BoTis Adipaloides. G. & R. 



The typical form with yellowish ground color. A variety 

 has them white. I hardly think our own and Prof. Zeller's Texan 

 specimens registered under this name really belong to this species. 



BoTis Abdominalis. G. & R. 



Belongs to the typical form, as illustrated by us. Hubner's 

 Argyralis has the fore wings buff yellow and showing silvery 

 marks. Here the exterior line is black and thread-like, enclosing 

 here and there a minute white dot. Prof. Zeller's Fractiiralis 

 varies in color also and in size and position of the silver spots. 

 That these all belong to one species has been suggested. Mean- 

 while the different forms are easily recognized and kept apart. 



Metrea.* n. gen. 



Front flat. Maxillary palpi small, scaled. Labial palpi 

 rather short ; third article short, dependent. Tongue moderate. 

 Vestiture mixed with flattened scales. Wings wide and ample. 

 Fore wings rounded at apices with full external margin. Size 

 above the average in the group. Veins three to five equidistant 

 on both wings. Secondaries full. The species is thinly scaled, 

 iridescent, white and pale yellow; the ample wings seem frail and 

 tenderly colored. Ocelli present, small and well hidden. 



Metrea Ostreonalis. n. s. 



Fore wings very light yellow, almost white, with an oblique, 

 nebulous, blackish mesial band, resolved into three large spots, 

 the two lowest divided by vein i. An exterior, sub-marginal, bent, 

 blackish band, not obtaining above vein 6. The external median 

 line is indicated on costa, and is indistinctly continued till it 

 touches the lower of the mesial blotches. Fringes white. Hind 

 wings white, glistening, with a pretty purplish iridescence. Tegulae- 

 white. Head, dorsum of thorax and also the abdomen above, 

 blackish. Segments narrowly edged with white. Beneath white,, 

 fore legs fuscous inwardly. Amherst, Mass. 



In my collection is a New York specimen of this fine species, 

 hitherto unlabeled by me. It departs from the Botyde genera 

 by the blunt primaries, and should find its place near the close 

 of the series of Pyralldidce. The small, conical, dependent, third 

 palpal article is apparently naked. 



Argyria Auratella. Clemens. 



Professor P'ernald's table of the species of Argyria, " North 

 American Entomologist, I., 102," is most useful to determine the 

 different kinds. Auratella is apparently more common in collec- 

 tions than its near ally Pitlchella. 



CRAMBUS Dissectus. Grote. 



The specimen has the outer white spot, beyond the mesial 

 notched stripe, a little smaller than usual. From the white ver- 

 tex and thoracic disc, this species is allied to InterriipUis. 



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