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4. Ground white, contrastingly marked with black. 



5. Median black fascia complete, or broken at middle; costa black on 



basal fourth 19. arcella 



5. Median black fascia not reaching inner margin; with but little black 

 at base of costa. 

 6. Strongest markings a square black patch on middle of costa and a 



dot at apex of membrane 22. apicisignatella. 



6. The strongest marking a broad median fascia crossing the fold. 



23.' angulifasciella. 

 See also: 12 misceella, 25. fuscomaculella, 29. mgratomella, and 28. maculabella. 



1. T. misella Zeller. Eyes small, elliptical, separated by nearly twice their width. 

 Palpus rather longer than usual, with considerable hair on the second segment. 

 Cu 2 of hind wing three-fourths as long as width of wing. 



Clay color; shoulder fuscous; fore wing heavily mottled with fuscous strise, 

 tending to gather into quadrangular spots, among these the inconspicuous discal 

 spots. Costal fringe barred. 12-23 mm. 



The Pennsylvania specimens before me are darker, and appear to have less 

 loose hair on the palpi than the European ones. 



June to August. 



Europe; Minnesota; Pennsylvania; Texas; Florida. 



2. T. obscurostrigella Chambers. Similar to T. misella. Eyes rather smaller, 

 fore wings more evenly and less contrastingly mottled (sometimes nearly even, 

 except for the discal dots). 12-18 mm. 



May, July, and October. 



Hazelton, Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Missouri. 



3. T. fuscipunctella Haworth. Pale fuscous, tending to clay color, with a some- 

 what reddish head. Antennae blackish. Palpi and antennas nearly concolorous. 

 A transverse, dark band across front of thorax and basal half of tegulae, extending 

 along the costa of the fore wings a tenth of the way out. Fore wing more finely 

 and less extensively mottled with fuscous than in T. obscurostrigella; costal and 

 dorsal fringes barred. Dorsal spots large, diffuse, contrasting, sometimes joined 

 by a dark shade extending to base of wing. Hind wing paler, hardly iridescent. 

 11-17 mm. (nubilipennella Clemens, (Ecophora frigidella Packard). 



The black bar at the base of the costa seems to be distinctive. The eyes are 

 normal in this and the remaining species of Tinea. This moth appears to be our 

 commonest Tinea, and flies in May and June, and again in August. The larva 

 breeds in the trash in pigeons' nests and similar refuse. 



Labrador to Pennsylvania; Europe. 



4. T. apicimaculella Chambers. Dull straw yellow or clay color. Outer side of 

 palpi blackish. Thorax dark with some clay color on the tegulae. Fore wing with 

 the costal region shaded heavily with fuscous, the shade extending to the blackish 

 streak on the outer part of the wing, and beyond it to the fold, toward the base. 

 A blackish streak from the base almost to the apex, interrupted around the black 

 outer discal dot. Reniform and claviform dots strong, blackish. 



Basal half of fringe barred with blackish. 11-15 mm. 



The moth has been taken in June northward, and from April to July in the 

 south. 



New Jersey to Florida, Kansas, and Louisiana. 



5. T. straminiella Chambers. Straw yellow. Sides of palpi and of thorax brown. 

 Fore wing dusted with brown toward apex, with a row of dark spots along the 

 fold and one at the end of cell. 8 mm. 



This species was taken in June. No authentic material seems to be known.; 

 I believe it is a light variety of T. bimaculella. 

 Kentucky. 



6. T. bimaculella Chambers. Head pale yellowish, antennae fuscous; tegulae dark 

 brown. Fore wing narrow, lanceolate, light yellow, heavily dusted with fuscous, 

 or solidly purplish, most of the inner margin contrasting, clear light yellow. Outer 



