779 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
367 
Bee-moth; Wazx-moth. (Galleria mellonella= G. cereana.) 
Figure 140. 
ing both honey and comb. 
Common and very injurious to the honey bees, its larva destroy- 
Abundant both in Europe and North America. 
Fig-moth; Raisin-moth. (Ephestia cahiritella Zell.) Figure 141. 
The larva of this widely diffused moth feeds on dried figs, prunes, 
raisins, dry currants, nuts, chocolate, meal, and various other dried 
140 
145 
145a 
Figure 140.—Bee-moth (Galleria mellonella); 6, larva. Figure 145.—Angou- 
mois Grain-moth (Sitotroga cerealella), x ll. 
Riley. 
Both from Webster’s Inter- 
national Dictionary. Figure 145a.—Corn infested by S. cerealella; after 
food-stuffs. 
The color of the moth is gray, with whitish markings 
on the fore wings; expanse 15 to 20™™. 
148 
144 
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ON NOAA HIAU Na: 
Figure 145.—Meal-moth (Plodia interpunctella); a, imago; b, larva; both 
enlarged 214. 
b, larva, x2 
Ls 
7% 3 
Figure 144,— Flour-moth (Hphestia Kuehniella Zell.), x 114; 
from Webster’s International Dictionary; after Chittenden. 
Meal-moths ; Flour-moths ; 
Tinea granella, fig. 142. 
Grain-moths. 
tia Kuehniella, fig. 144. 
(Pyralis farinalis. 
Plodia interpunctella, fig. 143. Ephes- 
Angoumois Grain-moth or “ Fly- 
weevil” = Sitotroga, or Grelechia, cereatella, fig. 145.) 
All these small moths, and apparently others related to them, 
seem to be common, as in most other warm countries. 
They all feed 
on stored cereals of various kinds, including flour, meal, bran, stored 
