis lignea, W\sm., sp. n. 
Antenne pale greyish-fuscous ; basal joint enlarged, tufted and 
notched in the male, pale cinereous. Pulp? pale cinereous, shaded 
and mottled with greyish-fuscous externally. Head and Thorax 
pale cinereous, the latter shaded with greyish-fuscous. Forewings 
pale cinereous, much shaded and speckled with greyish-fuscous, 
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