280 lOBD WALSINGHAM AND MB. 6. p. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, 



Eebtmoobba, Z. 



Ebetmoceba fasoiata, Wlsm., sp. n. 



AntetiTKB greyish fuscous. 



Paljn dusky greyish. 



Head and thorax bronzy greyish fuscous. 



Fore tvings 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 vA-hitish 

 ochreous speckling on the wing-surface ; cilia brownish grey, with 

 a few leneous scales along their base. Exp. al. 9 mm. 



Hind wings dark grey ; cilia with a slightly brownish tinge. 



Ahdomen 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 purplish fuscous. 



Leys dark purple, with pale whitish ochreous bands at the joints ; 

 spurs pale whitish ochreous. 



Type, 6. 



Hah. Somaliland— Zaila, 2 VI. 1895 {Nurse) ; Arabia— Shaik 

 Othman, 21 IV. 1895 {Nurse) : two specimens. 



Plutellidjb. 

 Plutella, Schrk. 



Plittblla oeuoifebabum, Z., Stgr. & Wk. Cat. pp. 281 & 425, 

 no. 1626 (1871). 



Hah. (cosmopolitan). S.W. Arabia— Aden, 12 IV. 1894 {Nurse). 



T I N B I D ^. 



TiNEINjE. 



Tbiohophaoa, Eag. 



Tbichophaga swinhobi. But!. 



Tinea siuinhoei, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 502-3 '. 



N. 8yn.= Ih-ichophaga eoprohiella, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixiii. 

 p. 120-4, figg. (1894) \ 



Larva in hair-tubes in camels' dung, feeding on hair ' ; dogs' 

 dung, 7 TI.— 23 II. {Yerhunj). 



Imago, h. I.", 24 II.— 8 IV. {Yerhunj). 



Hah. N.E. Africa— Obok (Gulf of Tajurah)'; S.W. Arabia- 

 Aden ' {Yerhur^j), Little Aden {Yerbury), Shaik Othman {Yerhury). 



Monsieur Eagonot created the genns Tricliophaga to include 

 the three species taitetzella, L., ahruptella, Wlstn. {=hipartitel1a, 

 Eag.), and eoprohiella, making the latter the type. Some specimens 

 received from Col. Yerbury, bred from larvaj feeding in the dung 

 of dogs (and I am informed also in that of the hysena) at Aden, 

 caused me to compare eoprohiella (of which I liave a co-type) with 



