1897.] WEST-IIS-DIAK MICH.O-LEPIDOPTERA. 165 



lated with brownish fuscous. Palpi slender, depressed, whitish ; 

 the second joint with some brownish hairs beneath its apex. Head 

 rough ; white. Tliorax bronzy fuscous. Fore ivini/s and cilia 

 bronz_y fuscous ; a rather broad cream-white central fascia tinged 

 with brownish ochreous is slightly attenuated toward the costa, 

 from which it is separated by a narrow line of the dark ground- 

 colour ; beyond the fascia is a small patch of brownish-ochreous 

 scales at the end of the cell, with a few others at the extreme apex. 

 Exp. al. G".5 mm. Hind wings and cilia brownish. Abdomen 

 brownish. Legs whitish ochreous, with some brownish hairs on 

 the tibiae. 



Tgj}^, 6 Mus. Hedemauu. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 12 IV. (Hedemami). Unique. 



100. Tdteola, HS. 



272. TiNEOlA UTERELLA, sp. U. 



Antenna; smoky fawn-colour. Palpi : maxillaries not folded : 

 labials short, porrect ; smoky fawn. Head, smoky fawn-colour, 

 face brownish ochreous. Tliorcw smoky fawn. Fore wings 

 yellowish fawn, with minute fuscous speckling ; a purplish fuscous 

 blotch on the costa near the base is partly connected with a spot 

 of the same colour lying obliquely beneath it on the fold ; beyond 

 this ai'e two spots before the midjdle of the wing, the smaller on 

 the fold, the larger on the disc slightly beyond and above the 

 lower one ; a larger spot of the same colour lies at the end of the 

 cell, and there are a few dark scales at the base of the dorsum ; 

 Cthese markings although shelving a purplish gloss in a strong light 

 appear blackish under the lens); cilia fawn-grey, Exp. al. ^ 10- 

 2 15 mm. Hind tuings pale grey, with a strong seneous tinge 

 below the cell ; cilia yellowish grey. -/16cZoj?ie/* yellowish grey. Legs 

 yellowish grey, tarsi \^ith obscure darker blotches. 



Tyjie, 6 $ Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 14-24 III. {Gudmann, Hede- 

 mann): three specimens. Brazil — Para (Amazons), 17 IX.- 

 14 XII. {ScJiidz) : a long series. 



Bred by Messrs. Schuiz, Gudmann, and Baron von Iledemann. 

 Mr. Grudmann notes it as found " on trunks," while Mr. Schuiz 

 writes : — " The Amazonian clothes moth, their larva and pupa-cases 

 called ' tracas ' in Portuguese. These tracas are very frequent in 

 the houses in Para, keeping on the walls of the rooms and are very 

 injurious to clothes.'"' All three observers send with this species a 

 flattened bladder-shaped case composed of silk and grains of sand, 

 wide in the middle, narrowed towards each extremity and open at 

 both ends. (Ecia mavulata, Wlsm., a species which although 

 belonging to a different family is almost inseparable from uterella 

 in colour and markings, is found likewise in St. Thomas and at 

 Para at the same time as iderella. Baron von Hedemann writes 

 of CEcia nmculata, " very common on the inner walls of nearly 



