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beneath costa ; four or five white strigulse from posterior half of dorsum, and three or four 

 from lower part of termen, with a dark space on tornus between these groups ; usually 

 some scattered white specks above these and towards apex ; apex sometimes brownish : 

 cilia whitish, with a black subbasal line, at apex with a blackish bar expanded at tips. 

 Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Mahe, Mare aux Cochons district, near Morne Blanc, and Cascade Estate, 1000 feet ; 

 Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons plateau and south side of Mont Pot-a-eau, 1000 — 1500 feet, 

 from August to October and in January and February, twenty-eight specimens. 



112. Tinea misella Zell. 



Mahe, near Morne Blanc, 1000 feet, in November; one specimen. An introduced 

 European species ; larva feeds on refuse. 



113. Tinea fuscipunctella Hb. 



Mahe - , near Morne Blanc and Cascade Estate, 1000 feet, in November and December; 

 two specimens. A cosmopolitan species, introduced ; larva feeds on excrementitious 

 refuse. 



114. Tinea pachyspila Meyr. 



Mahe, Cascade Estate, 1000 feet ; Silhouette, Mare aux Cochons, 1000 feet ; in 

 September, January, and February. A common Ceylon species, doubtless introduced ; 

 larva feeding on flannel, fur, &c. 



115. Tinea saucropis, n. sp. 



$. 7 mm. Head white, with some grey hairs above eyes. Palpi blackish, apex 

 white. Antennae over 1, stout, ochreous-whitish. Thorax and abdomen whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, apex pointed ; white ; a fascia of light bi-ownish 

 suffusion near base, touched with dark fuscous on costa ; a yellow-ochreous spot in disc 

 before middle, resting on a small costal spot of fuscous suffusion ; three or four scattered 

 yellow-ochreous dots posteriorly ; two or three fuscous dots on costa posteriorly : cilia 

 white. Hindwings and cilia whitish. 



Mahe\ near Morne Blanc, 1000 feet, in November; one specimen. Not in good 

 order, and the neuration is not discernible, but it appears to be a true Tinea ; the larva 

 would probably feed on lichens. 



Melasina Boisd. 



116. Melasina tabernalis, n. sp. 



?. 11 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown mixed with dark fuscous (damaged). Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, terminal joint rather long, slender. Thorax dark fuscous, spotted with 

 pale ochreous (damaged). Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft large, fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; all veins separate, 7 to apex ; deep purple, suffused with dark 

 fuscous along costa, irregularly strewn with small whitish-ochreous suffused spots and 

 strigulse ; four or five more sharply marked small whitish-ochreous triangular spots on 

 costa, three or four on dorsum, and a series of marks round apex and termen. Hindwings 



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