GALLERIA MELLONELLA. 201 



stoutness to near the last three abdominal segments, 

 from whence it tapers to the abdominal tip, which has 

 a blunt four-lobed tip with a hook on each lobe ; a 

 fine and rough sutural dorsal ridge extends down the 

 thorax and each abdominal segment, rough and very 

 prominent on the last two segments ; the wing-covers 

 are rather long, the antenna-cases with the tips a 

 little longer and projecting free. The colour of the 

 upper surface is chocolate-brown on the back, 

 ochreous-brown on the wings and all beneath, the anal 

 tip blackish-brown ; its hooks are only a little shining ; 

 the spiracles are brown ; the surface is totally without 

 any gloss. (William Buckler, October, 1876 ; Note 

 Book III, 120, 115.) 



Aphomia COLONELLA. 

 Plate CLVI, fig. 2. 



Two larvae were received on the 5th of August, 1871, 

 from the Rev. Henry Williams, 'of Oroxton, part of a 

 numerous colony found in a wasps' nest, and feeding 

 on the papery substance of the nest. 



The larva is an inch to an inch and an eighth in 

 length, tapering a little at each extremity, the head 

 being smaller than the second segment ; the segmental 

 divisions are rather deeply cut, as are also the sub- 

 divisions, one on the back of each segment ; the sides 

 are a little wrinkled and dimpled. The head is of a deep 

 brownish-red, and an equally shining plate of the same 

 colour is on the second segment ; the colour of the back 

 is of a yellowish drab becoming gradually a little paler 

 on the sides and belly, and the thoracic segments are 

 darker than the rest, growing by slow degrees a little 

 paler on the rest of the back ; the tubercular dots are 

 shining dark brownish-red, each furnished with a fine 

 hair ; the circular spiracles are dirty whitish in delicate 

 black rings, the ventral legs brownish. 



This larva tunnels through the papery substance, 

 forming galleries in which it travels with facility. 



