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Boreopliila frustalis. 



Botys frustalis, Zell., Caffr., p. 48. 



Eurycreon frustalis, Led., W. E. M., vii., p. 376. E. leuco- 

 stictalis, Zell., Verb., Z. B., Ver., 1872, p. 518. 



After describing B. cereralis (Eurycreon) from North America, 

 Zeller, loc. cit., adds the description of another species of the 

 same genus from South Africa, under the name of leucostictalis, 

 evidently, as it would seem, forgetting that he had already 

 introduced the species under the name oi frustalis. 



Guenee, when he formed the genus Boreophila (Delt. & Pyr., 

 p. 155), drew attention to the fact that it differed from the 

 species of Hercyna by the absence of the dense and furry 

 scaling that characterizes that genus. His first species, manualis, 

 agrees well with this exception ; but the other two, scandinavialis 

 and frigidalis, do not. He himself, even, admits that these last 

 are more densely scaled than is manualis, and form a kind of 

 transition to Hercyna. As a matter of fact, his typical 

 Boreophila — manualis — is congeneric with that group of Spilodes, 

 Guen., of which sticticalis is the representative, in which the 

 projection of the forehead is far less conspicuous than in Spilodes 

 proper ; and with the other species, which Lederer lumps together 

 under the head of Eurycreon, including, besides sticticalis, Linn., 

 the following species : — cerealis, Zell., commixtalis. Walk., offici- 

 nalis, Hulst., all from North America ; and frustalis, Zell., from 

 South Africa. 



Spilodes, Ouen. 



Spilodes helvialis, Walk., xviii., p. 772. 



Botys thycesalis, Wlk., xix., p. 981. B. apertalis, Wlk., xxxiv., 

 p. 1393 (weep. 1451). 



Botis citrina, Gr. & E., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, i. p. 23, pi. 2, 

 fig. 2 ; Zell., Verb. Z. B. Ver., 1872, p. 507. 



Spilodes obliterans. 

 Botys obliterans, Wlk., xxxiv., p. 1392. 

 Botis marculenta, Gr. & E., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, i., p. 23, 

 pi. 2, fig. 21 {nee Zeller). 



Spilodes mancalis. 

 Botys mancalis. Led., W. E. M., vii., pp. 371,464, pi. 9, fig. 4. 

 Botis marculenta, Zell., Verb. Z. B. Ver., 1872, p. 507 {nee 

 Gr. & E.). 



In the Verb. Z. B. Ver., loc. cit, Zeller states that "he 

 thought he had Gr. & E.'s marculenta before him, though his 

 specimens did not tally, in all particulars, with their description." 

 Zeller's own description, however, evidently refers to B. mancalis, 

 Led. Subsequently to Zeller's article, Grote seems to have sent 

 Zeller a pair of the real marculenta, Gr. & E. These have a 



