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label, in Zeller's own writing, "B. marculenta, Grote, N. Y., 73." 

 The inverted commas to the name imply that this was Grote's 

 naming, but that he, Zeller, did not quite endorse it ; and this 

 was natural ; for these he had, the year before, called marculenta 

 were different. Grote himself, however, it would appear, must 

 have got into a muddle about the two species ; perhaps owing to 

 Zeller's mistake. Anyhow, in his own collection, the two species 

 were mixed up. Three of the real marculenta, of Gr. & E., like 

 the pair Grote had previously sent to Zeller, appear without 

 any name; while of nine specimens of Zeller's wrongly-named 

 marculenta, two are actually ticketed, by Grote himself, as 

 " marculenta, Gr. & E." In any case, the name marculenta will 

 lapse; Gr. & E.'s being superseded by obliteralis, Wlk., and 

 Zeller's by mancalis, Led. 



Opsibotys, Warr. 

 Opsihotys incoloralis. 

 Botys incoloralis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 333 ; Led., W. E. M., 

 yii., p. 371 ; Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1883, p. 126 ; Meyr., 

 Tr. E. S., 1884, p. 322. B. melonalis, Wlk., xviii., p. 702. 

 Spilodes nitetisalis, Wlk., xviii., p. 773. 



Botys alhidalis, Wlk., xxxiv., p. 1411. B. ruficostalis, Led., 

 Verb. Z. B. Ver., 1855, p. 217, pi. 3, fig. 4. B. oedipo- 

 dalis{?), Swinh., Pr. Z. S., 1884, p. 325 {nee Guen.). 



The types of incoloralis, Guen., alhidalis, Wlk., and oedipo- 

 dalis, Swinh., from Hindostan ; of Lederer's ruficostalis, from 

 Syria ; of the other two, nitetisalis came from the Congo, and 

 melonalis from Java ; Snellen records it from Celebes, and 

 Meyrick from Australia; — so that the range of the species is 

 extensive ; but Walker's dasconalis, from North America, is not, 

 as Mr. Meyrick thinks, identical. 



Opsibotys coclesalis. 

 Botys coclesalis, Wlk., xviii., p. 701. B. itemalisalis, Wlk., 

 xix., p. 996. B. strenualis, Wlk., xxxiv., p. 1409. B. in- 

 terfusalis, Wlk., xxxiv., p. 1443. 

 The types came from Borneo, China, India, and Java, 

 respectively. 



Opsibotys terrealis. 



Botys terrealis, Tr., Schm. Eur., vii., p. 110 ; S. & W., Cat., 

 No. 174. B. mysippusalis, Wlk., xviii., p. 564. B. humi- 

 lalis, Led., W. E. M., pp. 371, 464, pi. 9, fig. 2. 



The last two, both from North America. 



Opsibotys extricalis. 

 Botys extricalis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 338; Wlk. xviii., 

 p. 562. 



