THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 521 



The "Schcenobiinse contain species allied to and not readily separable 

 from the next family by superficial characters. 



The "Crambinae" have very long, straight palpi, narrow primaries 

 which are sometimes drawn to a point, and broad secondaries without 

 markings. The primaries are usually white or yellowish, streaked with 

 silvery and often banded with golden scales forming beautiful combina- 

 tions. When at rest the wings are wrapped closely around the body, so 

 that the moths look like little cylinders tapering from the tip of the 

 palpi to the end of the squarely truncate wings. 



The larvae live in silken tubes near and sometimes below the surface 

 of the ground, often on grass-roots, and a few of them become destruc- 

 tively injurious on cultivated crops. 



The "Galleriinae" or bee-moths are curiously streaked creatures, with 

 a notch at the end of the fdre-wing in the typical species, the costa very 

 decidedly arched. The larva of the true bee moth lives on wax in bee 

 hives, mining a gallery lined with silk through the centre of the combs 

 out of sight of the bees. There is not much chance for them, however, 

 in modern hives carefully looked after. 



The "Epipaschiinae" are broad-winged gray moths with black and some- 

 times brown markings, and habits similar to the next series. 



The "Phycitinae" are ashen gray slight species, with narrow primaries 

 and broad immaculate secondaries. The vestiture has usually a silken 

 or glistening appearance, and sometimes the contrasts in white and black 

 are quite strong. The larvae differ greatly in habit, some are borers in 

 stalks or stems of plants, some live in seeds or flower heads, quite a 

 number of them are leaf-crumplers and one species is predatory, feeding 

 on scale insects. In almost all cases they live in silken tubes. A few 

 are of economic importance. 



Sub-family PYRAUSTIN^. 



GLAPHYRIA Hbn. 



G. glaphyralis Gn. (Homophysa) Essex Co. VII (Kf) ; Waverly VI 



(Wdt); Westville VII, 2 (Lt); Wenonah VII, 17, 5-mile beach VII, 29 



(Haim). 

 G. sesquistrialis Hbn. Westville VII (Lt) ; Lacy VII (Dke) ; Holly Beach 



VII (Haim). 

 G. invisalis Gn. Wenonah VII, 15-28 (div) ; Holly Beach VII, VIII 



(Haim). 

 G. psychicalis Hulst. Holly Beach VII, 29-VIII, 6 (Haim); Lucaston 



VIII, 6, Anglesea VIII, 4 (Dke). 

 G. fulminalis Led. 5-mile beach VIII, 27 (Haim). 



SYMPHYSA Hamps. 



S. adelalis Kearf. 5-mile beach; the larvae make large, whitish, dumb- 

 bell shaped cases of the white lichen, on which they feed on the 

 trunks of oak, holly and other trees. Adults VII, VIII. 



