542 TINEINA. 



ALTTCITA, L. 



ALUCITA, L., Syst. Nat. (ed. X), 496 (1758). = ACIPTILIA, Hb., 

 Verz. bek. Schm. 430-1 (1826); Stgr. & Wk. Cat, &c. 



3622. Alucita albitarsella, Wlsm. sp. n. 



Antenna pale brownish grey. Palpi very short, porrect, not reaching 

 beyond the head ; brownish grey. Head and Thorax brownish grey. 

 Forewings cleft to about one-third of their length, the lobes slightly 

 diverging ; brownish grey, the costa narrowly white, interrupted above 

 the base of the fissure by an elongate black costal spot ; between this 

 and the apex are a few blackish costal scales, the extreme apex being 

 touched with white ; cilia brownish grey, with a fuscous shade running 

 through them near the end of the apical lobe ; on the tornal lobe is 

 an elongate white streak running from the base of the fissure along 

 half the length of the lobe at its upper edge, and occupying more than 

 half the width of the lobe ; cilia brownish grey with a slight fuscous 

 shade above and below, and a few whitish scales at the apex. Exp. 

 al. 14-5 mm. Hindivings pale brownish grey, posterior lobe not 

 toothed ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey, slenderly 

 streaked along its upper surface with whitish lines. Legs brownish 

 grey, paler at the base and darker about the spurs ; the spurs them- 

 selves being whitish and the posterior tarsal joints white. 



Type cj. Mus. OXF. [Wlsm. Det. 15 (1893).] 



Hab. INDIA Ootacamund (Minchiri), one specimen. Mus. OXF. 



1 Larva white, about half an inch long, with a few long hairs scattered 

 about its body. It burrows into the shoots of a common jungle plant. 

 Pupa suspended by tail from underside of a leaf. No. 1021* (Minchin 

 MS.). 



TINEINA. 



JEGEBIADJE. 



The genera and species belonging to this family have been enumerated 

 by Colonel Swinhoe in vol. I. pp. 35-40, Nos. 140-164 (1892). 



TIN-ZGERJADJE. 



SNELLENIA, Wlsm. 

 SNELLENIA, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, 13-14, 36. 



3623. Snellenia bimaculata, Wlsm. 



Snellenia bimaculata, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, 15, 17, 37, PL VI. 6 

 (1889)'. 



Type ?. Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. BORNEO Sandakan 1 . 



Mus. OXF. One specimen, CEYLON (Thwaites, 1873), probably from 

 Peradeniya. [Wlsm. Det. 55 (1893).] 



