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Mrs. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Tinea atlantica , E. Woll. 
Expanse 4-5 lines. The fore wings of an extremely pale 
ochreous, being very uniform in colour throughout, though 
just perceptibly darker towards the outer margin ; the cilia are 
whitish, except quite at the apex, where it is concolorous with 
the surface of the wing. Hind wings glossy cinereous. 
Thorax of the same hue as the anterior wings; body slightly 
paler. 
A few specimens of this species I met with which are of a 
pure white throughout all the wings, as well as rather smaller 
than the type. 
Tinea atlantica is not particularly scarce in St. Helena 
at intermediate and lofty elevations ; nevertheless I did not 
succeed in obtaining many examples, chiefly owing, I believe, 
to the fact of this little moth being more especially attached 
to the arborescent asters (or u little gum woods ”). And as 
the latter abound mostly in the less sheltered parts of the 
island, where the wind is invariably blowing violently, it ren¬ 
ders the capture of all such small and inconspicuous species as 
the present one often well nigh impossible. 
Tinea fasciolata, E. Woll. 
Expanse 3-3^ lines. The fore wings of a dull smoky cine¬ 
reous. There is an indistinct oblique broken-up fascia of dark 
scales near the base, a second one (rather more conspicuous) 
antemedian, and a third one postmedian ; but they are nearly 
always so much interrupted, or broken into, before the fold as 
to constitute mere isolated (although irregular) markings or 
spots, three of which are costal and three on the inner margin. 
There are two other small tufts of the same kind of dark 
scales, one of which is generally large and conspicuous, and 
placed at a little distance before the apex ; the second is 
smaller and placed at the extreme apex itself. The fringe is 
concolorous with the rest of the surface, and sprinkled minutely 
with blackish scales, a little tuft of which latter is often con¬ 
spicuous (adjoining the dark patch) at the anal angle ; but 
the ornamentation is more or less variable, some specimens 
being much paler and with the first fascia-like marking 
hardly traceable. Hind wings smoky cinereous. Thorax 
brown; body concolorous with the anterior wings. 
This is a better-defined little moth than many of the pre¬ 
ceding ones, its pale cinereous fore wings, which are rather 
conspicuously adorned with about eight irregular darker 
markings made up of clusters of blackish scales, giving it a 
