18 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Crambus anceps, n. s. 



<£ $ . Belongs to the group of fuscous species with the primaries 

 crossed by two angulated dark lines. Narrow-winged ; deep brownish 

 fuscous ; outer line followed by a faint narrow pale shading ; inner line 

 fused with a dark outer discal spot ; lines irregular and rather broad, 

 angulated on cell. Hind wings fuscous with fuscous fringes and traces 

 of an extra mesial shade line. Head and thorax dark fuscous ; legs 

 paler ; wings fuscous beneath. Expanse 18 mil. Sauzalito, Cal., Behrens, 

 Oct. 6, two specimens. 



Crambus laciniellus, n. s. 



£ $ . This species, of which I have examined large material, princi- 

 pally collected .by Mr. Fish in Maine, is allied to fuscicostelliis. It is 

 larger, without the median gray shade, but shades gradually from the 

 ochrey fuscous costal region to the paler and grayish internal region of the 

 primaries. There is a very narrow bright line between two black hair- 

 lines at the base of the fringe. The wing is crossed by two broken rusty 

 lines, the inner more oblique, both more or less faint 'and incomplete. 

 The hind wings are very pale fuscous, paler than in fuscicostellus. Prof. 

 Zeller has drawn my attention to the existence of allied species to fusci- 

 costellus, but not until recently could I satisfy myself as to what the latter 

 species was. According to the description " spatio inter costam et venam 

 medianum distincte canescente " and Prof. Zeller's recent determination 

 of a specimen sent him under the letter " d," I now recognize his species 

 from Texas and N. Y. It is smaller and deeper colored than laciniellus \ 

 the gray median striped shade extends over the middle of the wing, diffusely 

 continued in some specimens to external margin. The outer of the two 

 lines is broken into dots and the lines are narrower and deeper colored. 

 The fringes are darker, shining fuscous, and I cannot see the double hair- 

 lines of laciniellus. The latter expands 26 to 29 mil. Mount Desert 

 (Grote) ; Orono (Fish). I have sent this species to Zeller under the Nos. 

 2 and 30. 



Crambus attenuatus, n. s. 



Fore wings narrow, dusty ochrey fuscous with an ill-defined median 

 gray or whitish stripe extending outwardly diffusedly along the veins to 

 external margin. This stripe is crossed at the middle of the wing by an 

 oblique brown line, not always legible, the fragment of a mesial line. 

 Exterior line very near the margin, only visible in a double, outwardly 



