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GALLERIA, Fabricius. 

 The palpi of the male are concealed by the scales of the front of the head, but those of the female are 

 porrected and drooping ; the body is robust ; the wings are somewhat convoluted in repose, being depressed on 

 the back, and compressed at the extremity ; they are short and broad, with the apical margin (especially in the 

 males) irregularly lobed near the anal angle. The caterpillars are 16-footed, fleshy, and setose, residing in bee- 

 hives, where they form galleries in the comb, feeding upon the honey. 



Species 1. — Galleria cereana *— (Linn»us, Sec ; Wood, fig. 1434, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 25, 26) — 

 Expands 14 to 18 lines ; fore wings gray, darker along the apical margin, which is preceded by a curved row 

 of small dark oblong dots ; the inner margin with some short purple-chesnnt streaks ; the wings, in the female, 

 are more purplish-brown, with less gray along the middle ; hind wings brown beyond the middle, in the male, 

 ochreous-white in the female. Found near bee-hives, within which the caterpillars reside, and are very 

 destructive. About ten years ago, great numbers were reared by Mr. H. Doubleday, who sent a considerable 

 number for distribution amongst the members of the Entomological Society. 



* Synonyme. — Phalasna Tinea mellonella^ Linnjeus (female) ; Donovan, viii., pi. 288 ; Curtis, pi. 587. 



ILYTHIA, Latreille. 

 The palpi in the males are concealed by the scales of the head, but the labial ones in the female are 

 considerably elongated and horizontally porrected, with the terminal joint deflexed, and longest ; the head is 

 tufted in front : the wings are convoluted in repose ; the fore ones rather long, with the apical margin rounded ; 

 the costa arched, in the males, (whence the wings are broader), but straight in the females : the body is rather 

 long and cylindric, with a small tuft at the tip. The caterpillar is gregarious, and feeds on honey in the nest of 

 Bombyx lapidarius. In the " Magazine of Natural History," Vol. IX., p. 528, 1 have described an extraordinary 

 mass of the cocoons of the typical species communicated to me by the late Mr. Loudon. Mr. Curtis has given 

 the dissections of the type of this genus, as the characters of the following genus. 



Species 1. — Ilythia sociella ' — (Linnaeus, &c., (male) ; Wood, fig. 1435, m., 1436, f., and our Plate 

 CXIV., Fig. 27) — Expands from 9 to 17 lines : fore wings gray, with an interrupted posterior black line ; 

 those of the male with the base hoary, and the apical portion reddish-gray, and those of the female of a greenish 

 gray, which fades considerably after death to a slightly pinkish tinge, with one, or occasionally two, elongated 

 black marks on the disc. Taken near London, Darenth Wood, Ripley, &c. 



'Synonysies. — Tinea tribunella, W. V.; Hiibncr (male). 

 Phalcena Tinea coloneHuj Linnssus (female) ; Donovan, viii., pi. 263, f. 2. 



Species 2. — Ilythia anella "— (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1437; and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 28) — 



Expands 16 lines; fore wings gray, with two central, somewhat ocellated black marks, and an interrupted black 



line at the base of tlie fringe, which is preceded by a row of dusky, obsolete, longitudinal streaks ; hind wings 



ochre-white. A specimen was formerly taken by Mr. Hatchett in the Jews' burying-ground at Stepney. 



■ Synonymes. — Tortrix bipunctata, Haivoith. 

 Tinea sociella, Hiibner. 



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