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Mrs. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Hind wings of a silvery white, and, in the male, having 
a dark cinereous blotch at the base. Thorax yellowish; 
body somewhat paler. 
This pretty little moth is very abundant in most parts of 
the island, but especially at intermediate altitudes. Near 
West Lodge, which is situated at a less elevated part of the 
great central ridge, it is exceedingly plentiful amongst the 
native arborescent asters ; nevertheless the majority of my 
specimens were beaten out of a single hedge in the kitchen 
garden at Plantation — a hedge which was formed almost 
exclusively of overgrown masses of the common passion¬ 
flower ( Passiflora ccerulea ), and must have been at least two 
yards in thickness. I do not imagine, however, that the 
moth was in any way actually dependent on that particular 
plant, more especially as there were the remains of some 
native gumwood trees a little distance off. 
Tinea flavotincta, E. Woll. 
Expanse 4-5 lines. The fore wings of a pale gilded yel¬ 
lowish buff, which is more or less uniform throughout, except 
on the inner margin, where there are two somewhat triangular 
whitish blotches, the first of which is placed about the 
middle and extends over the fold, and the second one near to 
the anal angle. Towards the apex of the costa there are 
occasionally rather faint traces of a third whitish, oblique, 
indistinct blotch. The fringe is white, sparingly speckled 
with gilded scales. Hind wings silvery cinereous. Thorax 
white. 
This pretty little moth is not uncommon in many localities 
throughout St. Helena, especially at intermediate altitudes. 
I found it principally at Plantation and at West Lodge. In 
the latter locality they were generally adhering to the trunks 
of the native aster trees, in the very eye of the strong and 
boisterous trade-winds ; and although the latter seemed to have 
wonderfully little effect on them, they nevertheless made them 
extremely difficult to capture, on account of the sandy soil, 
which was so blown into one’s eyes as well nigh to blind one. 
It is marvellous, however, how these and other equally minute 
moths are able to withstand the tempestuous atmosphere of 
those elevated regions, the almost constant and violent breeze 
appearing to have no power to destroy even their finest scales. 
Tinea actceon , E. Woll. 
Expanse 4-5 lines. With the fore wings of a dark blackish 
brown, and conspicuously adorned with two rather broad yel- 
