LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 477 



Female. Very pale fawn-colour. Abdomen extending for its 

 whole length beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth. Wings lan- 

 ceolate, narrow, acute. Fore wings much attenuated towards the 

 tips, very acute, very minutely speckled with black. Length of the 

 body 3J lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



1. Cape. From M. Dreges collection. 



76. Tinea despectella. 



Pallide cinerea ; caput albidum ; palpi nigricante trifasciati, arli- 

 culo So lanceolato ; tarsi nigro fasciati ; caput albidum ; palpi 

 nigricante trifasciati, articulo So lanceolato ; alee anticce sub- 

 acute, venis nigro subconspersis ; posticce cinerece. 



Pale cinereous-brown. Head and palpi whitish. Palpi slightly 

 ^diverging, as long as the breadth of the head ; second joint with a 

 jblackish band near the tip ; third lanceolate, much shorter than the 

 gsecond, with two blackish bands. Antennae slender. Legs whitish ; 

 joints of the tarsi with black tips. Fore wings slightly acute, very 

 minutely speckled with black on the veins. Hind wings cinereous. 

 Length of the body l£ line ; of the wings 4£ lines. 

 „ Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Mauritius. 



77. Tinea Borboniella. 

 Borboniella, Bd. 



Mauritius. Isle of France. 



78. Tinea subcervinella. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi capitis latitudine longiores, articulo 

 So lineari ; tibia? postica fimbria tee ; alee antica angusta, 

 acutcB, nigricante conspersce^ ceneo chalybaoque subtinctm,gutta 

 discali nigra ; postica pallide aneo -cinerece. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Body beneath, abdomen and 

 hind wings pale cinereous. Palpi smooth, rather longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, a little 

 j more than half the length of the second. Abdomen extending for 

 'more than half its length beyond the hind wings. Hind tibia? with 

 a long fringe. Wings narrow, acute. Fore wings slightly tinged 

 with aeneous and chalybeous, minutely blackish-speckled ; a black 



