16 tineid.t;. 



with fuscous sonlos, witli an nngulatod dark fuscous striga Ijefore tlie 

 middle, interrupted however soon after crossing tlie fold, and not reach- 

 ing to the inner margin ; on the disc, nearly in the middle, are two 

 small dark fHscoim npuls, of which the lower one is the posterior, an- 

 other dark fuscous spot lies on the disc a little beyond the middle, 

 and at the termination of the discoidal cell is a small transverse dark 

 fuscous streak ; towards the hinder margin is a faint, angulated, and 

 indented striga ; the hinder margin and apex of the costa are spotted 

 dark, with fuscous; cilia whitish, interrupted with fuscous opposite the 

 marginal spots. Posterior wings rather pale-grey, darker posteriorly 

 with whitish cilia. 



The female has the anterior wings narrower, shorter, and abruptly 

 acute, generally darker than in the male, and the markings less distinct. 



An abundant species tliroughoiit the country, sitting on the 

 tninks of trees during the cokl showery weather of April. The 

 larva (with tlie third pair of feet chib-shaped) is polypluigous, 

 feeding between united leaves in 8e])teniber and October. 1 have 

 found it on birch, sallow, and mountain-ash. 



Family II. TINEID.E. 



Capni lanatnm ; palpi lalnales brcvefi, cransl ; palpi maxillares i)lcris(pic 



5- vel C-articulati. Larva saccophora, vel in fungis intra cunieulos 



sericeos vivens. 



Head roiipli, having a woolly appearance {Lampronia and some of the 

 Addce are exceptions); labial palpi sJiort and thick ; maxillary palpi in 

 many of the genera extremely developed, five- or six-jointed ; antenna? 

 extremely variable, pectinated, ciliated, or simi)le, short, of moderate 

 length, or very long ; tongue rarely absent. Larvee case-hearers, or 

 feeding in fungi, or decayed wood, in galleries lined with silk, or in the 

 pith of the stems of plants. The larvcC of the singular genus Ochsen- 

 heimeria burrow down the stems of grass. 



It is to this family that those pests of our houses, the clothes- 

 moths, belong; they form the bulk of the genus Tinea, but only 

 a few species annoy us by their ravages. 



Tlu' lirst two genera, having apterous females, arc the represen- 

 tatives of 1-hc Fumeai amongst the Tincina. The three last genera 

 of this family (the long-horns) nn"ght at hrst siglit appear to form 

 a natural group by themselves, but the development of the maxil- 

 liu-y palpi in Ncwo]j/wra, and the want of them iu Adda and 

 Ncaiotois, show that they are not sulliciently related ruler se to 

 warrant such a step, and to place Adela and Ncmolois in a dis- 



