FABATANA Walk.

Fabatana oviplagalis Walk., Suppl. iv, 1265, ?, (1865).

Asopia anthæcioides G. & R., Tr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 15, pl. 2, fig. 9, 9, (1867).

I have before me only a single female, received from Mr. Dury (No. 13), from Cincinnati. The ocelli are present. It seems to be allied to the following genus, of which I have no material before me to examine.

SIPAROCERA Robinson.

Siparocera nobilis Rob., Ann. N. Y. Lyc. April, 1875.

Oecto-peria sincera Zell., Beitr. iii, 125, taf. x, fig. 45.

New York; Mr. Robinson's type (8) I have seen in the Central Park collection.

MELANOMMA Grote.

Male antennæ bipectinate; the branches separate, ciliate, before their extremities bent, and with a longer exterior bristle. Ocelli present. Maxillæ moderate. Labial palpi with narrow and rather long third joint, porrect, as long as the front. Clypeus rather narrow, smooth, roundedly prominent. Fore wings with rounded costa, broad, obovate, 12-veined, 4 and 5 separate, 5 from the cross-vein near 4; 6 from the cross-vein opposite 5; 9 out of 8 a short furcation. Hind wings S-veined; 2 from the median vein at beyond the middle; 3 and 4 from one point at the lower angle of the cell; 5 from the cross-vein well separated from 4; the subcostal vein is quite distinct from the costal (8), and throws off 6 and 7 beyond the closure of the cell; 8 entirely free, touching 7 at base, but then leaving it widely throughout its course; the cell has a median fold. I cannot detect the maxillary palpi. This genus has a resemblance to Lederer's Brazilian genus Cryptocosma in the pectinate antennæ and the presence of metallic marks on the gray wings. It differs very decidedly in structure, having both ocelli and maxillae, and a totally distinct venation. The sepa ration of 8 and 7 on the hind wings is unusually complete in Melanomma, except at base, where they touch without coinciding; the fact that 3 and 4 spring together from lower angle of the cell, while 5 is more widely separate, is interesting, and recalls other families; while the fore wings. are like the Pyralidæ, the hind wings are like the Geometrida. I can see also but two internal veins, but I have shown in other cases that the character of three internal veins may not be considered as invariable in the Pyralida. The body is narrow, abdomen tapering, exceeding the secondaries.

Melanomma auricinctaria Grote, Tr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 117, 1875.

3. I have one specimen only before me, received from Mr. E. L. Graef, taken near Brooklyn, N. Y. The moth is gray, with transverse dark lines, recalling Eupethecia. The cell shows a black spot accompanied by

metallic scales, and with a narrow yellowish iris, much more distinct and complete beneath. The subterminal line shows metallic scales on both surfaces. I have discussed this species also in Can. Ent. 28, 1876.

EMPREPES Lederer.

Emprepes novalis Grote, Can. Ent. 156, 1876.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 403, Oct. 7).

Emprepes nuchalis, n. s.

Size of novalis, but differently colored, and with the anterior and posterior bands nearer together and better defined. Olivaceous. Fore wings with a broad, even, outwardly oblique, anterior, vinous-purple band; a costal spot of the same color at the middle of the median space, and an outer, subterminal, sinuous, upright band of the same hue. Hind wings fuscous; fringes a little paler than the wing. Expanse, 17 mil. California (Hy. Edwards, No. 3011). This species is entirely olivaceous, beneath paler, and differs by the subterminal limitation of the posterior band, among other characters. I have examined two specimens. I regret not to have been able, from paucity of material, to make any neurational examination of either of the above species.

Scoparia libella, n. s.

A small gray species less than half the size of the European and American centuriella. Fore wings with a blackish streak at base and one on submedian fold beyond the inner line. Lines white, tolerably distinct, inner arcuate, outer a little irregular, produced medially. Discal mark a curved, longitudinal, black streak, as if connecting spots. Subterminal line incomplete, whitish. Fringe white, dotted. Hind wings smoky, with white fringes. Beneath smoky; body white; anterior tibiæ and feet dotted. This species is of common occurrence, and may be known by its olive-gray tint and small size, expanding 15 millimeters. I have it from Maine, Massachusetts, and New York.

BOTIS Schr.

This generic term is sometimes incorrectly written "Botys". Professor Zeller follows Swainson's correction of the spelling. The North American species are numerous, and the following enumeration of those before me will assist the student. Several of our species described by European entomologists remain to be identified. I do not expect, however, that most of Mr. Walker's descriptions will be ever satisfactorily made

out.

1. Botis octomaculata (Linn.).

Ennychia glomeralis Walk., C. B. M. Pyr. 330.

United States and Europe. I have observed this species in the vicinity of Buffalo. In color, ornamentation, and flight, it closely resembles the species of Alypia.

2. Botis californicalis Pack., Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 260, (1873).

I have two specimens from San Francisco, which may belong here (Behrens). I have not seen Dr. Packard's type.

3. Botis insequalis (Guen.).

Herbula subsequalis || Guen., Pyr. 177, pl. 8, fig. 3.

New York; Pennsylvania.

4. Botis generosa G. & R., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 1, 20, pl. 2, fig. 10. New York; Pennsylvania.

5. Botis matronalis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. ii, 231.

Canada. Mr. Saunders has reared this species from the larva.

6. Botis unimacula G. & R., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 1, 14, pl. 2, fig. 8. New York; Pennsylvania.

7. Botis volupialis Grote, Bull. Geol. Survey, 3, 799.

Hills west of Denver, Colo.

8. Botis signatalis (Walk.) G. & R., l. c. 16, pl. 2, fig. 11.

The name vinulenta G. & R. has been proposed for this species in case the present proves untenable, which is probable.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 368); Massachusetts; Pennsylvania.

9. Botis atropurpuralis Grote, Can. Ent. 9, 104.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 362).

10. Botis diffissa G. & R., l. c. 19, pl. 2, fig. 16. Louisiana; Texas (Belfrage, No. 368).

11. Botis phonicealis (Hübu.), Zutr. 1, 58, figs. 115, 116.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 366). The specimens sent by Belfrage are "trüb purpurroth und oraniengelb"; but the bands are narrower than in Hübner's figure. There is no discal dot, as in diffissa, which is brilliant vinous-red and golden-yellow.

12. Botis laticlavia G. & R., l. c. 17, pl. 2, fig. 12.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 360). As suggested by Professor Zeller (Beitr. 1, 59), I regard the following as a seasonal variety.

12 b. Botis cinerosa G. & R., l. c. 18, pl. 2, fig. 13. Texas (Belfrage, No. 361).

13. Botis sumptuosalis (Walk.), C. B. M. 34, 1281.

B. haruspica G. & R., 1. c. pl. 2, fig. 14.

? B. proceralis Led., 460.

Massachusetts; Pennsylvania.

14. Botis onythesalis (Walk.), Pyr. 734.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 364).

15. Botis vibicalis Zel., Beitr. ii, 8, taf. iii, fig. 4.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 407).

16. Botis nasonialis Zell., Beitr. ii, 9, taf. iii, fig. 6.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 406, May 15). California, September 3 (Behrens). 17. Botis sesquialteralis Zell., l. c. 9, taf. iii, fig. 5.

Texas (Belfrage, No. 406). I think I have this species of Zeller's be fore me sent under the same number with the foregoing by Belfrage. It is possible that the two are not distinct; nasonialis may be recognized by the pale yellow streaks along the veins. These three last are the smallest species of Botis known to me.

(Diastictis Hübn.)

18. Botis argyralis (Hübn.), Zutr. 1, 21, figs. 113, 114.

I have a specimen from the South which agrees with Hübner's figure in the pale yellowish primaries. I do not find any differences except color between this and the following. But Hübner's figure has the white spots larger and visible beneath; this may be varietal, and I merely keep the names separate provisionally. I do not see the character given by Zeller to argyralis (p. 509) to distinguish it from ventralis. 19. Botis ventralis G. & R., l. c. 21, pl. 2, fig. 23.

Massachusetts; Pennsylvania. I have both sexes of a dark brown like the of "argyralis" described by Zeller on page 508. It is prob able that the female, with "fast dottergelbe Vorderflügel", is the same as the argyralis there described, which is also a female, but which has the white, lateral, abdominal stripes continuous. Unless we can find that the color is a specific character, I do not think there are other grounds for a separation.

20. Botis fracturalis Zell., taf. iii, fig. 16.

I have two (?) specimens agreeing accurately with Zeller's figures, except that the male has the ground-color slightly tinged with ocherous. But I have another female (Belfrage, No. 384), which differs by being as yellow as argyralis, whereas fracturalis is as brown as ventralis. This female has besides the basal, silver, submedian mark transformed into an upright band, and the median fascia is broader and connected with the discal spot. If this is only a variety, which I believe it is, it will assist the idea that ventralis and argyralis are only color-varieties.

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21. Botis Harveyana Grote, Can Ent. 9, 104.

New York; Texas (Belfrage)

22. Botis profundalis Pack., Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 261, 1873.

California. I have examined Dr. Packard's type. The exterior line makes a broad submedian sinus, which seems to be characteristic.

23. Botis badipennis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. 1, 88, pl. 2, fig. 12. Maine; New York; Michigan, in August.

24. Botis tatalis Grote, Can. Ent. 9, 106. Texas (Belfrage, No. 659, October 7).

25. Botis allectalis Grote, Can. Ent. 9, 107. Texas (Belfrage, No. 445, May 12).

26. Botis albiceralis, n. s.

8. Male antennæ simple, pubescent beneath. Palpi extended forward, fully as long as the head. Head and appendages and thorax pale ocherous. Fore wings gray, with an ocherous costal patch from the base outwardly, extending downward on the middle of the wing and absorbing the stigmata, narrowly defined by a brown line. Anterior line obsolete. Posterior line near the margin denticulate, narrow, whitish, bordered with dark gray, outwardly bent superiorly, but not flexuous. Subterminal line very near the margin, follomed by two apical, narrow, brown teeth; terminal space ochery; a fine, brown, terminal line; fringes pale, interlined. Hind wings pellucid whitish, stained outwardly with ocherous; a continuous, denticulate, extramesial line, not flexed; fringes pale. Beneath largely pale ocherous; a brown discal lunule on primaries; a common, denticulate, extradiscal, brownish line, accentuated on costa. Expanse, 26 mil. Colorado Rio, Prof. Townend Glover; one specimen. This species resembles somewhat B. allectalis in colors, but is larger, and may be known by the ocherous costal patch of primaries absorbing the reniform, which appears as a brown stain near its outer edge. This costal patch is neatly edged with a brown line back to the place of the anterior line, where it narrows to base of wing.

27. Botis mustelinalis Pack., Ann. N. Y. Lyc. 262, 1873. Botis catenulalis Grote, Can. Ent. 9, 105.

California. I have compared Dr. Packard's type.

28. Botis fodinalis Led., 369, taf. 8, fig. 9.

California. I have examined several ? specimens from Behrens and Edwards. It varies in size, distinctness of lines, and color.

29. Botis socialis Grote, Can. Ent. 9, 107.

My two specimens (Canada and Buffalo) are females. They are brighter-colored than fodinalis, the subterminal band on primaries more distinct, the spots solid and more evident, the primaries more red, the secondaries more yellow. Smaller than most of my California fodinalis, I yet think they will prove the same species.