1907.] 191 



4595 : 1.— Tinea punctigera, sp. n. 



Antennae uioderately stout, nearly as long as the forewings ; pule yellowish 

 brown. Palpi dependent ; pale yellowish brown, the median joint with two or 

 three small bristles, terminal equally slender and about the same length. Mar.il- 

 laries moderate, bent. Head oehreous. Thorax pale yellowish brown. Forewings 

 shining, pale j'ellowish brown, with pale fuscous spots ; one at the base of the costu 

 diffused downwards to the fold, one near the flexus below the fold, one in the fold 

 a little before half the wiiig-lenglh, one on the disc above and scai'ccly beyond it, 

 one on the middle of the rosta in line with the last two, and one at the end of the 

 cell sometimes partly reduplicated ; cilia also shining and slightly paler than the 

 forewings. Exp. al., 11 — 16 mm. Hindwings and cilia shining, pale whitish grey. 

 Abdomen oehreous. Legs pale brownish oehreous. 



Type, ^ (96508) ; ? (84.83). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGEEIA— ConstMntine,20.Xr.l89o {Eaton); Ilammam- 

 es-Salahin, 17. V. 1903 (Wlsm.). Sixteen specimens. 



This species is nearly allied to liguriella, Mill., but differs in the 

 absence of black speckling on the wing-surface and of the distinctly 

 blackish scale-spots, as well as of the strong shade at the base of the 

 costa. The cilia of the hindwings are also rather whitish than 

 oehreous, but the shining, oily, appearance of the forewing is more 

 especially noticeable, in strong loutrast to the rather coarse scaling 

 of liguriella, in which the hindwings are also narrower. 



I only met with a single specimen at Hammam-es-Salahin, but 

 Mr. Eaton writes, " in the Mahomuiedan cemetery ; abundant from 

 sunset onwards, flying about open, newly dug grass, alighting on the 

 sides of the pits and on the clods thrown out of tbcm, and running 

 in and out of the crevices. A few occuri'ed on the boundary bank of 

 the enclosure, but none were seen on the adjoining unenclosed slopes 

 of pasture or fallow ground." 



471.— TINEOLA, II.-S. 

 4621 : 9. — TiNicoLA AUTOCHTHON p:s, sp. n. 



Antennae longer than the forewings ; shining mouse-grey. Palpi pale brownish 

 oehreous; depressed, slender, moderately smooth. Mead very rough; pale oehreous. 

 Thorax pale brownish oehreous. Foreioings narrow, pointed ; pale brownish oehreous, 

 sparsely sprinkled with rust-brown scales and spotted with rust-brown ; the first 

 spot is near the base of the costa, a pair of similar spots obliquely placed about 

 the middle of the wing, the one near the dorsum further removed from the base 

 than the one above it ; a fourth spot touches the costa at two-thirds, the apex and 

 termen being thickly sprinkled with rust-brown before the pale brownish oehreous 

 cilia. Exp. al., 9 mm. Hindtoings dark greyish fuscous. Abdomen brownish 

 fuscous. Leg.'s pale oehreous, with fuscous hair-scales on the tibiae, and some 

 fuscous rings around the tarsi. 



