102 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Tinea Merdella, Zeller. 

 Alls anticis dilute ochreo-griseis, nitidis, strigula ab- 

 breviata basali prope costam, maculis duabus ante 

 medium maculaque majori pone medium nigrescentibus. 



Exp. al. 5 — 7J lin. 



Head and face greyish-ochreous (paler than in Pellionella). 

 Palpi pale grey, the long bristles dark brown. Antennas 

 rather dark grey. Anterior wings pale greyish-ochreous 

 (paler and more silky looking than in Pellionella), with a 

 short blackish streak from the base near the costa; before 

 the middle are two blackish spots, one in the fold, the other 

 longer and rather anterior to it on the disc ; beyond the 

 middle is a larger spot ; cilia unicolorous, very pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Posterior wings whitish grey, with pale grey 

 cilia. 



Best distinguished from Pellionella by the paler, more 

 silky ground colour of the anterior wings. 



Discovered at Liverpool in a wool warehouse by Mr. N. 

 Cooke, who thus announced the capture in the Intelligencer, 

 p. 125 : " On the 11th inst. and again to-day (July 14th), I 

 have taken a number of specimens of this species in a wool 

 warehouse; the room contains wool from Naples, Trieste, 

 Peru and Australia, and they may have been imported from 

 any of these places in the larva state ; but who is to prove 

 it ? I believe they have bred in the room , and therefore 

 claim a place in the British list for the species, as I think it 

 has just as much right there as some other species taken in 

 and about warehouses." 



There can be little doubt that many omnivorous feeders 

 stand much chance of being imported, and when once here 

 of becoming naturalized. 



Some of the CEcophorce, Ephestice and Tinece are species 



