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TINEIDiE. 
Trichophaga mormopis, n. sp. 
c i . 16 mm. Head white. Palpi, thorax dark grey. Forewings 
elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 
rounded ; cream-white ; basal ^ of wing dark grey somewhat mixed 
black, edge direct, rather irregular ; a small black dot in disc slightly 
beyond middle ; some small pale grey spots on posterior half of 
costa ; a rounded blackish-grey apical blotch occupying nearly l of 
wing, extended by dark grey mottling to tornus : cilia grey mixed 
blackish-grey, beneath tornus tinged whitish. Hindwings pale 
bronzy, subhyaline towards base ; cilia whitish-bronzy. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, January (C . Seydel) ; 2 ex. (type 
Belg. Cong. Mus.). Between abruptella and Swinhoei. 
Tinea metathyris, n. sp. 
d . 9 mm. Head, thorax white, a black spot on shoulder. 
Palpi, antennae blackish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate ; bronzy- 
blackish ; markings ochreous-white ; a broad streak occupying dorsal 
area from base to tornus, upper edge indented before middle of wing; 
a rhomboidal blotch on median area of costa, reaching half across 
wing ; a triangular costal blotch just before apex : cilia whitish- 
ochreous, on termen basal half irrorated black. Hindwings ovate- 
lanceolate, acute; grey, suffused white towards base, tinged 
ochreous-yellowish beyond this, darker grey towards apex ; hyaline 
lanceolate median and submedian patches anteriorly ; cilia pale 
greyish. 
Formosa, Fudieda, August (Prof. S. IssiJci ); 1 ex. 
Tinea latebrivora, n. sp. 
d 5 .5 mm. Head fulvous-brown. Palpi dark grey. Antennse 
grey. Thorax grey. Forewings grey coarsely irrorated blackish ; 
small irregular white spots on costa about middle, and on middle of 
dorsum, and a marginal streak round apical ^ of costa and termen 
to tornus : cilia grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 
Trinidad, bred May, June from nests (presumably deserted) of 
Polistes (Hymenoptera)(De Vesey Fitzgerald)', 6 ex. (type Brit.Mus.). 
Tinea limenitis, n. sp. 
d 2 • 14-15 mm. Head fuscous, a dark fuscous central spot on 
crown. Palpi dark fuscous. Antennse f, dark fuscous, two or three 
obscure light bands on apical half. Thorax fuscous, a posterior spot 
and apical half of tegulse suffused light ochreous irroration. Fore¬ 
wings fuscous, irregularly mixed light ochreous suffusion ; a curved 
rather irregular dark fuscous fascia from base of costa to dorsum 
at 5 ; stigmata forming rather large suffused dark fuscous spots, 
plical obliquely beyond first aiscal; apical part of costa and termen 
