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A careful examination of the material in the American Museum 

 of Natural History has brought to light another female specimen 

 which would seem to agree very closely with Coding's O. flaviguttula, 

 and I have no hesitation in so assigning it. This example bears a 

 label showing it to have been taken at Newark, New Jersey, May 29, 

 1910. Several males and females of the author's dcfiiiita are also in- 

 cluded in that material, and seventeen more well marked examples, 

 eleven females and six males, have been taken this past season at 

 Litchfield, Conn. The length of this form as given in the key is ex- 

 cessive, and should read J* 4^.^-5 mm., 5 5-5/^ rnm. 



NOTES ON THE CRAMBIN^ (LEPIDOPTERA). 



By W. T. M. Forbes, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



A large part of the following memoranda are based on material 

 collected in various parts of the southern states by the Cornell Bio- 

 logical Expedition in the summer of 1917, and by Prof. J. C. Bradley 

 in his return trip through the same general region in the summer of 

 1918. The material has not quite all been mounted, but as it is a 

 serious question when the mounting will be finished under present 

 conditions, it has seemed best not to delay this paper further. 



The discovery of various genera in which vein R^ (vein 9) has 

 disappeared, forces us to an extension of Hampson's definition of 

 the subfamily (Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1895, 921), but emphasizes 

 the relative value of the characters of the female frenulum and con- 

 dition of the cell of the hind wing, used by Ragonot in defining his 

 two subfamilies Crambinse and Ancylolomin^e (Ann. Ent. Soc. France 

 (6), 10, 445-447, 1890). The subfamily may be defined as follows: 



Pyralids with antenna; simple, laminate, or pectinate, without any 

 special modifications; ocelli most often present; tongue rarely strong, 

 sometmies absent; palpi porrect, beaklike, and sometimes very long; 

 maxillary palpi large, and triangularly scaled ; tibise with normal 

 spurs. Fore wings with first A (ic) completely absent; usually with 

 all veins from cell preserved, R. or M., sometimes lost, and R_^ also 



