DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 

 CRAMBID MOTHS. 



By William Dunham Kearfott, 



Of Montclair, Neio Jersey. 



Among the fifty-odd thousand specimens of North American micro- 

 lepidoptera which I have acquired during the past ten years, there 

 have been many specimens belonging to the subfamily Crambinse of 

 the Pyralidse, which have been placed in storage boxes awaiting an 

 opportunity for authentic determination and arrangement. During 

 the early part of this year I spent several days in Prof. C. H. Fer- 

 nald's hospitable home, and, with his aid, secured the names of all 

 that were already described; but there remained a large number of 

 species that were apparently new to science. 



Only the most interesting of these, and only those that are repre- 

 sented usually by good series, are treated in the present paper. There 

 is an opportunity in this family for an excellent piece of work, with 

 the aid of the microscope and camera-lucida, which would open up a 

 wide field in the wonderful diversity and characters of the antenna? 

 and head parts particularly, as may be noted by figs. 7 to 12 on 

 pages 387 to 391, representing some of the Thaumatopsids. I hope 

 some one with more time to devote to the group will become as enthu- 

 siastic as I have after this brief study. The most necessary work of 

 reference, treating of the world's genera and species, is Hampson's 

 Classification in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 1895, and, of course, for the North American fauna, Fernald's Revi- 

 sion of 1896 will be found useful. 



Genus USCODYS Dyar.« 



Head with small tuft of broad-raised scales between ahtennal 

 joints, frons slightly roughed. 



" At the last moment, I am compelled to withdraw a new name proposed for 

 this genus, and substitute Uscodys, erected by Dr. Dyar in a paper issued 

 Sept. 15, 1908, a part of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington, Vol. X, and thus avoid a synonym. 



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