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horizontally, with spine-like hairs beneath the second joint. 
The fore wings are of a pale whitish yellow, with two con¬ 
spicuous transverse fascirn, the first one of which is basal and 
the second median ; the exterior edge of the second fascia is 
adjoined in the middle by a curved longitudinal blotch-like 
marking which unites it to a blackish hind-marginal border; 
the fringe is a little yellower than the rest of the surface, and, 
moreover, concolorous throughout, there being no indication 
of the blackish scales which are so apparent in the fol¬ 
lowing species at the base ; nevertheless there is usually a 
very diminutive blackish speck immediately beyond the ex¬ 
treme apex of the wing. Hind wings silken cinereous. Thorax 
brownish. Body pale yellowish cinereous. 
Although this species and the following one are very simi¬ 
lar, yet, on the average, Tinea flavofimbriata is decidedly 
the smaller of the two; the uniformly immaculate yellow 
fringe of its anterior wings will suffice to distinguish it (even 
at first sight) from T. bicolor. There is also a much more 
decidedly yellow shade about the pale portions of its surface ; 
and its transverse fasciae, as stated in the description, are con¬ 
spicuously less oblique. It was chiefly at Plantation that I 
obtained this minute moth—and, moreover, very sparingly, my 
few specimens having been captured for the most part after 
showers. I cannot recall meeting with it on the high central 
ridge, where T. bicolor is so abundant; and I am inclined 
therefore to think that it may perhaps occupy a slightly lower 
range (as regards its habiiat) than that species. 
Tinea bicolor , E. AVoll. 
Expanse 4-4^- lines. With the maxillary palpi scarcely 
discernible; the labial palpi are very slightly deflexed, divari¬ 
cating, and with a few distinct longish hairs beneath the 
second joint. The fore wings are white (sometimes with a 
faint tinge of yellow), with three very oblique transverse dark- 
brown or blackish fascias, the first of them (the costal half of 
which is broadest) being at the base, the second (which is 
very oblique to the anal angle, where it joins a line of black 
scales along the outer margin) being median, and the third 
one (which is very narrow, and sometimes represented by 
merely a small spot on the costa) subapical. The second 
fascia being very oblique from the costa to the anal angle, and 
the hind marginal line of dark scales being oblique in exactly 
the contrary direction, give to that region of the wing the 
appearance of having a curved blackish line or inverted arch¬ 
shaped marking, with a black spot in the centre, the latter 
being constituted by the ill-defined and abbreviated third 
