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mistaken for the European grain moth. Among these may be mentioned 
the following: 
Tinea pallescentella Haw. — This European species lias not yet been 
recorded so far as known from America, but is liable to introduction if 
not already established here, as it is known to feed in the larval condi 
tion upon dry refuse, being even said to attack grain. 
Tinea fuscipunctella Haw. ( ?) — Either this or a closely related species 
was reared from a mass of material taken by Mr. F. C. Pratt at Lake- 
laud, Md., from old barrels in a woodshed, in which turkeys bad been 
kept, and containing refuse meal and other feed, hay, and the excre- 
ments of the fowls. European authors state that fuscipunctella lives 
in different sorts of dried material, which includes grass, the seeds of 
which it devours, and larvae or pupae from which the adults have been 
reared have been found in dust in cracks of the flooring of rooms, in 
the nests of the European chimney swallow, and in the hollow stems of 
parsnip {Pastinaca sativa) inhabited by Depressaria heracliana. The 
larvae are supposed to feed upon the seeds of this plant. 
Tinea spp. — One or two other species bred with the above in the 
meal and other refuse, but it is impossible to identity them at present. 
Tinea (Scardia) cloacella Haw. — This species so closely resembles 
granella that it can only be separated from it by the closest scrutiny. 
In typical specimens the head is whitish ocherous and the fore-wings 
ocherous brown, while in the latter both head and fore- wings are whit- 
ish. It appears to be about equally common on both sides of the 
Atlantic, and to live exclusively on dry fungi. 
Tinea sp. — A moth closely resembling cloacella in the ornamentation 
of its wings, but considerably darker than is usual in that species, was 
reared in abundance from a lot of pods of Yucca received in June« 
1893, from Mexico. The moths issued from April 5 to June 30 of the 
following year: 
Tinea defectella Zell. — This species somewhat resembles grandhi in 
markings, but the light portions of the fore-wings are white, or nearly 
so. We are indebted to Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell for a good series bred 
from Polyporus rimosus, a fungus parasitic on Populus fremontii, from 
Las Graces, N. Mex. 
conclusions. - 
The question of the presence in America of Tinea granella, it must be 
conceded, rests upon rather insecure footing, not alone because of the 
scarcity of specimens and of reliable published records, but because in 
all likelihood such an injurious species as this is known to be would, if 
once introduced, make itself felt. Considering all the known tacts in 
the case is it not probable that the cases cited of its occurrence here 
are the result of accidental and direct importation I Until the contrary 
can be proved it would appear safest to believe that this species is not 
permanently established in this country. 
