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INSECTA. 
TINEA. 
Where the proboscis is very short and formed of two little mem- 
branous and separated threads. ‘The head is crested. 
P. tapezana, Fab.; Réaum., Insect. III, xx, 2—4. Upper 
wings black; their posterior extremity as well as the head 
white. 
The caterpillar attacks cloth and other woollen stuffs on 
which it lies concealed in a semi-tubular sheath formed of their 
particles, which it lengthens as it advances. It is one of the 
Pseudo-Tinezx of Réaumur(1). 
T. sarcitelle, Fab.; Réaum., Ins., III, vi, 9, 10. Silver-grey; 
a white dot on each side of the thorax. 
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 feces 
have the colour of the wool on which it feeds. 
T. pellionella, Fab.; Réaum., 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(2). 
T. granella, Fab.; Roes., 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 occa- 
sionally issues to feed upon those seeds. It is very noxious. 
Inrruyia, Lat.—Crambus, Fab. 
Where the proboscis is very distinct and of an ordinary size, and 
(1) It approaches the Volucre (p. 208) inits palpi and appearance, and perhaps 
forms a new subgenus. 
* (2) All the authors who have described or figured Tineites and other analo- 
gous Lepidoptera, having paid but little attention to exactness, we find it imposs- 
ible to refer most of the species mentioned by them to our various subgenera. 
