74: 



DlATR^EA SACCHARALIS. (Plate V., fig. 8.) 



Phalcena saccharalis Fab.,Ent. Syst., Vol. III., part 2, p. 238 



(1894). 

 Phalcena saccharalis Fab., Skrifter af naturalist. Selak., 



Vol. III., part 2, p. 63, Plate VIII , fig. 1 (1894). 

 Diatrcea sacchari Guilding, Trans. Soc. Ency. Arts, Vol. 



XLVI.,p. 143 (1832). 



Chilo obliteratellus Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 8 (1863). 

 Chilo obliteratellus ZelL, Ent. Zeit., Vol. XXXllI., p. 465 



(1872). 

 Chilo obliteratellus Feld. & Rghf ., Novara., Plate CXXXVII., 



fig. 24 (1874). 



Chilo obliteratellus Zell., Exot. Microp., p. 12 (1877). 

 Chilo crambidoides Grote, Can Ent., Vol. XII., p. 15 (1880). 

 Diatrcea obliterated Zell., Col. Chil. Cram. & Phy., p. 10, 



Plate XI., fig. 5 (1881). 



Diatrcea obliteratella Com., Report Dep. Ag., p. 240 (1881). 

 Diatrcea obliteratella Moesch., Lep. Fauna von Port , p. 322 



(1890). 

 Diatrcea slriatalis Snell., Tijds. v. Ent., Vol. XXXIV., p. 349, 



Plate II., figs. 1-4 (1891). 



Expanse of wings, 28-38 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, 

 thorax and fore wings pale ochre-yellow, the latter with 

 darker venular and intervenular lines ; one discal and seven 

 terminal dots black. Hind wings white in the females, pale 

 yellow in the males. All the fringes are concolorous with 

 the adjacent part of the wings. There is a curved line of 

 more or less distinct brown dots from within the apex across 

 the wing, curving in towards the base of the hind margin, 

 and also a trace of a second parallel line between this and 

 the end of the cell. These lines of dots occur more or less 

 distinctly in the males and also in a few females. 



Habitat. South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, 

 West Indies, South America. Food plants, corn and sugar- 

 cane. 



Egg. The eggs are flat and circular, 1 mm. in diameter, 

 white when first deposited, but turn yellow before hatching. 

 They are laid early in the spring, upon the leaves of the 

 young cane, near the axils, and, hatching in a few days, the 

 larvae bore their way into the stems in the immediate vicin- 

 ity, and work upwards through the soft pith. The larvee 

 grow very rapidly, and leave their burrows occasionally to 



