374 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CETLON. 



exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped ; cell half the length ; subcostal well 

 separated from the costal, two branches from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 concave, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower 

 at nearly half before the end ; submediau and internal vein straight. Body rather 

 slender ; thorax clothed with adpressed spatular scales ; head pilose in front ; labial 

 palpi long, slender, curved obliquely upward, rising much higher than the vertex, 

 lanceolate, second joint laxly fringed above and beneath, third joint very slender, 

 half-length of second ; antennae very minutely setulose ; legs smooth, slender, rather 

 long, tibiae stout, thickly fringed, spurs very long and slender. 



HAMAXIA LIGNULINA. 



Hamaxin HjnnUna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 128 (1863). 



Very pale brownish-ochreous : forewing slightly speckled with pale-brown 

 scales, which are more numerously clustered from middle of the costa to middle of 

 the exterior margin, and there form an oblique angular fiascia; above the fascia is a 

 costal cluster before the apex ; a slight brown dot in middle of the cell, and a 

 marginal row of dark-brown points : hind wing slightly speckled with pale-brown 

 scales, and with a marginal row of brown points. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Note. — The three last enumerated genera, viz. Moca, Arrade, and Hamaxia, 

 which have been referred to this family by Mr. Walker, are jjlaced here with 

 doubt. 



Family GALLERIID.ffi. 



Forewing elongate, exterior margin indented, or convex : hindwing above with 

 the base of median vein fringed. Antenna simple, or minutely ciliated ; basal joint 

 generally with a tuft of scales beneath ; labial palpi short in male, long and porrected 

 in female ; maxillary palpi minute, concealed. 



Larva with sixteen legs ; dull whitish, with dark spots, and rather bristly. 

 Feeds on wax in beehives and in the nests of wild bees, protected by silken galleries. 

 Pupates within the hives. 



Genus MELISSOBLAPTES. 



MelissoMaptes, Zeller, Isis, 1848, p. 580; Stainton, Manual, ii. p. 165 (1859). 

 Lamoria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 87 (1863). 



Forewing long ; costa slightly arched, apex and exterior margin convex, slightly 

 oblique ; cell two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end 

 of the cell, second at one eighth, tliird from the end, trifid ; discocellular extremely 



