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uncommon, should not have been contained in the 
collections described by Prof. Zeller and Mr. Stainton, 
but I have been unable to recognise it in any of their 
descriptions. Its upturned palpi, with the second joint 
roughly clothed with projecting coarse scales, separate 
it from the true Tinee. It differs in this respect from 
Tinea vastella, Zell., which was originally placed in the 
genus Huplocamus (subgenus Scardia) by Prof. Zeller, 
although not so by Mr. Stainton. 
Taken in October, November, and December, at light, 
in Spring Vale. 
Tinga, Zeller. 
Tinea vastella. 
Euplocamus (Scardia) vastellus, Zell., Handlingar Kong. 
Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 88; Haliday, Nat. 
Hist. Rev., vol. i., Proc. Dublin Zool. Assn., 
December 21, 1856, p. 23, pl. 1. 
Scardia vastella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 
p- 463. 
Tinea gigantella, Stainton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
n. s., 1867, vol. v., p. 221; Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 3rd ser., vol. v., part 8, p. cv. ; Wallengren, 
Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For., 1875, Arg. 82, 
p.. 128; Proc. Hint. Soc. Lond., 1878,"p. i; 
Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. xv., p. 133; Walk., Cat. 
Lep. Het., B. M., xxxv., p. 1812. 
Tinea lucidella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxx., 
p- 474. 
Two examples of this interesting species, varying in 
the expanse of the fore wings from 28 to 32 mm., are 
in Mr. Gooch’s collection. I have received it also 
through the kindness of Mr. H. Druce, whose specimens 
were collected at Bedford in South Africa. Professor 
Zeller’s original description contains no allusion to the 
habits of the larva, and I have had some difficulty in 
tracing the evidence upon which the identity of this 
species, with the horn-feeding larva of South Africa, has 
been generally accepted. 
Mr. Kirby has called my attention to what appears to 
be the earliest mention of the habits of this larva in the 
‘Natural History Review,’ vol. i1., 1856, where, at p. 23 
of the Proc. of the Dublin Zool. Association, I find the 
following :— 
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