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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
PYRAL1DM. 
The Pyralidce , or snout moths, may be recognized by the long 
fore wings, their long legs and elongated bodies. Many of them 
also have the palpi very much elongated, from which they derive 
their common name. Some species are day flyers, others fly at dusk 
and still others fly at night and are purely nocturnal. Some of them 
are white and silvery in appearance, while their wings are bordered 
Various Forms of Snout Moths. 
or streaked with bands of gold, others are gray or brown, often of a 
silky lustre, while some are black with white spots. While at rest 
many species fold their wings close to and partly around the body, 
giving them a tubular form. Many of the larvae feed upon grass 
and clover, while some devour the leaves of the grape, and one inter¬ 
esting but very destructive species infests the comb of the honey-bee 
often ruining all the comb in a hive. 
This species, Gcaleria cereana , is gray and purplish-brown in 
color, and the larvae pupates among the honey-combs, where it has 
constructed its silken galleries. This insect is double brooded. 
Crambus girandella. 
Orambus girandella is satin white with a broad gold band on the 
fore wings. The larva is whitish or gray, of a silky appearance and 
feeds upon grass or clover. This insect is sometimes very abundant, 
and I have seen the whole front of a house where a bright light was 
kept burning during the night so covered with this species as to look 
silvery white at a distance of a few feet. 
