270 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



blackish apical tuft. Fore femora ochraceous towards the tips ; 

 fore tibiae cupreous-brown, with a broad white band. Wings 

 with a dark cinereous fringe. Fore-wings with a slender 

 cinereous costal line, with black marginal points, and with a 

 blackish discal dot. Hind-wings with the fringe greenish- 

 white towards the interior angle. Length of the body, six 

 lines ; of the wings, sixteen lines " ( Walker). 



GENUS GALLERIA. (Galleriida) 



Galleria^ Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. pp. 419, 462 (1798); 



Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 369 (1826?); Treitschke, 



Schmett. Eur. ix. (i) p. 42 (1832); Von Heinemann, 



Schmett. Deutschl. (2) i. (2) p. 208 (1865). 



The antennae of the male are furnished with a tuft of hair 



beneath at the base ; the palpi are longer in the female than in 



the male, and the wings are long and entire ; the fore-wings 



with twelve nervures. The genus is typical of a small family 



having sixteen-legged larvae, which are parasitic in bee-hives 



and bees' nests. 



GALLERIA MELLONELLA. 



(Plate CLIIL, Fig. 4.) 

 Tinea mellonella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed x.) i. p. 537, no. 257 



(1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 358, no. 1383(1761). 

 Tinea cereana, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.) i. (2), p. 874, 



no. 282 (1767). 



Galleria cerella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (i), p. 51 (1832). 

 Galleria cereana^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 295 



(1834)- 

 Galleria meUonella, Curtis, Brit. Ent. xiii. pi. 587 (1836); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 412, pi. 61, fig. 13, 



(1883). 



This Moth is a native of Europe and Western Asia. It 

 expands from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half. 



