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the Lepidoptera of St. Helena. 
lowish-white bands, the first of which is somewhat oblique 
and antemedian, and the second postmedian ; between these 
two bands, on the inner margin, there is a large and usually 
somewhat triangular yellowish-white blotch ; and the apex 
also is relieved by a few pale scales immediately before the 
extreme point. The fringe has the slightly yellowish tinge 
rather more pronounced than the other portions of the surface, 
and it is nearly, or even quite, immaculate. Hind wings 
smoky cinereous. Thorax brownish. Body concolorous with 
the anterior wings. 
This somewhat scarce little Tinea I obtained on the highest 
portions only of the great central ridge, principally about the 
summit of Actaion ; and it would seem, therefore, to be not 
only rare but local. It is quite a summer species there; 
indeed, so far as I can recollect, it did not make its ap¬ 
pearance before the end of December or the beginning of 
January. 
In the conspicuous black and yellowish ornamentation of 
its fore wings Tinea actceon has a good deal in common, 
at first sight, with T. flavofimbriata ; nevertheless the pat¬ 
tern of its markings is quite different, and it is also appre¬ 
ciably larger in stature. Moreover it is very much scarcer 
than the other, and, so far as my present experience would 
imply, is confined to the loftiest altitudes. Indeed I only 
met with it a few times, and then invariably on the summit 
of the ridge called Action. 
Tinea niveopicta, E. Woll. 
Expanse 3^-4^ lines. The fore wings of a clear snowy 
white, which extends to about a third of the distance from 
the base and there ends abruptly. The remaining portion of 
the surface is of a yellowish buff, the latter, however, being 
interrupted above the anal angle by an obscure transverse' 
line of minute blackish scales (which are seldom altogether 
absent); and the apex has a few scattered whitish ones. The 
white basal region has often a few very faint huffish scales 
towards the costa. The fringe is of a yellowish white, en¬ 
tirely immaculate. Hind wings greyish cinereous, with the 
fringe slightly paler. Thorax white ; body concolorous with 
the posterior wings. 
There is no single moth at St. Helena which is better 
defined and more truly remarkable in its ornamentation than 
this beautiful little Tinea —the extreme coai'seness of the scales 
with which its fore wings are clothed, and which are of a clear 
snowy white on the basal area, but of a pale yellowish buff on 
the remaining two thirds of the surface, giving it a most 
