1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TEXERIFE. 983 



grey; cilia iridescent, greyish cupreous. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft ochreous. Legs cinereous ; the femora and tibiae of the 

 anterior and median pairs thickly clothed with tawny reddish 

 fuscous. 



T we <$ (99130); $ (99131) Mus. Wlsm. 



liah. TEXERIFE: Santa Cruz, 3. I. 1907, Schinus molle, 27. 

 XII - 11. I, excl. 22. 1-7. III. 1907. Fifteen specimens. 



This species is exceedingly common at Santa Cruz, where the 

 young larva mines the leaflets of ScMnus molle. It subsequently 

 forms a blister, like that of a Phyllonorycter, and eventually rolls 

 a whole leaflet into a compact cone, sometimes pupating within 

 it, but frequently leaving it and forming a smooth, silken cocoon 

 under another leaf. It is remarkable that this species should 

 have escaped observation so long, the tree on which it lives being 

 so commonly introduced in all parts of the south of Europe. It 

 is probably not indigenous in Tenerife, but, if this be the case, it 

 is one of the very rare instances of the introduction of an exotic 

 insect with an imported plant. 



~ 101. (4057-3) GRACTLARIA AURANTIACA Wlstn. 

 (Plate LIII. fig. 12.) 



Gracilaria? aurantiaca Wlstn. Ann-Mag. KH. (3 s.). I. 122 

 (1858) !; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 854 no. 25 (1864) a , Blas- 

 tobasis (?) aurantiaca Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 552 

 no. 53 (1894) 3 ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 164 no. 3066 (1901) 4 . 

 Gracilaria sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 39, 44 no. 238 

 (1906) \ 



Antennae ochreous, faintly barred above with chestnut-brown. 

 Palpi ochreous, the median joint chestnut-brown on its outer 

 side. Head ochreous. Thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae tinged 

 with reddish. Foreivings rich brownish ochreous, suffused with 

 tawny red toward the apex ; with a broad, rich tawny red, 

 triangular patch, commencing at the base of the costa and ex- 

 tending two-thirds the length of -the wing, its lower angle slightly 

 crossing the fold before the middle ; from the tornus arises an 

 inverted, short, diffused streak of tbe same colour, the cilia also 

 are tawny reddish, except on the costa before the apex, where 

 they are pale cinereous. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. Hindwings shining, 

 pale grey ; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs pale 

 cinereous, unspotted. 



Typeo (no. XXXIX) Mu s. Br. ; CT. 3 (99145); $ (99146) 

 Mus. Wlsm. 



Hal. Madeiras 1 " 1 MADEIRA 1 ' 3 : 1855 (Wollaston) 1 ' 3 . Canaries 

 TEXERIFE : 1905 (White) 3 : Villa Orotava, 19. II. 1907 ; Guimar, 

 Hypericum grandifolium, 19. Ill, excl. 5-26. IV. 1907(JP/sm.); 

 Cruz de Afur, 5. IY. 1904 (Eaton) ; Arafo, 13. IV. 1907 ; Puerto 

 Orotava, 23. IV - 10. V. 1907; Realejo, 7. V. 1907; Taganaria, 

 27. V. 1907; Las Mercedes, 31. V. 1907; La Laguna, 3. VI. 

 1907 (Wlsni.). 



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