970 LORD WALSINGHAM OX THE [Nov. 26, 



The larva feeds in mines, reminding one of those of the 

 bramble-feeding Tischeria margined Hw. on the upper surface of 

 leaves of Carlina salicifolia. I found it near Tacaronte, at 

 Guimar, and near Orotava seven specimens were bred and one 

 captured. 



40. (274'1) MENDESiA Joannis. 



MEXDESIA Joann. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. LXXI : 1902. 230-1 (1902) ; 

 Mendes Broteria III. 249-51 (1904). 



81. (2343*2) MEXDESIA SYMPHYTELLA, sp. n. 

 (Plate LIT. fig. 14.) 



Antennae brownish fuscous ; basal joint white, with strong 

 pecten. Palpi slightly recurved, white; terminal joint less 

 clothed, and therefore apparently rather more slender than 

 median. Head coarsely scaled above ; white. Thorax smooth^ 

 wiiite. Forewings white, sparsely dusted with brownish scales ; 

 a brown spot in the fold at about half the wing-length, and 

 another at the end of the cell ; a brown streak along the termen, 

 running out through the white apical cilia ; cilia white, very 

 sparsely dusted with brown along their base. Exp. al. 12-14 mm. 

 Hinclwings of the <3 white ; of the inclining to greyish ; cilia 

 of both sexes yellowish white. Abdomen greyish fuscous, except 

 along the margins of the segments. Legs white ; hind tibiae with 

 long white hairs. 



Type $ (99045); d (99046) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. TEXEBIFE : Santa Cruz, 12. 1 - 10. II. 1907, ^Symphytwm 

 sp., 7-25. I, excl. 25. 1-20. II. 1907 (Wism.); Forest de la 

 Mina, 17. III. 1902 (Eaton); Guimar, 19. Ill- 10. IV. 1907 

 (Wlstn.) ; La Laguna, 1-6. IV. 1904 (Eaton). Thirty-three 

 specimens. 



Twelve specimens were bred from larvae, found at Guimar, 

 mining leaves of Syniphytum ; the mine almost undistinguishable 

 from that of Acrocercops scalariella Z., but the pupa enveloped in 

 a white, silken, rather flat, ovate cocoon. Mr. Eaton caught a 

 single specimen of this species in the Forest de la Mina, in 1902 ; 

 in 1904 he met with it again, at La Laguna, and I took it 011 the 

 w r ing at Santa Cruz and Guimar. 



41, (415) FERITTIA Stn. 



82. (3919 - 2) PEKITTIA CEDEONELLAE, sp. 11. 

 (Plate LII. fig. 12.) 



Antennae tawny fuscous above, pale cinereous beneath ; a pale 

 spot at the outer end of the short, and rather thickened, basal 

 joint. Palpi slender, drooping ; tawny fuscous. Head dull 

 yellowish white, the face shaded with fuscous. Thorax tawny 

 fuscous. Forewings tawny fuscous, with some faint pale 

 sprinkling; an oblique yellowish white dorsal streak, arising at 

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