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marinifolia at the end of April and beginning of May, and mentions 

 that later he found larvae in swellings on stems and twigs of that 

 plant, which he suggests were probably the larvse of santolinana, but 

 he failed to rear them. The Corsiean form being entirely distinct 

 from this Spanish species, which has more the general appearance of 

 epilinana, Z., I am disposed to think that the larvae he mentions may 

 have belonged to corsicana, although Staudinger did not meet with it 

 in the perfect state. 



TINEID.E. 



BUCCULATEIX, Z. 



BUCCULATEIX SANTOLINBLLA, sp. n. 

 AntenneB white, annulate with fuscous. Head white, mixed with olive-brown 

 above ; face white, speckled with greyish-fuscous ; haustellum whitish. Thorax 

 white. Fore-wings white, with patches of olive-brown speckling mixed with blackish 

 scales, this mixed speckling commencing at the base runs narrowly along the costa 

 terminating in an ante-median quadrate patch, which is succeeded by a large post- 

 median patch of the same sprinkling, tending obliquely outward and scarcely discon- 

 nected from a similar tornal patch in which some of the blackish scales form a minute 

 dot ; on the middle of the dorsum is a somewhat more conspicuous olive-brown patch 

 reaching to the fold, where it includes a minute blackish dot, the sprinkling towards 

 the base and apex is more sparsely diffused but extends to the base of the white apical 

 cilia, which contain near their outer extremity a curved olive-brown line, beyond 

 which they assume a cinereous tinge. Fxp. al., 8 mm. Hind-wings shining brownish- 

 cinereous ; cilia pale brownish-cinereous. Abdomen shining, pale brownish-cinereous. 

 Legs pale brownish-cinereous. 



Ti/pe, (J, Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah. : CoESiCA, Tavignano Valley (Corte). Larva, Santolina 

 cliamcBcyparissus, V, excl. 6 — 13, VI. Imago, 17 — 28, V. Ten speci- 

 mens. 



Bred from larvae feeding in May on Santolina chmncecyparissus in 

 the Tavignano Valley at Corte, where the species was also flying in 

 company with its near ally Jielicliry sella, Cst., from which it may be 

 distinguished by its more mottled and sprinkled appearance, the few 

 specimens of the perfect insect which I succeeded in rearing emerged 

 during the first half of the month of June. 



POSTSCEIPT. 



BOEKHAUSENIA LATANDULJi;, Mu. 



n. syun. = fuiscifrontella, Cnst., ==^ pulverisquamis, Wlsm. 



(Ecophora lavandulce, Mn., Verb. Z. B. Ver. Wien,.V, Abh., 562 — 

 3 (1855) ; Stn., Tin. S. Eur., 117, 122 (1869) ; Stgr. and Wk. Cat. 



