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Thorax dark brown. Body concolorous with the posterior 
wings. 
The dark brown scales and fragmentary markings of this 
Tinea are rather more conspicuous and defined than in some 
of the allied species, giving to the upper wings (the straw- 
coloured ground of which is nearly concealed by these obscure 
portions) a somewhat marbled appearance. Moreover the 
presence of usually two or three indistinct but nevertheless 
rather larger and blacker blotches imparts a still more 
freckled aspect to the whole. Although not always easily 
traceable, the small and irregular darker patches are placed, 
two of them on the inner margin and a third near to the 
(more blackened) apex, not to mention one or two, which are 
generally more obsolete, along the costa. 
Tinea vilis , E. Woll. 
Expanse 5-6 lines. The fore wings of an obscure brownish 
or dingy cinereous, and very much speckled or suffused with 
blackish scales, which more or less form broken-up and very 
indistinct transverse fasciae. On the inner margin there is 
generally at least one blackish blotch which is rather larger 
than the rest and very irregular, and which is often supple¬ 
mented by a second ; but the one at the anal angle is almost 
always the most distinct, as well as the most permanent. 
Hind wings silvery cinereous. Thorax concolorous with the 
darker portions of the anterior wings ; body somewhat paler. 
This inconspicuous, dingily speckled, but nevertheless 
interesting little moth is not uncommon throughout those 
regions of St. Helena where the remains of the gumwood- 
thickets are still lingering ; and there cannot, I think, be 
much doubt that the species is a thoroughly indigenous one. 
Like its congeners, it is generally to be met with resting upon 
the old trunks, the dingy and rough surface of which it so 
closely resembles that when its wings are folded closely over 
its body (as is its custom), and its head a little raised it 
might well be mistaken for a portion of the bark. 
Tinea fasciculata, E. Woll. 
Expanse 10-11 lines. The fore wings of an unequal 
griseous or pale cinereous brown, but densely crowded with 
ill-defined darker markings, especially along the costa, and 
having small longitudinal streaks or broken-up lines near the 
base. About the middle of the wing (arising from the inner 
margin and extending across the fold) is a narrow transverse 
line of raised palish scales; and near to the costa (slightly 
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