308 INSECTA. 
The caterpillar lives on cloth, and other woollens, weaving 
with their detached particles mixed with silk, a portable tube; 
it lengthens it at one end in proportion as it grows, and slits it 
to increase its diameter, by adding another piece. Its faeces 
have the colour of the wool on which it feeds. 
T. pellionella, Fab.; Reaum., Insect., III, vi, 12—16. Upper 
wings silver grey, with one or two black dots on each. 
The caterpillar inhabits a felted tube on furs; it cuts the 
hairs at base, and rapidly destroys them. The 
T. flavifrontella, Fab., ravages cabinets of natural history in 
the same way *. 
T. granella, Fab.; Rees., Ins. I, Class IV, Pap. Noct., xii. 
Its upper wings are marbled with grey, brown and black, and 
turned up posteriorly, 
The caterpillar—fausse-teigne des blés—connects several 
grains of wheat with silk, and forms a tube, from which it 
cccasionally issues to feed upon those seeds. It is very noxious. 
Iuiruyia, Lat.—Crampus, Fab., 
Where the proboscis is very distinct, and of an ordinary size, and 
the last joint of the inferior palpi is manifestly shorter than the pre- 
ceding one +. 
YronomeEuta, Lat., 
Where the proboscis is also very distinct, and of an ordinary size; 
but the last joint of the inferior palpi is at least almost as long as the 
preceding. 
These Insects seem to be connected with the Lithosiz. 
Y. evonymella; Tinea evonymella, Fab.; Rees., Ins., I, Class. 
IV, Pap. Noct., viii, Superior wings glossy-white, with nu- 
merous black points; inferior ones blackish. 
Y. padella; Tinea padella, Fab.; Rees., Ibid., viii. Supe- 
rior wings lead-grey, with about twenty black dots. 
The caterpillar, like that of the evonymella, lives in society, 
forming a numerous community under a web. It is sometimes 
so abundant on the fruit trees in Europe, the leaves of which it 
devours, that the branches seem to be covered with crape f. 
In the following subgenus, or the 
(Ecornora, Lat., 
The inferior palpi are covered over the head like horns, taper to a 
point, and even extend to the back of the thorax. 
The Teigqne des blés, which is so destructive in the southern 
departments of France, and of a uniform brownish cream- 
colour, belongs to this subgenus. 
* All the authors who have described or figured Tineites, and other analogous 
Lepidoptera, having paid but little attention to exactness, we find it impossible to 
refer most of the species mentioned by them to our various subgenera. 
+ Crambus carneus, Fab., and some other species. ‘The antenne of the males are 
marked inferiorly by a knot-like inflation. 
+ See Lat., Gen. Crust et Insect., IV, 222; and the Hist. Nat. des Lépid. de 
Fr., of Godart. 
