THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 15 



CRAMBID^. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Chilo crambidoides, n. s. 



A large stout species with the aspect of Crambus. Fore wings pale 

 ochre with two parallel curved, dusky, interrupted extra mesial lines ; a 

 row of terminal black separated dots ; fringes concolorous. Hind wings 

 pure white, with white fringes. Head and thorax pale ochre. Beneath 

 very pale ; the veins conspicuous. Abdomen whitish ; second and third 

 basal segments ochre shaded above. I do not detect ocelli. Expanse 38 

 mil. Hab. Kansas, Prof. Snow. Prof. Zeller writes me that this form 

 may be finally referred to Guenee's genus " Borer " (?) of which I know 

 neither type nor description. 



Schoenobius macrinellus Zell., St. Ent. Zeit, 1866, p. 152, Taf. I, 

 fig. 12. 



This species is described from Venezuela. Mr. Schwarz has collected 

 a specimen at Enterprise, Florida, May 12, which must be the same 

 species. It only differs from Zeller's figure and description by the want 

 of the terminal points on the wings and the fact that the fringes on pri- 

 maries are whitish gray. It is new to our fauna. In this same paper of 

 Prof. Zeller's is a description of the North American Crambus topiarius, 

 which I mention further on and which Prof. Zeller regards as the North 

 American representative of the European hortuellus. 



Crambus interruptus Grote, Can. Ent., ix., 10 1. 



I have sent a series of specimens to Prof. Zeller and he informs me 

 that he can find no constant character to separate this species from the 

 European myelins, unknown to me, and not previously registered from 

 this country. There seem to be slight differences in the tone of the 

 secondaries, and at first Prof. Zeller thought that there might be in the 

 position of the vitta, but later examples seem to have corrected this latter 

 supposition, judging from Prof. Zeller's letters. Myelins is obtained in 

 Europe with the beating net from trees ; conchedus Tr. is found flying on 

 the treeless alpine meadows. It will be interesting to know the habits of 

 interruptus. I was in error in comparing this species with the European 

 conchellus. 



