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the clothes moth under the name Tinea flavifrontella. Linn.; but Linneus 

 never described a species under this name. Packard has confounded 

 two species in his account in the Guide, and also in his Common Insects, 

 p. 64, as shown by Lord Walsingham. His larva is that of a case- 

 making species — llnea pellmiella^ Linn., while his imago is that of Tineola 

 biselliella, Hum., the larva of which does not make any case. See also 

 Am. Nat. Vol. I., p. 423, and the Report of the Ent. Soc. of Ontario, 



Clemens and also Chambers have redescribed the introduced Euro- 

 pean species as shown in the synonomy below. Tinea pellionel/a, Linn., Sys- 

 tema Natures, loth edition, p. 536, 1758, is our only case-making clothes 

 moth, so far as I can ascertain, and although redescribed under other 

 names in this country, it has been easily recognized by European en- 

 tomologists, from the description of Linneus and the earlier accounts of 

 Reaumur. This species has an expanse of wing from 10-14 rn. m. The 

 head is of a dull ochreous color, the fore-wings grayish ochreous, with 

 three fuscous spots, one at the ei.d of the cell, another on the fold, a little 

 before the middle of the wing, and the third on the cell above the last- 

 named spot. These spots are scarcely visible, except in fresh specimens. 

 Hind wings silky gray, lighter than the forewings. The case which this 

 species constructs is well described in Packard's writings mentioned above. 

 This is, in this region, our most common and destructive species, attack- 

 ing all kinds of woolen clothing, carpets, furs, feathers, etc. I have bred 

 this insect repeatedly, and find that it feeds during the summer but not in 

 the winter, even when kept in a room warmed by a furnace where the 

 heat was uniform day and night. The moths emerge in June and July, 

 and some even as late as August, yet there is but a single generation an 

 nually, so far as I have observed. 



Tineola biselliella, Hum. Ess. Ent, 3, 13, p. p. 6-13; 1823. This 

 species was separated from the genus Tinea by Herrich Sch?efifer, because 

 of the absence of the maxillary palpi. It lias an alar expanse of about 14 

 m. m. The head is dull ochreous, differing but slightly from that of 

 pelliojiella. Fore-wings pale ochreous, without spots. Hind wings some- 

 what lighter. This insect does not construct any larval case, but accord- 

 ing to Stainton, w^ebs together portions of the substance upon which it 

 feeds into a cocoon before changing to a pupa. It feeds on woolen stuffs, 

 furs, feathers, horse-hair, linings of furniture, dried plants, etc. Packard 

 describes the imago of this species under his Tinea flavifrontella. 



