200 GALLERIA MBLLONELLA. 



The ground colour is uniformly pale dingy brown, 

 the segmental divisions apparently darker from the 

 overlapping of the folds ; the head is bright sienna- 

 brown, with the mandibles darker; the frontal plate 

 is also sienna-brown, but divided in the centre, and 

 also edged in front with yellowish ; spiracles very 

 minute, dark brown. Ventral area and prolegs uni- 

 formly pale yellowish-grey, the legs tipped with brown. 



During July and August, 1881, I bred a fine series 

 of the moths. (George T. Porritt, Note Book, 1881.) 



The egg of Galleria mellonella in shape is roundish- 

 ovate, apparently smooth and shining, of a very pale 

 flesh-colour, which by slow degrees becomes of a 

 greyish-pink colour. 



The newly hatched larva is a remarkably swift- 

 footed creature for a lepidopteron, as it runs nimbly 

 as soon as out of the egg. Its form is a little 

 broadest anteriorly from the second, third, and fourth 

 segments, tapering slightly from thence to the rounded 

 anal extremity. The head is rather small, and light 

 shining brown colour, a paler shining plate behind it ; 

 the body very light whitish flesh-colour, a darker 

 dorsal vessel visible through the semi-opaque skin. 



The larvae, when full-fed, spin themselves up in 

 cocoons of silk thickly clustered together in a 

 dense mass firmly spun together ; some are whity- 

 brown, others ochreous-yellow ; each cocoon is 

 of a cylindrical shape, and either rounded off at the 

 ends, or else a little tapered and rounded, not regu- 

 larly placed side by side, though occasionally a few 

 appeared so placed, but the most seem lying obliquely 

 across each other. On separating a few from the mass. 

 I found them vary in length from three-quarters to an 

 inch and an eighth in length, and from three-six- 

 teenths to a quarter or to three-eighths of an inch in 

 diameter. 



The pupa skin, according to sex — the females 

 being the largest — varied from five-eighths to seven- 

 eighths of an inch in length, of uniform moderate 



