CRAMBUS EXSICCATUS : ITS DISTRIBUTION, ETC. 151 



given the life-history, — C. Warriiujtondlua {Ent. Month. Mag., xviii, 

 1881, pp. 129-131), the Uirva3, '' when near full growth, inhabit tubular 

 galleries, two inches long, of irregular figure, firmly attached to the 

 grass in an upright position with the lowerend touching the ground."* 

 Of the case occupied by the young larva, in the autumn, of this spe- 

 cies, it is stated : "' By the middle of November, the case or gallery it 

 has constructed is a quarter of an inch long, composed outwardly of 

 finely comminuted grassy particles firmly attached to the grass, 

 about three-quarters of an inch above the ground." Of some other 

 English species, Mr. Buckler makes the following statements : C. cul- 

 mellus hibernates in little tubular galleries spun in an upright posi- 

 tion among the grass. C. contaminellus has its hibernating gallery 

 attached to the whitish sheaths of grass or to stones, covered with fine 

 greenish frass, or grass and earth. C. geniculus hibernates in a gallery 

 close to the earth or partly beneath the surface, composed of dirty 

 brown silk. 



Cramhus exsiccatus was originally described by Professor Zellerfrom 

 a number of examples (three males aud seven females) received from 

 Illinois. It also occurs, according to Mr. Grote, in Canada, Maine 

 and Vancouver. A closely resembling species, Crambus undatus Grote, 

 has been described from California {^Canad. Entomoh, xiii, 1881, pp. 

 35, 66), differing mainly in its smaller size and absence of the inden- 

 tation of the outer band below the middle of the wing, just above the 

 submedian fold. Professor Zeller compares C. exsiccatus in size and 

 shape toC. fascilinellus, and states that it is the 0. fuscisquamellus of 

 Kollar, in Hit. 



Should this species ever multiply so as to become obnoxious, the 

 same remedies may be employed against it as recommended for the 

 Vagabond Crambus. 



Aiiarsia lincatclla Zeller. 



The Peach-twig Moth. 



Ord. LEPIDOPTERA : Fam. TINEID/E. 



Zklleu ; In Isis, for 1839, p. 190 (original description). 



Clemens ; in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. , for 18G0, p. 1C9 (described as A. prui- 

 nella); also the same in Tiueina of N. America, (Stainton ed.), 1872,p. 128; 

 lb., p. 36 {in litt. to Stainton, identified with A. lineatella). 



Chambeks : in Canad. Entomol. , iv, 1872, p. 208 (identical with pruinella); in 

 Bull. U. S. Geolog.- Qeograph. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, pp. 112, 129 (food- 

 plants and references). 



*The cocoon of this species differs also from that of C. vulffivagellus, in that instead of 

 being eubcylindrical, it is ''oval, half an inch long and a quarter of an inch wide, made of 

 simihir materials to those of the gallery, but is more tough and stronger and sunk partly 

 in llie oaith.'' 



