ADELA. 297 



Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (i), p. 15 (1832); Stephens, 

 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 345 (1834); Stainton, Ins. 

 Brit. Tineina, p. 33 (1854) ; Von Heinemann, Schmett. 

 Deutschl. (2), ii. (2), p. 54 (1870); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies 

 and Moths, p. 413 (1883). 



Tinea sardtella^ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.)i. p. 536, no. 255 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 364, no. 1416 (1761), 



The Clothes Moth is widely distributed, and probably 

 almost cosmopolitan. It expands about half an inch. The 

 fore-wings are light metallic golden brown, with one or two 

 fine dark dots in front of, and a larger one beyond, the middle. 

 The cilia are whitish. The hind-wings are pale grey, with a 

 yellowish shine, and yellowish-white fringes. 



The larva feeds on wool, hair, fur, feathers, &c. 



It attains a length of about a third of an inch and is 

 yellowish-white, rather shining and wrinkled. The head and 

 cervical plate are brown, the latter divided longitudinally by a 

 white line. There is a dark brownish-red dorsal line, which 

 ends in a red spot, and the ventral surface and legs are white. 

 The larva forms a port able case of the material upon which it 

 is feeding, and the yellowish-brown pupa is either formed in 

 this, or in a slight cocoon. 



GENUS ADELA. (Adelidce^ 



Adela, Latreille, Precis, p. 147 (1796) ; id. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. 



iii. p. 417 (1802), xiv. p. 255 (1805) ; Treitschke, Schmett. 



Err. ix. (2), p. 112 (1833); Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, 



p. 48 (1854); Von Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl. (2), 



ii. (i) p. 73 (1870). 



This is a genus belonging to a family allied to the Tineidce^ 

 but distinguished by the very long and slender antenna? of the 



