280 LORD WAISINGHAM AND MR. G, F. HAMPSON ON’ [Feb. 18, 
Erermocnra, Z. 
ERETMOCERA FASCIATA, Wlsm., sp. n. 
Antenne greyish fuscous. 
Palpi dusky greyish. 
Head and thorax bronzy greyish fuscous. 
Fore wings bronzy greyish fuscous; with a straight, transverse, 
pale whitish ochreous fascia before the middle, followed by a dorsal 
spot before the tornus and a rather larger costal spot of the same 
colour before the commencement of the cilia; some faint whitish 
ochreous speckling on the wing-surface ; cilia brownish grey, with 
a few eeneous scales along their base. Exp. al. 9 mm. 
Hind wings dark grey ; cilia with a slightly brownish tinge. 
Abdomen at the extreme base with a whitish ochreous band and 
a dark purplish patch below it, the remainder rich reddish orange ; 
the anal segments dark purptish fuscous, 
Legs dark purple, with pale whitish ochreous bands at the joints ; 
spurs pale whitish ochreous. 
Type, 3. 
Hab. Somaliland—Zaila, 2 VI. 1895 (Nurse) ; Arabia—Shaik 
Othman, 21 IV. 1895 (Nurse): two specimens. 
PLUTELLIDS. 
Proureia, Schrk. 
PLUTELLA CRUCIFERARUM, Z., Stgr. & Wk. Cat. pp. 281 & 425, 
no. 1626 (1871). 
Hab. (cosmopolitan). S.W. Arabia—Aden, 12 IV. 1894 (Nurse). 
TINEIDG. 
TINEIN A, 
TricHoPpHaGa, Rag. 
TRICHOPHAGA SWINHOEI, Butl. 
Tinea swinhoei, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 502-3", 
N. syn.=Trichophaga coprobiella, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. lxiii. 
p- 120-4, figg. (1894) *. 
Larva in hair-tubes in camels’ dung, feeding on hair®; dogs’ 
dung, 7 I1.—23 II. (Verbury). 
Imago. 6, 1.2, 24 I1.—8 IV. (Yerbury). 
Hab. N.E. Africa—Obok (Gulf of Tajurah)?; S.W. Arabia— 
Aden *(Yerbury), Little Aden (Yerbury), Shaik Othman ( Yerbury). 
Monsieur Ragonot created the genus Trichophaga to include 
the three species tapetzella, L., abruptella, W|stn. (=bipartitella, 
Rag.), and coprobiella, making the latter the type. Some specimens 
received from Col. Yerbury, bred from larve feeding in the dung 
of dogs (and I am informed also in that of the hyena) at Aden, 
caused me to compare coprobiella (of which I have a co-type) with 
