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2. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked; costa with whitish strigulae and dots 
hcterograpta Meyrick 
Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 separate; costa with distinct ochreous-whitish 
round dots chloroplocama Meybick 
3. Fore wing with ground colour white; veins 7 and 8 stalked; hind wing whitish- 
fuscous rigida Meybick 
Ground colour not thus or, if whitish, then veins 7 and 8 separate .... 4 
4. Glossy purple, strigulated dark fuscous; terminal segment of palpus with two 
fuscous rings eumetrota Meybick 
Whitish-oclireous or light brown; terminal segment of palpus with one ring or 
without rings 5 
5. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 separate; whitish-ochreous cinerascens Meybick 
Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked ; light brown . . . palmodes Meybick 
Tinissa chloroplocama Meyrick, 1938 
Tinissa chloroplocama Meybick, 1938, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 526, 1938. 
Distribution: Papua, Mafulu, 4000 feet. 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 26, 1939. One female. We were able to 
compare this insect with a topotypical specimen. Details of the neuration 
of fore wing were omitted from the original description. These are: veins 
4 and 5 connate, 7 and 8 separate. 
Tinea Linne, 1758 
Tinea Linne, 1758, Sept. Nat., ed. X, I, p. 496. Spuler, Schmett. Eur., vol. 2, 
p. 458, fig. 211, 1910. Meybick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 8, pp. 529—530, 
1892. Rev. Handb., p. 825, 1928. Tran. N. Zeal. Inst., vol. 47, p. 238, 1915. Fletcheb, 
Mem. Agrie. Lid., Ent., vol. 11, p. 223, 1929. 
Tinaea Geoffroy, 1762, Hist, abrege Ins., vol. 2, pp. 25, 173. Corbet & Tams, 
Entomologist, vol. 76, pp. 113 — 114, 1943. 
Nemapogon Schrank, 1902, Fauna Boica, vol. 2, part 2, p. 167. 
Ses Hubner, 1806, Tentamen, p. 2 (non descr.). 
Brosis Hubner, 1806, ibidem, p. 2 (non descr.). 
Autoses Hubner, 1826, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 401. 
Acedes Hubner, 1826, ibidem, p. 401. 
Diaphtirusa Hubner, 1826, ibidem. , p. 404. 
Cephimallota Briiand, 1847, Catal. Microl. Doubs., p. 66. 
Edosa Walker, 1866, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 35, pp. 1818-1819. 
Chrysoryctis Meybick, 1886, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 17, p. 530. 
Perissomastix Warren, 1905, Novit. Zool., vol. 12, p. 33. 
Tryptodema Dietz, 1905, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ,vol. 31, p. 74, p.l 6, fig. 2. 
Triptoderna Forbes, 1924, Lep. N. York, p. 138 (emend). 
Key to Papuan species of Tinea 
1. Ground colour clear yellow 2 
Ground colour not clear yellow 5 
2. A dark basal patch occupying one-fifth or one-fourth of wing 3 
A short wedge-shaped fuscous costal streak and base of dorsum fuscous . . 
cymopelta Meyrick 
