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one good turn deserves another, may I, in thanking Prof. Rebel 

 for the hint, suggest that his infestella is ijsoralella MilL ? In 

 support of this theory, without seeing Rebel's type, I can only 

 say that psorcdella Mill, is very common on Psoralea bititminosa 

 in Tenerife, and the larvae from which I reared it there are the 

 same as those pointed out to me by Milliere himself at Cannes 

 many year's ago. Rebel's specimens of in/estella were taken at 

 Orotava 14-30. TV. 1895 ; I have specimens of jisoralella labelled 

 Orotava, 26. IV - 14. Y. 1907. 



In any case I must admit that the Madeira specimen (13617) 

 is psorcdella Mill., while Stainton's specimen from Porto Santo, 

 recorded as * anthyllidella (no. XXVIII) has a white face and white 

 palpi, and is a finer specimen of elachistella Stn. than is the unset 

 type (no. XXIX, S ) fi'om Xorthern Deserta. 



28 ^. (2846) Apeoaeeema elachistella Stn. 

 =* anthyllidella Stn. (nee Hb.) ; ^*alhipalpella (p.) Wlsm. (nee HS.). 

 Gelechia *anthyllidella Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 213 no. 19 (1859) K 

 GelecMa elacMittella Stn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 a.). III. 213 no. 20(1859)2; Wkr. 

 Cat. Lp. BM. XXIX. 628 no. 307 (1864) ■"'. Anacamjjsis *albipalpella (p.) Wlsm. 

 Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 544 no. 33 (1894)-'. Anacampsis elachistella 

 Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 544 no. 34 (1894) ^ ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. PaL 

 II. 154 no. 2846 (1901) e. 



Sah. Madeiras --iJ — Xoetheen Deseeta : {Wollaston)-' '^- ^. — Poeto Santo : 

 {Wollaston)^. Canaries — Gean Canaeia : Las Palmas, 15. VI. 1907 {Wlsm.). 



Stainton [Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). III. 213] recorded *anthylUdella Hb. from Porto 

 Santo, and described elachistella, sp. u., from Northern Deserta. In 1894 (1. e. 4) 

 I referred Stainton's supposed *anthyllidella to *alhipalpella HS., and recorded as 

 the same species a single specimen (13617) from Madeira. Having now before me 

 more I'eliable exponents of albipunctella HS., I find that this specimen from 

 Madeira does not completelj' agree with them; but it does agree with psoralella 

 Mill., which I have bred from Psoralea hituminosa at Cannes and in Tenerife. I 

 have again examined Stainton's specimens and find that his *anthylUdella from 

 Porto Santo (no. XXVIII) has white palpi and white face, and is a finer specimen 

 of elachist'jlla Stn. than is the unset tj-pe (no. XXIX, (J) from Northern Deserta. 

 I took two specimens of this snecies at Las Palmas on June 15th. The localitv 

 "Mad." (Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 153 no. 2835) pertains to elachistella fitn. 

 {=* anthyllidella Stn.) — the true anthyllidella Hb. has not yet been recognised as 

 occurring in the Madeiras or Canaries. 



29. (2847-01) Aproaerema gexistae, sp. n. (Plate LI. fig. 8.) 



Antennae black, with white annulations. Palpi white, with a 

 slender black line along the under side of the acute terminal 

 joint. Head white. Thorax brownish olivaceous. Forevings 

 pale brownish olivaceous at the base, blending to blackish about 

 the middle, and on the dorsum nearly to the base ; beyond the 

 middle is a straight, well-defined, oblique white fascia, of even 

 width, pointing slightly outward from dorsum to costa ; beyond 

 it the terminal portion of the wing is profusely sprinkled with 

 some brownish, many blackish, and a few elongate shining steely 

 grey scales, the latter prevailing around the margin and at the 

 base of the tawny greyish cilia. Ex'p. al. 8 mm. Hindivings 

 leaden grey ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen leaden grey. Legs 

 white, with broad tawnv fuscous bands around the hind tibiae. 



Type Q (98993) ; c^ (98994) Mus. Wlsm. 



