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Family TINEIDAE. 



Subfamily GELECHIANAE. 



Brachmia, sp. 



One male example, imperfect, pronounced by Mr. Mey- 



rick to be closely allied to Brachmia arotraea, Meyr., from 



Ceylon and India. 



Subfamily TINEINAE. 



Tinea capnitis, n. sp. (/ca7ryrris, smoky). 



o* , 17-18 mm. Head fuscous-whitish. Palpi 2J; fuscous, 

 inner surface whitish. Antennae pale fuscous; in male with- 

 joints enlarged at apices, minutely ciliated. Thorax fuscous. 

 Abdomen ochreous- whitish, suffused with fuscous on dorsum. 

 Legs fuscous ; tibiae and tarsi annulated with ochreous- 

 whitish; posterior pair almost wholly ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings moderate, not dilated, costa strongly arched, apex 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; ochreous-whitish 

 rather densely irrorated with fuscous ; absence of irroration 

 leaves an obscure pale dorsal streak containing some fuscous 

 scales near margin ; very obscure fuscous discal dots at \ 

 and |; cilia fuscous. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. 



A very obscure species belonging to a cosmopolitan genus, 

 of which many species are domestic in their habits and 

 artificially introduced. I should not have ventured to 

 describe it, but for the decided opinion of Mr. Meyrick, who 

 kindly examined my examples, that it is both new and 

 endemic. Two examples. 



The collection contains 33 species. Of these two are not 

 determinable; one of these is a species of the genus Tortrix, 

 the other a Brachmia, closely allied to arotraea, Meyr., from 

 Ceylon and India. Of the remaining 31 there are 22 well- 

 known species, 9 of which are endemic. 



Of the 22 known species 15 are of wide distribution. All 

 of these occur in Australia, six of them also on Lord Howe 

 Island. Four of them are recorded from New Zealand and 

 the Kermadec Islands and one from the Kermadec Islands 

 only (Perigea capensis). Of these 22 at least three (Eacosma 

 plebeiana, Polychrosis botrana, Hieroxestis omoscopa), and 

 possibly others, have been artificially introduced. Two species 

 (Acidalia rubriaria and Crocydopora cinigerella) occur both 

 in Australia and New Zealand, but probably originated in 

 the former. The remaining five — 



Chloroclystis laticostata Corambits cuneiferellus 



Xanthorrhoe sodaliata Argyroploce die pi da 



A cidalia hypochra 



are Australian species, though the first occurs also in the 

 Kermadec Islands. 



