1907.] MICROLEPIUOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 1001 



colour, tending to become widely furcate toward the costa, and 

 narrowly furcate where it is inverted to the dorsum before the 

 tornus ; the outer portion of this fascia is usually joined to a 

 sinuate streak, which, cutting off the dark apex of the wing, 

 descends to the middle of the teimen ; these markings all contain 

 more or less, short, parallel, wavy streaks of the darker ground- 

 colour ; cilia varying from ochreous to greyish, sometimes slightly 

 mottled. Exj). cd. 9-12 mm. Hindiuings pale brownish grey;, 

 cilia pale cinereous with a slender shade-line running thi^ough 

 them near their base. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs pale 

 brownish cinereous, the tarsi very faintly spotted. 



Tyjje 2 (99106); 6 (99107) ex © Statice, Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. Tenerife : Guimar, 17. III. 1907, Frankenia ericifolia, 

 6. Ill, excl. 9. Ill - 22. TV. 1907, Statice pectinafa, 6. III. 

 excl. 20. Ill - 18. IV. 1907 (IFZsm.); Tejina, 18. III. 1902 

 {Eaton) ; Puerto Orotava, 21. lY - 14. Y. 1907, Franhenia 

 ericifolia, 21. lY, excl. 3-4. Y. 1907, Statice pectinata, 21. lY, 

 excl. 26. Y - 7. YI. 1907 {msm.). Thirty-two specimens (13 ex 

 Statice, 10 ex Frankenia, 9 captured). 



The larva feeds on Statice pectinata and Frankenia ericifolia, 

 at Guimar and Puerto Orotava, from both of which jDlants I have 

 bred it. 



Most nearly allied, perhaps, to limoniana Mill., but differing 

 in the markings being intermediate between those of that species 

 and botrana S-D. 



63. (255) BACTRA Stj^h. 

 129. (2017) Bactra lanceolana Hb. 



Tortrix lanceolana Hb. Smlg. Eur. Schm. YII. PI. 13 • 80(1797) '. 

 Ancylis lanceolana Hb. Yerz. Schm. 376 no. 3614(1826)". Aphe- 

 lia lanceolana Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881. 231-2 (1881)' ; 

 Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. YI. 651-2 (1881) \ Bactra lanceolana 

 Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894. 537, 540 no. 9 (1894) ' ; Rbl. 

 Ann. KK. Hofmus. IX. 17. 86-7 no. 152 (1894)": XL 120-1, 

 146 no. 168 (1896)': XXI. 43 no. 197 (1906)«; Wlsm. Pr. Z. 

 Soc. Lond. 1897. 121-2 no. 162 (1897)': Ann- Mag. NH. (7 g.). 

 YI. 333-4 no. 1006 (1900)": Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 113 

 no. 2017 (1901) '^ Frnld. Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52. 449 no. 5006 

 (1902)^-. 



Hab.Ti\JROVT.^--'^^:®Jimcus,CyiJer^ts\ AFRICA ^ ASIA".. 

 MALAYSIA". AUSTRALIAN NEWZEALANDN S.AME- 

 RICAN K AMERICA ^N W. INDIES N Madeiras ^—Ma- 

 deira ^: San Antonio da Serra (Wollaston) ' ; Machico, 23. I Y. 

 1904 {Eaton). Canaries '-"— Tenerife '^'" : Guimar, 4. Ill - 7. lY. 

 1907 {Wlsm.); lY. 1884 {Leech); Puerto Orotava, 14. Y. 1907 

 {Wls7n.); 1895 {Ifedeonann)'; Santa Cruz, 26. Y. 1889 (Amwss) ' 

 — Gran Canaria'^: Las Palmas, 7. Y. 1895 {Hedew.anny . 



The examples of this sjoecies which I met with in Tenerife could 



