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. 
a . Cape. From M. Drege’s collection. 
76. Tinea despectella. 
Pallide cinerea ; caput albidum; palpi nigricante trifasciati , aril - 
culo 3 o lanceolato ; tarsi nigro fasciali ; caput albidum ; palpi 
nigricante trifasciati , articulo So lanceolato ; alee anlicce sub- 
acutce , 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 
blackish band near the tip; third lanceolate, much shorter than the 
second, 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 1 \ line ; of the wings 4J lines. 
a. 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 
3o lineari ; tibiae posticce fimbriatce ; alee anticce anguslce , 
acutce , nigricante conspersce , ceneo chalybceoque subtinctce^gutta 
discali nigra ; posticce paliide ceneo-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 
more than half the length of the second. Abdomen extending for 
more than half its length beyond the hind wings. Hind tibiae with 
a long fringe. Wings narrow, acute. Fore wings slightly tinged 
with aeneous and chalybeous, minutely blackish-speckled ; a black 
