14 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



and beautiful aJditiou to the Lepidopterous fauna of our ^Middle 

 States. 



Family, PYRALIDAE. 

 Sub-Family, Pyralididae. 

 In the Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift, A^ol. 7, 18G3, will be 

 found an extended Revision,* by Jul. Lederer, of the Pyralidae, which, 

 while it takes cognizance of all the species of the Family that had 

 been noticed by Authors up to that date, is of great interest to the 

 student, from the originality of the classificatory views therein pre- 

 sented. In offering the descriptions of certain Pyralidae, chiefly from 

 the Atlantic District of the United States, it is not our purpose to 

 discuss the merits of Lederer's Classification of the Family, which 

 will be found to differ radically from that of 3Iessrs. Guenee and 

 Walker. We briefly refer to the circumstance, that the species for- 

 merly separated under the generic names Ennijdiia (non Led.), Rho- 

 daria, and F//ramfa, are united to Botys, Treifs., which latter genus 

 thus obtains a much wider signification than had previously been ac- 

 corded to it by Authros. For the reasons adduced by Lederer for this 

 change, as well as for critical ren)arks on M. Guenee's so-called " Fa- 

 milies" in this Group, we refer the Student to the Paper itself, and 

 have contented ourselves for the present in citing our former MS. 

 determinations of certain species, where such appeared to belong to 

 genera not recognized by the Austrian Entomologist. 



ASOPIA, Trcitschke, emend. Led. 

 Asopia unimacula, n. s. (Plate 2, fig. 8, % .) 

 I'l/ralis unimacula, G. & R., MS. 



Palpi short, whitish beneath. Head and thoracic region, above, 

 obscure olivaceous fuscous or blackish. Abdomen, a little paler than 

 thorax, the segments narrowly edged posteriorly with whitish scales ; 

 beneath, glistening, whitish. Legs, testaceous whitish, a little darker 

 shaded inwardly on the femora; under thoracic surface, whitish. 



Anterior wings, silky, of an obscure fuscous or blackish color, with 

 a slight opaline reflection ; all the markings are obsolete, except a 

 broad, evident, pale yellow costal blotch or abbreviated band, situate 

 at without the middle, and rather distinctly margined ; outwardly, this 

 .spot has a sinuous depression ; it is also .somewhat obliquely placed. 



* "Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Pyralidinen." Jul. Lederer, W. E. M. vii 

 Band, Nos. 8—12, Aug.— Dec, 1863, Taf. 2—18. 



