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on which it feeds, and covers it with granules, most of which are 
taken from its excrement. According to Linneus, 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 vemiting. 
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 the centre, is yellowish. 
GALLERIA, 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. 
Réaumur 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 formed of the wax on which it feeds. The cocoons 
of their chrysalides are sometimes found collected in piles. 
The 
G. alvearia of Fabricius approximates more closely to Tinea. 
than to this subgenus. 
His Crambus erigatus and the Vinea tribunella and Colonella 
of Hubner 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. 
The others, in which the superior palpi are not always very dis- 
tinct, have the upper wings long, narrow, sometimes moulded on 
the body, and sometimes laid perpendicularly against its sides. In 
this 
state the form of the Insect is always narrow and elongated, 
approaching that of a cylinder or cone. 
