1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTKUA OF TKXHKIFK. 1003 



w.) SPAIN: MALAGA: Malawi, 8. IY. 1901 (f!7.s-m.). N. 

 AFRICA MOROCCO : Tangier, 13. IY. 1901, 12. Y. 1902 ( H7*/,<.) 

 ALGERIA: 15i.skr.-i. :> ]:'>. 111. U)0:i ( IJV.s-///.). Madeiras' 

 MADEIRA 4 : The Mount ( ll'olI<iNt<>n) '. Canaries TKXEIUFU : ( ! ui- 

 mar, 13. III. 1907; Puerto Orotava, JA///v, />rr(i!nra, 29. IY, 

 excl. 11-2(5. Y. 1907; La La-una, '1\\. \ . 1 <H>7 ;' Santa Cruz. 

 iM. V. 1907 (H7.w.). St. Helena^ : Cleu-lrs Plain (A T . FF<rffafo) 2 . 

 WEST INDIES 5 . CENTRAL AMERICA . SOUTH AME- 

 RICA 5 . AUSTRALIA 3 . HAWAIIA 7 . 



A single specimen (13575), in poor condition, to which I 

 wrongly attributed the name " 8t*gevn&ptych<t siynatana Dgl." 

 (/. c. 4), was collected in Madeira by VVollaston. I hiving now met 

 with Crocidosema plebeiana at Santa Cruz, La Laguna, and 

 Guimar, (where I also saw it in Mr. White's collection), and 

 having bred two specimens from larvae feeding on Malva parvi- 

 flora, at Puerto Orotava,, I take this opportunity of correcting the 

 previous error, while recording the species for the first time from 

 Tenerife, and extending its range from Ceylon to St. Helena. I 

 have examined the type of Steganoptycha obscura E. Wlstn. in 

 the British Museum and find it to be Crocidosema plebeiana Z., 

 a with the characteristic tuft. 



66. (260'OD STREPSICRATES Meyr. 



STREPSICEROS Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. VI. 678-9 (1882). 

 STREPSICRATES Meyr. Tr. NZ. Inst. XX. 73 (1887); Wlsm. Pr. 

 Z. Soc. Lond. 1891. 506-7 (1892). 



132. (2067*01) STREPSICRATES FEXESTRATA, sp. n. 



Antennae missing, except sufficient of the compressed, whitish 

 cinereous, ba,sal joints to identify the genus. Palpi erect, with 

 very short terminal joint; much worn, but apparently fuscous 

 externally. Head whitish cinereous. Thorax whitish cinereous 

 along the centre, brownish fuscous at the sides. Forewings with 

 a very deep costal fold, reaching to beyond the middle of the 

 wing ; dark brownish fuscous, slightly mottled with whitish 

 cinereous, tending to indicate oblique, but slightly curved, trans- 

 verse lines before the apex, rea.ching from costa to termen, 

 and one reaching the dorsum before the tornus, but this latter 

 appears to form the outer margin of the more intensely dark 

 colouring which pervades the wing thence to the base, except 

 along the dorsum ; here is a large reduplicated patch of whitish 

 cinereous, commencing at one-fourth, indented at its upper edge 

 about the middle, and thence extending again nearly to the outer 

 end of the fold ; there is also a pale patch at the tornus- these 

 are slightly sprinkled with pale brownish fuscous scales, usually 

 in the form of narrow dorsal streaks; the cilia appear to be 

 moltled with darker and paler alternations at the base. Exp. 

 al. 15 mm. Hindivings semitran spa rent, subiridescent, brownish 



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