1010 LORD WALSINGHAM ON THE [iSfoV. 26, 



Exp. al. 34*25 mm. Ilindivings and cilia pale leaden grey. 

 Abdomen gre}. Legs pale grey. 



Type 2 (99201); rf (99202) Mus. Wlsm. 



Zfa6. TENERIFE : Puerto Orotava, Statice peclinata, 4. Y, 

 excl. 29. Y - 21. VI. 1907 ; La Laguna, 20. V. 1907. Thirteen 

 specimens. 



Perhaps most nearly allied to helianthemella HS., but the head 

 is ochreons, and there is 110 pale fascia in either sex : the 

 antennae are long, and there is no dark dividing line in the 

 cilia. 



Bred from larvae mining the leaves of Statice pectinata : the 

 green larva, making small, tortuous, mines in the little leaves, is 

 fairly abundant, but very inconspicuous ; the cocoon is whitish. 

 The mines were collected at Puerto Orotava ; a single specimen 

 taken on a table in. the hotel at La Laguna probably escaped from 

 my bottles. 



C 142. (4368-2) STIGMELLA SANCTAECRUCIS, sp. n. 



Antennae greyish fuscous, paler beneath ; eye-caps dull ferru- 

 ginous, speckled with fuscous. Head dull ferruginous. Thorax 

 greyish fuscous. Forewings pale cinereous, profusely speckled 

 .with greyish fuscous, almost entirely obliterating the paler ground- 

 colour, which is confined to the bases of the rather coarse scales, 

 but shows more clearly where the scales become lengthened, as in 

 the cilia. fJxp. al. 4*5-5 mm. Hindwings and cilia very pale 

 greyish. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs pale cinereous. 



Type <$ (99214) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. TENERIFE: Santa Cruz, 15-17.1. 1907. Six specimens. 



I found this species at Santa Cruz, only among plants of 

 Lavandida abrotanoides, on which I noticed mines that appeared 

 to differ from those of Perittia lavandulae "Wlsm. (ante, p. 971 

 no. 83) : they were more slender, and more tortuous, and probably 

 belonged to a Stigmella. 



, 143. (4378-1) STIGMELLA MICROMERIAE, sp. n. 



Antennae grey ; eye-caps silvery white. Head yellowish. 

 Forewings steely white, profusely sprinkled with coarse dark 

 grey, or fuscous, scales ; a straight silvery white transverse fascia, 

 at two-thirds from the base, is sometimes slightly interrupted by 

 a few of the dark scales ; cilia steely whitish, with a slight 

 sprinkling at their base. Exp. al. 3 '5-4 mm. Hind wings and 

 cilia pale steely grey. Abdomen grey. Legs greyish. 



Type (99220) \ <$ (99221) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. TENERIFE: Guimar, 14. Ill - 12. IV, Micromeria varia, 

 25. II, excl. 1-9. IV. 1907. Twenty.two specimens. 



The larva feeds on Micromeria varia>, and I think also on 

 Micromeria origanifolia, making small tortuous mines. It is 

 decidedly common. 

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