1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 999 



The larva contorts the leading leaves of Hypericimi grandifoliuin : 

 I met with it first at the Bai-ranco del Bufadero, near Santa Cruz, 

 the beginning of January, and bred specimens from the end of 

 that month till the beginning of May. 



126. (1966) AcROCLiTA subsequana HS. 



126 + a. (1966 + a) subseqdana HS. + subsequana HS. 



=■ conseqtiana HS. ^ ; =liitorana Cnst. 



Semasia subsequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. IV. 247 no. 337 (1851) \ 



Tortrix consequana HS. SB. Schm. Eur. lY. PI. 59 • 423 (1854) -. 



Acroclita consequana Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 110 no. 1966 



(1901)^ 



Hah. EUROPE ^--^ Q Eu2)korMa sjjp. 



126 + b. (1966 + b) subsequana HS. + convallensis, var. n. (an 

 sp. n. ?). 



=-*littorana Rbl. (nee Cnst.). 



Acroclita co7isequanaliSi.-\-littoranaV\\)\. Ann. KK. Hofmus. VII. 

 266, 282 no. 42 (1892)^: XI. 121, 146 no. 169 (1896)": XXI. 

 43 no. 196 (1906) \ 



Hah. Canaries ^'^ — Tenerife '-'^ : Santa Cruz, 25. I. 1907, 

 @ Euphorbia regis-jubae, 27. XII, excl. 28-31. I. 1907" (TT7sm.) ; 

 Guinmr, 6. Ill - 10. IV. 1907 (Wlsm.); IV. 1884 (Leech) ; Puerto 

 Orotava, 18. IV. 1895, ^Euphorbia arhorescens, excl. 10-13. V. 

 1895 [HedemannY — Gran Canaria ^ : (Richter)^ — Montana 

 Clara ^-^ : 238 m., 8. IX. 1890 {Simony)\ 



I did not meet with any form of Acroclita that can well be 

 compared with littorana Oust., which is merely a small pale 

 variety of the ordinary South European subsequana HS. There 

 is however one point of difference by which my Tenerife series 

 of twenty-three specimens might be separated from European 

 specimens : the basal patch always tends to throw out a 23ointed 

 projection along the dorsum, they also range to a much larger 

 avei-age size (exp. al. 13-22 mm.), and I propose the neonym 

 convallensis (var., an sp. ?), to distinguish them. 



Type S (99171); $ (99172) Mus. Wlsm. 



127. (1966-1) Acroclita sonchana, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.) 



Antennae hoary, with blackish annulations, sometimes entirely 

 sufi"used with black. Palpi whitish, thickly sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous externally ; sometimes fuscous throughout. Head dirty 

 white, varying to dar-k fuscous. Thorax whitish, or dark fuscous ; 

 sometimes with chestnut-brown tegulae. Forewings dark fuscous, 

 sprinkled and mottled with shades of chestnut-brown, with some 

 paler spaces ; a dark basal patch, extending to one-third, projects 

 outwardly above the fold receding to the costa and nearly to the 

 dorsixm ; this is follov/ed by an irregular fascia, running from the 



