US Transactions. — Zouluyy. 



Tinea, Z. 



Head densely rough-haired; ocelli absent; tongue short. 

 Antennae •§, in male with joints closely set, pubescent-ciliated 

 or simple, basal joint moderate, with or without small pecten. 

 Labial palpi moderate, porrected, second joint shortly rough- 

 scaled, with a few long bristles above and beneath, terminal 

 joint shorter than second, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi 

 moderate or long, tolerably filiform, more or less folded. 

 Posterior tibia? clothed with loose hairs. Forewings with vein 

 1 furcate, 2 from near angle, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. 

 Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia f-1 ; sometimes 5 and 6 

 stalked. 



Also a cosmopolitan genus, of which several species are 

 domestic, and now widely distributed. 



1. Veins 5 and 6 of hindwings stalked . . . . terranea. 



,, ,, ,, ,, separate ... . . 2. 



2. Forewings white posteriorly .. .. .. tapetiella. 



,, not white . . . . . . . . 3. 



3. Head whitish-ochreous .. .. .. .. grammocosma. 



„ more or less fuscous . . . . . . 4. 



4. Forewings pale greyish-ochreous, spotted with 



fuscous . . . . . . . . . . . . fuscipunctella. 



Forewings fuscous . . . . . . . . . . 5. 



5. Forewings with a blackish dot in disc beyond 



middle . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 



Forewings without a blackish dot in disc beyond 



middle .. .. .. .. .. .. belonota. 



6. Cilia of forewings with terminal half whitish on 



hindmargin .. .. .. .. .. mochlota. 



Cilia of forewings with terminal half fuscous . . certella. 



Tin. tapetiella, L. 



(Tinea tapetiella (tapetzella), L. ; T. palcestrica, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1887, 404.) 



Male, female. — -13-21 mm. Head white. Thorax dark fus- 

 cous. Forewings elongate, round-pointed ; ochreous-white ; 

 basal f blackish-fuscous ; a grey spot in disc at f , and some 

 irregularly scattered small grey spots posteriorly, especially 

 towards anal angle ; a black dot on inner margin at §■, and two 

 before apex: cilia ochreous-white, round apex dark grey. Hind- 

 wings with veins 5 and G separate ; grey ; cilia ochreous-grey- 

 whitish. 



Wellington and Nelson, in January ; several specimens ; the 

 larva feeds principally in furs and skins. Introduced from 

 Europe ; occurs also in Australia and North America. 



Tin. grammocosma, n. s]>. 

 Male. — 10-17 mm. Head whitish - ochreous, brownish- 

 tinged. Palpi rather long, whitish-ochreous, with a fine blackish 

 lateral line. AntennsB whitish-ochreou-;, with a black scale- 

 streak at base, ciliations |. Thorax ochreous-brown mixed with 



