Pyralididae 575 



New Windsor; NYC; LI: Forest Pk., Kch (Fbs) ; Lynbrook (NYS). 



Common all the year. General feeder on herbs; often injurious to 

 greenhouse plants. 



5098 P. acutella Wlk. Vic. Buffalo; Potter Swamp; Ithaca; McLean; Karner; 



Nassau; New Windsor. Je-Aug. 



5099 P. terrealis Tr. Peru; North Creek; Adirondack Lodge, Bish; Alexandria 



Bay, Thousand Isls., Kch (Fbs); Buffalo; Lancaster; Jamestown; 

 Crosby; Ithaca; McLean; Big Ind. Val. ; Onteora Mt. ; Ft. Edward; 

 Schenectady; Rhinebeck; New Windsor; LI: Jamaica, Forest Pk., Kch 

 (Fbs). May; Aug. Solidago. 



5100 P. extricalis Guen. Peru; Newcomb; McLean; Big Ind. Val.; Schenectady; 



LI: Belmont Pk., Wyandanch, Glendale, Kch (Fbs). May-Je ; Jl ; Sep. 



Alder. 

 5022 P. helvialis Wlk. Black Br.; Allegany Pk., Wild (Fbs); Ithaca; McLean; 



Neversink. Jl - early Aug. Poplar. 

 5116 P. theseusalis Wlk. Mt Marcy; Lewis Co; Lewiston; Ithaca; Karner; 



Hudson Falls (NYS) ; Rhinebeck; Katonah; New Windsor. JL Ferns. 

 5102 P. tertialis Guen. Common everywhere. May-Jl ; Aug. Elder. 

 5132 P. fumalis Guen. Wilmington; Saranac L. ; Old Forge; Newcomb; North 



Creek; Fentons ; Adirondack Lodge, Bish; Honeoye Falls; E. Aurora; 



Oak Orchard Swamp; Ithaca; Big Ind. Val.; Karner; New Windsor. 



Je-Sep. 



PyraUSTA Schranck 



5111 P. pertextalis Led. Fentons; Rochester, Angle; Honeoye Falls; Buffalo; E. 



Aurora; Ithaca; Big Ind. Val.; Albany; New Windsor; NYC; LI: 

 Lynbrook; Forest Pk., Kch (Fbs). Two broods, flying mainly in Je 

 and Aug. Juglans, Asarum, Cornus, and nettle (Wild). 

 5114 P. thestealis Wlk. Mt. Marcy; Lewis Co; Lewiston; Buffalo; E. Aurora; 

 Ithaca ; Karner ; Rhinebeck ; Katonah ;• New Windsor ; LI : Orient, Oct, 

 Lath. Je-Jl. Corylus, linden, and Evonymus. 



5112 P. fissalis Grt. Rochester, Angle; E. Aurora, Niagara Falls, Gowanda 



( Wild) ; Castile, Brad ; Otto ; Ithaca ; McLean ; Utica ; Little Falls ; 

 Catskills; LI: Jamaica, Kch (Fbs). Je-Aug. Sassafras and goldenrod; 

 wild bergamot (Wild). 



5113 P. aeglealis Wlk. Rochester, Angle; Buffalo (EPV) ; Liberty (Morton); 



Ithaca; McLean; SI: Buck's Hollow. Je-Aug. Phytolacca. 

 5119 P. fiavidalis Guen. Florida; New Windsor; LI. Late Jl-Aug. Vernonia. 

 5129 P. penitalis Grt. Stuyvesant, Hopewell Jet. (NYS) ; LI: Lynbrook; Orient, 



Lath. Water lily and Nelumbo; rarely in other aquatic plants. 



P. ainslei Hein. Dr. Felt reports the following distribution : Lockport ; N. 



Collins ; Ithaca ; Schenectady ; Ballston L. ; Scotia ; Albany ; Nassau ; 

 Stuyvesant Falls ; Hopewell Jet. The species is doubtless generally 

 distributed south of the Adirondacks. May ; Aug-Sep. Polygonum. 



P. nubilalis Hbn. European Corn-Borer. This introduced pest was first 



discovered at Scotia, Schenectady Co., Jan 1919, and at N. Collins, 

 Erie Co, Sep 1919. It now occurs in the western part of the State 

 from L. Erie to Monroe, Livingston, Wyoming, and Allegany Counties. 

 In the eastern part of the State it occurs in Washington, Rensselaer. 

 Saratoga, Albany, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, and southern Hamil- 

 ton Counties. It has been recorded also from southern Herkimer, Mad- 



