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the outer end of the fold ; above it a blackish costal patch, 

 preceded by an elongate costal shade, the intermediate spaces 

 bright rosy red ; the terminal portion of the wing is much 

 mottled with similar colouring, tending to indicate marginal 

 spots, radiating through the tawny greyish cilia, which have two 

 narrow shade-lines running through them before their ends. 

 Exp. al. 15-17 mm. Hindwings tawny grey, with a rosy tinge: 

 cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs brownish 

 cinereous, the latter spotted externally with tawny fuscous. 



Type 6 (99001) ; $ (99002) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hub. TEXERIFE : San Andres, Rumex Iwnarius, 23. I, excl. 

 27 II - 9. III. 1907 ; Guimar, 12. IV, excl. 11-24. V. 1907 ; 

 Puerto Orotava, 24. IV, excl. 23. V. 1907. Thirteen 

 specimens. 



Bred from pale glaucous green larvae collected on Rumex 

 lunarius in January and April ; these larvae turned to rosy 

 reddish before pupating (99003 Mus. Wlsm.). 



I met with this species first at San Andres, near Santa Cruz, 

 and subsequently observed it near Guimar, and again at Orotava. 

 It contorts and attaches together the young terminal leaves of its 

 food-plant, and probably occurs wherever this indigenous shrub 

 is to be found on the island. It is closely allied to nigrorosea 

 Wlsm., but is a darker and rather broader winged insect : it is 

 also very near to the European diffinis Hw. 



~ 38. (2635) GELECHIA EPITHYMELLA Stgr. 



Gelechia epithymeUa Stgr. Stett. Ent. Ztg. XX. 242 no. 89 (1859) 1 ; 

 Stn. Tin. S-Eur. 141, 150 no. 28, 332 (1869) 2 . Lita epithymeUa 

 Mill. Ic. Cheii-Lp. III. 392-4. PI. 149' 8-10 (1874) 3 : Cat. Lp. 

 Alp-Mar. 329 (1875) 4 ; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Ver. IV. 18 

 no. 1914 (1880) \ Gelechia (Lita} epithymeUa Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. 

 Pal. II. 146no. 2635 (1901) (i . 



Hob. S. FRANCE 3 " G : Cannes 3> 4 , Monaco 3 , Mentoiie 4 , Solatium 

 nigrum, VIII-IX 3 " 5 , excl. IX-XI 3 ~ S. SPAIN " 5 ~ : Chiclana, 

 14. Ill 1 " 2 . Canaries TEXERIFE: Puerto Orotava, ^Hyoscyamus 

 albus, 10. V, excl. 6-16. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.). 



After persistingly searching plants of Hyoscyamus albus in the 

 expectation of finding Gelechia hyoscyamella Mill., I at last found 

 larvae mining the leaves of two or three plants only, among 

 several, in a lane east of Puerto Orotava. To my surprise these 

 produced rather dark varieties of Gelechia epithymeUa Stgr., 

 which has been recorded as feeding on Solanum nigrum in the 

 south of France, but which has not hitherto been observed in 

 Tenerife. 



39. (2636-1) GELECHIA MICRADELPHA Wlsm. 



Gelechia micradelpka Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVI. 217-8 

 110. 1916-3 (1900) *; St>T-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal. II. 264 no. 2694 ter 

 (1901) \ 

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