EUDOREA ALPINA. 199 



EUDOREA ALPINA. 



Eggs of Scop aria alpina (paralis) were received on 

 the 2nd of August, 1877, from Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White. 



The egg is oval in shape, yellowish-orange in 

 colour, changing to a livid grey just before hatching. 



The eggs hatched on the 26th of August. 



The young larva is of a drab colour with shining 

 head, and plates slightly darker drab on the second 

 and the thirteenth segments ; some faintly darker 

 dots are seen along the back which emit fine hairs. 

 (William Buckler, 26th August, 1877; Note Book I, 

 126.) 



Galleria MELLONELLA. 



Plate CLVI, fig. 1. 



In the autumn of 1880, Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher sent 

 me a good supply of larvae of Galleria cerella (mello- 

 nella) from the New Forest, with the information that 

 the eggs are deposited in July and early August on 

 old honeycomb in deserted beehives. The young 

 larvae feed on the comb until autumn, by which time 

 they are full-grown. Each larva then spins a very 

 tough cocoon, which is embedded in the honeycomb, 

 and in it remains without changing to pupa through 

 the winter, even until the following May or June, 

 when the change takes place. 



I described the full-grown larva as follows : 

 Length nearly an inch, and rather stout in propor- 

 tion ; body rounded above, somewhat flattened ven- 

 trally ; head narrower than the second segment ; it has 

 the lobes rounded, and is, along with the large frontal 

 plate, slightly polished ; the skin is soft and rather 

 wrinkled, witli the segmental divisions deeply cut. 



