952 LOKD WALSINGHAM ON THE [NoY, 26, 



55. (3056-1) Blastobasis velutixa, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 4.) 



Antennae and Pa^yi ash-grey, the latter sprinkled with black 

 scales. Head and Thorax ash-grey. Forewings ash-grey, with a 

 short square patch of black scales at the base of thecosta, followed 

 at a distance equal to its own length by a broad transverse band 

 of black scales, some conspicuously raised, especially along its outer 

 edge, which is convex and i-eaches nearly to the middle of the 

 wing ; its inner edge approaches nearer to the base on the dorsum 

 than on the costa ; beyond this patch, which in some specimens 

 aj)pears divided into two fasciae, the wing is much more sparingly 

 bestrewn with black scales, which however are somewhat 

 thickened on the margins at three-fourths, and around the apex ; 

 cilia brownish cinereous. Ex2}. al. 11-14 mm. Hinclvnngs 

 brownish grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen asb-grey, 

 shaded at the sides and posteriorly with black ; pale cinereous 

 beneath. Legs brownish cinereous, the tarsi blackish, with whitish 

 cinereous annulations. 



Tyjje S (98258) ; $ (98263) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. Tenerife: Guimar, 9-30. III. 1907; Tacaronte, 31. Y. 

 1907 ; La Laguna, 9. VI. 1907. Four specimens. 



Allied to ruhiginosella Rbl., but distinguished by the broad, 

 dark, transverse band before the middle of the wing. The antennae 

 are deeply notched in the S • 



56. (3060) Blastobasis fuscomaculella Rgt. 

 = seeboldiella Kreithn.' ; =^^marmarosella Rbl. (nee Wlstn.) ■^"^. 



Oecophora fuscomaculella Rgt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. XLYIII. (5 s. 

 IX : 1879). p. cxli (1880) '. Oecopliora seeholdiella Kreithner 

 Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien XXXI. SB. 20-1 (1881)-. Blastobasis 

 marmarosella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. YII. 276-8, 283 no. 61. 

 PL 7 • 6-6a 5 (1892) ^ : IX. 18, 90-1 no. 178 (1894) ^ Blasto- 

 basis fuscoviacuMla Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 549 

 no. 47 (1894) "' ; Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. XI. 130, 147 no. 199 

 (1896)". Sbld. Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris XI. 317. PI. 11 • 15 

 (1898)". Blastobasis fuscomaculella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. 

 XIII. 377, 381 no. 213"(1899) « : XXI. 44 no. 224 (1906) ' : Stgr- 

 Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 163 no. 3060 (1901)"'. 



Hab. Spain ■^-^'^'^"•. Bilbao ^"^'^ Y^ YII % YIII ' — Por- 

 tugal ^' '• " : Coimbra \ Madeiras — Madeira '"' ^". Ca- 

 naries '"'' ''^'— Tenerife ''-'' "■ '"-" : lY. 1885 {Leech) ' ; La Laguna, 

 23. Y-7. YI. 1907 {Wlsm.), YI. {Cabrera)^; Puerto Orotava, 

 IX. 1889 (AS't'moi?.?/)'' ' — HiERRO ': Yalverde, 9-14. II. 1898 

 {Hintz) ^ 



This is apparently a scarce species, I only met with three 

 specimens. Yalverde is in Hierro, not in Tenerife. 



