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wiis oblig-eil to losJL', throu<;'!i Treitscliku's inis;ippliciitioii.s, the I)est 

 part oi' liis work, find sulU'red tlie misfortune of l)eing ignored by 

 Boisduviil, he yet may have felt "that Time, the unfailing discov- 

 erer," would preserve his ini})tTishable thoughts. Iliibner's genera 

 now speak for him, dead, whilst Treitsclike and his followers will 

 be, perhaps, less honorably remembered. 



The results of v. Heinemauu's most recent anatomical researches 

 into the structure of the group now known as Cymatophorinae 

 (which, however, must apparently receive the name of Bomhyciae, 

 used by Hiibner), compared with the arrangement of Hiibner in 

 the Verzeichniss, shows us that in 1816 the group is already circum- 

 scribed, the proper genera associated, and, with one or two unim- 

 portant changes, the genera those of to-day with other names. 

 In the Tentamen, Bomhycia Or is made the type of the genus, and 

 to-day the priority of this action must be recognized. 



The European species must stand as follows : 



Subfamily, BOMBYCIAE, Hubner (Verz., 1816). 

 Tribe, Pavidae {Hiibner). 

 (= Verae, Grote.) 



A. Eyes hairy ; antennae simple : 



POLYPLOCA, Hubner (1816). 



Type : P. xanthocerog, Borkh. 



Species : ridens (Fabr.) {=xanthoceros). 

 fiavicoruis {L.) Tr. 



B. Eyes hairy ; antennae pectinate : 



ASPHALIA, Hubner (181G). 

 {—Scodra, v. Hein.) 



Type: Noctua ruficollis, Schijf. 

 Species : ruficollis {D. and S.). 



