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fall also from dry cacao pods sent him from Trinidad by Mr. 

 W. F. Urich, and that he had bred this same species in large 

 numbers in 1902 from the sweepings and offal in a copra 

 warehouse near Baracoa, Cuba. Mr. Busck said that he had 

 also specimens labeled "rotten cottonboll" from Jamaica, 

 others "in tamarind" from Nassau, and still others labeled 

 "from Diasp/s laiuttiis" from Barbadoes, which proves the 

 species, the life history of which has not hitherto been re- 

 corded, to be a very general feeder on any kind of vegetable 

 or animal refuse. The genus has not hitherto been recorded 

 from the United States. In repose the tips of the wings of 

 these small yellow and brown moths are bent up sharply at 

 right angles with the plane of the moth and produce a curious 

 resemblance to a bit of chaff. Mr. Busck said that he looked 

 under the floor of the warehouse in Baracoa, which was ele- 

 vated abouf 4 feet above the ground, and thought he saw 

 merely the rough boards until a flying moth apparently dis- 

 appeared through a crack; he then looked closer and realized 

 that the rough appearance of the boards was effected by 

 thousands of these moths resting close together under the 

 floor, and he then found the cracks of the floor filted with the 

 galleries of the larvae. 



A NEW SPECIES OF DIORYCTRIA. 



[Lepidoptera; Pyralidae.] 

 BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Dioryctria xanthrenobares, new species. 



Ferruginous yellow; fore wing with the inner line far from the baso, 

 oblique, white, ill- defined; outer line rather near the margin, twice 

 waved, white; a row of terminal elongated white spots; a white dash 

 along median vein, joining the lunate discal mark: an oblique dark 

 red shade at base and one on the inner half of terminal space. Hind 

 wings thin, whitish, scarcely cinereous tinged. Expanse, 27 to 31 mm. 



One male, two females. Kaslo, British Columbia, August 

 20, 1905 (W. T. Cockle); Seattle, Washington (O. B. John- 

 son); Pullman, Washington (C. V. Piper). 



Type: No. 13825, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Allied to D. aurantiace.Ua Grote, but larger, paler, the 

 hind wings white instead of dark gray, the fore wings with 

 much less of red. 



