1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA. OF TENERIFE. 959 



riensis, 11. II, excl. 19. Ill - 3. lY. 1907 {Wlsm.) ; Guimar, 

 @ Artemisia cana7'iensis, 25. Ill, excl. 9. IV - 2.3. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.). 

 Sixteen specimens. 



Bred from a leather stout green larva, feeding in the leading 

 shoots of Artemisia canariensis, at Santa Cruz and Guimar. As 

 •compared with the Eur-opean species which feed on Artemisia, it 

 is distinctly more suffused in its colouring, the darker patches 

 being unaccompanied by any lines of whitish scales ; indeed the 

 whole insect has a much more silky, smooth appearance, with some 

 gloss, not only in the hindwings, but also on the antei-ior pair. 

 It is perhaps nearest to ahsinthivora Frey, but the absence of any 

 outward elongation of the median shade is a good character by 

 which it may readily be distinguished. 



64. (3306) Depressaria apiella Hb. 



= nervosa Hw. ; =^^heracliana Wlsm. (nee DG.). 



Tinea apiella Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. VIII. (Tin.). 39. PL 14 ■ 94 

 (1796) \ Depressaria nervosa Hw. Lp. Br. 506 no. 4 (1811)-. 

 Pinaris ajnella Hb. Verz. Schm. 411 no. 3966 (1826) ^ Depres- 

 saria nervosa Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1881. 317 (1881)*. De- 

 2yressaria ^heracliana Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 538, 546 

 no. 42 (1894) '. Dejyressaria nervosa Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 

 174 no. 3306 (1901) ^ Busck, Pr. US. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 747 

 no. 34 (1902)'; Dyar Bull. US. Nat Mus. 52. 522 no. 5887 

 (1902) \ 



Ifab. EUROPE ^-\ N. AFRICA—MOROCCO : Tangier, ©#e- 

 rula sp., excl. 19. V. 1902 [Wlsm.): @ Oenanthe peitcedanifolia, 

 6. V, excl. 7-15. VI. 1902 (I[7.s;».);' ® Thajysia garganica, 9. V, 

 excl. 7. VI. 1902 (Wlsm.). Madeiras '—Madeira : {Wollaston)\ 

 Canaries — Tenerife : Guimar. BupAeurum aciphyllimi, 6. Ill, 

 excl. 16. IV. 1907 (THsm.) ; '(^UmheUifer, 14. IV, excl. 22. V. 

 1907 (TFZsm.). UNITED STATES*" ""'^-Oregon^''-^: grant 

 CO.: Camp Watson, IV™. 1872 (Wlsm) : jacksonco. : near Rogue 

 River, 4-6. V. 1872 {Wlsm). 



For more than half a century apiella Hb. (1796) has been sunk 

 as a synonym of nervosa Hav. (1811) : so long as these two names 

 are held to pertain to the same species, it is obvious that that 

 species must be named apiella Hb. 



Two specimens bred from an Umhellifer, found at Guimar, and 

 one from the rare Bupleurum aciphyllum ( = salicifolium) appear 

 to be inseparable from this species : they agree exactly with 

 specimens bred in Morocco, in 1902, from Ferula, Oenanthe 

 peucedanifolia, and Thapsia, garganica, and are only distinguished 

 from my European series by their slightly larger size and darker 

 colour, partly clue to the freshness of the specimens. This species 

 has not been met with in the United States since 1872, when 

 I took two specimens in Oregon. I again refer to these two 

 specimens to give the exact localities, viz., (91970) Camp Watson, 



