GALLBEIA. — BALJSNIFEONS. 



Pig. 8. — Galleria mellonella, J. 



2 from angle of cell ; 3 approximated for nearly half its length to 

 4, 5, which are on a long stalk ; 6, 7 from upper angle, which is 

 very much produced, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. 



4152. Galleria mellonella, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x), i, p. 537; C. fy S. 

 no. 4725. 

 Phalsena cereana, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. xii), i, p. 874. 



Head, thorax, and abdo- 

 men ochreous brown. Fore 

 wing grey, irrorated slightly 

 with black and purple; the 

 inner area ochreous, varie- 

 gated with purple and black ; 

 a ridge of raised rough scales 

 below the cell. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; the base and 

 inner area paler, or almost wholly pale. 

 The larva is parasitic in bee-hives. 



Hub. Europe ; Syria ; Poona ; "West Indies. Exp. 20-40 

 millim. 



Genus BALJENIFRONS, nov. 



Type, B. homopteridia, Hmpsn. 



Mange. Burma. 



Head enormously swollen and produced to a large rounded 

 frontal cone, grooved on lower side, the proboscis and filiform 

 maxillary palpi arising from its middle ; palpi slender, curved and 

 extending to end of frontal projection ; antennas simple ; legs 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing broad and rounded ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 from upper 

 angle; 8, 9 stalked; 10 free; 11 curved. Hind wing with lower 

 part of cell very much produced ; vein 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 

 well separated at origin ; 6, 7 stalked ; 7 well separated from 8 

 and joined to it by an oblique bar ; retinaculum bar-shaped. 



4153. Balaenifrons homopteridia, n. sp. 



cf . Head and thorax 

 purplish red and ochreous; 

 abdomen ochreous, with 

 some red and fuscous on 

 dorsum. Fore wing pur- 

 plish red, irrorated with 

 ochreous; a diffused dusky 

 shade arising from costa 

 at middle diffused over 

 the disk. Hind wing 

 yellowish brown. 

 Another specimen has a broad irregular yellow subbasal band on 



the fore wing and two postmedial patches on the costa. 



Hob. Moulmein ; Rangoon. Exp. 20 millim. Type in B.M. 



Fig. 9. — BaZmiifrons homopteridia, <$ . 



