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Show 280 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, ERETMOCERA, Z. ERETMOCERA FASCIATA, Wlsm., sp. n. Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi dusky greyish. Head and thorax bronzy greyish fuscous. Fore ivings bronzy greyish fuscous; with a straight, transverse, pale whitish ochreous fascia before the middle, followed by a dorsal spot before the tornus and a rather larger costal spot of the same colour before the commencement of the cilia; some faint whitish ochreous speckling on the wing-surface ; cilia brownish grey, with a few a?neous scales along their base. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hind wings dark grey ; cilia with a slightly brownish tinge. Abdomen at the extreme base with a whitish ochreous band and a dark purplish patch below it, the remainder rich reddish orange; the anal segments dark purplish fuscous. Legs dark purple, with pale whitish ochreous bands at the joints; spurs pale whitish ochreous. Type, 3. Hab. Somaliland-Zaila, 2 VI. 1895 (Nurse) ; Arabia-Shaik Othman, 21 IV. 1895 (Nurse) : two specimens. PLUTELLID.E. PLUTELLA, Schrk. PLUTELLA CRUCIFERARUM, Z., Stgr. & W k . Cat. pp. 281 & 425, no. 1626 (1871). Hab. (cosmopolitan). S.W. Arabia-Aden, 12 IV. 1894 (Nurse). TlNEIDjE. TlNEINjE. TRICHOPHAGA, Eag. TRICHOPHAGA SWINHOEI, Butl. Tinea swinhoei, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 502-3l. N. syn.=Trichophaga coprobieUa, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxiii. p. 120-4, figg. (1894) 2. Larva in hair-tubes in camels' dung, feeding on hair2; dogs' dung, 7 II.-23 II. (Yerbury). Imago, b. I.2, 24 II.-8 IV. (Yerbury). Hab. N.E. Africa-Obok (Gulf of Tajurah)2; S.W. Arabia- Aden x (Yerbury), Little Aden (Yerbury), Shaik Othman (Yerbury). Monsieur Eagonot created the genus Trichophaga to include the three species tapetzella, L., abruptella, Wlstn. (=bipartitella, Eag.), and coprobieUa, making the latter the type. Some specimens received from Col. Terbury, bred from larva? feeding in the dung of dogs (and I am informed also in that of the hysena) at Aden, caused me to compare coprobieUa (of which I have a co-type) with |
