535. 



HARPIPTERIX SCABRELLA. 



The wainscot Hooktip. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Crambidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea nemorella Linn. 



Harpipterix Hub., Och. — Plutella Schr., Curt. — Hypsolopha Hub., 

 Och. — Alucita and Ypsolophus Fab., Haw. — Palparia Haw. — 

 Tinea Linn. 



AntenncB porrected in repose, shorter than the wings, setaceous, 

 clothed with scales above, pilose, composed of numerous joints, 

 basal one long, robust and scaly above, 2nd and 3rd somewhat 

 cup-shaped, the remainder increasing in length to the apical 

 joint, which is short and subconic (1, portions of the base and 

 apex). 



MaxillcB spiral longer than the labial palpi, but very much shorter 

 than the antennae (3). Palpi minute (7 a) and generally con- 

 cealed, biarticulate, basal joint globose and pilose, 2nd longer 

 and subovate (3 «). 



Labial palpi recurved, but appearing to be horizontal (4), very 

 scaly, the scales produced horizontally very far beyond the apex 

 of the 2nd joint beneath, the terminal one being naked and 

 rising apparently from the centre of the palpus ; triarticulate, 

 basal joint not short, but stout and recurved, 2nd longer and 

 stouter, ventricose, 3rd the shortest, elongate-ovate (4 a). 

 Head small, the crown thickly clothed with scales forming 2 elevated 

 longitudinal lines : eyes lateral, prominent and globose. Thorax 

 rather small, clothed ivith depressed scales. Abdomen rather short, 

 a little tufted in the males, conical in the females. Wings deflexed 

 in repose, superior long and linear, the cost a arched, the tip hooked: 

 inferior subovate. Legs, anterior the shortest, posterior the longest: 

 tibiae, anterior ivith an internal spine, the others terminated by long 

 spurs, the hinder having a pair at the middle: tarsi 5 -jointed, basal 

 joint long, terminal one small : claws and pulvilli minute. 

 Larvae with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. Hiib. 

 Pupae inclosed in a long fusiform silky cocoon. 



ScABRELLA Linn. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 989. 2. — pterodactylella Hiib., 

 Tin. tab. 15. fig. 102. 



White, sides and tips of palpi tawny ; lateral scales of thorax 

 brownish ; costal half of anterior wings pale brownish flesh- 

 colour, with longitudinal rays of white, a black dot at the centre 

 and 4 others in a line towards the apex ; interior half of wings 

 dull castaneous-purple, with a few pale stripes and others fer- 

 ruginous and blackish, there are also 3 large tufts of scales 

 forming an oblique line directed towards the apex, and a few 

 smaller ones, the apex very much hooked, from the cilia which 

 are ferruginous, being elongated and rounded at the posterior 

 angle : inferior wings pale fuscous, becoming whitish at the 

 base. 



Obs. This species varies considerably ; in the specimen figured 

 the dark portion of the superior wings forms an indented line. 

 In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



