We now come to the clothes moth group. They vary a good deal 

 among themselves, but all have rough heads, that is to say, the 

 scales clothing the head are long and stand out in various directions. 

 The labial palpi are rather short, but the maxillary palpi are generally 

 long and have five or six joints. The genera, not yet very well 

 arranged, are as follows : 



Scardia, Tr., is closely allied to Tinea, but has a longer tongue, 

 the labial palpi are large and porrected, the middle joint thickly 

 scaled and the third or terminal joint smooth and rising vertically. 

 Antennae of the male with bunches of long cilia. The palpus seems 

 to me to give the most marked character in separating this from 

 Tinea and the antenna of the male is also distinctly different, but 

 these are only comparative differences, and the species now included 

 in Tinea differ in these points among themselves. Nevertheless it 

 may be convenient to retain Scardia for the boleti group. In Britain 

 we only have one species, S. boleti, F. The larva feeds on fungi, 

 and as the species is of large size it is as well that it is not destruc- 

 tive to household goods. 



Monopis, Hb. (Blabophanes, Z.). — This appears to be a good 

 genus, and may be separated from Tinea by the hyaline spot on the 

 forewings and by the nervures three and four of the forewings being 

 stalked. The hyaline spot is very peculiar ; it looks as though the 

 scales had been rubbed off the wing. The scales are there, however, 

 but are very small, thin and pale. 



Counting lombardica, Hering (heringi, Richardson), we have six 

 species, of which imella and rusticella may be considered destructive. 



Trichophaga, Rag., is again close to Tinea, but separated on 

 account of the subcostal and the two first radial nervures not reach- 

 ing the costa, but running into one another below the costa. We 

 only have one species, tapetzella, a very destructive moth. 



Tinea, L. (restricted by Zeller). — Head rough. No ocelli. Tongue 

 hardly perceptible. Middle joint of labial' palpi with long apical 

 bristles. Maxillary palpi several-jointed. Forewings with twelve 

 nervures, three, four and five separate. Hindwings flatly scaled 

 with long fringes. In this genus, as at present constituted, we have 

 at least twenty species, but happily they are not all destructive. 



T. granella, though it seems to be a pest in granaries, is scarcely a 

 house moth, but there is no doubt that pellione Ha is very destructive, 

 and probably fuscipmctella shares in its depredations. 



Tineola, H.S., differs from Tinea in the maxillary palpi being very 

 short. We have only one species, biselliella, which is perhaps the 

 commonest household lepidopterous pest. 



Myrmecozcla, Z., differs from Tinea in the want of maxillary palpi 

 and in the middle joint of the labial palpi being very roughly scaled. 

 We have only one species— ochraceella. It does not come into our 

 houses but dwells in those of the ant, the larva apparently feeding 

 on the refuse of the nest. We will now pass in review the species 

 mentioned. 



