1907.] MICROLEPIDOPIERA OP TENEKIFB. 915 



are on differences in tlie genital segments, and on Dr. Chapman's 

 veiy critical and careful study of the different larvae. 



3. (209) PLATYPTILIA Hb. 

 3. (1339) Plaxyptilia (Amblyptilia Hb.) acanthodactyla Hb. 



Alucita accmthodacUjla Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. IX. PL 5 • 23-4 

 (1812 ?)\ Ptemphorus acanthodactylm Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. 

 (3 s.). III. 214 (1859) \ Flatyj)tilia acanthodactyla Wlsm. Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 538 no. 1 (1894) \ Amhlyptilia acanthodac- 

 tyla Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 1 1 5, 146 no. 149 (1896) \ Platy- 

 ptilia acanthodactyla Bh\. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XXI. 36, 43 no, 175 

 (1906)': Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 73 no. 1339 (1901) ^ Frnld. 

 Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 443 no. 4939 (1902) \ AmUyptilia 

 cosmodactyla Tutt Br. Lp. V. 273-99, PI. 1- A^"' (1906) "*. 



^a6. EUROPE. W.ASIA. X. and S. AFRICA. Madeiras"^' 

 —Madeira-: Funchall Canaries '"'— Texerife : Santa Cruz, 

 S. II. 1907 {Wlsm.), 3. V. 1895 {Hedemann) ' ; La Laguna, 8. 

 IIL 1904 {Eaton), 13. V. 1907 {Wlsm.); Guimar. lo. IV. 

 1907 (ir/sm.); Puerto Orotava, 14-22. IV. 1895 {Hedemami)% 

 23. IV -8. V. 1907 (ff7.sm,.)— Gran Ca^jaria {Hedemann)\ 

 UXITED STATES \ 



I must point out that I adopt this name for the Tenerife 

 species in the same sense as it is used by Zeller, and Rebel, and 

 not as referring to jmnctidactyla Hw., being a,t present unable to 

 agree with Tutt (I. c. 8) in his interpretation of Hiibner's figures 

 23-24, and 35-36 i-espectively. 



4, (210) ALUCITA L. 

 = AciPTiLiA Hb. ; Pteiiophohus Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 435 (1895). 



4. (1356-1) ALucrrA bystropogoxis, sp. n. 

 (Plate LI. fig. 2.) 



Antennae brownish grey. Palpi short, slender, porrect ; brownish 

 grey. Head and Thorax brownish grey, the latter becoming hoary 

 grey posteriorly. Forewings brownish grey, the fissure extending 

 approximately to half the wing- length ; the apical lobe shows two 

 narrow, elongate, smoky blackish cloud-spots on its costal margin, 

 one about the middle of the lobe, the other half-way between this 

 and the base of the fissure ; between them the costa is white, and 

 beyond them the lobe is white, with a small black dorsal spot 

 before the apex ; the tornal lobe is white, from the base of the 

 fissure to its apex, its costal cilia white on the basal half and smoky 

 black on the distal half of the lobe ; the dorsal cilia of the apical 

 lobe whitish beyond the fissure to two-thirds, thence smoky black 

 below the apex ; the dorsal cilia of the tornal lobe whitish, with 

 a black spot a little before the middle of the lobe, their tips 



