238 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricida, 



uncommon, should not have been contained in the 

 collections described by Prof. Zeller and Mr. Stainton, 

 but I have been unable to recognise it in any of their 

 descriptions. Its upturned palpi, with the second joint 

 roughly clothed with projecting coarse scales, separate 

 it from the true Tinece. It differs in this respect from 

 Tinea vastella, Zell., which was originally placed in the 

 genus Euplocamus (subgenus Scardia) by Prof. Zeller, 

 although not so by Mr. Stainton. 



Taken in October, November, and December, at light, 

 in Spring Vale. 



TINEA, Zeller. 

 Qx Tinea vastella. 



Euplocamus (Scardia) vastellus,7ie[l. 9 Handlingar Kong. 



Svensk. Vetens. Akad., 1852, p. 88 ; Haliday, Nat. 



Hist. Eev., vol. iii., Proc. Dublin Zool. Assn., 



December 21, 1856, p. 23, pi. i. 

 Scardia vastella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xxviii. 



p. 463. 

 Tinea gigantella, Stainton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



n. s., 1867, vol. v., p. 221; Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond., 3rd ser., vol. v., part 8, p. cv. ; Wallengren, 



Of. Af. Kongl. Vet. Akad. For., 1875, Arg. 32, 



p. 128; Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. li. ; 



Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. xv., p. 133; Walk., Cat. 



Lep. Het., B. M., xxxv., p. 1812. 

 Tinea lucidella f Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., B. M., xgh, 



p. 474. 



Two examples of this interesting species, varying in 

 the expanse of the fore wings from 28 to 32 mm., are 

 in Mr. Gooch's collection. I have received it also 

 through the kindness of Mr. H. Druce, whose specimens 

 were collected at Bedford in South Africa. Professor 

 Zeller's original description contains no allusion to the 

 habits of the larva, and I have had some difficulty in 

 tracing the evidence upon which the identity of this 

 species, with the horn-feeding larva of South Africa, has 

 been generally accepted. 



Mr. Kirby has called my attention to what appears to 

 be the earliest mention of the habits of this larva in the 

 ' Natural History Keview,' vol. iii., 1856, where, at p. 23 

 of the Proc. of the Dublin Zool. Association, I find the 

 following : 



