178 Lord Walsingliam on a new Tineid Moth. 



"■ the apparently heretofore overlooked " character, the more 

 or less furcation of " vein 1 6 in the hind wings," which he 

 finds in several genera of the Tineinte. In Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1891, 102, when criticising de Peyerimho:ff's reliance 

 on this character as distinguishing the Tortricidffi from the 

 Tineidee, I remarked that the furcation of vein 1 b occurred 

 in a number of Tineid genera, and even in " Tinea tapetzella, 

 L., itself." 



May I suggest that the application of the word ''overlooked" 

 is capable of extension, but not in the direction indicated 

 {vide I. c. pi. vii.) ? 



XXVI r. — Description of a new Tineid Moth infesting Cotton- 

 pods in Egypt. By the lit. Hon. Lord Walsingham, 

 M.A., LL.i)., F.R.S. 



T 1 X E I N A. 



Tineidae. 



Stagmatophora, H.-S. 



Staginatophora gossypiella, sp. n.. Wlsm. 



Antennce rather more than |, slightly biserrate ; yellowish 

 white, with two rather broad brown bands on the outer 

 fourth ; the basal joint rather stout, elongate, with a dark 

 brown band across the upperside before its apex and bearing 

 a thin and fugitive pecten. Labial Palpi moderately long, 

 recurved, median joint slightly roughened beneath, terminal 

 joint longer than median, slender, acute ; whitish ochreous. 

 MaxiUary Palpi short, converging. Head and face smooth ; 

 whitish ochreous. Thorax whitish ochreous. Forewings 

 narrow, elongate, acute ; whitish, somewhat smeared with 

 pale brownish ochreous, of which a sinuate diffused streak, 

 commencing beloAv the costa at two fifths, runs to the apex ; 

 a similar more slender streak indicated below it parallel with 

 the upper edge of the fold ; at the base of the costa is a 

 narrow elongate blackish patch, abruptly and obliquely 

 terminated at its outer end ; a patch of l)lackish scales lies 

 at the end of the cell upon the brownish ochreous scaling, 

 which is somewhat intensified beyond it ; other black scales, 

 forming an inwardly oblique costal streak before the apex, 



