Catalogue of the PyraUdcB of California^ etc. 257 



Fig. 5. Lingual dentition of Gceotis. One central tooth with adjacent 

 laterals. 



6. Same as last, but more enlarged An extreme marginal tooth 



in profile. 



7. Same as 5. An extreme marginal tooth. 



8. Amphibulima patula (see p. 225.) The jaw folded as it appears 



on the microscope slide, the position taken from its extreme 

 tenuity. 



9. Physa sp. indet. Shell. Jaw and Lingual dentition. Figs. 



2-4. 



XXIII. — Catalogue of the Pyralidoi of California, with 

 descriptions of neiv Calif ornian Pterojphoridoe. 



Bt a. S. PACKARD, Jk. 



Read January 6, 1873. 



This catalogue of the Pyralid moths of the Pacific states 

 is published more to show how extremely limited is our 

 present knowledge of this family, as regards the region west 

 of the Rock}^ Mountains, than to give a view of the group as 

 developed in that part of the world. Neither Guenee in his 

 "Histoire Naturelle des Insects, Species general des Lepidop- 

 teres," Tome VIII, Deltoides et Pyralites (1854), nor Bois- 

 duval* in his writings on the Lepidoptera of California, 

 mention any species of this family, and it is believed that, 

 with the exception of Botys fodinalis, described by Mr. 

 Lederer from California, the following descriptions are the 

 first references to the California species of this interestino- 

 group. 



For my material I am chiefly indebted to Mr. Henry 

 Edwards, of San Francisco, to whose energy in collecting, 

 the science of entomology is under so many obligations. A 

 few specimens have been received from Mr. Junius Holleman 

 of Goose Lake, near Fort Bidwell, Siskiyou County, Cal. 



♦Lepidopteres de la Californle (Annales Soc. Ent. France, Ser. 2, 1852, Tome 10, 

 p. 275-324 ; sfer. 3, 1855, Tome 3). Bull. p. 31. 



See also Aiuials Soc. Ent. Belgique, Tome xii, 5, 1869. 



