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with four or five black terminal points. Apex white, tri- 

 angularly produced, with a terminal dark-brown line, a 

 yellowish-brown costal spot and oblique streak before it. 

 Fringes metallic gray, white at base above. Hind wings 

 whitish, pale fuscous apically ; fringes white. 



Habitat. Massachusetts, Texas, California, Europe. 

 Food, grass. 



66 Egg. Creamy white when first laid, gradually turning 

 to a dark scarlet color before hatching. Form, elliptical 

 oval; size, .39 mm. by .30 mm. The egg-shell has sixteen 

 feeble longitudinal ridges and numerous smaller transverse 

 ridges. 



"Larva, First Stage. Head diameter, .21 mm.; body 

 diameter, .15 mm. ; length, 1.15 mm. Head black, labrum 

 yellowish, scattered hairs on the head ; thoracic shield dark 

 brown ; body straw color with fine reddish blotches, giving 

 it a pinkish cast. Scattered hairs grow from small tubercles. 

 When about two weeks old the body is a dark mottled brown 

 When a month old the larva is 1 cm. long." (Felt.) 



CRAMBUS GIRARDELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 13.) 



Crambus Girardellus Clem., Pr. Ph. Ac. Sci., p. 204 (1860). 

 Crambus nivihumellus Walk., Lep. Het., Vol. XXVII., p. 159 



(1863). 

 Crambus girardellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., pp. 73, 86 (1894), 



Expanse of wings, 23-25 mm. Labial palpi pale fuscous 

 on the sides, silvery white above and beneath ; thorax whitish 

 above, orange-yellow on the sides ; abdomen white. Fore 

 wings silvery white, with an orange-yellow stripe, bordered 

 outwardly with dark-brown scales, extending from the base 

 of the wing, beneath the median vein, to beyond the cell, 

 where it turns up toward the apex of the wing. Terminal 

 line brown, edged with yellow, with five short, dark-brown 

 dashes before it on the posterior half of the wing. Hind 

 wings pure white, sometimes smoky on the anterior half. 



Habitat. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay, 

 Ontario, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio. Food, grass. 



