164 GELECHID®. 
being an extremely active insect, flying about our rooms at night, 
getting into the milk (thence called Zacteed/a), and in the daytime 
sitting in the windows (whence the name /enestrel/a) ; it is re- 
lentlessly pursued by careful housekeepers as a c/othes-moth, its 
conspicuous white head causing it to be easily observed ; whilst 
the true culprits, Tinea pellionedla and biselliedla, remain unhurt 
in their places of concealment. The larva of 2. fenestred/a feeds 
on various dry goods, peas, seeds, etc., and, according to Madame 
Lienig, even on salt. I am not aware that it attacks clothes of 
any kind; the notices in previous writers to that effect having 
been copied from Linneus, who, if this be his sarcife//a, must 
have fallen into some similar error, as he made with respect to 
his vestianella. 
1. fenestrella, Scop. F. C. 252. 653 (1763).—lactella, W. V.— 
lacteella, Lienig.—Betulinella, Wiib. Tin. 20. 448; Treit.; Dup.—sar- 
citella, Lin.? Step. ? Curt. ?—sareitea, Haw. ?—domesticella, Scop. ? 
Alis anticis griseis fusco-nebulosis, basi alba, punctis disci saturate fus- 
cis. Hxp. al. 74-9 lin. 
Head and face white. Palpi white; terminal joint with a ring at 
the base and another before the apex, black. Antenne fuscous. An- 
terior wings dirty grey, clouded with fuscous, with the extreme base 
white; beyond is a moderately broad fuscous fascia, a fuscous blotch 
is on the costa beyond the middle, a smaller one is above the anal angle, 
and another lies in the apex of the wing, preceded by an indistinct ob- 
lique whitish fascia; a dark fuscous spot on the dise, and one beyond it 
on the fold are before the middle of the wing, two larger dark fuscous 
spots are on the dise beyond the middle; the hinder margin and apex 
of the costa are spotted with whitish-grey ; cilia greyish-fuscous. Pos- 
terior wings whitish-grey, with paler cilia. 
Abundant in houses throughout the year; and during summer, 
on the trunks of trees near houses. ‘The larva may hkewise be 
found throughout the year, feeding on various dry goods, 
Genus XXIV. BUTALIS. 
Buratts, Treit. B. 8. ix. 2.108 (1833). <Astyages p., Step. Butalis 
p- Dup. Geophora p., Zell. Ouwybelia p. et Galanthia p., Miib. 
Caput oblusum, retract, squamis appressis. Ocelli nulli. Antenne 
articulis confertis, & pubescente-ciliatee, vix sub apicem serrulatee. 
Haustellum mediocre, squamatum. Palpi drevinseuli, adscendentes, 
subcompressi, acuminati. Ale elongata, anteriores subtus penicidlo 
basali; posteriores acuminate; anteriores: infra venam apicalem 
vene tantum gua/uor e cellula discoidali prodeunt; posteriores: e 
yenula transversa vena unica procedit. 
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