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antemedial line ; a line across the cell continned to vein 1 ; a black- 

 edged reniform discooellular spot ; an indistinct fine bisinuate post- 

 medial line arising from a speck on costa and ending in a spot near 

 outer angle ; a subapical black patch just inside the margin extending 

 down to vein 5 ; a series of specks just inside the inargin. llindwing 

 with black-edged discoidal reniform spot with obscure sinuous lino 

 from it to a black spot on inner margin near anal angle ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line ending at anal angle ; a series of specks just inside the 

 margin. 



Habitat. — Khi'isis ; Java. Ewp. 22 mm. 



4953a. BoTYODES crocopteralis, n. sp. (PI. A, Fig. 17). 



9 . Bright golden-yellow ; palpi black, white below ; throat pure 

 white ; thorax and abdomen below black ; tarsi ringed with white : 

 a white spot on fore tibia. Forewing with black antemedial spot on 

 median nervure ; a reniform discooellular spot ; a postmedial spot 

 below vein 2 ; the whole apical area black with rounded inner edge. 

 Hindwing with postmedial black spot above vein 5, with specks above 

 and below it ; a spot below vein 2, with speck below it. Undereide 

 of forewing with the basal part of costal area suffused with black. 



Hahitat.—S'ikhim (Pilcher). Exp. 40 nun. 2)/pe. — In coll. Roths- 

 child. 



P. o28. Under Si'Lepta insert HaliotPjris, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6) 

 xviii, p. 163 (1896\ 



4960a. Sylepta cometa, Warr., A. M. N. H. (G) xviii, p. 1G3. 

 (PI. A, Fig. 15.) 



$ . Head and thorax golden yellow, some black hair above the eyes, 

 and a black patch on vertex of thorax ; abdomen white, the 1st segment 

 black, a slight fuscous dorsal line. Forewing with the base golden- 

 yellow ; sinuous black basal and antemedial lines, the medial costal area 

 white ; fulvous orbicular raid reniform stigmata slightly outlined with 

 ])lack and conjoined to the fulvous inner area which is irrorated with 

 black, has a blackish spot and luuule on it, and becomes greyish at 

 inner margin ; a proiuinent postniedial black band obli(iue from costa to 

 vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell ; the outer area whitish, the 

 veins streaked with black, and a large slate-grey patch occupying the 

 apical half of margin. Hindwing white with diffused black subbasal 

 baud ; a blackish discooellular patch emitting a streak to the margin 



