GROTE ON KORTH AMERICAN PYRALID^. 683 



62. Botis syringicola Pack., Mass. Rep. 18, 1870. 



"The moth, for which I would propose the name Boiys syringicola, is 

 peppery gray with bright yellow markings, while the under side of the 

 wings is pale yellow. The head and body are pale gray, with a yellow- 

 ish tinge, white on the under side of the body and under side of the 

 palpi. The antennie are pale gray, like the body. The fore wings are 

 gray, due to black scales lying on a pale straw-yellow ground. On the 

 inner fourth of the wing are two yellow spots, one just above, and the 

 other just below, the median vein. In the middle of the wing, just below 

 the costa, is a piomineut square, bright straw-yellow spot; on the outer 

 fourth of the wing is a slightly curved yellow band, with three scallops 

 on the outer edge, and extending to a large yellow patch in the middle 

 of the wing, which is tridentate on the outer edge, it is bordered be- 

 yond with a black, zigzag line, and a fine, stout, yellowish line beyond. 

 A dusky streak extends from the apex to the costal yellow band. There 

 are two broken dusky lines at the base of the fringe on both wings. 

 The hind wings are yellow, with four sharply zigzag dark gray lines. 

 The under side of the fore wings is paler than above, with a yellowish 

 tinge. The hind wings are pale yellow, with a single, much curved line 

 on the outer third of the wing; and there are two dots near the middle 

 of the wing and a row of blackish dots at the base of the fringe. It 

 expands one inch." 



I have not been able to identifj^ this species or see the type. 



63. Botis suholivalis Pack., Ann. L. K. H. 261, 1873. 



Botis hircinalis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. ii, 232. 



I have examined a number of specimens of this species from Maine 

 and New York. The males do not show the pale sinuate external fas- 

 cia on primaries above, and the hind wings are not rayed as in the female. 

 All the specimens 1 have seen from the East have the secondaries above 

 dark and immaculate. This is closely allied to the European opacalis. 



64. Botis unifascialis Pack., I. c. 261. 



This Californian species differs by having the hind wings above 

 shaded with whitish — in one male almost entirely pale. Beneath, they 

 are paler than in subolivalis, and altogether the Californian species so 

 approaches in this and other respects to the European form that it may 

 not be possible to separate them. But one Californian 2 (Hy. Edwards, 

 No. 207) has the secondaries above entirely blackish, and, except that 

 they are paler beneath, just like my Eastern specimens. It seems to me 

 that these two forms may be united under one specific name. The males 

 have more pointed and apparently longer wings than the females. 



65. Botis niveicilialis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S. ii, 232. 



New York. This is a very distinct form, with blackish wings and 

 snow-white fringes. It may not be properly placed here. But the 



