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species, black ; hind wings pale brown ; head tawny ; palpi black, with the tips tawny. Taken in woods and 

 forests in June. 



" SvNoNYME. Tinea tripunctella, Fabricius ; Donovan, xi., pi. 382, fig. 3. 



Species 12. — Tinea sdlphurella— (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1560 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 15) — 

 Expands 5 to 5^ lines ; fore wings narrow, slightly falcate, sulphur-coloured, with slight brown irrorations ; 

 hind wings whitish-ash. Rare, in June. 



Obs. — Mr. Bentley informs us that the Tinea sulphurella of Haworth is identical with Gracillaria leucapennella. 



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Species 13. — Tinea destructor — (Stephens ; Wood, fig. 1561 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 16)-^ 

 Expands 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings entirely pale testaceous yellow ; hind ones pale testaceous ash ; fringe pale 

 testaceous yellow ; forehead tawny. The larva attacks preserved animals, birds, insects, &c. The moth appears 

 through the spring and summer in London. 



Species 14.— Tinea cloacella— (Haworth ; Wood, fig. 1562; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 17)— 

 Expands 5 to 7 lines ; fore wings brunneous-grey, slightly powdered, with white scales, and two large brown 

 patches on the outer part of the costa, the outer one connected with a short, black, discoidal line ; hind wings 

 black. Common in outbuildings, &c., during the summer. 



Species 15. — Tinea corticella— (Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 511 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 20) — Expands 

 8 lines ; fore wings whitish, varied with small ochreous, brown, and dark spots, the costa spotted with dark 

 brown, the spots unequal in size ; in the middle of the disc is a triangular ochreous patch, and a subapical 

 oblique irregular mark ; inner margin with two remote dark dots. Taken on trunks of trees in Kensington 

 Gardens. It has been considered as a variety of the preceding. 



Species 16. — Tinea granella — (Linnsus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1563 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 18) — 

 Expands 5 to ']\ lines ; fore wings livid, or hoary, and more or leas varied with blackish and white dissimilar 

 shaped marks, approximating together ; hind wings leaden-black ; forehead white. The caterpillar attacks 

 housed grain, and is occasionally productive of immense mischief in granaries. 



Species 17- — Tinea parasitella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1564 ; and our Plate CXVIII., Fig. 19) 

 — Expands 7i to 9 lines ; fore wings ashy or rusty-brown, with whitish atoms, and with the disc more or less 

 tesselated with pitchy dots, especially beyond the middle, the costa with some subapical broad whitish streaks ; 

 hind wings brown. Found in June and July, near London and elsewhere, but not common. 



EUPLOCAMUS, Latrkille. SCARDIA, Treitschke. 

 The antennae of the males are furnished with a double row of fascicles of hairs, appearing pectinated, the 

 labial palpi are much longer than the head, bent upwards, vrith the terminal joint slender and exposed ; the spiral 

 tongue is very short ; the fore wings very much deflexed in repose, long, sublanceolate, with the apical margin 

 rounded. The caterpillars are fleshy and -slightly setose. They are sixteen-footed, and feed upon Boleti. E. 

 anthracinellus and tessellus appear to have been introduced into our lists without sufficient authority. 



Species 1. — Euplocamus mediellus" — (Hiibner; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 591 ; Wood, fig. 1565 ; and our 

 Plate CXVIII., Fig. 22) — Expands 12 to 15 lines; fore wings very glossy, * ochreous, dotted with white and 



