Tineide, and Pterophoride of South Africa. 248 
The word ‘‘ Mas” at the commencement of Mr. Walker’s 
Latin description is evidently a mistake, the specimen 
being correctly described in English as a ‘‘ Female,” 
and as having its ‘‘ oviduct exserted.” It possesses such 
peculiarities as might perhaps with good reason be 
considered to distinguish it as the type of a new genus; 
but I shall confine myself for the present to a short 
re-description of the single example in the British 
Museum, which appears to differ in the character of its 
ornamentation from any known Lepidopterous insect. 
Head rough, pale cinereous; palpi short, scarcely 
projecting beyond the coarse frontal scales. Antenne 
simple, nearly as long as the fore wings. Tongue not 
visible. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Fore wings subovate, 
elongate, with the apex slightly rounded, shining, very 
pale yellowish cinereous, streaked with greyish fuscous, 
the apex having a bright ferruginous tinge. About the 
surface of the fore wings are scattered several pale 
whitish straw-coloured tufts of elongate hair-like scales, 
perhaps best described by the German ‘‘ haar pinsel.”’ 
These are distributed as follows :—Four immediately below 
the costal margin, of which one is about one-third from 
the base, one about the middle, one rather beyond the 
middle, and one on the apical third ; below these are two 
at the end of the cell, one above the other, one on the 
middle of the cell, and one immediately below and before 
the apex; about four others are ranged immediately 
above the dorsal margin. Some of these hair pencils 
are as much as two millimetres in length, and Mr. 
Walker adds, from Mr. Gueinzius’ MSS., ‘“‘ This moth 
carries the bristles of the wings erect when alive.”’ The 
cilia are very long; the hind tibiew clothed with long 
hairs on both sides ; the ovipositor extruded to one-fourth 
the length of the abdomen. 
Blabophanes longella. 
Tinea longella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xxviii., p. 479. 
Blabophanes longella, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
April, 1881. 
Two specimens in Mr. Gooch’s collection agree with 
this Northern Indian species described by Mr. Walker, 
except in the colour of their heads, which, as noticed by 
Mr, Butler (J. c.), are more decidedly yellow. 
