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the cell, giving off a small tooth near the middle, and cut off 

 more or less obliquely at the outer end, a little below and 

 beyond which is another white streak ; subterniinal line dark 

 brown, edged outwardly with metallic scales, arising at the 

 outer fourth of the costa, where it is preceded by a white 

 costal spot, and extending to a, point beyond the end of the 

 white stripe, then, forming an acute angle, extends with a 

 slight inward curve to the hind margin. Subterniinal space 

 below ashy gray, with five more or less distinct terminal 

 black points. Terminal line above dark brown ; apical 

 space occupied by two triangles, the lower one white, the 

 upper brown ; both separated from the subterniinal line by 

 a narrow streak of the ground color of the wing. Fringes 

 silvery fuscous, whitish at the base, euiarginate as in pascu- 

 ellus. Hind wings fuscous ; fringes lighter. 



There are several specimens in the National Museum 

 which are very much darker than any in my possession. 



Habitat. Texas, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, north of 

 Montana (Geddes), Europe. Early stages and food plant 

 unknown. 



CRAMBUS GAUSAPALIS. (Plate I., fig. 14.) 

 Crambus gausapalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIII., p. 167 (1886). 



Expanse of wings, 22-24 mm. Palpi light ochreous, 

 darker on the outside ; head and thorax ochreous. Fore 

 wings light ochreous, with scattered specks of brown ; dark 

 ochreous lines dusted with brown on all the veins beyond 

 the cell ; median line ochre-yellow, running obliquely from 

 the middle of the costa about half-way to the apical angle, 

 then, with a sharp angle, back to the cell, where, with 

 another acute angle, it turns toward the outer margin but 

 runs only a short distance. Subterniinal line brown, edged 

 outwardly with silvery scales, running evenly from the 

 costa to near the outer margin, where it curves and runs 

 to the hind margin. Terminal space darker, sprinkled with 

 white ; terminal line dark brown, replaced below by four 

 dark-brown dots ; outer margin falcate, apex acute ; apical 

 space light, with a large dark-brown patch on the costa. 

 Fringes golden cinereous, with white at -the base above. 



