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CRAMBUS SATKAPELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 1.) 



Chilo satrapellus Zinck., Germ, Mag., Vol. IV., p. 247 (1821). 

 Crambus satrapellus Zell., Chil. etCram., p. 16 (1863). 

 Crambus aculeilellus Walk., Lep. Het., Vol. XXVIL, p. 158 



(1863). 

 Crambus elegantellus Walk., Lep. Het., Vol. XXVII., p. 179 



(1863). 

 Crambus elegantellus Robs., Ann. Lye. N. Y., Vol. IX., pp. 315, 



316 (1869). 

 Crambus satrapellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., p. 89 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 25-35 mm. Head and palpi yellowish 

 gray ; thorax light golden yellow ; labial palpi slender, about 

 the length of the thorax, pale cinereous fuscous on the out- 

 side, the under margin whitish. Fore wings much produced 

 at the apex, golden yellow, rust brown on the costa ; from 

 the base to near the outer margin a sharply pointed, silvery- 

 white stripe, with a long, acute tooth projecting on the under 

 side, from the middle nearly to the subterminal line. Above 

 its apex, and parallel with it, a small spindle-shaped, silvery- 

 white stripe. Both stripes bordered with rust brown. Sub- 

 terminal line with a very acute angle near the outer margin, 

 just below the apex. Costal half of apex dark brown, outer 

 marginal half white. Fringes, white next the terminal line, 

 brown outwardly. Hind wings pale cinereous ; fringes white. 

 Abdomen and legs grayish white. 



Habitat. Florida, Georgia, Texas. Food plant and 

 early stages unknown. 



CRAMBUS HASTIFERELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 4.) 



Crambus hastiferellus Walk., Lep. Het., Vol. XXVII., p. 155 (1863). 

 Crambus quinquareatus ZelL, Ex. Mic., p. 38, Plate I, fig. 16 (1877). 

 Crambus extorralis Hulst, Tr. Am. -Ent. Soc., Vol. XIII., p. 165 (1886). 



Expanse of wings, 16 mm. Head, palpi and thorax above, 

 golden fuscous ; abdomen white with fuscous annulations. 

 Fore wings golden fuscous, darker on the costa nearly to 

 the terminal line. A broad, silvery- white stripe, nearly 

 reaching the costa and basally bordered with a dark line, 

 extends from the base nearly to the subterminal line, taper- 



