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190 LIFE-HISTORIES OF TINEIDA 
TINEA OPSIGONA, eA, 
Tinea opsigona, Meyr., B. J.. XXI, 123('). 
Occurs throughout India and Ceylon. ‘We have it from Coimbatore, 
Pusa, Chapra, Rajshahi and Gurdaspur. . 
The larva does not seem to be known definitely, but in Ent. Mo. Mag., 
1898, p. 245, Lord Walsingham says that he knows “at least five Indian 
species [of Tvnea] closely allied to vastella, one of which (orzentalis, Stt.) is 
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also a horn-feeding species.” I do not know of any Indian Tinea described 
by Stainton as orientalis, which is probably a manuscript (unpublished) name 
equivalent with opsigona, Meyr., which has frequently been mis-identified 
with the African horn-feeding vastella, Z. Frequent inquiries from sportsmen 
in India have so far failed to reveal any knowledge of the presence of a horn- 
feeding Tinea in India.* 
f TINEA FRUGIVORA, MEYR. (PLATE LVI, FIG. 1.) 
Tinea frugivora, Meyr., Exot. Micr., II, 77 (1917)(}). 
Described from one specimen taken at Coimbatore in July and from a 
series bred in November and December from fruits of Trichosanthes (containing 
larvee of a Chetodacus (Trypaneide)) collected at Lashio, 3,000 feet, Northern 
Shan States, in August, but probably the dried remains of the fruit were 
attacked later on the journey or at Pusa. The moths emerged between 14th 
October and 4th December 1914. 
TINEA PELLIONELLA, LINN. (PLATE LVI, FIG. 2.) 
Tinea pellionella, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. X), I, 536 (1758)(!) ; Meyrick, Hand- 
book, p. 791 (1895)(2) ; Wlsm., P. Z. 8., 1907, 1025 (1908)(°). 
Cae) yp. a0b- FP) ‘A cosmopolitan household pest, recorded from Europe, North America, 
North and South Africa, West-Central Asia, Ceylon, Japan, Australia and 
New Zealand: We have it from Rawalpindi, Madras, Pusa and Coimbatore 
and it is doubtless common throughout our limits. 
Larva whitish ; head brown; plate of 2 dark brown ; in a case on cloth, 
feathers, hair, etc.(?). 
A common household “ clothes-moth,” the larva feeding on furs, feathers, 
bird’s nests, stuffed birds, woollens, clothes, carpets, ete. At Coimbatore 
* Note. Since the above was sent to press, I have come across two cases at Sadiya, in 
North-East Assam, in which dead buffalo horns had been attacked by a horn-feeding larva, 
the empty pupa-cases remaining protruding from galleries eaten through the surface of the 
horn. As no moths were obtained, the species concerned cannot be identified. I should be 
glad to hear of any similar cases in India or to receive specimens of horns attacked by 
larva, [T. B. F.) 
