TINEIDJE. 499 



tips, costa and exterior border hardly convex, the Latter very obliqne ; veins much 

 hke those of Depressaria in structure. Body moderately stout ; proboscis obsolete ; 

 palpi obliquely ascending, shorter than the breadth of the head, second joint pilose, 

 slightly curved, third nearly linear, about half length of the second; antennsB smooth, 

 rather stout; abdomen extending more than half beyond hindwings ; legs smooth, 

 moderately long and stout ; hind tibiae thinly fringed with very long hairs ; spurs 

 long." (n'rt/Arr.) 



HAPSIFERA SECLUSELIA (Plate 208, Fig. 12, 13, ^J ? ). 

 CimUra sedusclla, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 780 (1864), ?. 



Male. Cinereous-ochreous : forewing rough, with many transversely disposed 

 brown-scaled strigce, and with a subbasal, and two medial oblique bands of prominent 

 black-tipt raised scales ; a marginal row of similar raised scales; cilia tipt with brown : 

 hindwiug brownish cinereous. Thorax, head, and sides of palpi with black-tipt scales ; 

 fore and middle legs with blackish bands. Female. Forewing with more defined and 

 uniformly disposed brown strigte, and with the black-tipt bands of raised scales. 

 Expanse, S to,Q 1 inch. 



Ceylon. From Mr, Mackwood's Collection. 



Genus TINEA. 



Tinea, Linn. Syst. Xat. X. ed. p. 534 (I7o8), id. xii. ed. p. 883 (1767). Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 655 (1775); 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 248 (1805) ; id. Consid. Gen. p. 364 (1810). Stephens, 111. Haust. 

 lY. p. 343 (1S34). Zeller, Linn. Ent. vi. p. 84, 100 (1852). Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 24 

 (1854). 



TINEA TAPETZELLA. 

 Phalcena {Tinea) iapetzella, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10 ed. p. 536 (1758), xii. ed. p. 888 (1767), Clerck, Icones, 



pi. xi. f. 12 (1759). 

 Tinea tapetzella, Miilkr, Faun. Ins. Frid, p. 56 (1764). Stephens, III. Haust. IV. p. 343 (1835). Stainton, 



Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 28 (1854). 

 Tinea tapezella, Schitf, S. V. p. 142. Fabr. Ent. Syst. p. 659 (1775). Treitscbke, Dupoucbel. 

 Tinea tapetiella, ZeWer, Isis, 1839, p. 184. 



" Forewings black from the base to the middle, white beyond ; on the inner 

 margin the black terminates very apruptly a little before the middle ; on the costa, 

 where it is continued further, the termination is less abrupt ; apical portion of the 

 wing clouded with dark grey, and there is a small black spot at anal angle, and two 

 or three at the apex ; ciha whitish, at the apex dark grey : hindwings pale grey, with 

 whitish-grey cilia. Head and face white; palpi white, joints dark fuscous externally ; 

 antennas fuscous. {Stainton.) 

 Expanse 9 lines." 

 Ceylon. {Templeton ; Nietner.) 



