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porated. Mr. Marsh found the larve attacking lima beans at Santa 
Ana, Garden Grove, Anaheim, and Watts, in California. At Garden 
Grove they had destroyed 40 per cent of the crop. 
SYNONYMY AND DISTRIBUTION. 
The species Etiella zinckenella was described by Treitschke * in 
1832, and the variety FE. zinckenella schisticolor was described as 
E. schisticolor in 1881 by P. C. Zeller ? from two specimens, a male 
and a female, collected from ‘‘very different parts of North America.” 
The male was from California and was collected October 8, but of 
the female he has nothing to say. He also refers to specimens of 
E. zinckenella examined by him from Sierra Leone, West Africa; 
Madagascar; Honda, Colombia, South America; and ‘‘Carolina”’ in 
this country. Later Rev. G. D. Hulst? redescribed this species 
under the name Ftiella villosa, and gave Colorado and Califorina as 
the habitat. Dr. H. G. Dyar in his catalogue gives Arizona as an 
addition to the habitat. 
The typical FE. zinckenella is represented in the National Museum 
collection by specimens from Hampton, N. H.; Weekapong, R. L.; 
Key West and Archer, Fla.; Oxbow, Saskatchewan; Texas; Still- 
water, Okla.; and Denver, Colo. The variety FE. zinckenella schisti- 
color is represented by specimens from Stockton, Utah; Springfield, 
Idaho; Eldorado, Clairmont, Alameda, and San Diego, Cal.; Nogales, 
Ariz.; and Pullman, Wash. It will be noted that all the specimens 
of the variety were collected west of or in the Rocky Mountains. 
Etiella zinckenella schisticolor differs very slightly from the typical 
form. It has a suffusion of gray scales on the primaries as its chief 
distinctive character. A number of specimens from Florida, one 
specimen from Rhode Island, and one from New Hampshire very 
closely resemble the European specimens of F. zinckenella. 
A possible explanation of the above facts may be that the variety 
schisticolor is a native of the Pacific slope of this continent, while the 
forms found in the eastern United States are the typical E. zincken- 
ella recently introduced into this country from the Old World or South 
America. 
FOOD PLANTS. 
Larve of Etiella zinckenella have been recorded as feeding on the 
seed of several species of leguminous plants. In California (Eldorado 
County) Mr. A. Koebele* found them doing considerable damage 
to lima beans and they were recently found by Mr. H. O. Marsh,° 
of this bureau, working on the same crop in that State. Mr. E. E. 


1 Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, von Friedrich Treitschke, 9 Band, p. 201, 1832. 
2 Hore Societatis Entomologice Rossic, vol. 16, p. 177, 1881. 
3 Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 133, 1887. 
4 Bureau of Entomology Notes, No. 48 K. 
6 Bul. 82, Pt. III, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 25, 1909. 
