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Show 214 INSECTA· on which it feeds and covers it with granules, most of which are taken from its e~crement. According to Linnreus, it is found, though rarely, in the human stomach, where it produces more alarming symptoms than those caused by worms. I have received caterpillars of this species, from an intel~igent physician whose veracity I cannot question, that were eJected from the stomach of a young :f.amale by vomiting. That of another Aglossa-the P.Jarinalis, L.-lives on flour. The perfect Insect is also frequently found on walls, where it remains motionless with the abdomen raised. The base of its upper wings is reddish margined with wh~te posteriorly; the posterior extremity is also reddish, but formmg an angular spot, and margined above by a white stripe also angular; the space comprised between these spots, or the centre, is yellowish. GALLERIA, Fab. Where the scales of the clypeus form a projection that covers the palpi; and the superior wings, proportionally narrower than in Aglossa, and emarginated in the posterior edge, are, as well as the inferior ones, strongly inclined and turned up posteriorly like the tail of a cock, as in many species of the following subgenera. G. cereana, Fab.; HUbn., Tin., iv, 25. About five lines in length; cinereous; head and thorax paler, and little brown spots along the internal margin of the superior wings. Reaumur designates its caterpillar by the name of Jausse-teigne de la eire. It ravages hives by penetrating into the combs, con· structing, as it progresses, a silken tube covered with its freces, which are formed of the wax on which it feeds. The cocoons of their chrysalides are sometimes found collected in piles. The G. alvearia of Fabricius approximates more closely to Tinea than to this subgenus. His Crambus erigatus and the Vinea tribunella and Colonella of Hubner approach the preceding Tineites in the extent and disposition of their wings; but their inferior palpi are much longer, and these Insects, in this respect, are more nearly allied to Crambus. They might form particular subgenera. The others, in which the superior pal pi are not always very dis· tinct, have the upper wings long, narrow, sometimes moulded on the body, and sometimes laid perpendicularly against its sides. In this state the form of the Insect is always narrow and elongated, approl'tching that of a cylinder or cone. LEPIDOPTERA Here the inferior · 1 . 1 • 215 I · · pa P1 ast JOint at most is tu •d a ways Iarge , are di. rected for d rne up. The superior pal . war s; the Pl are apparent. CRAMBus, Fab. Where there is a distinct rob . tt he end in the manner o f a p stra~isgchist; the inferior palJ>i ad vance to ures on various plants(!)• rostrum. Found in d ry pas- AI.UOITA, Lat.-Ypaolanhua F b 'l~ ' a . · fiW ·h ere there is also a dl' sh. nct pr b · ID erlor palpi is turned up Th o oscis; but the last joint of the • e antennre are simple(2). EuPLOOAMus, Lat· -Ph! JC~.a , F ab. lasWt h. oe. re thfe proboscis t. s very short and but r J mt o the inferior palpi is t d s Ightly apparent; the :receding one form a fascis Th urne up, and the scales of the ouble range of barbulre(3). • e antennre of the males have a Puvo1s, Fab. Entirely similar to Euploca moTsht are ciliated(4)· mus, except in the antenn re, w h1' ch at ere the inferior 1 · curved over the head pa pl are entirely raised, and in sev I Som . • era ' even . etlmes the inferior pal i ar Size. The antennre and th p e very apparent and of a mod In the two foil . e eyes are distant. erate beyond the front •o wmg subgenera, the inferior palpi scarce} Y extend (1) ~ab., Entom. Syst., Su . :~:!~:~er, Tin., V-VIII. it' c::~!:st:a:~:·b~::st. et Insect., IV, 232. (2) Lat., Ibid 233 fi ngs to another subgenus, P· 232. ·• ; re er to the same subgenus the c b · . . (3) Lat., Gen C ram 1 of dlVls., II, 2, (4} Pkyci& hokti ruFstb. et Insect., IV, 233. ' a . |