606 A. J. T. JANSE. 



Tineidie would satisfy Mr. E. Meyrick, I should prefer to 

 do so, as they are more related, I think, to the Tineidae 

 than to the Cossidae. 



It may be, however, that at a future date a separate family 

 will have to be formed for Gymnelema, Trichocossus 

 and their allies, as the two genera known to me have certainly 

 several characters peculiar to them as a group. 



Pending Mr. Meyrick's view I keep the genera in the family 

 in which they are placed by Sir George Hampson. 



The characters of this group (family ?) ai'e as follows : 



In male and female, head, thorax, abdomen, femora and tibise 

 densely hairy ; antennae pectinate in male, simple, serrate and 

 ciliate in female; maxillary palpi and ocelli absent; labial palpi 

 short, covered with long spreading hairs; fore tibiae without 

 a process; mid tibiae with two well-developed end spurs; 

 hind tibiae with the mid and end spurs well developed ; 

 wings covered with scales. 



Fore wing with la forming a long fork with 15, which is 

 more or less curved upwards and comes rather close to 2 ; 

 Ic present for at least half length of wing, then becoming 

 obsolescent ; cell long and rather narrow, with a simple or 

 forked veinlet ; 2 very near to lower angle ; 5 rather close to 

 4 ; 5 to 1 2 present. 



Hind wing Ic present; 2 to 7 free, veins 2 to 8 present : cell 

 with a forked veinlet ; 8 free, more or less parallel to costa. 



The larva3 are case-dwellers. 



Genus Gymnelema Heyl. PI. XLIII, figs. 8, 9, 10. 



Gymnelema HeyL. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 35, p. ccclxxv, 1891. 

 Type, roi^gemonti HeijL ; Hmpsn., A.M.N. H., ser. 8, vol. vi, 

 p. 134. 



The following description is made from G. vinctus ]\lk. : 



Proboscis absent; palpi hardly reaching frons, ascending, 



three-jointed, third joint very short, acute ; antennas about 



half length of costa, bipectinate in male ; pecten about three 



times thickness of shaft, gradually getting shorter to tip and 



