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swinhoei, Btl. Their better condition proves them to be the same, 
and unites Ragonot’s and Butler’s names as synonyms. The 
habit of feeding on hair, which caused Ragonot to give it the name 
Trichophaga, is supported by additional evidence in the case of 
Col. Yerbury’s larve, for the excrement is naturally charged 
with the hair of various animals forming the food of the dog or of 
the hyzna, and the tubes or cases formed by the larve, which 
project from the dry substance, are very similar to those which 
Ragonot received with his specimens. It would be curious to 
ascertain whether our common 7’, tapetzella has ever been found 
feeding in the dry casts of owls or in the excrement of cats or other 
animals, or forming tubes among these substances, where the 
conditions would be somewhat similar to those which conduce 
to this habit in the case of Butler’s species. T’. tapetzella has been 
observed in great abundance on palings in the neighbourhood of 
Brandon, where “ furrier’s waste ” (the trimmings of rabbits’ skins) 
is much used for manuring the fields, and where I have also taken 
Monopis imella, Hb., very commonly. 
It is very remarkable that the peculiar neuration of 7. tapetzella, 
a species described so long ago as 1758, should have remained 
unnoticed until the attention of my late friend was called to it in 
examining the structure of this African and Asiatic species. It 
seems to form a good generic distinction, at present including only 
three described species. 
TRICHOPHAGA ABRUPTELLA, W]stn. 
Tinea abruptella,Wistn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3 s.) i. 120 (1858)'; 
Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxx. 1003 (1864) *. 
Tinea bipartitella, Rag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. lxxxii*. 
Tinea tapetzella, Rbl. Ann. k.-k. Hofmus. vii. 268-9, 283 
(1893)*; ix. 17 (1894)*. 
Trichophaga bipartitella, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Imi. 122-4 
(1894) °. 
Trichophaga abruptella, Wism. P. Z. S. 1894, 5417. 
Hab. Madeiras**—Porto Santo***; Canaries—Gran Canaria**; 
Tunis—Gabés**; Egypt’; Somaliland—Zaila, 21 Y. 1895 (Nurse) ; 
S.W. Arabia— Aden, 30 IV. 1895 (Nurse). 
Trnzona, H.-S. 
TINEOLA THNLECORNIS, Wlsm., sp. n. 
Antenne stout, flattened horizontally ; pale ochreous. 
Palpi pale ochreous. 
Head brownish above ; face rusty ochreous. 
Thorax shining pale ochreous. 
Fore wings shining pale ochreous ; slightly darkened at the base 
of the costa; cilia the colour of the wings. vp. al. 16 mm. 
Hind wings greyish ochreous; cilia the same. 
Type, d+ 
Hab, Aden, 14 III. (one specimen, Ferbury). 
