226 Journal New York Entomological Society, [^oi. xxviii, 



Head about as in Crambus. Male antennae slightly prismatic. 

 tongue very weak, but coiled. Ocelli present. Eyes large. Thorax 

 and legs scaly, normal. Fore wing with the apex rounded over, trun- 

 cate, with a slightly increased curvature over Ry+^+r,, but with the 

 apparent apex at M3. Cu-stem higher than usual in the wing, with a 

 very wide space between it and second A, but without any trace of 

 first A. Three radials only, the first short, running into Sc, which 

 ends free in the membrane ; the other two also free, and not quite 

 reaching the margin. M^ free, normal. M., and ., connate, cell open, 

 third A obsolescent, free, as usual. Hind wing with base of R obso- 

 lete, Mj^ apparently arising free, a third way out from i)ase, but 

 obscurely connected with Sc + R. which immediately diverge from 

 it and separate from each other two thirds way out to the apex. 

 Cell open, with hardly a trace of the discocellular, abnormally short 

 on the anterior side, as indicated by the early separation of M.^ from 

 Sc + R, but abnormally long on the lower side, — Cu., arising more 

 than half way out on the wing, widely separate from Cu^. M., and ,, 

 stalked. All anals normal. Type : L. cancUus n. sp. 



Loxocrambus canellus new species. 



Light clay color, streaked with white on the veins. Head white, palpi 

 shaded with clay color on outer side. Legs dirty white, fore legs darkest, as 

 usual. Thorax apparently white (greasy in all my specimens), the side of the 

 collar and tegulse clay color. Fore wing with costa and cell suffused with 

 white, leaving a little darker shading between the veins, and some blackish 

 scaling in the upper outer portion of the cell. Cell Mj white, except narrowly 

 along the veins, from discal cell to outer line, indicating the fold. Inner line 

 even, dark gray, forming an acute angle over end of cell, enlarging into a 

 black spot and then fading out, but more or less traceable to middle of inner 

 margin. It tends to show an ocellate spot just above A. Outer line dark gray, 

 fine, even, about two thirds way from inner line to apex, running parallel to 

 outer margin as far as M. ; then turning obliquely in, and running nearly 

 straight across to anal angle. Terminal space white above M3 and clay color 

 below, with concolorous veins. Three black spots in interspaces at apex, set 

 well back from margin. Fringe concolorous, hind wing white. Under side 

 white, immaculate, a little darkened toward costa of fore wing. 15 mm. 

 Four males, Biloxi, Miss., June 13, 1917, at light. Type- and paratypes in 

 Cornell U. collection. No. 467. 



The larva is possibly a borer, as the moth becomes greasy much 

 more readily than Crambus. 



