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angulated brown median line, much darker and heavier on 

 the angles, starting from a point a little below the costa and 

 extending a little beyond the end of the cell, where the first 

 acute angle is formed. The line then runs obliquely across 

 the wing to the middle of the hind margin, forming the 

 second angle just below the cell, where it becomes nearly 

 obsolete. A double yellowish line, starting from the costa 

 near the outer fourth and curving downward, runs nearly 

 parallel with the outer margin to the hind margin, just 

 within the anal angle. Terminal space yellowish, fusing 

 with the line so that it appears double only at the costa ; 

 a row of seven black points along the outer margin. Six 

 geminate brown dashes between the median and subterminal 

 lines ; three dark-brown elongated patches between the base 

 and the median line. Fringes white, with the base silvery. 

 Hind wings sordid white, with a slightly darker terminal 

 border. Fringes pure white. 



Habitat. Texas. Early stages and food plants un- 

 known. 



CRAMBUS ATTENUATUS. (Plate III., fig. 4.) 



Crambus attenuatus Grote, Can. Ent,, Vol. XIL, p. 18 (1880). 

 Crambus attenuatus Grote, Can. Ent., Vol. XIII., p. 78 (1881). 



Expanse of wings, 2 5' mm. Palpi, head and thorax white, 

 thickly sprinkled with fuscous. Fore wings narrow, pale 

 cinereous sprinkled with fuscous ; a poorly defined, dull- 

 whitish stripe, crossed beyond the cell by an oblique brown 

 line, sometimes indistinct, extends from the base to the outer 

 margin. Subterminal line whitish, bordered on each side 

 with fuscous, running very obliquely from the costa to below 

 the apex, then, more indistinctly marked, very closely fol- 

 lowing the terminal line. A row of brown dots in the ter- 

 minal space. Fringes cinereous, with the base fuscous, and 

 the outer edge with metallic lustre. Hind wings fuscous; 

 fringes white. 



Habitat. California, Columbia, Vancouver Island. 

 Early stages and food plant unknown. 



