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SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO TRUCK CROPS. 
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with ochreous scales on the fore wings. A conspicuous, broad white 
stripe extends over the base of the fore wing along the costa to the 
apex. In the inner fourth of the fore wing there is also a cross-band 
of brighter ochreous freely dotted with brown spots. The moth is 
illustrated by figure 7, a, representing the female. The sexes may 
be readily distinguished by the antennae. 
The original description of this species is by Treitschke, a who, in 
1832, named it Phycis zinckeneUa n. sp., from Sicily. 
It has also been described under at least thirteen other names, 
including scMsticolor Zell., and rubribasella Hulst. Full references to 
technical descriptions are given by Hulst in his article entitled ''The 
Phycitidse of North America" b and in the Dyar list (No. 4807). 
Doctor Dyar has sugges- 
ted that scMsticolor Zell. is 
synonymous with zincken- 
eUa Treit. and in further 
elaboration states, in a let- 
ter dated May 28, 1909: 
I have compared the Etiella 
species and find only one and that 
the same as the European zinck- 
eneUa. Hulst's rubribasella is evi- 
dently a synonym, founded on 
an imperfect or badly mounted 
specimen: scMsticolor Zell. is paler 
gray, less reddish tinted, the costal 
stripe less sharply defined, but I 
think it a racial form only. Many 
of our moths that extend into the 
arid country are of a paler gray 
there, to match the desert tints; 
but I do not think the character is specific. The costal stripe in some of the 
specimens is as sharply marked as in eastern ones, and the eastern ones also vary 
in depth of color. 
Like the pea moth, this species appears to be an inhabitant of 
the Eastern Hemisphere and has been introduced, perhaps, from 
both Europe and Asia. North Carolina is the northernmost locality 
recorded by Hulst, but it may be present farther north in the Atlan- 
tic region. 
Of its habits Milliere c says that it lives in the larval stage on 
Colutea arborescens. 
Of the distribution Hulst gives Florida, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Texas, Colorado, California, West Indies, South America, 
a F. Treitschke. Schmetterlinge von Europa, Vol. IX, p. 201, Leipzig, 1832. 
6 Trans. Am. Ent, Soc, Vol. XVII, p. 170, 1890. 
c Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, Vol. VIII, p. 231, 1861? Not seen. 
Fig. 7.— Lima-bean pod-borer (Etiella zinckeneUa): a, Fe- 
male motb; 6, antenna of male moth; c, larva., dorsal 
view; d, lateral view of one abdominal segment. Twice 
natural size except b, which is more enlarged. (Original.) 
