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Habitat. San Francesco Mountains, San Domingo, West 

 Indies. 



Type. Cat. No. 25528, U. S. N. M. 



Crambus elphegellus, new species. 



Male. Head white, palpi laterally mouse gray. Collar and thorax white. 

 Abdomen silvery gray, the anal tufts buff. Legs white, the fore tarsi brown. 

 Fore wings silvery white, the markings antimony yellow; a streak at base of 

 costa; a faint medial line outangled at end of cell, forming a larger spot on inner 

 margin mottled with dark brown; two fine outer parallel lines, oblique from 

 costa and curved to submedian fold, where they are somewhat interrupted and 

 again outcurved; a terminal line with small black spots at veins 4 and 3; cilia 

 silvery white becoming golden from vein 4 to tornus. Hind wings white, the 

 costa shaded with light buff. 



Expanse 12 mm. 



Habitat. Caracas, Venezuela. 



Type Cat. No. 25529, U. S. N. M. 



Near C. albellus Clemens. 



Very similar to Culladia psy thiella Schaus; but vein 9 present. 



Crambus sinaloellus, new species. 



Male. Head white, palpi laterally vinaceous buff. Thorax and fore wings 

 pale orange yellow, the patagia tipped with white. Abdomen above avellane- 

 bus, underneath white; the legs white. Fore wings: all the veins except dis- 

 cocellulars narrowly white; a white streak in cell and along submedian fold; 

 cilia long, white. Hind wings white suffused with light brownish gray; cilia 

 white. Fore wings below grayish, the veins terminally white. Hind wings 

 below slightly whiter than above. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



. Habitat. Venadio, Sinaloa, Mexico. 



Type. Cat. No. 25530, U. S. N. M. 



In appearance somewhat like Eufernaldia cadarellus Druce 

 but the white lines much narrower and on fore wing vein 3 is 

 present, veins 4 and 5 stalked. 



Crambus damotellus, new species. 



Male. Body cupreous buff. Fore wings silvery buff white; a cupreous 

 brown streak along subcostal and above vein 6 to termen; a similar streak from 

 cell to fold not reaching termen; a broad silvery white streak through cell to 

 termen between veins 4 and 6; a narrow white streak on costal margin extending 

 on to costal edge above vein 8; terminal white streaks above and below vein 7; 

 cilia white; no transverse lines or markings. Hind wings white, the costal 

 margin broadly suffused with buff gray. Fore wings below tuscous; the costal 

 margin light buff; the termen and inner margin, also a shade from within cell to 

 termen, whitish. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



