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The surface is much roughened with impressed lines, with 

 conspicuous raised corneous plates, from each of which 

 arises a long, coarse, tapering, yellow-golden hair. Head 

 with protruding lobes and rugose surface, and of a dull 

 whity-brown color. Cervical shield inconspicuous, darker 

 than the head." (Miss Murtfeldt.) 



CRAMBUS DECORELLUS. (Plate I., fig. 15.) 



Chilo decorellus Zinck., Germ. Mag., Vol. IV., p. 250 (1821). 

 Crambus polyactinellus Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 25 (1863). 

 Crambus decorellus Zell., Beitr , Vol. I., p. 92 (1872). 

 Crambus Ooodellianus Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XII., p. 17 



(1880). 

 Crambus bonusculalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIII., 



p. 167 (1886). . 



Crambus decorellus Fern., Ent. Am., Vol. IV., p. 44 (1888). 

 Crambus decorellus Felt, Grass-eating Ins., p. 84 (1894). 



Expanse of wings, 19 mm. Palpi, head, thorax and 

 abdomen very pale ochreous. Fore wings pale ochreous, 

 with the veins shaded with fuscous ; two dark ochre cross- 

 lines, the median at the outer edge of the cell bent at its 

 first third, and an outward tooth at its second; subterminal 

 line edged on the outer side with fuscous ; marginal band 

 ochre-yellow, enclosing a row of black dots. Fringe me- 

 tallic, black at base, iridescent golden outwardly. Hind 

 wings white or ochreouSj tinged with golden outwardly. 



Habitat. Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Geor- 

 gia, Texas. Early stages and food plant unknown. 



CRAMBUS COLORADELLUS. (Plate III., fig. 8.) 

 Crambus coloradellus Fern., Can. Ent., Vol. XXV., p. 95 (1893). 



Expanse of wings, 22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and fore 

 wings pale silvery straw color ; palpi darker on the outside. 

 A white stripe extends from the base of the wing through 

 the cell to the outer margin, bifid beyond the cell. All the 

 veins more or less indicated by pale yellow, edged on each 

 side with a more or less broken row of black scales. A 

 pale-yellow median line crosses the wing at the end of the 



