1907.] MICUOLEPIDOPTERA OF TENERIFE. 1007 



138. (2197-2) EucELis marrubiana, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 4.) 

 = *inchijsiana Rbl. (nee Z.). 



Polychrosis ? indusiana Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus, XXI. 37, 43 

 no.'l95 (1906) \ 



Antennae pale brownish grey. Palpi hoary grey, sprinkled 

 with fuscous. Head and Thorax hoary grey, with some fuscous 

 speckling ; the latter with a slight, blackish-sprinkled, thoracic 

 tuft posteriorly. Foreioings greyish white, with pale olivaceous 

 brownish sufl:'usion, tending to indicate two transverse fasciae, 

 one at one-third, bounding the outer side of an obscurely speckled 

 and shaded basal patch, the other, in the middle, accompanied 

 on its outer side by small spots of fuscous and blackish scaling, 

 the intermediate pale space contains a narrow fluctuate line 

 parallel to the equally sinuate outer edge of the first fascia ; 

 beyond the middle of the wing some blackish scales are sparsely 

 sprinkled below the middle, near the central fascia, and again in 

 a patch between the upper angle of the cell and the apex, this 

 patch containing three or four black dots ; the termen is narrowly 

 shaded with olivaceous brownish, a narrow black line preceding 

 the cilia ; along the costa is a series of outwardly oblique brownish 

 streaks, of varying sizes, with more or less sprinkling of black 

 scales, some short dark streaks also along the dorsum ; cilia greyish 

 white, delicately sprinkled and shaded with brown and black. 

 Exp. al. 8'5-13 mm. Hindioings bi'ownish grey ; cilia shining, 

 paler, with a shade-line near their base. xl6(:Zome?^ hoary griseous. 

 Legs hoary, the tarsi spotted above with fuscous. 



Type 2 (99051); J (99052) Gidmar, Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. S. France: Monte Carlo, 1. VI. 1889 (TF/sm.)— S. Spain: 

 MALAGA: Malaga, 29. IV - 2. V. 1901 {Wlsm.). Canaries^— 

 Tenertfe ': 1905 (IFAiYe)^ ; Guimar,4-25. III. 1907, © Marruhium 

 vulgare, 14. Ill, excl. 21-24. III. 1907 (Wlsm.). Nineteen 

 specimens. 



Taken, and bred ; very common on the top of the hill west of 

 Guimar. The larva feeds on the seeds of Ma7'ri(,bmm, the empty 

 pupa-cases protruding conspicuously from the dry seed-vessels of 

 the previous year. 



This is the species which stands in Mr. White's collection, 

 named by Prof. Rebel, " Polychrosis ? indusiana Z." In ap- 

 pearance it is undoubtedly extremely similar to Polychrosis por- 

 rectana Z., next to which Rebel (Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. II. 109), 

 following Zeller, places indusiana. The true indusiana Zi. is 

 however quite unlike 7)iarrid)iana and porrectana. Anyone 

 seeing the type of indusiana would at once place it next 

 to staticeana Mill., from which indeed I am quite unable to 

 separate it, and there is no doubt that Milliere's name must fall 

 as a synonym. 



