44 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., ' 07 



Pearl Islands. Scrubby woods much cleared in places 

 to plant yams, etc. Coast fringed with mangroves and 

 coco palms. Darien coast visible from San Miguel. 



April 28, 29. On way back to Panama in small boat. 



April 30. Panama. 



May 1-17. Taboga Island, bay of Panama. Rocky 

 ground ascending to about 800 feet with small 

 streams. 



May 1 8-2 1. Panama. 



Elevations approximate only, taken from an uncorrected 

 aneroid barometer. Probably too low in manv cases. 



Two new Species of Crambus and a new variety of 

 Haematopsis grataria Fabricius. 



By FRANK HAIMBACH, Philadelphia, Pa. 



C. placidellus n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, 16 mm. Head and thorax above, white. Palpi 

 whitish ochreous, pale cinereous on the outside. Fore-wings ochro- 

 leucus, whitish towards the base, sprinkled with dark brown atoms 

 between the base and subterminal line, these atoms being most numer- 

 ous between the median and subterminal lines'; a light brown median 

 line, starting from the middle of the costa, bent outwardly and running 

 to beyond the middle of the hind margin ; the subterminal line is 

 whitish, edged on both sides with the same shade of light brown as 

 the median line, with which it runs nearly parallel, being farthest 

 apart at the interior margin; the subterminal space has the veins 

 marked with faint whitish lines, and a row of black spots along the 

 terminal line. Fringes metallic cinereous, with a fuscous line run- 

 ning nearly parallel with, and about one-third from the terminal line. 

 Hind-wings of the same color as the fore-wings, but somewhat lighter; 

 fringe whitish. 



Described from three specimens taken at Wenonah, N. J., 

 July 27, 1905, July 15, 1906, and at Philadelphia, Pa., July 

 6, 1905. 



C. daeckellus n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, 27-31 mm. Head and palpi ochreous on top, 

 brownish on the sides, thorax dark brown, pale ochreous through tin- 

 centre vertically; fore-wings fusco-ferruginous, with a broad silvery 



