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dark, reddish-brown stripe above and parallel to the fold. 

 Median line fused with a dark outer discal spot. Fringes 

 metallic fuscous. Hind wings fuscous, with traces of sub- 

 terminal line. 



Habitat. California. Early stages and food plant un- 

 known. 



CRAMBUS TETERRELLUS. (Plate III., fig. 10.) 



Chilo teterrellus Zinck., Germ. Mag., Vol. IV., p. 252 (1821). 

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

 Crambus terrellus ZelL, Chil. et Cram., p. 27 (1863). 

 Crambus teterrellus Murtf., Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr., No. 30, 



p. 53 (1893). 

 Crambus teterrellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., pp 66, 8-4 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 15-21 mm. Palpi fuscous, whitish 

 above ; head whitish ; thorax whitish above, reddish fuscous 

 on the scapulae. Fore wings pale ochreous, dusted with 

 fuscous, with an irregular fuscous patch on the outer part 

 of the cell and in the submedian space, extended more or 

 less toward the base of the wing ; a faint brown median line, 

 arising from the costa a little beyond the middle, forms an 

 outward angle at the end of the cell and another on the 

 median space, then terminates at the middle of the hind 

 margin ; the subterminal line forms an obtuse angle a little 

 above the middle of the wing, edged outwardly by a faint 

 silvery line. A terminal row of black points. Fringes 

 dark, but with a silvery hue. Hind wings light gray; 

 fringes lighter. 



Habitat. Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North 

 Carolina^ Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Texas. 

 Food, grass. 



"Egg. Obconical, .5 mm. long, beautifully sculptured, 

 under the lens, with longitudinal ridges and finer cross- 

 lines, giving it a checkered appearance. Color, bright 

 salmon pink. 



"Larva. At first of a dingy cream white, minutely 

 sprinkled with brown, with brown head. At maturity 

 15 mm. in length by 2 mm. in diameter, subcylindrical, 

 slightly larger across the thoracic segments. Color yellow- 

 ish or greenish white, with dull-green medic-dorsal stripe. 



