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the Lepidoptera of St. Helena. 
somewhat ornate or variegated appearance. Much depends, 
however, as I need scarcely add, on the state of the examples 
inspected ; for when in a worn or rubbed condition, some 
portion of the spots or blotches are pretty sure to be absent. 
It. is evidently one of the commonest of the St. Helena Micro- 
lepidoptera, particularly at intermediate and rather lofty alti¬ 
tudes. At Plantation it simply swarmed, the small, brown, 
somewhat cylindrical, fusiform cases of the larva often covering 
the walls and trunks of the trees to a perfectly marvellous 
extent. 
Tinea minutissima , E. YVoll. 
Expanse 3 lines. The fore wings of a pale cinereous hue, 
and very much suffused with dark brown scales, the latter 
usually forming somewhat indistinct transverse oblique fascim, 
though becoming more blotch-like towards the outer margin ; 
the cilia are also interrupted by dark brown scales. Hind 
wings smoky cinereous and very deeply fringed. 
At first sight this little moth might well be mistaken for 
T. fasciolata ; however, on closer examination, it will be 
found to be a decidedly smaller species than the above one; 
the anterior wings, too, are of a much paler cinereous hue, 
besides having their surface seemingly smoother or with less 
appearance of being tufted by the dark brown scales. 
So far as I can recollect, I obtained T. minutissima in 
the same situations as the preceding species, but much more 
sparingly, although this might probably be accounted for by 
my not distinguishing at first between the two. 
Tinea divisa , E. Woll. 
Expanse 4-5 lines. The fore wings distinctly and broadly 
marked with brown throughout the costal region, the posterior 
edge of the brownish portion being usually more or less 
jagged; the rest of the surface is of a creamy whitish buff; 
so that the wings are pretty equally divided (as it were) into 
two longitudinal compartments, or narrowish line-like spaces— 
namely, a dark costal one, and an inner marginal palish one. 
The fringe is thickly speckled with black along its base, at 
the outer margin of the wing—which causes the latter to 
appear terminated by an oblique, black, powdery line, the 
most apparent and the. least variable of all the markings. 
Between the fold and the inner margin there are generally 
a few minute raised blackish tufts of scales. The female 
is rather more uniform in colour throughout, it being of 
a rather yellower or more gilded hue, and with the costal 
and inner marginal divisions more blended into each other. 
