Pyralidae 



monly encountered or possess interesting traits. While it is to 

 be wished that we might be able to give a monographic view of 

 the entire family, such a procedure is wholly out of the question, 

 in view of the limits imposed upon us in the matter of space by 

 such a volume as that which has been undertaken. 



SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN^ 



The genera of this family may be distinguished by the fact 

 that the median nervure is not pectinated upon the upper side, or 

 is at most very slightly pectinated, by the absence of tufts of scales 

 in the cell of the fore wing, and by the further fact that vein 10 of 

 the fore wing rises from the cell. In the hind wing, vein 7 and 

 vein 8 almost invariably anastomose. 



Fifty-seven genera are found in our territory, represented by 

 two hundred and twenty-four species. 



Genus ZINCKENIA Hiibner 

 (i) Zinckenia fascialis Cramer, Plate XLVII, Fig. 28, $. 



Syn. angustalis Fabricius ; recurvalis Fabricius ; diffascialis Hiibner; albifas- 

 cialis Boisduval. 



The moth is found all over the temperate and subtropical 

 regions of both hemispheres. It is common in the southern por- 

 tions of the United States. 



Genus DESMIA Westwood 



(i) Desmia funeralis Hubner, Plate XLVII, Fig. 37, $. 

 (The Grape-leaf Folder.) 



A 



FIG. 2\6. Desmia funeralis. i, larva secreted between folds of leaf; 2, 

 head of larva, magnified; 3, pupa; 4, male moth; 5, female moth. (After 

 Riley.) 



The caterpillar of this pretty little moth feeds upon the leaves 

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