in the division of Tinece Directipalpes. Hiibner, in his 

 " Sammlung europaischer Schmetterlinge," figures the Euro- 

 pean species under the genus Tinea. A part of the plates 

 on which these species are represented were published in 

 1796. Fabricius, in the supplement to his * * Entomologia 

 Systematical p. 464, published Feb. 10, 1798, established 

 the genus Crambus with sixty-two species under it, some of 

 which do not belong to this genus and they have since been 

 removed to other genera. Fabricius did not mention any 

 species as the type of the genus. In Vol. III., part II., of 

 this work, published in 1794, on p. 238, he described the 

 species saccharalis; and, so far as I can learn, this was 

 the first species of the family published from this country. 

 Latreille, in his " Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces et In- 

 sects," Vol. XIV., p. 247, 1805, adopts the generic name 

 Crambus, and places under it carnella L., pinellus L., 

 culmellus L. and pascuellus L. The last three are still 

 retained in the genus Crambus. 



In 1811, Haworth published part III. of his " Lepidop- 

 tera Britannica," in which he established the genus Palpa- 

 ria for the species usually placed under Crambus. He had 

 previously, in part II. of the same work, used the genus 

 Crambus, but, strange to say, he had none of the species 

 now regarded as Crambids under it. Leach, in the article 

 " Entomology " in the "New Edinburgh Encyclopaedia," 

 published in 1815, adopted the generic name Crambus, 

 with pineti, pascuorum and pratorum under it, and placed 

 it as the second genus in his family Tineida. In 1817, 

 Zincken, in Germar's " Magazin der Entomologie," Yol. II., 

 published his monograph of the genus Chilo, with phragmi- 

 tellus Hub. as the first species under it, and this has been 

 taken as the type of Chilo. Zincken included in his genus 

 most of the species now retained under Crambus. In Yol. 

 III., p. 114, 1818, Zincken described C. leachellus, the hab- 

 itat of which was -unknown, but it has since proved to be 

 a well-known North American species; and in Yol. IV., 

 p. 247, 1821, C. sordidellus, satrapellus, prcefectellus, decorel- 

 lus, plejadellus, teterrellus and incertellus from South Caro- 

 lina, and C. haytiellus from the Island of San Domingo, but 

 I have received this last species both from San Domingo and 



