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of bees, the larva feeding upon honey, and forming galleries in 
the honeycomb. ‘Two species, G. alvearia Fabr. and G. cereana 
(fig. 113.1. 6) Linn. (mellonella Linn.), reside in the common 
hive, and occasionally in such vast numbers as completely to destroy 
it, enveloping the comb and many of the bees in the webs spun by 
the larve (jig. 113. 2., larva of Galleria cereana). The species of 
Ilythia also feed upon the honey collected by Bombi, and occasionally 
in numerous colonies, whence the specific names Sociella and Colo- 
nella, applied by Linnzus to the sexes of the typical species; I 
have described a singular nest, or rather mass of the cocoons of this 
insect, communicated to me by Mr. Loudon, in the Mag. Nat. Hist. 
vol. ix. p. 528. 
The species of Crambus (jig.112. 14. Crambus pinetorum) are 
extremely numerous, and are distinguished by their porrected palpi 
(fig. 112. 15. head of Cr. margaritellus) ; their wings are much con- 
voluted when at rest, whence their name of “ Close-wings,” and 
they generally abound in grassy places, settling upon the stalks head 
downwards. Chilo is allied to these insects, but the palpi are much 
longer, and the larve live in the stems of reeds (being naked, with 
the head and prothorax horny and polished, with six pectoral, eight 
ventral, and two anal feet); the moths being found in boggy and 
marshy places. 
The Rey. L. Guilding described an insect belonging to this family 
under the name of Diatrazea Sacchari (in a memoir published in 
the Zrans. Soc. Arts, vol. xlvi. p. 143., for which he received the 
gold Ceres medal), being by far the most destructive enemy of the 
cane, which is never exempt from this dreaded pest, which occasion- 
ally, in some of the West-Indian Islands, destroys whole acres, the 
larva burrowing into the centre of the stems. This insect is, however, 
evidently identical with the Phalena saccharalis Fabr. (Ent. Syst. 
vol. iii. part 2. p. 238.), which is described thus : — “ habitat in Ame- 
rice Meridionalis saccharo, cujus caules perforat, destruit, exsiccat, 
plantationum pestis.”’ 
Harpipteryx, as the name implies, comprises species having hook- 
tipped wings; the larva of H. dentella feeds upon the honeysuckle, 
and is described as fusiform, smooth green, with a purple dorsal line, 
and the chrysalis is enclosed in a fusiform cocoon; open at each end. 
The cocoon of another species, observed by myself at Hammersmith, 
is composed of beautiful open lacework, permitting the pupa enclosed 
