Tincidce, and Pterophoridce of South Africa. 243 



The word " Mas " at the commencement of Mr. Walker's 

 Latin description is evidently a mistake, the specimen 

 being correctly described in English as a " Female," 

 and as having its " oviduct exserted." It possesses such 

 peculiarities as might perhaps with good reason be 

 considered to distinguish it as the type of a new genus ; 

 but I shall confine myself for the present to a short 

 re-description of the single example in the British 

 Museum, which appears to differ in the character of its 

 ornamentation from any known Lepidopterous insect. 



Head rough, pale cinereous ; palpi short, scarcely 

 projecting beyond the coarse frontal scales. Antennae 

 simple, nearly as long as the fore wings. Tongue not 

 visible. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Fore wings subovate, 

 elongate, with the apex slightly rounded, shining, very 

 pale yellowish cinereous, streaked with greyish fuscous, 

 the apex having a bright ferruginous tinge. About the 

 surface of the fore wings are scattered several pale 

 whitish straw-coloured tufts of elongate hair-like scales, 

 perhaps best described by the German " haar pinsel." 

 These are distributed as follows : Four immediately below 

 the costal margin, of which one is about one-third from 

 the base, one about the middle, one rather beyond the 

 middle, and one on the apical third ; below these are two 

 at the end of the cell, one above the other, one on the 

 middle of the cell, and one immediately below and before 

 the apex ; about four others are ranged immediately 

 above the dorsal margin. Some of these hair pencils 

 are as much as two millimetres in length, and Mr. 

 Walker adds, from Mr. Gueinzius' MSS., " This moth 

 carries the bristles of the wings erect when alive." The 

 cilia are very long ; the hind tibiae clothed with long 

 hairs on both sides ; the ovipositor extruded to one-fourth 

 the length of the abdomen. 



Blabophanes longella. 



Tinea longella, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xxviii., p. 479. 

 Blabophanes longella, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 April, 1881. 



Two specimens in Mr. Gooch's collection agree with 

 this Northern Indian species described by Mr. Walker, 

 except in the colour of their heads, which, as noticed by 

 Mr. Butler (I. c.), are more decidedly yellow. 



