AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. O45 



wings are also narrower and rounded behind, with the inner margin with a more or less waved pale streak ; the 

 spiral tongue is long and slender. The caterpillars of one of the species form very elegant open-work silk cases, 

 which permit the inclosed chrysalis to be perceived through the meshes. 



Species 1. — Cerostoma porrectellaJ — (LinnsBus, &c.; Wood, fig. 1546; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 1) 



— Expands 7 lines ; fore wings whitish, or pale buff, with the inner margin rather broadly but irregularly 



sinuated, white, edged in front with ashy-black, and with some black patches at the extremity of the costa ; 



apical margin with an oblique brown patch ; hind wings pale brown. The caterpillar feeds on the buds of the 



White Rocket, in my garden at Hammersmith, and the chrysalis is enclosed within a beautiful open net-work 



cocoon. The moth appears in June and August. 



J Synonymes. — Tinea HesperideUa, Hiibner, &c. 

 Ypsolophus vittatuSy Fabricius. 



Species 2. — Cerostoma annttlatella — (Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 420 ; Wood, fig. 1547 ; and our Plate 

 CXVIII., Fig. 2) — Expands 8| lines ; variable in colour ; fore wings more or less varied, and spotted with 

 brown ; inner margin pale ochre, but with a row of minute dark dots, its inner margin indented, and the costa 

 dotted and spotted with brown ; hind wings ashy. North of England and Scotland, in July and August. 



Species 3. — Cerostoma maculipennis — (Curtis ; Wood, fig. 1548 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 3) — 

 Expands 7 lines ; " dirty ochre ; fore wings freckled with brown, inferior margin dark brown, with three large 

 ochreous spots, one towards the base, another at the centre, and a third near the posterior angle." August, 

 Scotland ; and September, in Hampshire. 



Species 4. — Cerostoma xylostella — (Linnasus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1549 ; and our Plate CXVIII,, Fig. 4) 

 — Expands 6 to 7w lines ; fore wings much narrower than in the preceding species, pale ashy-brown, with tlie 

 inner margin occupied by a sinuate white streak, extending to the anal angle, edged in front with a darker 

 shade ; hind wings pale brown. Taken throughout the summer, and in October, in gardens and woods. 



TINEA, LiNN^us, &c. 

 Like several of the preceding genera, the head is strongly tufted in front, but the tuft is woolly, and tlie 

 labial palpi are small, but slightly setose, with all the joints distinct ; the spiral tongue is very short, being, in 

 fact, shorter than the maxillary palpi, which are fleshy and slender, and apparently five-jointed ; the wings are 

 very much deflexed in repose, the fore ones elongate-linear, having an oily appearance. Tlie caterpillars are 

 fleshy, and inhabit cases, which they construct of various woollen and other materials, (being for the most part 

 domestic, and very destructive to woollens, furs, feathers, carpets, grain, &c.,) in which they reside and undergo 

 their transformations. From their habits they are known by the ordinary name of Clothes Moths. 



Species I. — Tinea tapetzella — (Linnaeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1550; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 5) — 

 Expands from 5 to 10 lines ; fore wings black at the base, extending nearly to the middle, whence they are 

 Vhite, with various nearly obsolete small ashy clouds, and two dots near the tip ; hind wings ashy ; head white. 

 Common in houses through the summer. 



Species 2. — Tinea semifdlvella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1551 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 6) 

 — Expands 9^ lines ; fore wings shining pale fulvous gray, or yellowish, with the apical margin broadly dark 



