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NORTH AMERICAN PYRALIDiE. 



Bv Prof. C, H. Fernai.d. 

 (Mass. Agr, College, Amherst, Mass.) 



Crambus bolterellus, n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, 22 mm. 



Palpi, head and thorax, pale ochre yellow, the palpi being touched with fuscous 

 on the outer side. The patagise are overlaid with lead colored scales. 



Fore wings white, broadly edged with fuscous along the costa. Behind this edging 

 there is a stripe extending from the basal fourth of the cell to the apex, of a dull leaden 

 color and the remaining intervenular spaces are also of the color. An oblique reddish 

 brown line crosses the wing a little beyond the end of the cell, with a slight inward 

 angle near vein 2, and a pronounced outward angle beyond the end of the cell. A 

 second line crosses the wing rather more than half way from the last to the outer 

 margin, of similar size and color and similarly angulated below the costa but following 

 the outline of the outer margin, below the angle. A row of six or seven black points 

 rest on the intervenular spaces at the end of the wing. Fringes pale silvery metallic. 

 Hind wings sordid white with a fine, pale fuscous terminal line which does not reach 

 to the anal angle. Fringes white. Abdomen pale fuscous, darker beneath. Legs and 

 underside of fore wings, pale fuscous. Underside of hind wings somewhat lighter. 



Received from Texas by Mr. A. Bolter, for whom I take great 

 pleasure in naming this species. 



Crambus multilinellus, n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, 26 mm. 



Palpi, head and thorax, dull ochre yellow. 



Fore wings, bright ochre yellow. A costal white stripe extends nearly to the 

 apex leaving the extreme edge of the costa fuscous, and a median white stripe extends 

 from the base of the wing along the lower part of the cell out as far as the subterminal 

 line, the outer part of which is separated by an oblique line. The band of yellow 

 between the two white stripes is edged on each side with a fine line of black and 

 metallic lead colored scales, and there are similar lines along the invenular spaces. 

 All these lines terminate just before reaching the subterminal line. Three or four 

 oblique yellow lines, edged on their outer side with white, cross the outer part of the 

 costal white stripe, the third of which is overlaid with metallic lead colored scales and 

 runs down near the outer margin of the wing where it bends and runs to the hinder 

 margin nearly parallel with the outer margin. This is the subterminal line. There is 

 a terminal row of five black points and the fringes are pale metallic lead colored. 



Hind wings and fringes, white. Abdomen above and beneath, underside of the 

 body and the legs are dull ochre yellow. Throat and underside of the palpi, white. 

 Habitat. — Florida. 



Crambus behrensellus, n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, 23 mm. 



Palpi, head, thorax and lore wings, dull ochre yellow and sprinkled with darker, 

 brownish yellow scales. These scales are arranged on the fore wings so as to form 

 two ill defined close hands; the first Starting from the middle of the costa extends mil 

 to the end of the cell where it forms an acute angle and then extends a< roSS the wing 

 to the middle of the hinder margin. The second hand starts from the outer fourth of the 

 Entomologica Americana. Vol. ur. G May, 1887. 



