‘Ped 
Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 239 
“Mr. Haliday made some remarks on two pairs of 
antelope’s horns, exhibited to the meeting by J. M. 
Neligan, M.D. These horns—belonging, one pair to 
Oreas canna (pl. i., fig. 3), the other to Kolus ellipsi- 
prymnus—were brought home from the Gambia by 
J. Fitzgibbon, Esq., M.D., who lately purchased them 
from some natives in the market at Macarthy’s Island, 
being struck with their appearance, as they were 
perforated by grubs enclosed in cases which projected 
abundantly from the surface of the horns, although 
these were taken from freshly-killed animals, the blood 
not having dried up on them when brought to market.” 
When first examined by Dr. Neligan, at Dublin, they 
contained ‘‘larve plump and fresh;” but when Mr. 
Haliday first saw them they were ‘‘shrivelled up.” 
The largest is described as ‘‘ nearly an inch long, with 
the body of a pale colour, without distinguishable 
markings; the head, the terminal segment, the legs, 
the ring of the prothoracic spiracles, and the hooklets 
of the prolegs, dark chestnut, tending to black on the 
head.” The structure is described as ‘‘ not inconsistent 
with the probability that it belonged to some of the 
Tineide.” ‘The most remarkable point was the 
evidence that the horns had been thus infested while 
the animal was yet living which bore them.” 
“‘The President showed some horns of the Gayal, 
from University Museum, more extensively perforated 
by a similar larva.” 
It will be observed that on this occasion no specimens 
of the perfect insect were obtained. 
On the 6th of November, 1878, Mr. Stainton 
exhibited, at the meeting of this Society, specimens of 
“a new horn-feeding Tinea (T'. orientalis), reared from 
horns from Singapore, allied to the well-known large 
species from South Africa, of which the larve fed in 
the horns of living buffaloes and antelopes, and which 
had been described by Zeller under the name of 
Vastella, and subsequently by himself under the name 
Gigantella.”” ‘‘ Mr. Simmons, of Poplar, who found them 
in his greenhouse, was quite at a loss to account for 
their appearance, till Mr. Stainton suggested they were 
horn-feeders, when he remembered a piece of horn 
placed on a shelf and forgotten, but which, when 
examined, showed evident traces of having been eaten, 
and from which pupa-skins had been obtained.” 
TRANS. ENT. Soc. 1881.—paRtT Il. (JULY.) 21 
