AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 19 



Botys diffissa, n. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 16, % .) 

 Bhodaria dijfissa, G. & E., MS. 



Head and palpi, obscure cinereous; thorax, cinereous; teguljB stained 

 with reddish-purple; abdomen, cinereous, above and below stained 

 with purple ; beneath, the legs and corporal parts are pale yellowish 

 cinereous, the former somewhat the palest. 



Anterior wings, dark reddish-purple; a moderately broad, sub-basal, 

 bright yellow band, rests on internal margin, where it is broadest, not 

 attaining costal region. A distinct, yellow, discal spot. A sub-termi- 

 nal, moderately broad, bright yellow band, runs from costa, before the 

 apex, to internal margin, bent inwardly below the middle of the wing, 

 but elsewhere running parallel with external margin; fringes, purple. 

 Posterior wings, reddish, of a slightly fulvous shade ; fringes and ex- 

 ternal margin, purplish ; a narrow, yellow, discontinued streak within 

 anal angle, otherwise the wings are concolorous, without markings. 



Under surface of wings, reddish, a little paler than secondaries 

 above; the color is evenly distributed, except along internal margin of 

 primaries, where, as usual, the wings are discolorously shaded with ci- 

 nereous. The primaries show a yellowish discal spot and narrow sub- 

 terminal band, obsolete before internal margin ; apices tinged with ob- 

 scure purplish. The secondaries show a distinct, continued, yellow, 

 subterminal band, running at variance with external margin, since it 

 emanates at anal angle, and joins the costa within apical angle at a 

 point continuous with the sub-terminal band of the primaries. ' 



Bxpavse, % $ , O.GO inch. Length of hoily^ 0.30 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Louisiana !) 



Resembles Haematia phoenicealis, IlUbner, but the primaries are 

 more rounded at the apices, and they show a distinct discal dot; the 

 secondaries, as also the under surface of both wings, are almost entirely 

 bright reddish ; the corporal parts are also differently colored. 



A specimen, taken at New Orleans, was obligingly communicated to 

 us by Mr. Wm. H. Edwards. B. diffissa, is also found in Cuba; spe- 

 cimens, with the No. 454 attached to them, have been forwarded to 

 Philadelphia by Prof. Poey. 



Botys haruspica, n. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 14, % .) 

 Pyrausta harusyica, G. & R., MS. 



Head, palpi and thorax, obscure purplish cinereous ; lateral narrow 

 pale lines extend along upper palpal edge to the antenn il bases. Ab- 

 domen, dark cinereous. Beneath, the palpi and under corporal surface 

 and legs are whitish cinereous; anterior femora, darker colored out- 

 wardly. 



