LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 13J 



I have seen a specimen from Pennsylvania labelled Tinea defectella Zeller. 

 Its fore wing ia white, patchily mottled with fuscous, tending to form oblique 

 fasciae, and the head is fuscous and white. 8 mm. I am not sure it is rightly 

 determined. 



T. uterella Walsingham, a blackish tropical species a good deal like 

 T. misella, but lacking the pecten, is likely to occur in the warmer States. The 

 larva is Tinea-like but with heavy thoracic sclerites, and forms a flat case like 

 a melon seed. The species is usually put in the genus Tineola, but the tongue 

 and maxillary palpi are preserved. 



5. TRICHOPHAGA Ragonot 

 (Tinea, in part) 



Tongue obsolete; but maxillary palpi preserved; costal veins as noted in key 

 ( fig. 78 ) . Otherwise like the first group of Tinea. Antennae rather more smoothly 

 scaled than in Tinea, with only a narrow naked area at the base of each joint. 



1. T. tapetzella Linnaeus (Case-bearing clothes moth). Blackish, outer half of 

 fore wing contrastingly whitish. 12-24 mm. (H p. 434 f. 254.) 



This species is apparently nearly world wide. The larva is a clothes moth and 

 general scavenger, often breeding in owl-pellets ; it is pale, with a black head 

 and a dark brown shield. 



Distribution general south of New York City. Xew York : Xew Dorp, Staten 

 Island. 



6. MONOPIS Hiibner 

 Blabophanes Herrich-Schaeffei' 



Body and head like Tinea. Antennae usually with rather strong sense bristles. 

 Fore wing (fig. 77) with a small fovea near middle; M 3 and CUj stalked, R 4 and R B 

 sometimes stalked, Cu 2 often stalked with M 3 and CUj. Hind wing with Mj and 

 M 2 rarely stalked. 



Spuler makes a separate family, Monopidae, for this genus; but the characters 

 are not unlike those of Tinea, and the larval habits are the same. 



Key to the species 



1. Disc of thorax and inner margin of fore wing contrasting yellow. 

 2. Thorax and inner margin bright yellow. 



3. Fore wing blackish with violet iridescence 3. ferniginella. 



3. Fore wing blackish fuscous, flecked with pale ochreous. 



4. crocicapitella. 



2. Thorax and inner margin yellowish white 2. dorsistrigella. 



1. Disc of thorax concolorous, and inner margin slightly paler, or with con- 



colorous inner margin 

 2. A pale spot on middle or outer part of costa. 



3. Inner margin solidly dark or with a small dot at anal angle 



5. monachella. 



3. Inner margin paler or with a pale patch, at least half as large as the 

 costal one. 



4. Costa without dark spots before the middle 6. biflavimaculella. 



4. Costa with alternate clay-colored and dark striae 



5. Tips of tegulae pale 1. irrorella. 



5. Tips of tegulse concolorous 7. marginistrigella. 



2. Xo pale areas on any part of wing 8. rusticella. 



I. Cell half as long as fore icings: R 4 and R B separate, as a rule; Cu 2 free, Mi 

 and M 2 of hind wing separate. Male valves icith straight ends and sharp (ingles. 

 Cell more than half the length of fore wing (Blabophanes). 



1. M. irrorella Dietz. Equally mixed with whitish and dark brown; head saf- 



