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the apex ; edge of the brown stripe above the silvery band 

 bordered with a few white scales towards the apex. A sub- 

 marginal row of minute black dots. Fringe concolorous wnth 

 the rest of the wing. Hind wings white above and beneath. 

 Under side of fore wings and the legs pale gray. 



Habitat. Labrador, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Minnesota, California. Early stages and food 

 plant unknown. 



CRAMBUS PILEFECTELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 7.) 



Chilo prcefectellus Zinck., Germ. Mag., Vol. IV., p. 248 (1821). 

 Cr -ambus involutellus Clem., Pr. Ph. Ac. Sci., p. 203 (1860). 



Expanse of wings, 21-25 mm. Head, palpi and thorax 

 cinereous with bronze lustre. Fore wings golden fuscous, 

 with a silvery- white stripe bordered with a fine darker line, 

 and tapering toward each end, from the base to near the sub- 

 terminal line ; a tooth in the middle on the lower side ; a dark 

 shade, with a light costal triangle above it and a light patch 

 below it, extends from the apex to the subterminal line ; costal 

 margin wider than in leachettus, being more than one-half the 

 width of the white stripe at the middle of the costa ; subter- 

 minal space with four dark venular dashes. Fringes grayish 

 metallic, with a white line at the base. Hind wings white or 

 slightly cream colored ; fringes white. 



Habitat. Canada, Massachusetts, New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Colorado, Texas. Early stages and food plant unknown. 



CRAMBUS DISSECTUS. (Plate II., fig. 12.) 

 Crambus dissectus Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XII., p. 66 (1880). 



Expanse of wings, 20 mm. Head and palpi above, white ; 

 thorax brown on the sides, white above ; abdomen whitish, 

 mottled with brown. Fore wings light brown. A white 

 stripe, very narrow at the base and much dilated in the 

 middle of the wing, where it sends out a long acute tooth 

 behind. The hind margin white, more or less broken. 

 Several very dark-brown parallel dashes run from the white 

 stripe nearly to the subterminal line, and upon these dashes 

 a white, diamond-shaped patch. On the costa, on each side 



