OALLERIID.E—uALLERIA. 13; 



weedy ditches and drains, as well as in fens ; and as it 

 becomes dark both sexes are strongly attracted by light, 

 even that of a lantern carried in the hand. Rather widely 

 distributed, yet only to be found in any plenty in the fens 

 of Norfolk, SuSblk, and Cambridgeshire ; also found near 

 Witley, Surrey, by Mr. J. E. Eastwood ; and very locally in 

 Sussex, Kent, Berks, and Leicestershire ; rarely in Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire, and once only in Staffordshire. In Wales 

 I find no record ; but in Scotland it has been taken rarely in 

 Kirkcudbright, Renfrew, and Argyleshire ; and in Ireland 

 Mr. Kane has obtained one specimen in Tyrone. In the case 

 of a record from Galway, the captor kindly allowed me to 

 examine the specimen, which proved to be a female S.forfi- 

 cellus. Abroad its range is through Central Europe, Sweden, 

 North, West, and South-east Russia, Bulgaria, and Bithynia. 



Family 7. GALLERIID-ffi. 



Antenna; simple, tongue short, maxillary palpi slender, 

 threadlike, labial palpi short; thorax and abdomen rather 

 stout ; fore wings hardly elongated, broad, blunt or rounded 

 behind ; v. 5 close to v. 4 or joined to it. Hind wings rather 

 elongated and pointed at the apex ; v. 5 close to, or joined 

 to V. 4. 



Genus 1. GALLERIA. 



Antenna simple, the basal joint thick and tufted ; palpi 

 depressed, and almost concealed in the male, more visible in 

 the female ; tongue very small ; scales of the head laid for- 

 ward to a blunt edge ; thorax and abdomen very stout ; fore 

 wings broad, deeply excavated behind; the discal cell in the 

 male very large ; subcostal nervure ridged with hairs ; hind 

 wings ample but pointed, the cell open ; median nervure 

 ciliated above. 



We have onlj' one species. 



