1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 929 



cilia 3, costal cilia somewhat bristly towards base : neuration 

 8 veins; 2 to 5 remote; 6 and 7 stalked, 6 weak. Abdomen 

 moderate. Legs, hind tibise clothed with loose hairs. 



I am unable to refer this somewhat obscure species to any 

 described genus. In the combined characters 3 and 4 remote, 

 6 and 7 stalked in the hindwings ; and 6 out of 7, beyond its 

 fvu^cation with 8, in the forewings, this agrees with. Sitotroga Hum., 

 which however differs in having a pecten on the basal joint of 

 the antennae. Schisto'pMla Chret. and Glauce Climb, differ in 

 having broader hindwings, with 3 somewhat approximated to 4, 

 and the latter has long, flattened, broad, black subcostal bristles. 

 Ptocheuusa Hnm. has 3 and 4 of the hindwings connate, and 

 3 and 4 of the forewings coincident. The group of AjJroaerema 

 Drnt., having 6 and 7 of the hindwings stalked, differs in having 

 3 and 4 connate ; Ajjodia Hnm. agrees with Fragmatodes in the 

 neuration of the forewings, but like other allies of Aristotelia Hb., 

 with 3 and 4 of the hindwings remote, differs in having 6 and 7 

 separate, not stalked. 



23. (2901 -1) Pragmatodes frutioosella, sp. n. 

 (Plate LI. fig. 10.) 



Poecilia {Stenolechia) sp. Ptbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 128, 146 

 no. 192 (1896) \ Stsnolechia {Poecilia) sp. Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. 

 XXI. 44 no, 214 (1906) -^ 



Antennae dirty whitish, obscurely annulate with fuscous. Palpi 

 dirty whitish, dusted with fuscous, a black band before the apex 

 on the median and terminal joints. Head and Thorax whitish, 

 speckled with fuscous. Forewings dirty stone-whitish, dusted 

 with fuscous ; a_ basal patch, with convex outer margin, reaches 

 to nearly one-fifth from the base and is thickly bestrewn with 

 fuscous, the space beyond it forming a narrow fascia of the pale 

 ground-colour, followed by a transverse blackish band, also irre- 

 gularly convex, but ill-defined on its outer side ; this again is 

 followed along the dorsum and costa by somewhat profuse blackish 

 dusting, a small dark discal spot lying in the middle of the wing ; 

 beyond the middle an inverted and rather angulated fascia of the 

 pale ground-colour is ill-defined and followed by profuse blackish 

 speckling, reaching to the apex and termen ; cilia pale brownish 

 grey, with a shadedine before their outer ends. Exp. al. 6'5-7'5 

 mm. Hindioings deeply sinuate, but not squarely excised below 

 the apex ; grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen greyish. 

 Legs pale brownish grey, with fuscous bands on tibiae and tarsi. 



Ty2)e $ (98969); c? "(98970) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. Tenerife: Santa Cruz, 31. I -21. II, 29. Y. 1907, 

 Eubia fruticosa, 13. 11, excl. 19-20. III. 1907 ; Guimar, 28. II - 4. 

 III. 1907. Ten specimens. 



Bred in March from larvae found mining the leaves of Rubia 

 fruticosa in Februaiy. The moth was also taken on the wing 

 from January to March, and in May, at Santa Cruz and Guimar. 



