1907.] MTCROLEPIDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 'J."><) 



riensis, 11. II, excl. 19. Ill - 3. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); Guimai-, 



Artemisia cananensis, 25. Ill, excl. 9. IV - 23. V. 1907 (Wlsm.}. 

 Sixteen specimens. 



Bred from a rather stout green larva., feeding in the leading 

 shoots of Aft' 'ntixia canariensis, at Santa Cruz and Guimar. As 

 compan-d with the European species which feed on Artemisia, it 

 is distinctly more suffused in its colouring, the darker patches 

 being unaccompanied by any lines of whitish scales ; indeed the 

 whole insect has a much more silky, smooth appearance, with some 

 gloss, not only in the hindwings, but also on the anterior pair. 

 It is perhaps nearest to absinthivora Frey, but the absence of any 

 outward elongation of the median shade is a good character by 

 which it may readily be distinguished. 



(>4. (3306) DEPRESSARIA APIELLA Hb. 

 = nervosa Hw. ; =*keradiana Wlsm. (nee DO.). 



Tinea apiella Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. VIII. (Tin.). 39. PL 14" 94 

 (1796) 1 . Dcpressaria nervosa Hw. Lp. Br. 506 no. 4 (1811)". 

 Pinaria opiella Hb. Verz. Schm. 411 no. 3966 (1826) 3 . Depres- 

 saria nervosa Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1881. 317 (1881) \ De- 

 pressaria *heradiana Wlsm. Tr. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 546 

 no. 42 (1894) "'. Dej>r'-.^irni nervosa Stijr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 

 174 110. 3306 (1901)*; Busck, Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 747 

 no. 34 (1902) 7 ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat Mus. 52. 522 no. 5887 

 (1902) \ 



Nab. EUROPE r " 8 . N. AFRICA MOROCCO : Tangier, ^Fe- 

 rula sp., excl. 19. V. 1902 (Wlsm.); @0enanthe peucedanifolia, 

 6. V, excl. 7-15. VI. 1902 (Wlsm.)\ Thapsia cjarganica, 9. V, 

 excl. 7. VI. 1902 (Wlsm.). Madeiras 'MADEIRA : (WoUaston)'. 

 Canaries TEXERIFE: Guimar, Q)JfupIf>nrttm atiphyllum, 6. Ill, 

 excl. 16. IV. 1907 (Whm.); Umbetttfer, 14. IV', excl. 22. V. 

 1907 (Wlsm.). UNITED STATES 4 ' 7 ' 8 OREGON 4 ' 7 ^: GRANT 

 co.: Camp Watson, IV". 1872 (Wlsm.) : JACKSON co. : near Rogue 

 River, 4-6. V. 1872 (Wlsm.). 



For more than half a century apiella Hb. (1796) has been sunk 

 as a synonym of nervosa Hw. (1811): so long as these two names 

 are held to pertain to the same species, it is obvious that that 

 species must be named apiella Hb. 



Two specimens bred from an Vmbettifer, found at Guimar, and 

 one from the rare BupUurwn aciphyllwm ( = salicifolium) appear 

 to be inseparable from this species : they agree exactly with 

 specimens bred in Morocco, in 1902, from Ferula, Oenanthe 

 peucedanifolia, and Tlmpxia <//-(/anica, and are only distinguished 

 from my European series by their slightly larger size and darker 

 colour, [tartly due to the freshness of the specimens. This species 

 lias not been met with in the United States since 1872, when 



1 took two specimens in Oregon. I again refer to these two 

 specimens to give the exact localities, viz., (91970) Camp Watson, 



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