671. 

 CLEODORA CYTISELLA. 

 The Broom Tinea. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidge. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea Silacella Hiih. ? 



Cleodora Step., Curt. — Mesophleps Hub. — Recurvaria Haw. — Ti- 

 nea Hub. 



AntenncB inserted close to the eyes in front of the forehead (7 *), 

 shorter than the wings, very slender and capillary, somewhat 

 serrated or knotted, especially towards the apex (1). 

 MaxilltB at least as long as the palpi, slender, spiral, clothed 

 with scales externally the greater portion of their length, with- 

 out tentacula at the apex (3). 



Labial palpi long, curved, porrected horizontally far beyond the 



head, spreading very much (4), triarticulate, basal joint elongate- 



clavate, 2nd very long, linear but slightly curved and densely 



clothed with scales, very hairy beneath, 3rd joint rather shorter, 



very slender, tapering and pointed (a). 



Head small and globose, clothed with broad shining depressed scales (7 



the face): eyes small lateral ajid ovate. Thorax smooth. Abdomen 



rather short, tufted at the apex in the male, conical in the female. 



Wings subcylindric in repose, superior long narrow and lanceolate, 



the cilia continued far above the apex, and gradually becoming very 



long below it ; inferior as broad as the others, but rather shorter, 



linear, a little narroioed at the base, the apex acuminated, ciliated 



quite round, the cilia very long beneath. Legs, hinder long : tibiae, 



anterior not short, with an internal spine near the apex, the others 



with a pair of unequal spurs at the apex, the hinder long stout and 



hairy outside, ivith another pair of spurs above the middle (8 t) •" 



tarsi slender and 5-jointed. Obs. The species dissected was C. Cy- 



tisella. 



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



Cytisella Curt. Guide, Gen. 1013. 7. 



Fuscous, head and palpi whitish, excepting the tip of the 2nd 

 joint : thorax whitish or ochreous : superior wings sometimes 

 ochreous, the costa more or less fuscous, with an oblique narrow 

 white streak issuing from it near the apex, and pointing out- 

 ward ; a black line at the base of the cilia next the costa, with 

 4 white dots behind it. Obs. In some specimens the semdunate 

 white streak is very indistinct. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Bentley, the Author, 8(C. 



Having but few specimens of this group I am unable to speak 

 with certainty, but it appears to me that the palpi are stouter, 

 with a shorter terminal joint, in the male than they are in the 

 other sex ; this however may arise in my examples from the 

 palpi being rubbed in the female. 



