986 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [Nov. 26, 



1893 (Eaton) Ruisseau cles Singes, Medea, 26. VII. 1893 (Eaton*). 

 Canaries TENEEIFE : Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 (Eaton), 

 29. V - 7. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Cruz de Afur, 5. IV. IW4: (Eaton) ; 

 Forest de la Mina, 9. IV. 1904 (Eaton) ; Guimar, 10. IV. 1907 

 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 23-31. V. 1907 (Wlsm.); Tacaronte, 31. 

 V. 1907 (Wlsm.). 



Found commonly at various localities : not previously recorded 

 from the Canaries. 



Q ^ 106. (4489*1) ACROLEPIA PAPPELLA, sp. n. 

 (Plate LIII. fig. 15.) 



Antennae, fuscous, clearly spotted with white along their under 

 sides. Palpi cinereous, shaded transversely with fuscous on each 

 joint beneath. Head and Thorax cinereous, mixed with fuscous. 

 Forewings pale cinereous, partially suffused with pale fawn, and 

 speckled with fuscous ; a series of black specks along the basal 

 third of the costa, and some small, obscure, fuscous cloud-spots 

 on the outer half of the costa ; two rather larger cloud-spots on 

 the dorsum, preceded and followed by white scaling, the white 

 patch between them containing two short upright streaks of 

 blackish speckling ; a fuscous line along the termen, and a 

 broader shade of the same on the outer half of the pale cinereous 

 terminal cilia. Exp. al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings pale steely grey ; 

 cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs greyish ; the 

 tarsi with pale spots at the joints. 



Type $ (99151); 3 (99152) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. TENERIFE : Guimar, 28. II. 1907, Attagopappus dicho- 

 tomus, 28. II, excl. 30. III. 1907; Villa Orotava, , 19. II, 

 excl. 19-30. III. 1907; Puerto Orotava, 0, 20. IV, excl. 27-30. 

 IV. 1907. Twelve specimens. 



Larva on Attagopappus dichotomies, mining the leading leaves, 

 and 'pupating in a white open network cocoon among these, or 

 on the stems. Two specimens taken on the wing at Guimar, 

 where larvae were found the same day, and on different dates at 

 Orotava. 



52. (292) PLUTELLA Sclirk. 



107. (2447) PLUTELLA MACULIPEXNIS Crt. 

 = cruciferarum Z. 6 



Cerostoma macidipennis Crt. Br. Ent. IX. PI. 420, expl. p. 2 

 (1832) \ Plutella crudferarum Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. IV. 281-3 

 (1843) 2 ; Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3s.). III. 212 (1859) 3 ; Rbl. Ann. 

 KK. Hofmus. VII. 272, 283 no. 53 (1892) 4 ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1894, 537, 542 no. 26 (1894) 5 . Plutella macidipennis 

 Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXIII. 173-5 (1897) 6 ; Stgr- 

 Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 137 no. 2447 (1901) 7 ; Dyar Bull. US. 

 Nat. Mus. 52. 492 no. 5503 (1902) 8 ; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. 

 XXI. 44 no. 207 (1906); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. XXXII. 

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