CRAMBUS ELEGANS. (Plate IY., fig. 8.) 



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

 Crambus terminellus Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 27 (1863). 

 Crambus elegans Zell., Stett. Ent. Zeit., Vol. XXXIII., p. 473, 



Plate II., fig. 5 (1872). 

 Crambus elegans Zell., Beitr., p. 93 (1872). 

 Crambus elegansZell., Exot. Mic., p. 45 (1877), 

 Crambus elegans Felt, Grass-eating Ins., pp. 74, 86 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 12-15 mm. Palpi white above, slightly 

 fuscous on the outside ; head and thorax white, fuscous on the 

 sides. Fore wings white ; base of costa streaked with bright 

 brown with a brassy lustre ; a patch of brown on the hind 

 margin near the base, and a short curved streak near its mid- 

 dle, which forms with its opposite, when the wings are closed, 

 a semicircular dorsal line, beyond which the wing is thickly 

 dusted with brown ; a broad brown band, very broad on the 

 costa, where it encloses a small white spot and a nearly 

 straight brown subterminal line resting on a silvery-white 

 ground. A marginal row of fine black points on the silvery 

 terminal space. Fringes metallic cinereous. Hind wings 

 pale lustrous cinerous, with lighter fringes. 



Habitat. Ontario, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, 

 New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas. 

 Food, grass. 



Egg. Creamy white when first laid, gradually turn- 

 ing to an orange-buff color before hatching. Form, oval ; 

 size, .42 mm. by .30 mm. The egg-shell has sixteen longi- 

 tudinal ridges and numerous smaller transverse ridges. 



"Larva, First Stage. Head diameter, .2 mm.; body 

 diameter, .125 mm. ; length, 1.09 mm. Head and thoracic 

 shield light brown ; body a dirty straw color. Scattered 

 hairs occur on the head and body." (Felt.) 



