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A. E. VerriU — The Bermuda Islands. 



terminal fringe with alternate patches of black and white, mostly 

 white on the hind wings, and with a narrow basal band of white, 

 edged on both sides with a black line. Legs buff ; the anterior pair 

 with narrow bands of black ; antennae brown. Length of moth, 

 with folded wings, 10 mm ; of pupa, 9 mra . Determined by Mr. Dyar. 



Syngamia florella Cr. 



This small, conspicuously colored, pyralid moth has been identi- 

 fied by Mr. H. G. Dyar, from a small lot of moths received in the 

 summer of 1901, from Mr. T. G. Gosling. Its front wings are pur- 

 plish brown, crossed by three large, conspicuous, golden-yellow spots; 

 under wings darker brown, with a subbasal patch and a subterminal 

 ovate spot of orange-yellow or deep golden yellow. It is also known 

 from Key West. St. George's, Oct., L. Mowbray. 



Grass Moth. (JVomophila noctuella Walker) ; E. B. Felt, Canad. 

 Ent., May, 1893, vol. xxv, p. 193, figs, (life history).* 



The larva of this common gray pyralid feeds on clover and various 

 grasses, and is often very injurious. Widely diffused in United 



d 142 



Figure 141. — Fig-moth (Ephestia cahiritella) ; enlarged 2; A, imago; B, larva 

 Figure 142. — Grain or Wolf -moth (Tinea granella); a, imago, enlarged ; 

 a', the same, nat. size; b, larva, nat. size and enlarged ; c, pupa, nat. size 

 and enlarged; d, infested grain. After Packard. 141 from Webster's 

 International Dictionary ; after Chittenden. 



States and Canada. Jones recorded it as common in 1876 ; it was 

 also in Geddes' list. We took it in April, 1901. It was taken by 

 Miss Hay ward, Aug., 1902, at lights. 



* Mr. Dyar gives me the following synonyms : hybridalis Hub. 

 Walk.; helvolalis Maasen. 



indystinctalis 



