306 INSECTA. 



They construct tubes with various sorts of leaves, in which they are 

 sheltered. * 



Sometimes the proboscis is wanting, or nearly so, as in 



Aglossa, Lat., 

 Where the four palpi are exposed, and the wings form a flattened 

 triangle ; there is no emargination in the extremity of the upper one. 

 A.pivguinalis ; P . pinguinalis , L.; De Geer, Insect., II, vi, 4, 

 12-; Reaum., Insect., Ill, xx, 5, 11. Superior wings agate-grey 

 with blackish stripes and spots. Found in houses on the walls. 

 Its caterpillar is naked, blackish-brown, glossy, and feeds on 

 fatty or butyraceous substances. Reaumur called it the Fausse- 

 teigne-des cuirs, because it also teeds on leather and the covers 

 of Looks. It constructs a tube which it places against the body 

 on which it feeds, and covers it with granules, most of which are 

 taken from its excrement. According to Linnaeus, it is found, 

 though rarely, in the human stomach, where it produces more 

 alarming symptoms than these caused by worms. I have re- 

 ceived caterpillars of this species, from an intelligent physician 

 whose veracity I cannot question, that were ejected from the 

 stomach of a young female by vomiting. 



That of another j^glossa — the P. farinalis, L.' — lives on flour. 

 The perfect Insect is also frequently found on walls, Avhere it 

 remains motionless with the abdomen raised. The base of its 

 upper wings is reddish, margined with white posteriorly; the 

 posterior extremity is also reddish, but forming an angular spot, 

 and margined above by a white stripe also angular ; the space 

 comprised betAveen these spots, or centre, is yellowish. 

 Galleria, Fah., 

 Where the scales of the clypeus form a projection that covers the 

 palpi ; and the superior wings, proportionally narrower than in 

 Aglossa, and emarginated in the posterior edge, are, as well as the 

 inferior ones, strongly inclined and turned up posteriorly like the 

 tail of a cock, as in many species of the following subgenera. 



G. cereana, Fab.; Hiibn., Tin., iv, 25. About five lines in 

 length; cinereous; head and thorax paler, and little brown spots 

 along the internal margin of the superior wings. 



Reaumur designates its caterpillar by the name of fausse-teigne 

 de la cire. It ravages hives by penetrating into the combs, con- 

 structing, as it .progresses, a silken tube covered with its fscces 

 which are fomed of the wax on which it feeds. The cocoons 

 of their chrysalides are sometimes found collected in piles. 

 G. alvearia of Fabricius approximates more closely to Tinea 

 than to this subgenus. 



His Crambus erigatus and the Vinea trihunella and Colonella 

 of Hiibner approach the preceding Tineites in the extent and 

 disposition of their wings; but their inferior palpi are much 

 longer, and these Insects, in this respect, are more nearly allied 

 to Crambus. They might form particular subgenera. 



• P. potamogata, stratiolata, 2)aludata, lemnata, nympheata, &c. 



