1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 935 



panied, around their edges, by some rust-brown suffusion, especially 

 noticeable on the apical portion of the wing ; at the extreme base 

 a short yellow streak, which follows the fold, is quickly divei-ted 

 and dilated to the dorsum ; a large pale yellow patch, commencing 

 above its outer extremity on the costa, is attenuated obliquely 

 outward along the cell, ending in a pale ocellate spot at the end 

 of the cell, containing an elongate black dot, a little beyond which 

 an outwardly angulate, narrow, pale yellow fascia crosses the 

 wing ; this is produced at either extremity along the margins 

 and around the apex, forming thus a narrow yellowish band 

 enclosing a space of the shape of a blunt arrow-head ; cilia pale 

 yellowish, with two parallel black lines running through them 

 and emphasising the obtusely rounded appearance of the apex ; 

 the pale costal patch throws a slight excrescence across the fold 

 before the middle, but does not reach the dorsum. Ex2). al. 10 mm. 

 Hindivings \Qi\.diei\ gvQj ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen grey; anal 

 tuft ochreous. Legs ochreous, the tarsi banded with leaden grey. 



Ti/2)e c? (14107) Mus. Wlsm. 



Ilab. Tenerife : Las Mercedes, on dead raoss-grown bark 

 of Lmirocerasus hisitanica, 7. Ill, excl. 24. YIII. 1904 {Eaton). 

 Unique. 



Among described species this is most nearly allied to nigrato- 

 tnella Clms. and concinusella Chmb., from both of which it differs 

 in the presence of dark dorsal markings ; the pattern is found 

 also in other allied American genera. A single specimen was 

 bred by the Rev. A. E. Eaton from a larva found on dead moss- 

 grown bark of Laurocerasus lusitanica, 7. III., near the Casa del 

 Agua, in the forest of Las Mercedes, 2050 ft. (near La Laguna),. 

 on August 24th, 1904. 



17. (303'01; TELPHUSA Chmb. 



= Xenolechia Meyr. 



Telphusa Chmb. Can. Ent. IV. 132 (1872); Busck Bull. US. 

 Nat. Mus. 52. 496-7 (1902): Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXY. 

 773, 783-9. PI. 38-5 (1903). 

 Xenolechia Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 583 (1895). 



32. (2743) Telphusa cisti Stn. 



Gelechia cisti Stn. Tin. S-Etu\ 211-12 (1869) \ Teleia cisti Mill. 

 Cat. Lp. Alp- Mar. 331 (1875)-; Hrtm. MT. Munch. Ent. Yer. 

 lY. 20 no. 1983 (1880) ^ Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. XXYII. 145 

 (1891)"*; Rbl. Yerh. ZB. Ges. Wien XLI. (1891). 630 no. 45 

 (1891)'. Gelechia {Teleia) cisti Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 150 

 no. 2743(1901)1 



Hab. S. EUROPE ^-•'— S. France ^-" : © Cistus salviaef alius ^' ^ 

 C. albidus\ III-YI ^ excl. IY-YIIL'^—Dalmatia '-"—Corsica : 

 Corte, Cistus salviaefolius, excl. 18-27. YII. 1898 [Wlsm.). 

 N. AFRICA— Tunis ; Aine-Draham, 21. YII. 1896 {Eaton)— 



