150 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENT03I0L0GIST. 



was SO slight that the pupa, unattached, rolled from its shelter while 

 being examined, and was easily replaced. 



The pupa is three-eighths of au inch long by rather more than one- 

 tliird as broad. Its color is reddish-brown, with its flattened, broad 

 anal tip blackish, and bearing two diverging microscopic hairs. The 

 stigmata are elevated, broadly oval, of a dark brown color. The in- 

 cisures of the segments are well marked ; the last three segments 

 rounding rather abruptly to the tip. The wing-covers reach to the 

 eighth segment, and occupy more than two-thirds of the entire pupal 

 length. The eyecases are prominent ; the antennas cases extend to 

 nearly the tips of the Avings. 



The moth emerged from the pupa on the 19th of June, giving for 

 its pupation a period of fifteen days. The brief period required for 

 the transformations of this species is quite interesting from the contrast 

 which it presents to the prolonged larval stage, preparatory to pupation, 

 of Cramhus vulgivagellus. This latter feature seems not to be charac- 

 teristic of the CrnmhidcB, if we may judge from the various times dur- 

 ing the spring and summer when the moths are known to emerge from 

 their pupte. From a paper, by Mr. E. L. Ragonot, of Paris, giving the 

 period of apparition of nineteen species of C'r«?«5?<s occurring in Great 

 Britain,* we find as follows: May to July, one species {C. cratercllus 

 L.) ; May to September, one species [C, perlelhis Sc. ); June and July, 

 four species; f June, July and August, three species ;J July and Au- 

 gust ten species. § • 



There may be a second brood of C. exsiccatus, as of some of the 

 earlier appearing European species, for an example in my collection 

 bears as the date of its capture by me, September 3d. It has been 

 taken in the Adirondack Region of New York, by Mr. "W. W. Hill, on 

 the 7 th of July. II 



It is probable that the larval life of the species is similar to that 

 which has been given of C. vuJgivngelhis, and that it is passed in a 

 tubular gallery, spun by the caterpillar, such as is constructed by the 

 several species of PyralidcB, recently observed and recorded by Mr, W. 

 Buckler. Whether the gallery is built above or within the ground re- 

 mains to be seen, for the habits of the several species differ in this 

 particular. Thus, while the adult larval gallery of C. vulgivagellus is 

 found within the soil, in another species, of which Mr. Buckler has 



* Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine, xvii, 1880, pp. 15-17. 



+ C. dumetellus Hb., O. vliginosellus Z., C. pascuellus L., C. myellus Hb. 



XG. silDellusYlh., C. margaritellusYih., G, cidmelluslj. 



§C. alpinellus Hb.,. G. verellus Zlc, G. ericelliis Hb., G. Warring toneUus Stt., C. ha- 

 melius 'fhmih., G.fiircatellus Zett., G. latistrius Haw., C. inquinatellus S. V., G. contami- 

 nellua Hb., G. litTiargyrellus Hb. 



\Seventh Ann. Rept. Survey Adirondack Region of N. Y., 1880, p. 391. 



