al 
226 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricide, 
by six specimens, and is probably not uncommon in 
South Africa. 
Professor Zeller, in 1852, founded for it the genus 
Compsoctena, and placed it among the Tineide. 
Mr. Walker, in 1863, re-described it, from a specimen 
received from Mr. Trimen, under the new generic and 
specific names, ‘‘ Tissa inquinatalis,”’ pointing out very 
clearly its essential characters, but failing to recognise 
it as the insect previously described by Zeller. I have 
carefully examined Mr. Walker’s typical specimen, which 
he placed among the Tineide. 
Among the addenda to his Catalogue, vol. xxx., 
p- 995, he characterised the new genus Thapava, 
of which the description agrees in every essential 
particular with that of the genus Tissa, except that 
whereas of Jissa he writes ‘“‘antenne subpectinate,” he 
describes those of Thapava as ‘‘pectinatz,” the latter 
being more decidedly correct. I have been unable to 
find Mr. Walker’s type of Thapava natalana, the only 
species placed by him in this genus, which he referred 
to the Tortricide, but his description of it is fairly 
accurate as applied to a somewhat dark variety of the 
species before us, and I have no doubt that this species 
was intended to be indicated. The missing type was 
received from Natal in Mr. Gueinzius’ collection. 
Lastly, in vol. xxxv. of the same Catalogue, p. 1806, 
Mr. Walker creates another new genus, Galaria, Walk., 
and remarks of the one species, which he accurately 
describes under the name of Galaria subawratana, that 
it ‘‘has some affinity to the Tineide,” although he now 
places it again, as I venture to think with good reason, 
among the Tortricide. 
The two typical specimens which I have carefully 
examined, together with those in Mr. Gooch’s collection, 
belong undoubtedly to the same species as the specimen 
labelled by Mr. Walker, ‘‘ Tissa inquinatalis,” and are also 
part of Mr. Gueinzius’ collection. 
I will not add anything to the already too copious 
re-description of this curious and interesting insect. It 
is very nearly allied to a North American genus, 
Synnoma, Wism., of which figures and description are 
to be found in Part IV. of the ‘Catalogue of typical 
specimens of Lepidoptera-Heterocera in the British 
Museum,’ and which was there placed among the 
Tortricide as allied to Hxapate, Hub., a genus which 
