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Hind wings very pale gray, with a trace of the subterminal 

 line below the apex ; fringes lighter. 



Habitat. Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Early 

 stages and food plant unknown. 



CRAMBUS LAQUEATELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 11.) 



Crambus laqueatellus Clem., Pr. Ph. Ac. Sci., p. 203 (1860). 

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



(1863). 



Crambus laqueatellus Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 24 (1863). 

 Crambus laqueatellus Zell., Beitr., Vol. I., p. 91 (1872). 

 Crambus laqueatellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., pp. 79, 89 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 23 mm. Head luteous; thorax and 

 palpi fuscous, the latter whitish beneath. Fore wings ochre- 

 ous, with two silvery-white streaks separated by a fuscous 

 streak ; the outer silvery streak margined on the costa with 

 fuscous; the inner one, which extends beyond the apical 

 third, edged on the fold with fuscous. Beneath the fold 

 the wing is pale yellowish with fuscous streaks along the 

 submedian veins. Apex of the wing tinted with ochreous 

 yellow, the veins streaked with silvery white ; on the costa 

 near the tip an oblique silvery streak, margined on both 

 sides with fuscous. The subterminal silvery- white line 

 much angulated, bending in below the apex, leaving a large 

 whitish marginal patch streaked with dark parallel lines 

 which end in dots before the terminal line. Fringes lus- 

 trous ochreous. Hind wings pale fuscous ; fringes white. 



Habitat. Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Illi- 

 nois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas. Food, grass. 



" Egg. Creamy white when first laid, gradually turning 

 to an orange color before hatching. Form subcylindrical ; 

 size, .42 mm. by .30 mm. There are sixteen longitudinal 

 ridges and numerous smaller transverse ridges. 



"Lawa, First /Stage. Head diameter, .18 mm.; body 

 diameter, .15 mm. ; length, 1.15 mm. Head brownish 

 black, with whitish hairs ; thoracic shield light brown ; 

 body mottled with pale bright red and bearing blackish 

 tubercles." (Felt.) 



