392 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



entire length. The median stripe is outlined with scattered black 

 dots. These dots are entirely absent from the costal stripe, but on all 

 other white lines the black dots are sprinkled sparsely over the white ; 

 on veins 2, 3, and 4 the black dots follow the veins to cell. There is 

 no trace of a subterminal line, and all of the Avhite stripes extend 



directly to the terminal line, 

 which is cream white, edged on 

 either side Avith a fine brown 

 line; beyond this the cilia is 

 white at base and outwardly 

 speckled with gray and brown. 



Hind Aving above cream Avhite, 

 lightly speckled outwardly Avith 

 pale broAvn; underside white. 

 Underside fore Aving pale ochre- 

 ous lightly dusted Avith pale 

 broAvn. 



Fig. 13. — A'knatio.n of I)iati!.t;.\. parallel.\. tx -i i c 



Describetl from tAventy-three 

 specimens from Almagordo, New Mexico, April 19 to May 5, collected 

 by H. L. A^ierick and J. A. G. Rhen. 



Coty pes.— Cut. No. 11959, U.S.N.M., in collection of Philadelphia 

 Entomological Society, and in Author's collection. 



The venation of this species, as .shown by fig. .">, agrees better Avith 

 Fernald's figure of />. saccharalis 

 Fabricius" than Avith Hampson's fig- 

 ure of saccharalis.^ The majority of 

 Hampson's palpal figures in this revi- 

 sion are misleading, as they shoAV the 

 terminal joint as though it Avere differ- 

 ently scaled than the median joint. F'«- 14.— head and palpi of dia- 



„, . . , , . , tr.ea parallela. 



ihis IS scarcely eA^er the case in the 



Crambina?. The long overlapping scales of the median joint entirely 

 hide the junction with the apical and usually the same scaling extends 

 to the apex. These characters in this species are shown by fig. 1-1. 



ANALYTICAL KEY TO SPECIES OF CIIILO.'' 



1. Fore wing with metallic cilia 2 



Fore wing without metallic cilia 3 



2. Fore wing with inner and subterminal lines well defined. 



placidcJliix Ha i nihil oh. 



With these lines not distinct plcjadcllufi Zinck. 



o. Fore wing with veins outlined in bi'own dcnsrUns Zeller. 



Fore wing with veins not outlined in brown 4 



«The Crambid.'e of North America, Tlate C, figs. 10, 11, 12. 

 ^Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 18!)5,- p. 953. 



" Cramhus inornatellus Walker, included hi Cliilo in Smith's list, 1!)03, No. 

 4983, is retained by Hampson in Crambim. 



