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Pupa. Not preserved. 



Pupation takes place within a gummy cocoon surrounded 

 by a soft woolly web, and in their natural state probably the 

 whole brood spin together in one mass, as I have found 

 the broods of allied species in just such masses. 



I Full-fed, 24th February, 1880.) 



Imago, t n+i, a».,,-i f 46 days. 



(Imago, 11th April, ,, ) 



The moth appears between six and seven weeks after the 

 caterpillar is full-fed. 



Family Tineid^. 



Genus Endrosis. Hiibner. 



XCVII.— Endrosis Braziliensis, n. sp. 



Endrosis BiJAziLiENSis, n. sp. — Forewing pale brownish-white, numer- 

 ously covered with dark-brown scales, these brown scales forming a dark 

 dentate streak at base of the cell, a small spot in middle of the cell, a 

 similar spot beneath it below the cell, an irregular broadish transverse 

 streak at end of the cell, and a streak along each vein towards extreme 

 outer margin, these vein streaks being transversely confluent and thus form 

 a series of pale oval marginal spaces ; cilia pale brown, with dark brown 

 spots. Hindwing ashy-grey ; cilia pale brown. Head and thorax pale 

 brownish-white, thickly interspersed with brown scales ; abdomen brownish, 

 naked ; antennte and palpi pale brown ; forelegs blackish above, with pale 

 tarsal bands; midlegs and hindlegs pale brown; middle tibia and tarsi 

 with blackish bands ; hind tarsi with blackish bands. Expanse, /j, to 

 fg inch. — F. MooEE. 



I a. Full-fed, San Paulo, June, 1882. 



\b, Long tubes formed by larvae on dead bark. 



This caterpillar was taken on the posts of my " rancho," 

 at the Cantareira Waterworks, San Paulo, in May, 1882. 

 It lives in a small chamber excavated in the dead bark of a 

 tree, and from the mouth of this chamber it forms a long 

 tube of silk and minute particles of bark. The tube is very 

 soft and flexible, and the free end is very loose and baggy, 

 forming an excellent covering for the caterpillar when 



