532 



William T. M. Forbes 



dentate, black, preceded with luteous, and rather broad at costa, interrupted by 

 a fovea in cell of male; postmedial line blackish, followed by luteous; perpen- 

 dicular at costa, then strongly excurved opposite cell, and sinuate below. Hind 

 wing pale. 13 mm. 



July and August. 



New Hampshire to Virginia and northwestern Ontario. New York: Jamestown 

 (McElhose, Dyar det.), Ithaca (W. T. M. P.). 



Subfamily GALLERIINjE 



Male antennae simple, not modified; ocelli always absent, maxillary palpi obsolete 

 in male; often distinct but small, in female; tongue very weak or obsolete. Body 

 normally stout, with deep vestiture. Palpi sexually dimorphic, except in a few 

 primitive exotic species, upturned in male, rather short, with third segment more 

 or less rudimentary; upturned or porrect in female, and normally developed, some- 

 times long and beaklike. Fore wing with R 3 to R 5 stalked, 3d A forked, with the 

 upper fork joining 2d A, or simple (the lower fork lost) and becoming coinci- 

 dent with 2d A. 1st A lost. Hind wing with male frenulum normal, female 

 multiple; Sc and R usually very shortly anastomosing; middle discocellular vein 

 curving far in toward base of wing, the upper and lower parts nearly parallel 

 with R and Cu, the middle part short and transverse, sometimes nearly obsolete. 

 Base of M usually preserved as two thickenings connected with the deepest part 

 of the curve of the discocellular. M 2 and M 3 stalked or fused; CUi sometimes 

 stalked; 1st A preserved; a strong fringe on base of Cu. 



The larvae (fig. 314) are normally scavengers, or inquilines in .bee and wasp 

 nests. They include a few species injurious to dried food, and the well-known 

 bee moths, which sometimes do a good deal of damage by eating the wax, etc., 

 and destroying and dirtying the comb in ill-tended beehives. 



6 / 





Psp 

 \\fflSp 



50 



Su bv.^ 



-^ 



-(Q) 



T. - 







T viii 



Figs. 312-315. galleeiin^: and macrothecinje 



312, Galleria mellonella, J 1 , venation and sex patch; 313, Aphomia sociella, <£ 

 venation of fore wing; 314, Galleria mellonella, seta map of larva; 315, Macrotheca 

 flexilinealis, venation 



Prolegs with uni- or biordinal hooks, in a complete ellipse; prespiracular setae 

 of prothorax and iv and v of abdomn in a horizontal line; vii of meso- and meta- 

 thorax of two setae; i to iii of ninth segment of abdomen forming an equilateral 



