1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 1027 



Orotava, 13-29. IY. 1895 (ITedenumn)*, 3. V. 1907 (JPZsm.); 

 ( Juiiuar, on walls, 1. IY, excl. 2. VI. 1907 ( H7sm.). 



Taken at Santa Cruz, and Puerto Orotava, and a single specimen 

 bred from a case found on a wall at Guimar. 



83. (441) LUFFIA Tutt. 



-172. (4435-01) LUFFIA REBBLI, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 18.) 

 n. Byn..* lapidella Rbl. (nee Goeze). 



Talaeporia (!) lapidella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 267-8, 282 

 no. 45 (1892) l : IX. 17, 88 no. 158 (1894) 2 : XXI. 42 no. 122 

 (1906) 3 . Luffia lapidella (p.) Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 230 

 no. 4435 (1901) \ 



Antennae -|-, bipectinate, pectinations commencing on joint 4, 

 each biciliate ; pale stone-grey. Head and Thorax reddish fuscous. 

 Forewings shining, sericeous, pale stone-grey, rather coarsely 

 mottled with greyish fuscous, the groups of this darker scaling 

 somewhat more conspicuous along the margins than in the middle 

 of the wing ; the strongest of these groups are one arising from 

 the dorsum near the base, overspreading the fold, and diffused 

 across the base of the cell toward the costa ; another, arising from 

 scarcely before the middle of the dorsum, crossing the fold and 

 diffused upward across the cell, and two or three on the outer 

 half of the costa ; cilia shining, sericeous, mottled with pale 

 greyish fuscous along their basal half. Exp. al. 8-12 mm. Hind- 

 wings pale mouse-grey; cilia slightly paler and more shining. 

 Abdomen pale mouse-grey. Legs pale stone-grey. 



Type 6 (99066); $ (14094) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. Canaries 1 ~ l TENERIFE 1-4 : Las Mercedes, 2100 ft., 29. II. 

 1904 (Eaton) ; La Laguna, 15. III. 1902, 16-25. III. 1904, in 

 cases on walls and rocks, 22. II - III, excl. 23. Ill - 10. IV. 

 1904 (Eaton) ; IY. 1885 (Leech) 2 - Puerto Orotava, 23. IY. 1907, 

 on rocks, 24. IV, excl. 10-20. VI. 1907 (Wlsm.) ; Pedro Gil, 

 1300-1500 m., 30 VII. 1889 (Simony) \ Seventeen specimens. 



This is the species recorded by Rebel as " lapidella Goeze," 

 but it is a much larger and more distinctly marked species. 

 The small cylindrical cases are extremely abundant on walls, and 

 rocks, at Santa Cruz, Guimar, Orotava, and La Laguna, but 

 unless obtained about the time of pupation, when through want 

 of movement they can scarcely be distinguished from the nume- 

 rous empty cases of previous generations, the larvae are very 

 difficult to rear. It is almost impossible to keep a supply of small 

 lichens, such as they feed upon. I first received this species from 

 the late Mr. J. H. Leech, who took it in April 1885 ; Mr. Eaton 

 took several specimens, and bred three tf 6 and two $ in 

 1904. There may possibly be some allied species in the Island, 

 but I only met with rebeli. 



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