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was obliged to lose, through Treitschke's misapplications, the best 

 part of his work, and snfiered the misfortune of being ignored by 

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

 erer," would preserve his imperishable thoughts. Hiibner's genera 

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

 be, perhaps, less honorably remembered. 



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

 into the structure of the grouj) now known as Cymatopliorinae 

 (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, Boinbi/cia 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, Ilubncr (Yerz., 1816). 

 Tribe, Patidae {Hiibner). 

 (= Vei'ae, Grote.) 



A. Eyes liairj ; antennae simple : 



POLYPLOCA, ITuhner (181G). 



Type : P. santlioceros, Borkh. 



Species : ridens {Fabr.) {=.ranthoceros). 

 flavicornis {L.) Tr. 



B. Eyes hairy ; antennae pectinate : 



ASPHALIA, Hubner (1816). 

 {=Sco(lra, V. Hein.) 



Type; Noctua ruficollis, /StVit^. 

 Species : ruficollis {D. and S.). 



