16 TINEID®. 
with fuscous scales, with an angulated dark fuscous striga before the 
middle, interrupted however soon after crossing the fold, and not reach- 
ing to the inner margin; on the disc, nearly in the middle, are two 
small dark fuscous spots, of which the lower one is the posterior, an- 
other dark fuscous spot lies on the dise a little beyond the middle, 
and at the termination of the discoidal cell is a small transverse dark 
fuscous streak; towards the hinder margin is a faint, angulated, and 
indented striga; the hinder margin and apex of the costa are spotted 
dark, with fuscous ; cilia whitish, interrupted with fuscous opposite the 
marginal spots. Posterior wings rather pule-grey, darker posteriorly 
with whitish cilia. 
The female has the anterior wings narrower, shorter, and abruptly 
acute, generally darker than in the male, and the markings less distinct. 
An abundant species throughout the country, sitting on the 
trunks of trees during the cold showery weather of April. The 
larva (with the third pair of feet club-shaped) is polyphagous, 
feeding between united leaves in September and Matinee I have 
found it on birch, sallow, and mountain-ash. 
Famity II. TINEIDA. 
Caput lanatum ; palpi labiales breves, crassi ; palpi maxillares plerisque 
5- vel 6-articulati. Zarva saccophora, vel in fungis intra cuniculos 
sericeos vivens. 
Head rough, having a woolly appearance (Lampronia and some of the 
Adele ave exceptions); labial palpi short and thick ; maxillary palpi in 
many of the genera extremely developed, five- or six-jointed ; antenna 
extremely variable, pectinated, ciliated, or simple, short, of moderate 
length, or very long; tongue rarely absent. Larve case-bearers, or 
feeding in fungi, or decayed wood, in galleries lined with silk, or in the 
pith of the stems of plants. The larvee of the singular genus Ochsen- 
heimeria burrow down the stems of grass. 
It is to this family that those pests of our houses, the clothes- 
moths, belong; they form the bulk of the genus 7%imea, but only 
a few species annoy us by their ravages. 
The first two genera, having apterous females, are the represen- 
tatives of the /’wmee amongst the Zineina. The three last genera 
of this family (the long-horns) might at first sight appear to form 
a natural group by themselves, but the development of the maxil- 
lary palpi in Nemophora, and the want of them in Ade/a and 
Nemotois, show that they are not sufficiently related inter se to 
warrant such a step, and to place Ade/a and Nemotois in a dis- 
