1907.] MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP TENERIFE, 1013 



149. (4256-1) BuccuLATRix phagnalella, sp. n. 

 (Plate LIII. fig. 9.) 



Antennae cinereous, faintly barred with fuscous. Head and 

 Thorax whitish, the former with a strong admixture of dark rvist- 

 brown scales, especially on the middle of the crown ; face and 

 eye-caps white beneath. Forewings white, thickly besprinkled 

 with fuscous and fawn-brown scaling ; a blackish blotch, on the 

 middle of the dorsum, is produced outward at its upper edge, and 

 diluted in the direction of the apex, meeting, beyond the end of 

 the cell, a corresponding shade bent downward from the middle 

 of the costa, along which it can be traced narrowly to the base ; 

 the white ground-colour is always more clearly exhibited alongside 

 of the darker shades and patches ; apical cilia white, sprinkled 

 with black scales, dorsal cilia greyish. Exp. al. 7-8 mm. 

 Hindivings shining, pale grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdoonen 

 grey. Legs brownish grey. 



T9jpe d (99292) ; 2 (99293) Mus. Wlsm. 



ffab. Tenerife': Guimar, 23-30. III. 1907, © Phagnalon 

 saxatile, 27. II, excl. 24. Ill - 12. TV. 1907. Twenty- two 

 specimens, nineteen bred. 



Nearest to fatigatella Hdn., bvit the costal shade is less pro- 

 nounced, and more limited to the costa, tending to spread, not 

 toward the dorsum, but rather toward the tornus. The larva is 

 common at Guimar on Phaqnalon saxatile. 



73. (4311) EREUNETIS Meyr. 



Ereunetis Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. Y. 2.58 (1880) : Tr. NZ. 

 Inst. XX. 92 (1888): Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. (2 s.). VII. 480, 562-3 

 (1893). 



150. (4275-1) Ereunetis undosa, sp. n. 



Antennae dark brown. Palpi slender, drooping ; brownish. 

 Head, white, a brownish band above between the eyes. Thorax 

 white ; tegulae streaked with brown. Foreioings dark chocolate- 

 brown, with a broad white band along the dorsum, extending 

 from base to apex, but almost interrupted at the tornus by over- 

 flow of the dark brown slightly oveilapping the end of the fold ; 

 there is also a slight overlap at one-third from the base, while the 

 white band projects a little across the fold at two-thirds ; apex 

 white, with a few brown scales ; cilia wdiite, with some greyish 

 tinge about the tornus. Exji. al. 13 mm. Hindwings shining, 

 pale steely grey ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen steely grey ; 

 flattened at the base, with long projecting ovipositor. Zegs 

 yellowish white ; hind tibiae with long hairs above. 



T2/pe 2 (99174) Mus. Wlsm. 



i7«6. . Tenerife : Puerto Orotava, 2. Y. 1907. Unique. 



Allied to seminivora Wlsm. [Ind. Mus. Notes lY. 107. PI. 7 * 

 2a-cl (1899)], which diflers in its brown face and pale antennae. 



