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Gen. Galleria. 



Type. 



Galleria Fnhr., Ent. Syst. Snppl. p. iG2(nQS) • . . mellondla 



Ceriodepia Sodof., Bull. Nat. Mosc. x. 6. p. 20 (1837). ...... mellonella 



I'indanm Wlk., x.xxv. 170G (1866) mdloneUa 



Proboscis slight ; palpi of male short, obliquely upturned, thickly scaled, 

 of female downcurved and extending about the length of head ; maxillary palpi 

 dilated with scales ; frons with large tuft of hair ; antennae of male almost 

 simple, the basal joint somewhat dilated and with a tuft of scales below. Fore- 

 wing with the costa slightly arched, the apex rounded, the termen excised to 

 vein 2, strongly in male, the tornus obliquely excised ; the male with the cell 

 about three-fourths length of wing ; veins 2, 3, 4, 5 given off at even distances ; 

 the discocellulars slightly angled inwards ; vein 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8. 9 

 stalked from before angle, 7 from beyond 9; 10, 11 from cell ; a small glandular 

 swelling at base of costa on underside and the cell clothed with androconia ; 

 the female with the cell about two-thirds length of wing and veins 4, 5 from 

 angle. Hindwing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; the 

 discocellulars angled inwards to about one-fourth from base ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 

 anastomosing with 8. 



Galleria mellonella. 



Tinea mellonella Linn., Syst. Nat. edit. x. p. 537 (1758) ; Curt., Brit. Ent. xlii. p. 587 ; Hmpsn., 



Moths Ind. iv. p. 9 ; Rag., Rom. Mem. viii. p. 448 ; Stand., Cat. Lep. pal. ii. p. 2. 

 Tinea cereana Linn., Syst. Nat. edit. xii. p. 874 (1767). 

 Tinea cerella Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 655 (1775). 

 Galleria cerea Haw., Lep. Brit. p. 392 (1811). 

 Vindana obliquella Wlk., xxxv. 1706 (1866). 

 Galleria auatrina Feld., Eei.^. Nor. pi. 137. f. 7 (1874). 



Almost universally distributed. 



Gen. Galleiisthenia nov. 

 Type, G. mellonididla. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi of male porrect, extending about twice 

 the length of head and thickly scaled above and below ; maxillary palpi trian- 

 gularly scaled ; frons oblique ; antennae short, simple. Forewing with veins 

 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 

 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell ; the wing narrow, the termen erect from apex to 

 vein 3 where it is strongly hooked then very oblique. Hindwing with vein 

 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle which is greatly produced ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 approximated to 7 beyond the cell ; the termen slightly 

 excurved at middle. 



* Galleristhenia mellonidiella n. sp. 



(?. Head and thorax pale red-brown ; abdomen brownish white. Forewing 

 pale red-brown suffused with grey and irrorated with a few dark scales ; a post- 

 medial line obsolescent towards costa, angled at vein 5, then very oblique and 

 formed of dark red-brown spots ; cilia dark red-brown, whitish at tips below 

 the hook. Hindwing semihyaline white ; the costal area, termen, and base of 

 cilia brown. 



Queensland, Dawson district (Barnard), 1 ^ type in coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 46 mill. 



