29-1 II AUSTELL ATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



This singular genus of moths contains only one indigenous species, 

 which, with one or two of the subsequent ones, has been placed with 

 the Lithosicic by some writers : Hiibner appears to be the first who 

 established it as a genus : from the true Galleriae it differs by having 

 the palpi very short, being almost totally concealed beneath the scales 

 of the front, the thorax and abdomen being slender, and the anterior 

 wings short, sublanceolate, and gradually rounded on the hinder 

 margin, the disc being of a pale hue, and totally destitute of markings : 

 the larva feeds upon honey, but I am not aware of the species of bee 

 whose nest is subject to its attacks. 



Sp. 1. alvearia. Alls anticis fusco-cinereis immaculatis, posticis cinereis, capite 

 Jlavo. (Exp. Alar. 8—11 lin.) 



Gal. alvearia. Fahricius.—Steph. Caial. ii. 213. No. 7410. 



Anterior wings and thorax brownish-ash, immaculate; posterior wings pale 

 ash colour ; abdomen the same, and a little silken : head yellow on the 

 front. 



A very rare species : I have received examples, which were 

 captured in June, in Devonshire, and now possess a very fine and 

 perfect series from the late Mr. Haworth's collection : taken by him 

 near London. 



Genus CCCLVIII. — Galleria, Fahricins. 



Palpi four; dissimilar in the sexes; maxillary in both concealed by the 

 frontal scales; labial in the males ascending, densely clothed with scales^ in 

 the female shorter and depending, in the form of a brush: maxillce short. 

 Antennce rather short and stoutish, simple in both sexes, with the basal 

 joint very stout, and furnished with a long bundle of scales within : head 

 short and broad, with a conical tuft of scales in front, in which the maxillary 

 palpi are concealed : eyes moderate : thorax stout, elevated behind : wings 

 narrow, much longer than broad, incumbent within on the body, deflexed 

 anteriorly, so as to form an angulated kind of figure during repose ; anterior 

 emarginate at the apex in the males, truncate in the females ; posterior 

 ample, folded ; cilia short : body rather long, robust, acute, and with a small 

 tuft at the apex in the males; very acute and elongate, with an exserted 

 ovipositor in the females : legs rather short. 



Larva melliphagous, slender, naked, with sixteen legs : pupa formed in a cocoon 

 amongst its food. 



The great stoutness of the trunk and abdomen of Galleria, com- 

 bined with the rctuse or notched hinder margin of the anterior wings, 



