GALLERIIDAL—GALLERIA . 1 37 



Usually not variable, but when starved spinning up at 

 almost any age, and then producing very small moths. 



On the wing in June and July, and a second generation in 

 September and October. 



Larva plump, soft, smooth, with well-divided segments, 

 and tapering slightly at each extremity ; dull pale grey- 

 brown above ; dull pale yellow beneath ; without markings ; 

 the raised dots invisible, and the hairs very short and 

 delicate ; head dark chestnut, month dark brown ; dorsal 

 plate small, dark chestnut, broadly divided ; anal plate small, 

 yellow-brown. The usual time of occurrence of the larva is 

 not clearly understood ; I have had larvfc in the beginning 

 of June and again in August, producing thus two broods of 

 moths in one year ; Mr. Buckler's larvaj fed in the autumn, 

 and remained in cocoon, as larvas, through the winter, and 

 this last is, I think, the usual habit. On honeycomb, pre- 

 ferring that of the previous year — old comb in fact — 

 burrowing through and through the waxen cells, lining its 

 burrow with silk, and utterly destroj'ing this portion of the 

 comb. The Rev. H. Williams points out this singular 

 preference for old wax, and shows that if the new comb 

 were similarly liable to its destructive attack, the brood 

 would be completely killed out, and the hives rendered 

 useless. The larva is of rather unpleasant appearance, 

 resembling in some degree, in colour, the Tipula-X^xaa so 

 mischievous in our grass lands ; if removed from its tube by 

 any means, or if the wax be exhausted, it exhibits the most 

 remarkable swiftness in running in search of food, and this 

 at all ages — even directly it is out of the egg. 



Pupa reddish-brown, the antenna and wing cases very 

 distinctly visible ; a sharp serrated dorsal ridge runs so 

 far as the fourth segment from the tail and is continued 

 uninterruptedly to the apex, where it ends in four hooks 

 directed downwards ; the anterior portion of this ridge is 

 double. There are four stifE setie on each segment directed 



