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99. (4057-1) Gracilaria staintoni Wlstn. (Plate LIII. fig. 14.) 



Gracilaria staintoni Wlstn. Ann-Mag. NH. (3 s.). I. 122 (1858)' : 

 Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. XXX. 854 no. 24 (1864)"'; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. 

 See. Lond. 1894. 538, 555 no. 62 (1894)^; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lep. 

 Pal. II. 206 no. 4049 (1901) \ 



Antennae pale brownish yellow. Labial Palpi white, smeared 

 with tawny reddish on the outer side of the terminal joint, and 

 toward the apex of the median. Maxillary Paljn white, tipped 

 with tawny reddish. Head pale yellowish brown ; face whitish. 

 Thorax bright golden yellow above ; the tegulae reddish brown. 

 Foreivings very long and narrow ; shining, bright, pale golden 

 yellow, with a purplish lilac sufi"usion spreading over the dorsal 

 half and becoming rather darker across the apex ; at the upper 

 edge of the purplish shade are two or three slight projections of 

 a rather more intense colour, and, on either side of the middle of 

 the costa above them, are one or more minute black dots ; cilia 

 reddish purple above the apex, reddish ochreous below it, dark 

 tawny grey along the dorsum. Exp. al. 13-14 mm. Hindioings 

 shining, leaden grey ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen leaden grey, 

 silvery white beneath. Legs pale grey, the tarsi fading to whitish, 

 and very faintly spotted. 



Type o (no. XL) Mus. Br. ; CT. J (99127) ; $ (14175) Mus. 

 Wlsm. 



ffab. Madeiras '"'— Madeira '-* : Funchal, 16. lY. 1904 

 (Eaton) ; The Mount, 1855 (^YollastonY' ^ Canaries — Tenerife : 

 Las Mercedes, 30. III. 1904 {Eaton); Taganana, 27. V. 1907; 

 Agua Garcia, Tacaronte, 31. Y. 1907 (^Vlsm.) ; La Laguna, 

 Laurids canariensis, 19. Y, excl. 12. YI. 1907 (Wlsm.). 



This species was captured at Taganana, and at Agua Garcia, 

 near Tacaronte, and subsequently bred from larvae feeding in 

 large cones on the leaves of Laurus canariensis, which were un- 

 distinguishable from the cones made by roscipennella on the 

 same tree. Mr. Eaton took this species at Funchal, and at Las 

 Mercedes, in 1904. 



100. (4057*2) Gracilaria schinella, sp. n. 

 (Plate LIII. fig. 13.) 

 Antennae pale brownish ochreous, faintly dark -barred above. 

 Palpi brownish ochreous, smeared with rust-brown externally. 

 Head and Thorax brownish ochreous ; the tegulae touched with 

 purplish. Eorewings pale ochreous, suffused with reddish lilac, 

 more strongly at the base of the costa than elsewhere, and 

 notably less on a pale, elongate, mediocostal patch extending to 

 the fold, which, however, like the rest of the wing-surface, is 

 distinctly iridescent ; the more suffused portions exhibit every 

 possible variety of iridescence, from purple to green, and cupreous, 

 according to the incidence of light ; there is a purplish shade in 

 the cilia below the apex, but the dorsal cilia are pale, iridescent, 

 bronzy greyish. Exp. al. 11-14 mm. Hindioings | ; pale leaden 



