22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.93 



Eusisyropa boanniae (Coquillett) Townsend, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 51, 

 No. 2, p. 98, 1908. 



ZenilUa Wanda Wanda (Osten Sacken) Aldrich and Webber (partim), Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 63, art. 17, pp. 37-40, 1924. 



Exorista Wanda of Hill (nee Osten Sacken), U. S. Dept. Agr. Dept, Bull. 

 1336, pp. 17, 18, 1925. 



ZenilUa Wanda of Essig (nee Osten Sacken), Insects of western North Amer- 

 ica, p. 581, 1926. 



Coquillett placed the type label of Exorista boarmiae on the speci- 

 men labeled "No. 468 L° Nov. 14, 82." When Townsend discussed 

 the genus Eusisyropa in 1908, his designation of this specimen as 

 being the type makes it in any case the lectotype of boarmiae. In 

 1924 Aldrich and Webber wrote, "(This specimen was erroneously 

 labeled as type of boarmiae, but was not originally included)." 

 Coquillett originally included four males and three females, and 

 Aldrich and Webber did not present any evidence to prove that the 

 above labeled female reared from Alabama argillacea (Hubner) was 

 not one of the three original females. They changed the type label 

 to a specimen that had been reared from Isturgia trucataria 

 (Walker) saying "Coquillett (Eevis., p. 13), erroneously gives the 

 host as Boarmiae pampinaria, from which he named the supposed 

 new species boarmiae. Obviously this specimen should be the type 

 of boarmiae, and we have so labeled it." The female which they 

 labeled as the type of Exorista boarmiae is ZenilUa blanda Osten 

 Sacken. Under any circumstances the transfer of the type label to 

 this specimen is untenable. Similar instances indicate that Coquillett 

 based his names not necessarily on the host rearing from which he 

 selected the type specimen, but on the name of the host from which 

 his records indicated that it was first reared. 



Type locality. — Mississippi. 



Distribution. — Mississippi 1, Arkansas 1, Florida 2. Published 

 and unpublished records not duplicated above. North Carolina 

 (Brimley, Leihy), District of Columbia (Coquillett), Texas (Ald- 

 rioh's notes). Coquillett's record of Boston, Mass., refers to ZenilUa 

 blanda. 



Type.— Female, U.S.N.M. No. 3591. 



Hosts. — Alabama argillacea (Htibner) 1, Hypena hamuli (Harris) 

 1, Loxostege simUalis Guenee, Plathypena scabra (Fabricius) 1, 

 Dichogama redtenbacheri Lederer 3, Hyphantria cunea (Drury) 1. 

 Published records probably not duplicated above: Plathypena scabra 

 (Fabricius) (Chittenden, Sherman, Hill). Records questionably re- 

 ferred here : Acrohasis juglandis (Le Baron) (Brimley) ; green clover 

 worm pupae (Brimley) ; Acrobasis sp. (Fabis) (Aldrich's notes). 



Remarks. — The material examined consisted of the female tj'pe 

 reared from Alabama argillacea,' two males reared fr<>m Loxostege 



