1907.] MICROLEI'IDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 9->7 



sp., 7. VI, excl. 20. VI. 1898 (M7.s/.) S. FRANCE: II. Var, 

 QPeucedanum pahistre, 10. IV, excl. 18. VI. 1H ( .)<> (IIY.v///.). 

 N. A FRIC A MOROCCO : Tangier, Heracleum sp.?, 24 IV, 

 excl. 19. V. 1902 (Wlsm.}. Canaries TEXERIFE : Puerto 

 Orotava, 4. V. 1907, Umbellifer, 9. V, excl. 10. VI. 1907 

 (Wfom,.). 



Six specimens taken, and one brerl from an Umbellifer, growing 

 under dripping rocks on the sea-coast, near Orotava. The plant 

 .-ippfMivd to be the same as that from which I bred this species in 

 Corsica, in 1898, and which was named for me at the time 

 Heloscyadium sp.", but I am not sure that the species occurs in 

 Tenerife : in any case my botanical knowledge is quite inadequate 

 to decide the point from such specimens as were available at the 

 date on which the larva was found near Orotava. My experience 

 is, that this species occurs only on marshy ground ; I have also 

 bred it from Peucedanum palustre, gathered at the mouth of the 

 Var, on the Riviera, and from Heracleum sp., at Tangier. 



(>2. (3232-1) AGOXOPTERYX PEREZI, sp. n. (Plate III. fig. 8.) 

 =*applana Wlsin. (iiec F.). 



Depressaria applana Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 546 

 no. 41 (1894) \ 



Antennae smoky fuscous. Palpi cinereous, the median joint 

 thickly sprinkled with black and tawny on the outer side, except 

 in a narrow band around its upper end ; terminal joint with a 

 narrow black band around its base, a broader one before its apex, 

 and the extreme apex minutely black. Head and Thorax cinereous, 

 more or less tinged with fuscous ; the latter with an elevated crest 

 posteriorly. Foreioings tawny reddish fuscous, with smoky black 

 suffusion and speckling; a pale ochreous patch at the extreme 

 base, its outer edge straight and black-margined to the upper edge 

 of the cell, above which it is aiigulated and produced outward 

 along the costa, and gradually absorbed in the darker ground- 

 colour ; on the cell, at one-third, are two clearly defined, almost 

 contiguous, but obliquely diverging, black spots, the lower one 

 slightly beyond the upper both followed by a few ochreous scales, 

 produced and broken into two spots, in line with the lower one 

 on the cell ; the slightly paler costa is obscurely spotted with dark 

 fuscous throughout, and the termen is also narrowly spotted, the 

 fuscous shading on the wing tending to follow and indicate the 

 neuration ; cilia corresponding in colour to the wing-surface ; 

 underside shining, sericeous, the costa and termen strongly speckled 

 with fuscous. Exp. al. 16-20 mm. Hindi/rings and cilia shining, 

 pale cinereous, the cilia with slender parallel shade-lines running 

 through them ; underside shining, sericeous, the costa and termen 

 strongly speckled with fuscous. Abdoiflenxnd Ze^/spale cinereous, 

 tin- r.irsi with four fuscous bands. 



Type cJ (99018); 2 (99019) Mus. Wlsm. 



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