1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 999 



The larva contorts the leading leaves of Hi/pericum yrandifolium : 

 I met with it first at the Barranco del Bufadero, near Santa Cruz, 

 the beginning of January, and bred specimens from the end of 

 that month till the beginning of May. 



126. (1966) ACROCLITA SUBSEQUANA HS. 

 126 -|- a. (1966 + a) SUBSEQUANA HS. + SUBSEQUANA HS. 



= consequana HS. * ; = littorana Oust. 



Semasia subsequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. 247 no. 337 (1851) \ 



Tortrix consequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. PI. 59' 423 (1854) 2 . 



Acroclita consequana Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 110 no. 1966 



(1901) 3 . 



Hob. EUROPE 1-3 : Euphorbia spp. 



126 + b. (1966 + b) SUBSEQUANA HS. + CONVALLEXSIS, var. n. (an 

 sp. n. ?). 



=* littorana Rbl. (nee Cnst.). 



Acroclita consequana US. -\-littorana~Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 

 266, 282 no. 42 (1892) l : XI. 121, 146 no. 169 (1896) a : XXI. 

 43 no. 196 (1906) 3 . 



Nab. Canaries 1 ~ 3 TENERIFE 2 " 3 : Santa Cruz, 25. I. 1907, 

 Euphorbia regis-jubae, 27. XII, excl. 28-31. I. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; 

 Guimar, 6. Ill - 10. IV. 1907 (Wlsm,); IV. 1884 (Leech) ; Puerto 

 Orotava, 18. IV. 1895, Euphorbia arborescens, excl. 10-13. V. 

 1895 (HedemannY GRAN CANARIA * : (Richter) ] MONTANA 

 CLARA 1 ' 3 : 238 m., 8. IX. 1890 (Simony) 1 . 



I did not meet with any form of Acroclita that can well be 

 compared with littorana Cnst., which is merely a small pale 

 variety of the ordinary South European subsequana HS. There 

 is however one point of difference by which my Tenerife series 

 of twenty-three specimens might be separated from European 

 specimens : the basal patch always tends to throw out a pointed 

 projection along the dorsum, they also range to a much larger 

 average size (exp. al. 13-22 mm.), and I propose the neonym 

 convallensis (var., an sp. ?), to distinguish them. 



Type rf (99171); $ (99172) Mus. Wlsm. 



127. (1966-1) ACROCLITA SONCHANA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.) 



Antennae hoary, with blackish annulations, sometimes entirely 

 suffused with black. Palpi whitish, thickly sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous externally ; sometimes fuscous throughout. Head dirty 

 white, varying to dark fuscous. Thorax whitish, or dark fuscous ; 

 sometimes with chestnut-brown tegulae. Foreivings dark fuscous, 

 sprinkled and mottled with shades of chestnut-brown, with some 

 paler spaces ; a dark basal patch, extending to one-third, projects 

 outwardly above the fold receding to the costa and nearly to the 

 clorsum ; this is followed by an irregular fascia, running from the 



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