1896.J MOTHS TEOM ABEIT AND SOMALILAND. 281 



siuinlioei, Btl. Their better condition proves them to be the same, 

 and unites Eagonot's and Butler's names as synonyms. The 

 habit of feeding on hair, which caused Bagonot to give it the name 

 Tiichopliaga, is supported by additional evidence in the case of 

 Col. Yerbury's larvas, for the excrement is naturally charged 

 with the hair of variovis animals forming the food of the dog or of 

 the hyaena, and the tubes or cases formed by the larvae, which 

 project from the dry substance, are very similar to those which 

 Bagonot received with his specimens. It would be curious to 

 ascertain whether our comuiou T. iapetzella has over been foinid 

 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. faj>efzeUa 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, lib., very commonly. 



It is very remarkable that the peculiar neuration of T. tajpetzella, 

 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. 



TaicnopnAGA abrtjptblla, Wlstn. 



Tinea ahrtiptella,'Whtn. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3 s.) i. 120 (1858)' ; 

 Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M. xxx. 1003 (1804)'. 



Tinea hipartitella, Eag. Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr. 1892, p. Ixxxii '. 



Tinea iapetzella, Ebl. Ann. k.-k. Hofmus. vii. 268-9, 283 

 (1893) ^ ix. 17(1894)". 



Trichophaga hipartitella, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. Ixiii. 122-4 

 (1894) ». 



Trichopliaga ahmptella, Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1894, 541 ', 



Hah. Madeiras''' — Porto Santo '•'■*; Canaries — Gran Canaria*''; 

 Tunis— Gabes'''; Egypt '; Somaliland— Zaila, 21 V. 1895(A'mi-s«); 

 S.W. Arabia— Aden, 30 IV. 1895 {Nurse). 



TiNEOLA, Il.-S. 



TiNEOLA TaafiiECOENis, Wlsm., sp. n. 



Antennce stout, flattened horizontally ; pale ochreous. 



Palpi pale ochreous. 



Head brownish above ; face rusty ochreous. 



TIiorAx shining pale ochreous. 



Fore wings shining pale ochreous ; slightly darkened at the base 

 of the costa ; cilia the colour of the wings. E.vp. al. 16 ram. 



Hind wings greyish ochreous ; cilia the same. 

 • Type, d' 



Hab. Aden, 14: HI. (one specimen, Terhury),. 



