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Show 1896.] MOTHS F R O M A D E N A N D SOMALILAND. 281 swinhoei, Btl. Their better condition proves them to be the same, and unites Eagonot's and Butler's names as synonyms. The habit of feeding on hair, which caused Eagonot to give it the name Trichophaga, is supported by additional evidence in the case of Col. Terbury's larvae, for the excrement is naturally charged. with the hair of various animals forming the food of the dog or of the hya?ua, and the tubes or cases formed by the larva?, which project from the dry substance, are very similar to those which Eagonot received with his specimens. It would be curious to ascertain whether our common T. tapetzella has ever been found feeding in the dry casts of owls or in the excrement of cats or other annuals, or forming tubes among these substances, where the conditions would be somewhat similar to those which conduce to this habit in the case of Butler's species. T. tapetzella has been observed in great abundance on palings in the neighbourhood of Brandon, where " furrier's waste "(the trimmings of rabbits' skins) is much used for manuring the fields, and where I have also taken Monopis imella, Hb., very coinmouly. It is very remarkable that the peculiar neuration of T. tapetzella, a species described so long ago as 1758, should have remained unnoticed until the attention of m y late friend was called to it in examining the structure of this African and Asiatic species. It seems to form a good generic distinction, at present including only three described species. TRICHOPHAGA ABRUPTELLA, Wlstn. Tinea abmptella,Whtn. Ann. & Mag. N . H . (3 s.) i. 120 (1858)'; Wkr. Cat. Lp. Ins. B. M . xxx. 1003 (1864)2. Tinea bipartitella, Eag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. lxxxii3. Tinea tapetzella, Ebl. Ann. k.-k., Hofmus. vii. 268-9, 283 (1893)4; ix. 17 (1894)5. Trichophaga bipartitella, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. lxih. 122-4 (1894)6. Trichophaga abruptella, Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1894, 541 7. Hab. Madeiras4'5-Porto Santo1'2'4; Canaries-Gran Canaria4,5; Tunis-Gabes3'6; Egypt7; Somaliland-Zaila, 21 V. 1895(Nurse); S.W. Arabia-Aden, 30 IV. 1895 (Nurse). TINEOLA, H.-S. TlNEOLA T^NI^ECORNIS, Wlsm., sp. n. Antennae stout, flattened horizontally; pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous. Head brownish above ; face rusty ochreous. Thorax shining pale ochreous. Fore icings shining pale ochreous ; slightly darkened at the base of the costa; cilia the colour of the wings. Exp. al. 16 m m. Hind wings greyish ochreous; cilia the same. Type, 3. Hab. Aden, 14 III. (one specimen, Yerbury). |