1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 913 



by imaginal differences, and thus obliged to discard no small 

 portion of the generic nomenclature of Yol. V. of Mr. Tutt's- 

 ' British Lepidoptera.' 



I. PTEROPHORIDAE, 



1. (207) BUCKLERIA Tutt. 

 =* TmcHOPTiLcs Mejr.; Stgr-Rbl. (nee Wlsm.). 



I adopt Tutt's geneonym here as I entirely agree with him 

 in separating pallidum Z. and siceliota 7i. from the Californian 

 pygmaeus Wlsm., the type of Trichoptilus Wlsm., which has the • 

 fissure of the fore wings difterently shaped, the lobes being more 

 divergent. 



1. (1311) BUCKLEEIA (StANGEIA) SICELIOTA Z. 



Pteropho7-us siceliota 'L. Isis 1847. 907 no. 450'. PteropJiorus 

 {Aciptilia) siceliota Z. Lin. Ent. VI. 401 no. 59 (1852) '^ Aciptilia 

 siceliota Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon XXIX. 173-4. PL 4- 3-5 

 (1882) ' : Nat. Sic. V. 224 (1886) \ TrichojJtilus siceliota Meyr. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. XXYL 12 (1891)' ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 71 

 no. 1311 (1901) I Btangeia siceliota Tutt Br. Lp. Y. 492 (1906) '. 



Hah. S. EUROPE — Cistus salviaefolius, ononspeliensis, III- 

 lY, excl.Y-YL SW. ASIA. K AFRICA '-\ Canaries— Tene- 

 BIFE : Guimar, 14. lY,, Cistus monspeliensis, 28. Ill, excl. 24. 

 IY-6. Y. 1907. 



Taken and bred at Guimar from larvae similar to those which I 

 used to find, and have reared successfully, on the same plant at 

 Cannes. 



2. (208) OXYPTILUS Z. 

 Crombrugghia Tutt Br. Lp. Y. 449-51 (1906). 



2. (1314) OxYPTiLus (Crombrugghia) distaxs Z. 



Pterophorus distans Z. Isis 1847. 902-3 no. 441 K Pterophoms 

 (Oxyptilus) distans Z. Lin. Ent. YI. 345-6 no. 13 (1852) ^ 

 Oxijptilus distans Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 16, 18 no. 137 

 (1894) ' : XXI. 43 no. 173 (1906)* : Stgr-Rbl. Cat, Lp. Pal. II. 71 

 no. 1314 (1901) '. Crombrugghia distans Tutt Br. Lp. Y. 451-67 

 PI. 4- 1-10(1906)°. 



Ifab. S. and C. EUROPE. WO. ASIA. Canaries ^-^— Tene- 

 RiFE : Guimar, 25. Ill -14. lY., @ Andryala jnnnatijida, 9-25. 

 Ill, excl. 7. lY - 3. Y. 1907 ; Puerto Orotava, 27. lY - 3. Y. 1907 

 {Wlsm.) ; Forest de la Mina, 8. lY. 1894 [Eaton); La Laguna, 21. 

 Y. 1889 {Krauss)\ 



Prof. Rebel [Ann. KK. Hofmus. YII. 262-3 (1892)] records 

 Oxyptilus laetus from Tenerife, La Palma, and Gran Canaria ; he 

 subsequently [Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 81 (1894)] records a single 



