1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 961 



Exceedingly common everywhere. It seems to be attached 

 to Chenojyodiam, and to appear m succes'sive broods almost 

 continuously. 



67. (3713"1) COLEOPHORA MICROMERIAE, Sp. n. 



Antennae white, annulate with greyish fuscous; the basal joint 

 roughly clothed, but not tufted. Falpi white, a broad greyish 

 fuscous band spreading around the apex of the median, and base 

 of the terminal joint, including some slightly projecting scales 

 from the former. Head white, slightly shaded along the middle 

 with greyish fuscous. Thorax white above ; tegulae touched with 

 greyish fuscous. Foreivings greyish fuscous, the costa narrowly 

 pure white from the base, widening outward, and continxied to the 

 apex, before which the costal cilia are slightly touched with grey ; 

 there is a less conspicuous line of white scaling along the fold- 

 and slightly diflused downward across the space beneath it to the 

 dorsum, the base of the terminal cilia being also white, forming a 

 streak which runs out throtigh those of the apex; with this 

 exception the cilia are pale brownish grey ; the marginal white 

 lines are cleai"ly visible on the underside. Exj). al. 8-1 1 mm. Hind- 

 wings very pale bluish grey ; cilia pale brownish grey, becoming 

 whitish at their tips around the apex. Abdomen bro\^*nish grey 

 above, white beneath ; anal clothing whitish. Legs white, the hind 

 tai'si faintly speckled. 



Type $ (99023) ; S (99024) Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. Tenerife : Puerto Orotava, 19. II. 1907, 5.Y. 1907 (TFZsm.); 

 Guimar, 27. II - 14. lY. 1907(TF/s^?^.), © Micromeria varia, 23. II, 

 excL 10. Y. 1907 (msm.); Cruz de Afur, 5. lY. 1904 {Eaton); 

 Forest de la Mina, 7. lY. 1904 (Eaton). Sixteen specimens, one 

 bred. 



The case is brown, short and cylindrical, sprinkled with short 

 whitish hairs, like the leaf-surface of the food-plant ; the mouth is 

 slightly oblique. It was found on 2Iicromeria varia, among 

 which plant I took several specimens, at Guimar, at about 1200 ft. 

 I also met with the species at Puerto Orotava, in February, and 

 in May, and received three specimens from Mr. Eaton, taken in 

 April 1904, at Cruz de Afur, and in the Forest de la Mina. 



68. (3773) CoLEOPHORA coxfluella Rbl. 



Coleophora confluella Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. YII. 278-9, 283 

 no. 63, PI. 17 • 15 c? (1892) ^ : XXI. 44 no. 235 (1906) ^ : Stgr-Rbl. 

 Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 195 no. 3773 (1901)1 



Hah. Canaries ^"^ — La Palma^-^: Pico del Berigoya, 1400- 

 1500 m., 21. YIII. 1889 (*S'imo?<2/) '— Texerife : Guimar, ©Heli- 

 anthemum guttattom, 27. Ill, excl. 25. IX - 1. X. 1907 (Wlsm.); 

 La Laguna, @ Helianthemum guttatitm, 3. Y. 1907 (Wlsm.). 



Larvae were common, in cases made of leaves (similar to those 

 of heliauihemella Mill.), on Helianthemum guttatum, and also on 



