1907.] MICKULMIMIXM'TKJJA OF TKNUM Ki-:. ->49 



26. (348) SYMMOCA Hb. 

 .")(). (3035-1) SYMMOCA CAXARIEXSLS Rbl. (Plate LII. fig. 1.) 



Xiinrnxiea t-diKir'n-tisis Rbl. Ann. K.K. Hofmtis. XXI. 389, 44 

 no. 218 (1906) \ 



Hab. TEXERIFE l : 1905 (ir. IF. White) l ; Santa Cruz, 4-29. II. 

 1907 ( II7.W.). :{. IV. 1904 (Eaton), 29. IV. 1907(JPZsm.) ; Guimar, 

 2. Ill - 14. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ Arafo, 13-14. IV. 1907 (IFfem.); 

 Puerto Orotava, 21. IV- 10. V. 1907 (Wlsm.)\ La Lagima, 23. V. 

 1907 (Whin.). 



I carefully >xa mined the single specimen, in Mr. White's collec- 

 tion, at Guimar, which is the type of St/mntoca canariensis Rbl., and 

 bearing in mind the appearance of Holcopogon sophroniellus Rbl., 

 at first imagined they must be the same, but, although I cannot 

 agree with Prof. Rebel in placing sophroniellus in the genus Hoi- 

 cnpnyoii Stgr. (\vhich has been wrongly included in the Gelechiadrtc, 

 and must be removed to the ffyponowieuiidae), the shorter terminal 

 joint of the palpi, even without other more important characters, 

 is at once sufficient to separate it from the Symmoca. I found 

 X. caiuti'i<'ii.iix almost the commonest insect in the Island; it was 

 abundant at Santa Cruz and Guimar, but I have no clue to the 

 Imbits of the larva. 



A fine series of 64 specimens exhibits considerable variation : in 

 some the costal margin is broadly and conspicuously darkened, in 

 contrast to the dull. white ground-colour; in others a suffusion 

 extends more or less over the whole wing ; while in others again 

 there is a yellowish streak along the cell, or sometimes two pairs 

 of obliquely placed fuscous spots, before and beyond the middle, 

 recalling vividly the pattern of oxybiella Mill., but more obliquely 

 placed than in that species, and exhibiting scarcely any of the 

 yellowish scales which are there to be found on the outer edge of 

 the spots. Some of the smaller and more suffused varieties show 

 a faint indication of these spots and approach very closely, except 

 in colour, the only two specimens which I am obliged to eliminate 

 from my series and to describe under another n&me(a8greUa 1 sp.n.). 

 S. canariensis was not found at the time and place where the new 

 species occurred. 



.">!. (:n >:',.> -2) SYMMOCA AEGRELLA, sp. 11. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) 



Antennae and Palpi sandy ochraceous. Head and Thorax pale 

 ochreous. Forewings sandy ochreous, dusted with fawn-brownish 

 scales, slightly more thickly above and below r than upon the cell ; 

 cilia pale sandy ochreous. Evp. al. 13-14 mm. Hindwings 

 shining, pale straw-ochreous, a little more brownish toward the 

 apex ; cilia very pale sandy ochreous. Abdomen and Legs pale 

 sandy ochreous. 



Type <3 (99009) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. TENERIFE: La Lagima, 9. VI. 1907. Two specimens. 



This species, \vhich agrees with canariensis in having veins > 



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