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more towards the base) is often a second batch or elongated 
fascicle of them. The whole surface is much suffused with 
blackish scales, and is of a very uneven appearance, varying 
somewhat in different specimens. Near to the apex are two 
small, curious, but not conspicuous folds, extending obliquely 
from the costa to nearly halfway across the wing ; the latter is 
fringed anteriorly from the apex to nearly a third of the dis¬ 
tance to the base. Hind wings of a glossy greyish cinereous, 
with a slight metallic lustre. Thorax rather paler than the 
anterior wings. Body concolorous with the fringe of the 
posterior ones. 
The only examples which I have seen of this distinct and 
very interesting species were captured by myself at an inter¬ 
mediate elevation on the south-eastern or inner side of the 
great Sandy-Bay crater, and below the central ridge—namely, 
amongst the old gumwoods in Peak Gut, and, under similar 
circumstances, between Peak Dale and Lufldns. We may be 
almost certain, therefore, that the species is a member of the 
original gum wood fauna. The variegated nature of the upper 
wings (which, although pale cinereous, are crowded with irre¬ 
gular little patches and short line-like markings of a darker 
hue), in conjunction with the tufts of transverse fascicles of 
raised scales on the disk, and the fact of the costa being fringed 
with long hairs from the apex to nearly a third of the distance 
to the base, will suffice to separate Tinea fasciculata at once 
quite easily. 
Tinea subceneella. 
Tinea xubceneeUa , Walk., in Melliss’s St. Hel. 191 (1875). 
Expanse 6-8 lines. With the fore wings very variable in 
the intensity of their hue, some specimens approaching almost 
to fuscous brown, while others, again, are comparatively pale. 
But the general surface (of whatever tint it be) appears at first 
sight to be almost plain and uniform throughout, being scarcely 
suffused with either darker or paler scales; but below the fold 
there are nevertheless often obsolete indications (barely trace¬ 
able) of a few indistinct paler blotches. The fringe is more 
or less concolorous with the rest of the wing, except that its 
base is sparingly besprinkled with blackish scales. Hind 
wings silvery cinereous. Thorax concolorous with the an¬ 
terior wings ; body slightly darker than the posterior ones. 
Plentiful as is this inconspicuous little species at interme¬ 
diate elevations in St. Helena, yet, from their sluggish habits 
and from the trick which they possess of feigning to be dead 
when captured in a net, it is not one that is very readily taken. 
My examples I got principally from the kitchen-garden at 
