511. 

 TINEA CORTICELLA. 



The Bark Clothes-Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidae. 

 Type of the Genus, Tinea granella Linn. 

 Tinea Linn., he. — Scardia Och. 



Antenna inserted on the crown of the head close to the eyes, 

 shorter than the body, setaceous, composed of innumerable sub- 

 quadrate joints, pubescent and clothed with depressed scales, 

 the basal joint stout, rather long and clavate (1, a few basal 

 joints). 



Maxillce spiral but not united, shorter than the labial palpi, with 

 a broad fleshy margin on the inside at the base (3). Palpi 

 somewhat fleshy and slender, as long as the maxillae , pilose and 

 scaly, apparently 5-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd twice as long, 

 3rd much longer and clavate, 4tli the longest, 5th as long as 

 the 3rd (3 a). 



Labial palpi rather slender, divaricating, sometimes a little re- 

 curved, clothed with short scales (4), triarticulate, basal joint 

 long and curved at the base, 2nd half as long again, nearly 

 straight, 3rd as long as the 1st elliptic conical, compressed and 

 scabrous at the apex (4 a). 

 Head thickly clothed with wool, standing up and concealing the Eyes 

 from above, these are not large but prominent and globose (7). 

 Thorax densely clothed with depressed scales. Abdomen a little 

 tufted at the apex in the male, acuminated in the female with a tele- 

 scopiform ovipositor. Wings very much deflexed when at rest, 

 superior long and lanceolate, inferior ample, the cilia long. Thighs, 

 hinder very short broad and compressed : tibiae, anterior short with 

 some long hairs on the inside, the others with long spurs at the apex, 

 the posterior long and clothed ivith fine long hairs outside, with a 

 pair of long spurs near the base : tarsi longer than the tibice, basal 

 joint the longest, apical one the shortest : claws very small (8 f, 

 hind leg). 

 Obs. The description and dissections are from T. rusticella Hiib. 

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

 inclosed in woollen cocoons. 



CoRTiCELLA Curt. Guidc, Gen. 1033. 14. 



Fuscous with an ochreous tinge : head clothed with ochreous 

 white hairy scales ; superior wings whitish, variegated with 

 irregular and minute ochreous brovra and darker spots : with a 

 dark brown spot on the costa at the base, and 2 larger ones 

 beyond, having minute ones between them, and 3 or 4 towards 

 the ajjex ; on the disc is a somewhat triangular ochreous brown 

 mark, with an oblique irregular one towards the posterior margin, 

 with 2 spots on the inferior margin, and 2 or 3 minute ones 

 between them: cilia ochreous brown with 3 yellow spots. 



In the Author's Cabinet. 



The maxillary palpi represented in the plate are the longest 

 I have seen; but although they are equal in length to the lobes 



