no. 1649. NORTH AMERICAN CRAMB1D WOTBS—KEARFOTT. 3§3 



widens, upwardly, from base to inner third, then diminishes to mid- 

 dle; beyond it is a fine line. There is a dark brown, broken, terminal 

 line; before it on the costa is a short parallel white dash. The sub- 

 terminal line is nearly obsolete, on some specimens; there is a shining 

 whitish line from dorsum, at outer sixth, to middle of wing, parallel- 

 ing the ternien. The light ochreous shade of the outer third gradu- 

 ally becomes whitish at termen and the cilia is the same shade, whitish 

 ochreous. 



Hind wing, male, white; female, whitish gray; underside white. 

 Underside fore wing ochreous white. 



Four specimens, labeled " Arizona." One from Professor Fernald's 

 collection is labeled " Crambus intermedins Ragonot — 8G, yellow 

 label 122." This MSS. name of Ragonot's 1 am glad to give to the 

 species. In size and median stripe it is close to hemiochrellus Zeller 

 and haytiellus Zinck. I have four other specimens from Burnet 

 County, Texas, March and April (F. G. Sehaupp), which are slightly 

 smaller and much darker, and in which the subterminal line is com- 

 plete to costa, the area beyond it being heavily sprinkled with white on 

 an ochreous brown ground color, which I believe are darker varieties 

 of this same species, and have so labeled them in my collection. 



Cotype. — Cat. Xo. 11955, U.S.N.M., and in Author's collection. 



CRAMBUS DORSIPUNCTELLUS, new species. 



Expanse, -24-28 mm. 



Head and thorax and palpi light ochreous, latter darker externally; 

 antenna fuscous in front, dusted with light ochreous elsewhere; abdo- 

 men grayish ochreous; legs light ochreous. 



Fore wing above the fold, light fawn ochreous; below fold, light 

 fawn; the dorsal margin below fold is sparsely dusted with brown; a 

 very few of these dark dots occur in middle of wing in outer half of 

 cell and below lower angle of cell. There is barely a trace of a sub- 

 terminal line in one specimen; a very faint deeper ochreous line 

 crosses the outer end of fold on the lower third of wing. On the 

 termen, at end of veins 2 to 5, is a small brown dot; above them is a 

 nearly obsolete darker terminal line. Ternien is edged with a shin- 

 ing grayish yellow line, the cilia beyond of the same shade, but less 

 shining. 



Hind wing smoky gray; cilia, except at apex, whitish gray; under 

 side lighter. Under side fore wing dark ochreous gray. 



Described from four specimens, Kounthwaite, Manitoba, July, 

 L. E. Marmont; Verdi, Nevada, June 20-30, A. H. Vachell. 



Types in Author's collection. 



This species is close to ruHcolellus Zeller and vulgivagellus (Mem- 

 ens. It can be separated from either by the practical absence of all 

 markings and by the much lighter shining line at base of cilia of fore 



