282 OK MOTHS TEOM ADEN AND SOMALILANI). [Feb. 18, 



This species differs from all hitherto described species of Tineola 

 in the form of the antennae, which are much stouter and more 

 distinctly flattened than in biselliella, Humm., which it also exceeds 

 in size. This form of antenna attains its greatest development in 

 Ceylon. 



Phthoeop(ea, Wlsm., g. n. 

 (^0opoffoios=causing injury.) 



Type. Phtlioropcea carpella, Wlsm. 



AntenncB less than the length of the fore wings, simple. 



Labial palpi porrect, somewhat thickly clothed, apical joint 

 concealed. 



Maxillary palpi minute. 



Ilaustdlum apparently obsolete. 



Ocelli ? 



Head and face roughly clothed with projecting hair-scales. 



Thorax smooth. 



Fore wings elongate, somewhat lanceolate, costa straight, apex 

 depressed. Neuration 11 veins (7 and 8 coincident), the rest 

 separate; 9 and 10 almost anastomosed before the costa; the fork 

 at the base of vein 1 apparently obsolete. 



Ilind wiwjs almost 1, somewhat triangular, tapering to a narrow 

 point, abdominal angle developed. Neuration 8 veins, all separate. 



Legs ; hind tibiae somewhat hairy. 



PHTHOBOPOiA CAHPBLIiA, Wlsm., Sp. n. 



Antenna greyish ochreous. 



Palpi brownish fuscous. 



Head and face ferruginous. 



i hora.v bronzy fuscous, with two pale longitudinal streaks. 



Fore ivings bronzy brownish fuscous, witli a paler streak along 

 the dorsum and with three or four tufts of slightly raised scales 

 showing a little darker than the ground-colour; the first on the 

 middle of the fold with a smaller one above it on the disc, a second 

 towards the end of the fold and another at the end of the cell ; 

 a dark fuscous line runs along the termen and another along the 

 ends of the cilia, which have a tendency to give an uncate appear- 

 ance to the apex. Exp. al. c? 12 mm., $ 16 mm. 



Hind wings shining pale bronzy grey ; the cilia, which are very 

 long about the abdominal angle, are slightly paler. Underside 

 shining bronzy grey, slightly paler than the fore wings. 



Abdomen pale greyish ochreous, with two dark lateral spots at 

 the base beneath. 



Legs greyish ochreous, hind tarsi faintly speckled ; anterior legs 

 fuscous externally. 



Type, 6 . 



Hob. Aden (three specimens, Yerbury, Nurse). 



Larva in fruit of Solanum, sp. (Yerbury) ; in seed-pods of Acacia 

 edgworthii {Nurse), , , . 



