CK AMBUS MYELLUS. (Plate II., fig. 7.) 



Phalcena Pinelella Scop., Ent. Cam., p. 244 (1763). 



Tinea Conchella Wien. Verz., p. 134 (1776). 



Tinea Pinetella Enoch., Beitr., Vol. I., Plate IV., fig. 5 (1781). 



Tinea conchella Wien. Verz., Illig. ed , Vol. II., p. 83 (1801). 



Tinea Myella Hub., Thieve, Plate VI., fig. 37 (1803). 



Tinea Pinetella Schrank, Faun. Boic., Vol. II., p. 101 (1804). 



Bombyx Pineti Esp., Suppl., p. 54, Plate LXXXIX , figs. 4, 5 



(1807). 



Chilo Conchellus Zinck., Germ. Mag , Vol. II., p. 74 (1817). 

 Catoptria Conchalis Hub., Verz., p. 365 (1818). 

 Chilo conchellus Tr., Schm., Vol. IX , part 1, p. 97 (1832). 

 Crambus conchellus Dup., Nat. Hist. Lep., Vol. X., p. 91, Plate 



CCLXXI. (1836). 



Crambus Myellus H. S , Schm., Vol. IV., p. 64 (1849). 

 Crambus Hercynice Hem., Bresl. Zeit., p. 3 (1854). 

 Crambus latiradiellus Walk., Lep. Het., Vol. XXVII., p. 157 



(1863). 



Crambus interrupts Grote, Can. Ent , Vol. IX., p. 101 (1877). 

 Crambus interruptus Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XII., p. 15 (1880). 

 Crambus myellus Meyr., Handb. Br. Lep., p. 392 (1895). 



Expanse of wings, 19-24 mm. Head white above ; palpi 

 white above and beneath, brown on the outside ; thorax 

 white above, brownish on the sides. Fore wings pale fer- 

 ruginous, with a snow-white stripe extending through the 

 middle of the wing from the base to near the outer border ; 

 this stripe and also the apical portion of the wing edged with 

 dark ferruginous ; two slightly curving, oblique, dark fer- 

 ruginous bars cross the white stripe, one at the middle of 

 the wing, the other very near the outer end of the stripe. 

 A terminal row of black dots. Fringes dark smoky fus- 

 cous, cut by white in three or four places. Hind wings pale 

 fuscous. 



Habitat. Nova Scotia, Maine, Europe. Early stages 

 and food plant unknown. 



