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LITERATURE CITED. 



(1) Zeller, P. C. 



1848. Exotische Phyciden. In Isis [Herausgegeben] von Oken, [v. 41], col. 

 857-890. 



Columns 8S3-8S5. Pempelia lignosella. Original description of species and three 

 varieties from specimens from Brazil, Uruguay, and Colombia, South. America, and 

 from " Carolina," North America. 



(2) Blanchakd, E. 



1852. Fauna Chilena. Insectos. 471 p. Paris. (Gay, Claudio. Historia 

 Fisica y Politica de Chile . . . Zoologia, T. 7). 



Page 105. Elasmopalpus angustellus. Original description from specimen taken at 

 Concepcion, Chile. Also the original characters of the genus Elasmopalpus erected for 

 angustellus. 



(3) Zeller, P. C. 



1872. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Nachf alter, besonders 

 der Microlepidopteren. In Verhandl. K. K. Zool. Bot. Gesells. 

 Wien, Bd. 22, p. 446-566. 



Page 544. Pempelia lignosella Zeller. Records the species from Brazil and Colombia, 

 South America, " Carolina," and Texas. One pair taken July 15 and two females 

 August 15 in Texas. Also gives the original description of the varieties incautella and 

 tartarella each from one specimen taken August 21 in Texas. 



<4) Zeller, P. C. 



1874. Lepidoptera der Westktiste Amerika's. In Verhandl. K. K. Zool. 



Bot. Gesells. Wien, Bd. 24, p. 423^48, 1874. 



Page 430. Pempelia lignosella Zeller. Description of a new variety from Valparaiso, 

 Chile, listed as var. B. 

 (5) Berg, 0. 



1875. Patagonische Lepidopteren beobachtet auf einer Reise im Jahre 1874. 



In Bui. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, t. 49, no. 3, p. 191-247. 



Pages 228-229. Elasmopalpus angustellus Blanchard. Adds details to Blanchard's 

 description and records the species from Buenos Aires, Cordova, and Carmen de 



(6) Berg, C. 



1877. Contribucion al estudio de la fauna entomologica de Patagonia (con- 

 clusion). In An. Soc. Cien. Argentina, torn. 4, entrega 4, p. 199-211. 

 Pages 209-210. Pempelia lignosella Zeller. Places angustellus Blanch, as synonym of 

 lignosellus Zeller, thus reducing Elasmopalpus to a synonym of Pempelia. 



(7) Zeller, P. C. 



1881. Columbische Chiloniden, Crambiden, unci Phycitiden. In Hor. Soc. 



Ent. Rcss., v. 16, p. 154-256, pi. 11-12. 



Page 180. Pempelia lignosella Zeller. Notes on a collection of 25 specimens from 

 Colombia, South America, with a discussion of the varieties and variation of the species. 



(8) Riley, C. V. 



1882. The smaller corn stalk-borer. (Pempelia lignosella Zeller.) In U. S. 



Dept. Agr. Rpt. for 1881, p. 142-145, pi. 7. 



Pempelia lignosella Zeller. General account of history, injury in United States, 

 description of larva and pupa, and figures of stages and work. 



(9) Riley, O. V. 



1882. New insects injurious to agriculture (abstract). In Proc. Amer. Assoc. 

 Adv. Sci. 30th meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, August, 1881, p. 272-273. 



Page 272. In the abstract of a paper presented before the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, refers to this species as " a new pyralid" injuring corn 

 in the Southern States. 



