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CRAMBUS PASCUELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 3.) 



Phalcena Tinea pascuella Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. X, p. 535 (1758). 

 Tinea pascuella Linn., Faun. Suec., ed. II., p. 355 (1761). 

 Tinea pascuella Fab., Syst Ent., p. 658 (1775). 

 Tinea Pascuella Wein. Verz., p. 134 (1776). 

 Tinea Pascuella Goeze, Ent. Beitr., Vol. III., part 4, p. 85 (1783). 

 Tinea Pascuella DeVillers, Ent. Linn., Vol. II., p. 460 (1789). 

 Tinea Pascuella Fab., Ent. Syst, Vol. III., part 2, p. 295 (1793). 

 Tinea Pascuella Schrank, Faun. Boic., Vol. II., part 2, p. 100 



(1802). 



Tinea Pascuella Hub., Tinea, Plate V., fig. 51 (1803). 

 Chilo Pascuellus Zinck., Germ. Mag., Vol. II., p. 49 (1817). 

 Chilo pascuellus Tr., Schm., Vol. IX., part 1, p. 75 (1832). 

 Crambus pascuellus Steph., 111. Br. Ent. Haust, Vol. IV., p. 320 



(1834). 

 Crambus pascuellus Dup., Nat. Hist. Lep., Vol. X., Plate CCLXIX., 



fig. 1 (1836). 



Crambus Pascuellus H. S., Schm., Vol. IV., p. 53 (1849). 

 Crambus Pascuellus Wood, Ind. Ent., p. 215 (1854). 

 Crambus pascuellus Staint, Man., Vol. II., p. 181 (1859). 

 Crambus pascuellus Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 20 (1863). 

 Crambus Pascuellus Hein., Schm., Vol. I., p. 120 (1865). 

 Crambus pascuellus Praun, Tineidse, Plate I., fig. 15 (1869). 

 Crambus floridus Zell., Beitr., Vol. I., p. 91 (1875). 

 Crambus ftoridus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., pp. 78, 86 (1894). 

 Crambus pascuellus Meyr., Handb. Br. Ent., p. 390 (1895). 



Expanse of wings, 21-24 mm.- Palpi fuscous on the out- 

 side ; head white above ; thorax white above and beneath, 

 brownish ochreous on the sides. Fore wings brownish 

 ochreous, with a broad white stripe extending through the 

 wing very near the costa, and ending in an acute angle a 

 short distance within the subterminal line ; costal margin 

 brownish fuscous, widening outwardly, but in no place more 

 than half as wide as the white stripe ; four or five silvery, 

 black-margined streaks on the outer part of the wing, but 

 not reaching the subterminal line ; a white spot beyond and 

 below the end of the white stripe ; a white spot on each side 

 of the subterminal line, on the costa. Subterminal line fus- 

 cous, arising a little beyond the outer fourth of the costa, 

 extends outwardly to a point beyond the end of the white 

 stripe, where it forms an obtuse angle and crosses the wing 

 to the hind margin. Subterminal space below ashy gray, 



