1895.] 107 



In Lord Walsingham's collection are several cases, and four 

 specimens of the perfect insect, bred by Mr. E. E. Green, at Punda- 

 loya, and in Mr. Green's MS. Journal, p. 158, PL LXXIX, figs. I— Id 

 (now in the British Museum, Nat. Hist.) are figures of the larva, the 

 cases, and the imago, accompanied by some very interesting notes on 

 the life-history, which I quote after the description. 



Fitmea ? limulus is not a Psychid, but belongs to the Depres- 

 sariadce, and constitutes the type of a new genus belonging to the 

 same group as Phceosaces, Meyr. The occurrence of a case-bearing 

 larva in this family is interesting, and apparently unrecorded, but I 

 have reason to believe that coleophorous larvae occur in more families 

 of the (super-family) Tineidce than is generally supposed. Whether 

 the SPECIES is to be regarded as new I am unable to answer, for 

 Rogenhofer has already given a name to the case and larva, which 

 I have adopted for the imago also. 



DEPBESSABIAD^. 

 PSEUDODOXIA, gen. nov. 



Type (^ Pseudodoxia limulus (Kghfr.), Unit. 



AntenncE (<? ), as long as the fore-wings, stout, uniscrrate ; basal joint somewhat 

 enlarged, slightly flattened, without a pecten. 



Maxillary palpi, very short. 



Labial palpi, recurved, reaching above the vertex ; second joint with appressed 

 scales ; terminal joint shorter than second, acute. 



Hanstellum, developed. 



Head, with appressed scales, sidetufts loosely spreading. 



Thorax (apparently smooth). 



Fore-wings, rather narrow, elongate, costa slightly arched at base, thence straight, 

 apex somewhat depressed, not acute ; apical margin very oblique, slightly convex. 

 Neuration, 12 veins : 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex ; 1 furcate at base, 2 from near 

 angle of cell, 11 from before middle of cell. 



Hind-wings, a little narrower than fore-wings, elongate, apical margin gradually 

 rounded, but straightened along the dorsal margin before the abdominal angle, which 

 is very slightly bulged and contains above, on vein 1, a tuft of hair-scales ; cilia |. 

 JS'eiiraiion, 8 veins : 6 and 7 separate, nearly parallel ; 3 and 4 from a short slalk, 5 

 slightly bent over at origin ; from vein 5 the discoidal nervure recedes obliquely 

 backwards to 7 ; 8 free. 



Abdomen, not flattened, genital segments well developed. 



Hind-legs: tibiae clothed with long hairs. 



Larva, with 16 legs (6 thoracic, 8 abdominal, 2 anal) ; living in a case and 

 feeding on lichens and mosses. 



