GROTE ON NORTH AMERICAN PYRALID^ 681 



55. Botis pernihralis Pack., Ann. !N^. Y. Lye. 2G4, 1873. 



California (Packard). I have examined Dr. Packard's type of this 

 very distinct species. 



56. Botis semirubralis Pack., I. c. 203. 



California (Ey. Edwards. ISTo. 707). I have examined a number of 

 specimens of this distinct form. 



57. Botis plectilis G. & E., I. c. pi. 2, tig. 17. 

 Maine; New York; Pennsylvania. 



58. Botis adipaloidcs G. & E., I. c. pi. 2, fig. 19. 



Massachusetts (Prof. E. S. Morse). One specimen. I have a second 

 from New York, which has the usually yellow parts of the wing white. 

 It may be a different species. 



From Texas I have 1 female (Belfrage, No. 381) and 2 males (Belfrage, 

 No. 380), which are what Zeller describes under this name; they may be 

 a distinct species. At this moment, I have not a series of our Northern 

 form to compare them with. 



59. Botis talis Grote. 



<?. Form of adipaloides. Fore wings bright purple. An irregularly 

 shaped, brown-margined, light yellow patch resting on internal margin 

 within the middle, and projected upward on the cell; preceded on the 

 cell by a small, partially confluent, similar spot. A quadrate patch over 

 the veins beyond the cell open to costa, along which the yellow color 

 spreads toward the base. Hind wings bright purple, with a very 

 broad, yellow, central fascia, tapering inferiorly, edged with brown or 

 black lines. Fringes pale. Beneath paler, but as above ; base of hind 

 wings entirely yellowish. Thorax brownish-purple; beneath, body 

 and legs whitish. Expanse, 20 mil. Alabama (Grote). So brightly col- 

 ored and distinctly marked that it can be mistaken for no other species. 

 The fine dark lines edging the yellow patches on fore wings above may 

 be taken for the ordinary lines and the annuli of the purple stigmata. 



60. Botis plumhicostalis Grote, Can. Ent. 3, 103. 



Bright yellow costal region of primaries broadly dark plumbeous or 

 purple-brown from base to tip. Terminal space outwardly filled with 

 the same shade tapering to internal angle. This terminal dark shade 

 is outwardly rounded along its inner margin, and this is widely and 

 everywhere nearly equidistant from the external transverse line; at 

 the internal angle, there is a slight projection corresponding with the 

 inward inferior inflection of the external line. The orbicular spot is 

 small, solid, and absorbed above by the dark costal region, as is the reni- 

 form ; the latter is small, constricted, with a dark annulus, and very 

 narrow, pale center; both spots concolorous with the dark costal region. 

 There is a short, dark, inner transverse line. The only other, the exter- 



