SYNONYl\aC NOTES : PYRALID^. l85 



as porreet ; the wings, as semitransparent ; the hind wing, with 

 a fine subterminal line, quite close to the margin and parallel to 

 it ; the second stigma (the reniform) traversed by a pale nervure 

 (in illutalis he says it is traversed by a " trait clair ") ; the 

 abdomen of male, which sex, alone, he then described, is said to 

 have the anal tuft black, mixed with yellow hairs, and so, 

 Lederer, describing illutalis, a male, draws attention to this 

 black anal tuft. 



Epicoesia, Hilhner. 



Epicorsia mellinalis. 



Epicorsia mellinalis, Hiib., Zut., i., 24, 69, figs. 137, 138; 

 Hiib., Verz., p. 356. 



Lonchodes mellinalis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 355. 



Botys mellinalis, Led., W. E. M., vii., p. 371. B. oedipodalis, 

 Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 336 ; Led., W. E. M., vii., p. 371. 

 B. hutyrosa, Butler, Pr. Z. S., 1878, p. 493. 



Hiibner's type of E. mellinalis was from Brazil ; a com- 

 parison of his figure with the description of oedipodalis will at 

 once suggest their identity. Guenee, judging from Hiibner's 

 figure only, referred the species to his genus Lonchodes, of which 

 the labial palpi are upright and applied to the forehead ; and, 

 therefore, when he described oedipodalis, would naturally not 

 think of identifying it, with its porreet labial palpi, with 

 mellinalis, which he had supposed to be a Lonchodes. Lederer 

 evidently thought the two species closely related, as he places 

 oedipodalis — with which, under that name, he was unacquainted 

 — immediately after mellinalis, which he had identified. 



Ebulea, Guen. 

 Ehulea fumalis. 

 Ebulea fumalis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 358. 

 Scopula orasusalis, Wlk., xix., p. 784. 



Botis badipennis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. N. H., i., p. 88, pi. 2, 

 fig. 12. 



All the types from North America. 



Crocidolomia, ZelL 

 Crocidolomia binotalis. 

 Crocidolomia binotalis, ZelL, Cafi"r., p. 66. 

 Pionea comalis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 368, <? . P. inconi' 



alis, Guen., Delt. & Pyr., p. 369, ? . 

 As Zeller's binotalis was described from Caffraria, its identity 

 with the Indian insect, the two sexes of which were referred by 

 Guenee to distinct species, was not suspected. Now that the 

 species is known to range from Africa to Australia, this identity 

 admits of no dispute. 



