316 Lepidopti rological Miscellanies. 



•• Appears on a casual ezamination very much like Chilo pascuellu*, 

 but ie essentially different, and, especially the female, much larger. 

 Palpi and bead yellowish graj ; antennas yellow above, gray beneath; 

 thorax golden yellow. The anterior winga have the Bame form .-is 

 nlhis, except the apices, which arc more prominent; they are 

 golden yellow, ferruginous on costs and around the silvery stripes. A 

 broad silvery stripe bordered with ferruginous extends from the base 

 through the middle of the wing, ending in ;i sharp point near external 

 margin. This stripe throws out an awl-shaped branch from the mid. lie 

 of it- inner margin towards internal angle, bul does not roach it. [m- 

 mediately above the point of the silvery Btripe and parallel with it a 

 small Bpindle-shaped silvery spot bordered with ferruginous, with its 

 outer point in the angle of a once bent dull silvery line which eroj 

 the wing before the outer margin. Beyond this line four Mack short 

 streaks in the lower half of the wine.', between the nervules. Costal 

 portion of the apex ferruginous, the ou'er half silvery white. Poste- 

 rior wingB uniform glossy white. Under surface of I'u-e win^s yellow- 

 ish gray, of the hind wings white with a yellowish-gray front margin. 

 Abdomen and lege grayish white." 



• v Expanse of the male ]:;}, line-, of the female 17 lines. The male 

 its of a -mailer size, Boraetimes not larger than 0. pascuellue." 

 This species inhabits the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia." 



Crambua bipunctellus* 



Crambui bipunctellus. Zeller, Chilo. e1 Cramb., p. 23, I86S, 



Palpi, h'ad and thorax pure white. Abdomen an I anal tuft white. 



Anterior wings white, with two prominent blackish dot-, the tirst 

 on the fold just beyond the middle of the wing, the Becond beyond and 

 above the first, near the costa at apical third. There is a pale ochreous 

 subtcrminal line which curves boldly outwardly below the costa, and is 

 somewhat thickened into dots between the nervules. A terminal row 

 of black dots. Fringes w bite. 



Posterior winga above and beneath white, broadly -haded centrally 

 with pah- fuscous. Under sur&ce of anterior winga fuscous to outer 

 third, which latter portion with the fringes ia pure white. 



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Habitat, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. 



