306 INSECTA. 
They construct tubes with various sorts of leaves, in which they are 
sheitered. * ; 
Sometimes the proboscis is wanting, or nearly so, as in 
Ac tossa, 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. pinguinalis ; P. pinguinalis, L.; De Geer, Insect., II, vi, 4, 
12’; Reaum., Insect., LJ, 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- 
teiqne-des cuirs, because it also teeds on leather and the covers 
of books. It constructs a tube which it places against the bedy 
on which it feeds, and covers it with granules, most of which are 
taken from its excrement. According to Linnzeus, it is found, 
though rarely, in the human stomach, where it produces more 
alarming symptoms than those 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 Aglossa—the P. farinalis, L.—lives on flour. 
The perfect Insect is also frequently found on walls, where 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 between these spots, or centre, is yellowish. 
GauuEria, Fab., 
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 feces 
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 eriqatus and the Vinea tribunella 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, paludata, lennata, nympheata, &c. - 
