272 AUSTRALASIAN 
countries. Langstroth, following Linneus and Réaumur, speaks 
of the tinea cereana and tinea mellonelia, Cook, following Fabri- 
cius, calls the bee-moth galleria cereana, and says it belongs to 
the family of snout-moths, Pyralide, and that “its members 
are very readily recognised by their usually long palpi, the 
so-called snouts.” 
The moth has been found a serious evil in some of the 
Australian colonies, at least previous to the introduction of the 
Italian bee. Mr. Fullwood states that the race of black bees 
was nearly exterminated in Queensland by the moths, but that 
when Ligurians were imported they soon defended themselves, 
and obtained the mastery ; and Mr. E. Palmer, of New South 
Wales, says, ‘‘The bee-moth is the great scourge of the wild 
and cultivated bees, and the only serious obstacle to successful 
bee farming of which I have, during a series of years, had any 
experience.” I believe the Australian moth to be identical 
with the American one. In New Zealand, the moth found in 
hives is of a smaller species, and is not likely to give much 
trouble in well-kept hives. 
TINEA CEREANA. 
The following description of this moth in America is taken 
from Dr. Harris's report on the insects of Massachusetts, as 
quoted in Langstroth’s work :— 
Fig. 126,—BEE-MOTH (Tinece cereana). 
‘“‘ Very few of the tine exceed or even equal it in size. In its adult 
state it is a winged moth, or miller, measuiing, from the head to the 
tip of the closed wing, from five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch 
in length, and its wings expand from an inch and one-tenth to one 
inch and four-tenths. The four wings shut together flatly on the top 
of the back, slope steeply downwards at the sides, and are turned 
up at the ends somewhat like the tail of afowl. The female is much 
larger than the male, and dark coloured. There are two broods of 
this insect in the course of a year. Some winged moths of the first 
