240 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce, 



The description of Tinea orientalis was published with 

 full particulars in Ent. Mo. Mag., xv. 133. 



On reading this report of the meeting I instituted a 

 diligent search for the description of the habits of 

 Scardia vastella, Zell. The only further allusion to a 

 horn-feeding Tinea larva which I could find was in the 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. cv., where Mr. Stainton 

 "records a new habit for the larva of a Tinea. Mr. 

 Swanzy had shown him the larva-case of a Tinea which 

 was taken from the horn of a Kooloo, from Natal, and 

 there could be little doubt that the larva must have been 

 burrowing in the horn of the living animal." Mr. 

 Swanzy added, " that since Mr. Stainton's visit he had 

 found a living larva in the horn." 



" Mr. Trimen had seen the skull of a harte-beest, the 

 base of which was eaten by what he had no doubt was 

 the larva of a Tinea." 



Being unable to find any published reference of the 

 African horn-feeding larva to the species described by 

 Zeller and Stainton, I referred the question to Mr. 

 Stainton for his kind assistance. In a letter, dated 

 December 16th, 1880, which I gratefully acknowledge, 

 he writes : 



" I suspect that the identity of the horn-feeding Tinea 

 and T. vastella has never appeared in print. I enclose 

 you extracts from my correspondence with Zeller on the 

 subject ; he evidently then thought that Kogenhofer, of 

 Vienna, was going to write on the subject, which 

 possibly he never has done." 



From these extracts I gather that in 1873 Professor 

 Zeller received from Herr Kogenhofer one male and two 

 females, with two larvae and one pupa of a moth, the 

 caterpillar of which lives in the horns of buffaloes at the 

 Cape, the specimens agreeing exactly with Scardia 

 vastella, Zell., and that he took them to be identical with 

 a species which is common at the Cape in rotten bones. 



In a subsequent letter, discussing the geographical 

 distribution of the species, Prof. Zeller writes : 



" Somit bleibt Siidafrica das Vaterland, wenn die Art 

 nicht kiinstlich verpflanzt wird, was ich fur gut ausfiihrbar 

 halte ; nur wird der Aufenthalt wahrscheinlich nicht 

 anderswo sein konnen, als wo unverarbeitete Horner 

 von Wiederkauern aufbewahrt werden. Das die Eaupe 

 am gesunden Horn des lebenden Thieres vorkomme, ist 

 nur nicht recht wahrscheinlich ; ich nehme den faulenden 



