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240 Lord Walsingham on the Vortricide, 
The description of Tinea orientalis was published with 
full particulars in Ent. Mo. Mag., xv. 1383. 
On reading this report of the meeting I instituted a 
diligent search for the description of the habits of 
Scardia vastella, Zell. The only further allusion to a 
horn-feeding Tinea larva which I could find was in the 
Proce. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. ev., where Mr. Stainton 
‘records a new habit for the larva of a Tinea. Mr. 
Swanzy had shown him the larva-case of a Tinea which 
was taken from the horn of a Kooloo, from Natal, and 
there could be little doubt that the larva must have been 
burrowing in the horn of the living animal.” Mr. 
Swanzy added, ‘‘ that since Mr. Stainton’s visit he had 
found a living larva in the horn.” 
‘*Mr. Trimen had seen the skull of a harte-beest, the 
base of which was eaten by what he had no doubt was 
the larva of a Tinea.” 
Being unable to find any published reference of the 
African horn-feeding larva to the species described by 
Zeller and Stainton, I referred the question to Mr. 
Stainton for his kind assistance. In a letter, dated 
December 16th, 1880, which I gratefully acknowledge, 
he writes :— 
‘“‘T suspect that the identity of the horn-feeding Tinea 
and 7’. vastella has never appeared in print. I enclose 
you extracts from my correspondence with Zeller on the 
subject; he evidently then thought that Rogenhofer, of 
Vienna, was going to write on the subject, which 
possibly he never has done.” 
From these extracts I gather that in 1873 Professor 
Zeller received from Herr Rogenhofer one male and two 
females, with two larve and one pupa of a moth, the 
caterpillar of which lives in the horns of buffaloes at the 
Cape, the specimens agreeing exactly with Scardia 
vastella, Zell., and that he took them to be identical with 
a species which is common at the Cape in rotten bones. 
In a subsequent letter, discussing the geographical 
distribution of the species, Prof. Zeller writes :— 
*“Somit bleibt Siidafrica das Vaterland, wenn die Art 
nicht kiinstlich verpflanzt wird, was ich fiir gut ausfuhrbar 
halte; nur wird der Aufenthalt wahrscheinlich nicht 
anderswo sein kénnen, als wo unverarbeitete Horner 
von Wiederkiiuern aufbewahrt werden. Das die Raupe 
am gesunden Horn des lebenden Thieres vorkomme, ist 
nur nicht recht wahrscheinlich ; ich nehme den faulenden 
