226 Lord Walsingham on the Tortricidce, 



by six specimens, and is probably not uncommon in 

 South Africa. 



Professor Zeller, in 1852, founded for it the genus 

 Compsoctena, and placed it among the Tineidce. 



Mr. Walker, in 1863, re-described it, from a specimen 

 received from Mr. Trimen, under the new generic and 

 specific names, " Tissa inquinatalis," pointing out very 

 clearly its essential characters, but failing to recognise 

 it as the insect previously described by Zeller. I have 

 carefully examined Mr. Walker's typical specimen, which 

 he placed among the Tineida. 



Among the addenda to his Catalogue, vol. xxx., 

 p. 995, he characterised the new genus Thapava, 

 of which the description agrees in every essential 

 particular with that of the genus Tissa, except that 

 whereas of Tissa he writes "antennae subpectinatse," he 

 describes those of Thapava as " pectinatae," the 'latter 

 being more decidedly correct. I have been unable to 

 find Mr. Walker's type of Thapava natalana, the only 

 species placed by him in this genus, which he referred 

 to the Tortricida, but his description of it is fairly 

 accurate as applied to a somewhat dark variety of the 

 species before us, and I have no doubt that this species 

 was intended to be indicated. The missing type was 

 received from Natal in Mr. Gueinzius' collection. 



Lastly, in vol. xxxv. of the same Catalogue, p. 1806, 

 Mr. Walker creates another new genus, Galaria, Walk., 

 and remarks of the one species, which he accurately 

 describes under the name of Galaria subauratana, that 

 it " has some affinity to the Tineida" although he now 

 places it again, as I venture to think with good reason, 

 among the Tortricidce. 



The two typical specimens which I have carefully 

 examined, together with those in Mr. Gooch's collection, 

 belong undoubtedly to the same species as the specimen 

 labelled by Mr. Walker, " Tissa inquinatalis," and are also 

 part of Mr. Gueinzius' collection. 



I will not add anything to the already too copious 

 re-description of this curious and interesting insect. It 

 is very nearly allied to a North American genus, 

 Synnoma, Wlsm., of which figures and description are 

 to be found in Part IV. of the ' Catalogue of typical 

 specimens of Lepidoptera-Heterocera in the British 

 Museum,' and which was there placed among the 

 Tortricidce as allied to Exapate, Hub., a genus which 



