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base of submedian nervure, and a pale grayish subterminal line margined inter- 

 nally by a blackish line, and externally by black streaks on the nervnles. 

 The internal black margin is edged on the costa and middle of the wing with 

 pale grayish. Hinder margin spotted with black ; cilia grayish fuscous. Hind 

 wings pale brownish. 



P.? subcaesiella . Male. Pale bluish gray, dusted with fuscous. Fore 

 wings with a reddish luteous band at the base, broadest on the inner margin, 

 and a rather broad, dark fuscous band on the basal third. The subterminal 

 line is pale grayish, edged behind by dark fuscous. Hind wings pale brownish. 



Ephestia ? 



E. ostrinella . Reddish-purple varied with blackish. Fore wings with 

 the basal third and the apical portion reddish purple, with a broad blackish 

 band in the middle edged internally by a straight whitish line, and an exte- 

 rior costal patch of the same hue containing two blackish dots on a short 

 streak. The subterminal line is pale grayish. Hind wings pale brownish 

 gray. 



The larvae lives in the fruit heads of Sumack, passing the winter in the 

 larval state. It is dark reddish-brown, head brown ; cervical and terminal 

 shields blackish brown. The body is supplied with a few isolated hairs, and 

 one or two rows of obscure dark brown subdorsal dots. 



The larvae make galleries through the fruit heads, and desert them in the 

 spring, to form their cocoons, which are slight silken webs, and appear as 

 imagos about the middle of April. 



E. Zeae. Tinea Zeae, Fitch, Rept. 2d, 321. Fore wings with the basal 

 third pale ochreous-yellow or yellowish-white, and the remainder fuscous, 

 with a reddish-luteons spot on the end of the disk, or dark grayish-fuscous 

 varied with reddish luteous. 



The larvaa is a frequent inhabitant of houses, and feeds on a variety of dry 

 goods, rye, corn, clover seed, on garlic heads, preserves, especially those con- 

 tained in jars. The seeds are bound together with a silken web in which 

 galleries are left. It would be well if Dr. Fitch changed the specific name of 

 this insect as corn is by no means its favorite or usiial food. 



The labial palpi of the imago are more decidedly porrected than in the 

 foregoing species, but I do not think the difference between them is generic. 

 I have no males of Z e a e in my collection and do not know whether they have 

 the tuft beneath the fore wing. 



Lanthaphe. 



Male. The discoidal cell of the fore wings is narrow and appears to be un- 

 closed. The costal and subcostal nervures run very close to each other, if 

 not united, in the basal third of the wing ; the former, from union with the 

 first subcosto-marginal branch much thickened, or indistinctly furcate. The 

 subcostal subdivides into two branches near the basal third of the wing, the 

 upper one subdividing again in the middle of the wing, sending a branch with 

 a long fork to the costa near the tip and a simple branch to the apex. The 

 lower branch is thickened towards its origin, simple, and is the post-apical 

 nervule. The median is thickened towards its end, and is four-branched. 

 Hind wings neuration pyraliform. 



Head with ocelli. Eyes large and salient. Labial palpi ascending, applied 

 closely to the front and with the tips much elevated above the vertex ; first 

 and second joints very short, first almost rudimental ; the third very long, 

 folded longitudinally like a sheath. Maxillary palpi rather short, with a pencil 

 of very long, silky hairs, capable of being expanded, and carried concealed in 

 the sheath formed by the third joint of labial palpi. Antennae ciliated beneath; 

 basal joint thick, with a short horn-like appendage behind having a tuft of 

 hairs. Fore wings with a small discal vitreous spot, and the under surface from 



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