408. 



CECOPHORA SULPHURELLA. 



The Yellow Underwinged Thick-horn. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea sulphurella Fah. 

 CEcoPHOKA Lat., Curt. — Dasvcera Hai/;. — ElasmiaHwi. — Tinea Fui.^ 

 Hub. 



Antennce inserted on each side the crown of the head close to 

 the eyes, not longer than the body, setaceous, appearing rather 

 stout at the base, clothed with scales above, pilose beneath in 

 the male {\ S) ; composed of numerous oblong joints, basal 

 joint the longest, stoutest, and subclavate. 

 Maxillce longer than the palpi, spiral, rather stout and clothed 

 with scales, attenuated to the apex which is naked (3). 

 Labial Palpi longer than the head, curved upward, slender, 

 clothed with scales, especially the 2nd joint, the terminal one 

 appearing naked (4) ; basal joint rather short, 2nd very long, 

 slightly curved, 3rd scarcely shorter, very slender and attenuated 

 to a point (4 a). 

 Head clothed with depressed imbricated scales. I!,yes globose (7 and 7*). 

 Thorax clothed with depressed scales. Wings vertj much deflexed 

 when at rest, the inferior margins meeting over the back ; superior 

 long and narrow, regularly ciliated ; inferior rather small and sub- 

 lanceolated, the cilia very ample. Abdomen linear and tufted in the 

 male: longer and conical in the female. Legs, posterior pair the 

 longest. Tibiae, anterior shorter than the thighs, rather stout with a 

 long internal spine, the others spurred at the apex, the posterior pair 

 long and very pilose, with a pair of spurs also at the viiddle, one of 

 them very long. Tarsi b -jointed, basal joint the longest. Claws 

 very minute. 

 Caterpillars with 1 6 ? feet. 



Sulphurella Fab. Ent. Syst.3. pars2. 315. 128. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 

 1003. 2.— flavella Fab. E. S. 332, 9. $.— cornutella Fab. E. S. 

 Supp. 492. 63. 9.— orbonella Hub. Tin. pi. 45. f. 313. <?. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



This pretty genus contains only two British species ; they fly 

 during the day in fine weather, and are sometimes very abun- 

 dant in the neighbourhood of London. It may, however, be 

 useful to observe, that a species of Q^cophora, called by the 

 French " la teigne des bleds," has made very great ravages 

 (I suppose in the larva slate) in the South of France, by devour- 



