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third of the costa, extends in a straight line to the end of 

 the cell, where it forms an acute angle and runs to the mid- 

 dle of the hind margin, giving off one tooth in the middle 

 of its course. The outer line white, bordered on each side 

 with a fine, pale, straw-yellow line, arid, starting from the 

 outer fourth of the costa, curves around to the fold, where 

 it forms an obtuse inward angle, then runs to the hind mar- 

 gin. Fringe trisected by two fine black lines through it. 

 Hind wings pure white. 



Habitat. Texas. Food plant and early stages unknown. 



CHILD COMPTULATALIS. (Plate VI., fig. 9.) 

 Crambus comptulalalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. XIII., p. 167 (1886). 



Expanse of wings, 26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and fore 

 wings dark umber brown, the latter with numerous black 

 scales along the basal half of the submedian fold, broken by 

 a light spot. Black-and-white scales scattered in the outer 

 part of the cell, and a black discal dot surrounded by white 

 scales. The arcuate outer cross-line half way between the 

 cell and end of the wing, and from which indistinct dark 

 lines extend to the terminal dark-brown dots. Hind wings 

 and abdomen dark fuscous throughout. 



Habitat. Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Van- 

 couver Island. Food plant and early stages unknown. 



CHILO FORBESELLUS n. sp. (Plate VI., figs. 10 and 11.) 



Expanse of wings, 23-38 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and 

 fore wings dark umber brown, varying in depth of shade 

 according to the freshness of the specimen. Fore wings 

 with more or less white scales on the outer part of the cell, 

 the cellular black dot in the midst of them ; a similar series 

 of white scales scattered along the submedian fold, with a 

 black dash near the middle of the wing in the fold and 

 another a little before it. The outer cross-line and termi- 

 nal row of black dots are visible only in more or less worn 

 specimens. Hind wings white, pale fuscous apically, with 

 a dark-brown broken, terminal line not reaching the anal 



