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ing bluntly at the tip, which rests upon a cream-colored 

 stripe extending across the line and there uniting with a 

 white sub-apical spot. Subterminal line very oblique in its 

 first third from the costa, then from an obtuse angle it runs 

 straight, with the exception of a small blunt tooth, to the 

 inner margin. Above the dark apical dash, a light triangu- 

 lar spot. Terminal space, below the light stripe, brown with 

 a few dark lines. Below the silvery stripe the wing is lighter 

 in color, with a darker wedge-shaped space on the outer part. 

 Terminal line dark, brownish ochreous. Fringes metallic. 

 Hind wings white. 



Habitat. Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, 

 Texas, California. Food plant and early stages unknown. 



CRAMBUS OCCIDENTALS. (Plate II., fig. 3.) 



Crambus occidentalis Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XII., p. 16 (1880). 

 Crambus occidentalis Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XIII., p. 66 (1881). 



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

 ochreous brown. Fore wings ochreous, heavily dusted with 

 fuscous ; the white streak in the costal half of the wing di- 

 lated in the middle, with a prominent tooth on the lower 

 side, which is bordered with a heavy, dark-brown shade, 

 especially from the tooth to the base. The subterminal line 

 forms an acute angle under the apical patch. Apex light, 

 with a dark shaded patch in the centre. Five dark-brown 

 venular dots in the terminal space. Hind wings pale fuscous. 



Habitat. California. Food plants and early stages un- 

 known. 



It differs from the other species in the prominent notch or 

 tooth at the middle of the lower side of the white stripe, 

 and by the heavy dark shades below the stripe. 



CRAMBUS MINIMELLUS. (Plate II., fig. 2.) 



Crambus minimellus Robs., Ann. Lye. N. Y., Vol. XI., p. 315 (1869). 

 Crambus minimellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., p. 88 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 13-15 mm. Head, palpi and thorax 

 dark shining fuscous. Fore wings glossy fuscous, with a 



