[6] Mrs. Holt White spent the winter of 1892–93 in Teneriffe, and published the result of her observations on the lepidopterous fauna of the island in a popular and unpretentious volume.

[7] Twenty-nine butterflies and thirty-four moths are briefly characterized, and there are frequent notes on their comparative abundance, habits, early stages and food-plants.

In addition, there is a list of twenty-eight moths,[6] most of them recorded on the authority of Alphéraky in his paper, "Zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Teneriffa", in the fifth volume of Romanoff's Mémoires sur les Lépidoptēres; these, principally microlepidoptera, are considered by Holt White as of little interest to the ordinary collector.

[7] Several species are figured in this book for the first time,[6] and a detailed account is given of the little-known Arctiid, Rhyporioides rufescens, Brullé, which is peculiar to the Canaries, in all its stages.

[6] The Athenaeum (1896) considered it to be a pleasant record of natural observations, with an absence of original information, resembling much of the earlier publications of the Revs.