CHRYSOCORYS SCISSELLA. 



The oblong Gold-head Tinea. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidse. 



Tyipe of the Genus, Tinea scissella Haw. 



Chrysocoeys Curt. — Tinea Haw., Hiib. 



AntenncE rather short, composed of numerous joints, thickly 

 clothed with scales giving them a tasselled or serrated appear- 

 ance in the males towards the apex, which is very setaceous (1, 

 a few joints beyond the middle). 



Maxilla as long as the antennae, very slender and spiral (3). 

 Labial palpi rather long, projecting horizontally beyond the 

 head, divaricating, slender, attenuated and clothed with short 

 scales (4) ; triarticulate, basal joint long, slightly curved and 

 clavate, 2nd longer and rather stouter, 3rd the length of the 1st 

 slender and lanceolate (a). 

 Head small, globose, clothed with metallic closely depressed scales : (7 

 the face, 7 * the profile) : Eyes rather large and orbicular. Thorax 

 small clothed with depressed scales. Abdomen short and linear in 

 the male, the apex conical in the female. Wings deflexed, superior 

 long, narrow, lanceolate and slightly falcate ; inferior narroio and 

 lanceolate, cilia long. Legs, hinder the longest : tibiae, anterior 

 very short with a long internal spine ; intermediate with long spurs 

 at the apex; hinder the longest, with a pair of very long spurs at the 

 apex and at the middle : tarsi 5-jointed, basal joint long, apical the 

 shortest : claws very minute. 

 Larvae with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet ; tuberculated and 

 bristly (C). Vxx^di papilioniform, with series of dorsal spines (P), 

 inclosed in a netted cocoon. Hiib. 



Scissella i/aw. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 1039. 1. — Festaliella/fM^. Tin. 

 pi. %1 . f. 449 ? — angustipennella Guide, \st Edit. 

 Fuscous, basal joint of palpi and mouth yellow, head and thorax 

 brassy : superior wings ochreous, costa, posterior margin and a 

 line from thence to the base brown, a streak of the same colour 

 along the middle dilated at the centre ; abdomen griseous black, 

 silvery white beneath. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



