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to stalk of 5 + 6, between which discoidal is obsolete. Abdomen 

 rather long, flattened. -Legs, hind tibiae hairy. 



This genus differs noticeably from Dysmasia HS. in the 

 stalking of veins 5 and 6 of the hind wings : it would appear to 

 have some affinity to Nary da Stph. 



156. (4644 - l) STATHMOPOLITIS TRAGOCOPEELLA, sp. n. 

 (Plate LIU. fig. 16.) 



Antennae dark fuscous. Palpi with the median joint dark 

 fuscous ; terminal joint pale fawn, shaded with fuscous. Head 

 and Thorax dark fascous. Forewings pale fawn, mottled with 

 dark fuscous, the patches somewhat evenly distributed over the 

 wing, the more conspicuous of these occurring around the margins, 

 especially a medio-dorsal patch, with one equally well-marked at 

 the end of the cell ; between the larger spots is a sprinkling of 

 smaller ones, those around the termen and apex throwing dentate 

 streaks through the pale fawn cilia. Exp. al. ( tf ) 12-20 ( $ ) mm. 

 Hindwings pale greyish fuscous, with a purplish iridescence ; 

 cilia brownish grey. Abdomen pale greyish fuscous. Legs sub- 

 olivaceous, the tarsi faintly shaded with fuscous. 



Type <$ (99094) ; $ (99095) ; (99097) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. TEXEBIFE: Tacaronte, 18. II. 1907 (Wlsm.); La Laguna, 

 17. III. 1904 (Eaton); Puerto Orotava, 23. IV - 12. Y. 1907, 

 in dry goats' dung, 23. IV - 26. Y, excl. 19. Y- 18. YI. 1907 

 (Wlsm.). Thirty specimens (11 bred). 



The larva, which is of a semitransparent ivory-white, with pale 

 yellowish brown head, and with inconspicuous, much paler, 

 pronotal plate, feeds in the old pellets of goats' dung. It is 

 extremely abundant about the caves, on cliffs east of Puerto 

 Orotava, and in similar situations. 



Having regard to the great abundance of this insect, and to its 

 strong superficial resemblance to Lindera tessellatella Blnchrd. 

 ( = bogotatellaWkr.), which is much more marked than in the 

 case of 8etomorpha insectella F., it seems extremely probable that 

 Alpheraky had this species before him when recording " Seto- 

 morpha bogotatella" from Tenerife, but I have not thought it 

 necessary to dispute Prof. Rebel's expressed opinion on the 

 identity of the specimen which forms the subject of this bare and 

 unsatisfactory record. 



79. (465) TRICHOPHAGA Rgt. 

 157. (4538) TRICHOPHAGA ABRUPTELLA Wlstn. 

 = bipartitella Rgt. 7 ; =*'tapetzella Rbl. (nee L.) 7 . 



Tinea abruptella Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). I. 120 (1858) 



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Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 1003 (1864) a '. Tinea bipartitella 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892. p. Ixxxii (1892) 3 . Tinea tapetzella Rbl. 

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