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discal dot large, blackish when not lost in the dark ground. Three blackish spots 

 in fold, near base, and before and beyond middle. Hind wing narrow as in the 

 granella group. 9 mm. (mandarinella Dietz). 



I have seen the types of both names, and they are the same species. The species 

 determined by Kearfott as bimaculella is not a Tinea. 



June to August. 



New Jersey to Ohio and Kentucky. 



7. T. . Straw yellow. Head brighter yellow, with a black patch 



behind each antenna. Antennae blackish, palpi blackish, except on inner side 

 toward apex. Disc of thorax and shoulders blackish. Fore wing with costal edge 

 nearly black on basal half, the costa more broadly dark at base. Wing sur- 

 face lightly dusted with fuscous, tending to leave the veins free. Three black 

 discal dots, the outer much the larger. Membrane of hind wing not quite so 

 yellow, three-fourths as wide as the fore wing. Cu 2 short. 12 mm. (trimaculeUa 

 Chambers ? ) 



July. 



St. Louis, Missouri; (District of Columbia; Kentucky). New York: Otto. 



8. T. carnariella Clemens. Similar to the preceding species. Deeper ochre 

 yellow, the fore wing sometimes suffused with fuscous, leaving a contrasting 

 yellow inner margin. Head without a black spot behind antennae; palpi yellower 

 on inner face; disc of thorax mostly yellowish. Fore wing more or less dusted 

 with blackish scales, costal edge less contrastingly blackish, discal spots larger, 

 diffuse, the one in the fold obscure. Hind wing dirty white, broad. 15 mm. 



June. 



St. Louis, Missouri; Pennsylvania. 



9. T. grumella Zeller. Head ochreous, darker than in T. pellionella. Yellowish, 

 shaded with fuscous, especially toward costa and beyond the discal dot, but leaving 

 the fold contrastingly pale. Usual spots dark, the one in the fold short. A series 

 of blackish terminal bars. Hind wing somewhat narrower than fore wing. 

 16-18 mm. ( ?) 



The length of the fore wing is given as four lines, which is too large for any- 

 thing I have seen determined as grumella. The present description is condensed 

 from Zeller's. 



July. 



Massachusetts. 



10. T. pellionella Linnaeus. (The old-fashioned clothes -moth.) Pale fuscous 

 gray, a little shining. Head yellower than ground, but not decidedly yellow as in 

 the preceding species. Antennae, including whole of scape, and palpi, blackish. 

 Fore wing with a good many scales darker toward apex, but with no definite 

 dusting; discal spots distinct, but blurred; no terminal bars. Hind wings light 

 gray. 10-15 mm. (H. p. 473, f. 253.) 



The larva is white with a brown head and collar, and lives in a parchment-like 

 case of white silk. It is one of our clothes moths, feeding on woollen goods, furs, 

 and other dry substances of animal origin, but appears to be much less common 

 under American conditions than is Tineola bisselliella. 



The distribution is said to be general; I have seen the species from Michigan 

 and Missouri, and, I think, from Alabama. 



New York: Reported from Louisville, Canandaigua, and Alfred Center. 



11. T. grisseella Chambers. Fuscous, head somewhat yellower than fore wing, 

 with ocherous and fuscous palpi. Fore wing heavily striolate on a clay-colored 

 ground. Outer discal dot distinct, and also two dark bars in the fold. 8 mm. 



I have seen no authentic material of this species. The original description is 

 strongly suggestive of T. pellionella. 

 Kentucky. 



12. T. misceella Chambers. Head and palpi pale yellowish; antennae pale fus- 

 cous; fore wings dusted with fuscous and saffron yellow in about equal propor- 

 tions; two discal spots, one two-fifths of the way out, in the fold, and a smaller 

 one at end of cell. 8 mm. 



