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triangle, with iii directly below ii. Pupae with tongue short, and pilifers rudimen- 

 tary, maxillary palpi present, small; dorsum of body with a prominent median 

 ridge, and segments covered with small spines. 



The subfamily is a small one, widely separated from the other Pyralids (except 

 the Macrothecinse). Our few genera are closely related and do not fully represent 

 the group. It has been suggested that Linnaeus' name " Tinea " should be applied 

 to this group, as the bee moth was included in his genus, and was the form best 

 known as " Tinea " by the ancients ; but I have preferred to keep to familiar usage, 

 especially as Tinea was regularly used in an inclusive sense for a variety of stored 

 food pests and clothes moths. 



Key to the genera 



1. Hind wing with all veins (fig. 312) 9. Galleria. 



1. M 2 lost (fused with M 3 ). 

 2. Fore wing with all veins; R 2 from cell. 



3. Cell about two-thirds length of wing in both sexes; M 2 and M 3 stalked. 



10. Melissoblaptes. 



3. Cell nearly reaching outer margin in male; with M 2 and M 3 well separated 

 and often rudimentary; in female, M 2 and M 3 connate from lower 

 angle of cell. 



4. Cell in male almost reaching outer margin (fig. 313); base of costa 

 with a pocket below; female with palpi projecting two and a half 



times the width of the eye 12. Aphomia. 



4. Cell in male not quite so long; pocket located near middle of wing 

 and associated with a hyaline spot; palpi of female projecting one 



and one-half times the width of the eye 11. Paralispa. 



2. Fore wing with one radial wanting; M 2 and M 3 separate; no frontal tuft; 

 hind wings acute, with longer fringe; with discocellular vein barely extend- 

 ing in to middle of cell; fore wing in male with cell almost reaching 



outer margin 13. Achroia. 



2. Fore wing with a dorsal vein lost; no sex scaling hi cell (12) Corcyra. 



9. GALLERIA Fabricius 



Antennae simple with a scale-tuft on scape in both sexes; palpi of male upturned, 

 minute, hidden in frontal tuft; palpi of female forming a short beak, with third 

 segment short; fore wing (fig. 312) in male with a slight thickening at base of 

 costa, cell thickened and with sex scaling below, three-fourths length of wing; 

 middle discocellular distinct and angled in; M and M 2 well-developed, free; R, 

 free; apex bluntly subfalcate (at R 5 and M,) ; outer margin produced at Cu,, 

 concave above and below; tip of 3d A free. Hind wing with M 2 and M 3 long- 

 stalked; CX free; discocellular extending more than half way to base of wing. 

 Female without thickenings or sex scaling, the tooth on Cu 2 and concavity of the 

 outer margin less distinct; cell rather broader and shorter. A row of small raised 

 tufts in the fold. 



1. G. mellonella Linneeus. Dull gray, strigose; inner margin, below fold, yel- 

 lower; tufts on fold often blackish; postmedial line represented by a series of 

 obscure blackish bars. Hind wing fuscous, pale at base. 25-35 mm., female larger. 

 (Tinea, Linnaeus; Tortrix cerewna Linnaeus.) (H p. 406, f. 226.) 



The larva is a serious pest in ill-kept beehives, eating and webbing up the comb; 

 also a scavenger in waste wax, etc. 



World-wide in distribution. New York: Fentons (Lewis County), Vicinity of 

 Buffalo, Ithaca, New Baltimore, Flatbush. A common species wherever looked for. 



