296 , Lloyd's natural history. 



This species expands about an inch. 



It is found in Asia Minor and Northern Persia. The fore- 

 wings are black, with yellow nervures, and the fringes are 

 broadly spotted with orange-yellow, as are also the costa and 

 hind margin, but less broadly, the rest of the wing being 

 thickly mottled with the same colour. The hind-wings are 

 light orange, with a broad black border ; the fringes are 

 yellowish. The body is black ; the long palpi, a spot towards 

 the back of the thorax, the transverse bands on the abdomen, 

 and the anal tuft are yellow ; the legs are also yellow, more or 

 less banded with black ; the hind-legs especially are very long, 

 and the hind tibiai are compressed, yellow, and very strongly 

 spurred. The antenna; are set with very long diverging hairs. 



Except in colour, this species is closely allied to E. 

 aiithracinalis (Scopoli), a black South European species, with 

 yellow marks on the head and thorax, and large white spots 

 on the fore-wings. 



GENUS TINEA. {TilieidcU.) 

 Tinea, Linnoeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 534 (175S) ; Poda, Mus. 

 Gra^c. p. 94 (1761) ; Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (i), p. 12 

 (1832); Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 24 (1854); Von 

 Heinemann, Scb.mett. Deutschl. (2) ii. (i), p. 40 (1870). 

 The head is clothed with woolly hair, and the antennre are 

 shorter than the wings. The wings are long, more or less oval, 

 and the hind-wings especially are often ratlicr narrow nnd 

 pointed, with long fringes. This genus includes the true 

 " Clothes Moths " ; but there are only a few species which 

 are destructive to clothes. Other species feed on grain, rotten 

 wood, fungi, &:c. 



THE clothes moth. TINEA PELT, ION ELLA. 



Tinea pellione/la, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 536, 

 no. 254 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p, 364, no. 1415 (1761); 



