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fulvous, as well as the fringe, and with a small dark dot near the anal angle ; hind wings brown-leaden and shining. 

 In various places round London, in June. 



Species 3. — Tinea vestianella "^ — (Linnssus? Stephens; Wood, fig. 1552) — Expands 7 to 10 lines; fore 

 wings grayish-black, glossy, and mottled with small dark clouds, with a small pale patch on the disc before the 

 middle ; fringe tawny, with small dusky patches at the base ; hind wings leaden-brown and glossy. Common 

 in houses and outbuildings in the summer. 



'' SywoNYME. — Tinea saturalella, Haworth. 



Species 4. — Tinea ustella ' — (Linnseus ; Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1553 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 7) 

 — Expands 5i Unas ; fore wings black, and glossy, with a large yellow spot in the middle, the inner margin also 

 occupied by an indented whitish-yellow streak, and some dots of the same colour at the extremity of the costa ; 

 hind wings black, with a purple tinge ; head clothed with fulvous hairs. June and July, near London, but not 

 common. 



' SvNONYME. — Tinea femiginella^ Hubner. 



Species 5. — Tinea flavicostella — (Plate CXVIII., Fig. 8) — Expands 6 lines ; fore wings blackish- 

 brown, very glossy, the disc with a few elevated paler scales scattered over it ; the costa with a very narrow 

 fulvous edging ; fringe concolorous ; hind wings ashy and glossy ; fringe pale brown. Communicated by Mr. 

 Bentley, with the name employed above. Two specimens were taken at Margate in July. 



Species 6. — Tinea fuscipunctella — (Haworth. &c. ; Wood, fig. 1554 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 9) 

 — Expands 6 to 71 lines ; fore wings grayish-ash and very glossy, slightly clouded, and with about four black 

 dots scattered over the disc, the outer one largest ; hind wings pale ashy-brown. Found in houses, outhouses, 

 &c., in the summer. 



Species 7. — Tinea pellionella — (LinnEeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1555 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 10) — 

 Expands 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings ashy-brown, slightly clouded, or pale brown, glossy, with a black dot on the 

 disc before the middle ; hind wings pale ashy-brown. Common in houses, &c., through the spring and 

 summer. 



Species 8. — Tinea nigripunctella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1556; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 

 1 1 ) — Expands 5 to 6 lines ; fore wings tawny-yellow, very much dotted with black, the spots almost forming 

 fascise ; head tawny ; hind wings pale ash. In houses, &c., through the spring and summer. 



Species 9. — Tinea albipunctella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1557 ; and our Plate CXVIII,, Fig. 12) 

 —Expands 5^ lines ; fore wings ashy-black, irregularly clouded with numerous very minute white spots and 

 streaks ; hind wings black, glossy, with deep blackish fringe. Taken in June and July in houses and gardens 

 near London. 



Species 10. — Tinea flavescentella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1558 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 

 13) — Expands 7 to 7? lines ; fore wings very pale yellowish, with three almost obsolete brown dots, two placed 

 transversely before, and the third beyond the middle ; hind wings yellowish-white ; head tawny ; palpi entirely 

 pale yellow. Taken in houses, &c., in June, but not common. 



Species 11. — Tinea lappella"" — (Linnaeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1559; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 14) — 

 Expands 5i to 7i lines ; fore wings yellowish ; the base of the costa, and three spots placed as in the preceding 



