﻿TINEINA BRED PROM COTTON-BOLLS. 



207 



margin ; on the dorsal margin at about half the wing-length is a small, outwardly 

 oblique, spot of fuscous scales ; at the extreme apex is a dark fuscous spot 

 preceded by a few scattered paler fuscous scales, which are also to be found 

 along the base of the cilia ; cilia fawn-colour, inclining to greyish fawn about the 

 anal angle. Exp t al. 9-11 mm. Hindwings grey, with fawn-grey cilia. 

 Abdomen cinereous. Legs pale fawn, inconspicuously banded with darker fawn." 

 (Wlsm.) 1 



Hob. AFRICA, W-N-E — Egypt 2 : Government Gardens, Delta Barrage, 

 larva in cotton-pods (W. Draper) 2 ; Ghezireh, larva in old cotton-bolls, 

 previously injured by Earias insulana, Bdv., etc., ex. 31. III. 1910 (F. C. 

 Willcocks, No. 41) ; Ghizeh, larva on maize-cob, ex. 22. X. 1910 (F. C. Willcocks, 

 No. 50)— Gambia 1 : Bathurst, XI. 1885 (G. T. Carter) 1 ; larva bred from a 

 mine in a species of Mallow, XI. 1885 (G. T. Carter) 1 — German East 

 Africa 3 : Amani, larva in seeds of " Togo-Sea-Island" cotton. 3 



Pyroderces simplex was described and figured from the captured c? (950); 

 the ? (1049), which was bred with various other species from "mallow" by Sir 

 Gilbert Carter^ was somewhat injured, and the note " bred from a mine " was 

 applied jointly to the Pyroderces and to Acrocercops bifasciata, Wlsm., doubtless 

 pertaining more particularly to the latter. The material from which Stagma- 

 tophora gossypiella was described was in very bad condition, but the reception of 

 fine bred specimens, for which we are indebted to Mr. Willcocks, confirms the 

 suspicion that gossypiella was founded on worn specimens of simplex. 



Pyroderces rileyi, Wlsm. 

 Batrachedra rileyi, Wlsm., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10, p. 198-9, (1882). 1 

 Batrachetra rileyi, Dyar, Bull., U.S. Nat. Mus. 52, p. 534, sp. 6059 (1902). 2 

 Batrachedra rileyi, Wlsm., Ann. Mag. NH. (7 s.) 18, p. 179 (1906) 3 ; Swezey, 

 Ep. Exp. Stn. Hawaii. Div. Ent. Bull.^6, p. 22-4, pi. 3, f. 9-11 (1909). 4 

 Type S (33510) Mus. Wlsm. BM. 



" Antennae with white and fuscous annulations ; the basal joint elongate, 

 chestnut-brown. Palpi widely divergent, whitish, with an oblique pale brown 



Fig. 3.— Pyroderces rileyi, Wlsm. $ (33,898 Miami, Florida), X 22. 



