344 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I described this species when it was found, about i8 months ago, and 

 named it after my wife. The description has remained in MS., as I 

 expected that Mr. Peckham would publish the species, but he now states 

 that he will not be writing on the group to which it belongs at present, 

 and advises me to proceed. 



This appears to be the third Attid recorded from Jamaica (the other 

 two being Anoka Peckhamii, CklL, and Menemerus mdanognathus, Lucas, 

 of which the former is endemic, but the latter cosmopolitan in the tropics), 

 but possibly a dozen more have been collected, and will be described in 

 course of time by Mr. and Mrs. Peckham. 



P. S. to p. 284. Although it has nothing to do with the present sub- 

 ject, it will be well to mention here that the food-plant of Tachardia 

 cornuta, CklL, proves to be Parthenium incatittm, H. B. K. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BY PROF. C. H. FERNALD, AMHERST, MASS. 



In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 26, page 184, the Rev, 

 Thomas VV. Fyles described a moth as new, under the name of " Botys 

 urticaioides." Mr. Fyles has been so kind as to lend me his type for 

 examination, and it proves to be identical with Metrea ostreonalis, 

 described by Grote in '' Papilio," Vol. 2, p. 73, where he states that the 

 type was taken by Mr. L W. Goodell, in Amherst, Mass., and that he 

 also had a New York specimen in his collection. I have seen the Grote 

 specimen, and also another one tiken in Bangor, Maine, by Mr. Fred. 

 Eddy. The habitat of the specimen in the National Museum, mentioned 

 by Mr. Fyles, is not given, and perhaps is not known. It is, undoubtedly, 

 a rare species at present, as these are all that are known to me. 



The genus Botys (not Botis, as Swainson and some others have written 

 it) was established by Latreille, in 1805, in his Histoire Naturelle des 

 Crustaces et Insectes, Tome 14, page 230, under which he placed pur- 

 pur aria and poia?nogata. The former of these species is a geometrid moth, 

 and has been placed in Huebner's genus Lythria. The second species, 

 potamogata, is not the species of Linneus by that name, but stagnata, 

 Don. 



In 1802, Schrank established the genus Nymphula in his Fauna Boica, 

 vfxih. potafuogalis as the type, but this has also proven to be stagnata, 

 Don ; therefore, the genus Botys of Latreille, \{ purpuraria be taken as 

 the type, must be referred to the Geometridte ; but if stagnata, Don., be 

 taken as the type, it must f^iU as a synonym of Nymphula, Schr. In 

 either case we have no right to use it as a genus of the Pyralids, and for 

 this reason I did not use it in Smith's List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 

 America, nor have Meyrick and Ragonot used it in their late works on 

 the Pyralids, 



