NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1017. 



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A CLASSIFICATION OF THE PYRALIDAE, SUBFAMILY 

 GALLERIANAE. 



By sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart., F.Z.S., Etc. 



"DROBOSCIS well developed, short, or aborted and minute ; palpi of male in 

 -L the typical genera short, upturned and thickly scaled, hidden below the very 

 large frontal tuft, in female downcurved and two or three times the length of 

 head. In the more ancestral genera the palpi may be long and downcurved in 

 both sexes, or rarely upturned ; maxillary palpi small and filiform, or obsolete, 

 sometimes more developed and somewhat dilated with scales, rarely long and 

 two-jointed ; frons usually with large tuft of hair ; eye large, round ; antennae 

 usually almost simple, sometimes ciliated, in Sphinctocera wth a small tooth 

 at one-fifth, the basal joint often long, in Megarthria very long and curved ; 

 thorax and abdomen without crests ; tibiae with all the spurs present. Fore- 

 wing with the shape very variable ; vein 1 a separate from 1 6 ; 1 c absent ; 

 4 sometimes absent or stalked ynlh 5 ; 6 sometimes stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 7 

 present ; 9 often and 8 and 10 rarely absent ; 10 from cell or sometimes stalked 

 with 8, 9 ; the male often has the cell very much produced, sometimes almost 

 to termen, and with a glandular swelling containing masses of flocculent hair 

 at base of costa on underside. Hindwing with the median nervure pectinated 

 on upperside ; veins I a, 6, c present ; 4 often and 3 rarely absent, 3 and 5 

 or 4, 5 often stalked ; the discoceilulars often angled inwards almost to the 

 base, rarely almost obsolete ; 6, 7 from cell or stalked, in Agdistopis 6 absent ; 



7 anastomosing with 8 or free ; frenulum of female multiple. 



The neuration is not very constant, and in the forewing of the same species 

 vein 6 may be from the cell or stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 7 may be given off from 



8 before or beyond 9, and 10 may be rarely either present or absent ; in the 

 hindwing vein 4 is rarely either present or absent. 



Larvae with all the prolegs present ; in Galleria rather short and stout, 

 in Aphoinia longer and more cylindrical ; in Oalleria and Achroia they live in the 

 hives of bees, forming silken tubular galleries, in Aphomia in the nests of Vespa 

 or Bombus, whilst some exotic species live in the nests of ants. 



A t before a reference means that the type is in the British Museum, and 

 an * that the species is not in the collection. 



In my opinion the name used for the subfamily and the genus Aphomia 

 should be respectively Tineiyiae and Tinea Linn., but in deference to the wishes 

 of the Editors of the Novitates I have here employed the terms Gallerianae and 

 Aphomia pending a more general consensus of the opinions of zoologists on the 

 subject. 



Two species have been clauned as the type of the genus, sociella the first 

 on the list, a pellionella the twenty-fLfst. 



Linne's description of Tinea is " Alls convolutis, fere in cylindrum ; frontc 

 prominula." 



The first part of the description applies to the wings in repose, in sociella 

 they are folded almost into a cylinder, in pellionella they are more tent-lilie in 

 shape, with the apices of the f orewings turned outwards ; the second part applies 



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