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the Lepidoptera of St. Helena. 
central ridge. I think, however, that it is probably more 
strictly a member of the aster and gumwood fauna than of 
the cabbage trees ; otherwise it possesses in the larva state the 
same characteristics as the E. ursella. 
I can only partly conjecture that this is in reality the species 
indicated by Mr. Walker’s Cerostoma anticella • but, judging 
from the few types only which I have been able to examine 
of the St.-Iielena Lepidoptera on which Mr. Walker erected 
his descriptions, I can only feel surprised that he was able 
from such mutilated exponents to draw descriptions with any 
degree of accuracy. 
Euplocamus sanctce helence. 
Gelechia sanctce lielence, Walk, in Melliss’s St. Hel. 192 (18/5). 
Gelechia lignifereUa , id. ibid. 192 (1875). 
Expanse 10-14 lines. With the fore wings pale brownish 
cinereous, dusted (especially exteriorly) witli minute blackish 
scales. The wings are very uniform throughout, their only 
marking being a small black postmedian spot; the female, 
however, does not retain this marking, and is on the whole 
less irrorated with minute black scales. Hind wings glossy 
cinereous and slightly iridescent. Thorax in the female 
concolorous with the anterior wings, but in the male of a 
rather darker hue. Body concolorous with the posterior 
wings. 
This is certainly one of the commonest members of the 
group, and better defined perhaps by its pale dusted surface, 
and its general absence of obscure blotches or markings, than 
by any positive character which is immediately conspicuous. 
The male, however (in examples which are fresh and un¬ 
rubbed), has a distinct blackish spot towards the apex of its 
anterior wings. I possess a single variety of this species in 
Avhich the costa and inner margin of the fore wings are of a 
much paler, indeed almost yellowish, tint, giving the latter at 
first sight a somewhat longitudinally striped appearance; and 
there is also a small blackish blotch on the inner margin near 
the base. 
E. sanctce helence occurs in intermediate and lofty altitudes ; 
in fact it is abundant throughout those regions which are more 
or less clothed with the arborescent Composite. 
Genus 33. Tinea, Linn. • Staint. 
Tinea flavofirnbriata, E. Woll. 
Expanse 3 lines. With the maxillary palpi developed but 
very slender and thread-like; the labial palpi arc porrected 
