18 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



ing the costa. Fringes, light purple, concolorous. Posterior wings, 

 silky, pale cinereous, with a purple shade, most prominent along exter- 

 nal margin ; a faint, rather broad, pale yellow band is obsoletely con- 

 tinued from anal angle, and corresponds to the sub-terminal band of 

 the anterior wings. Under surface, faintly cinereous, silky, with a 

 purple shade superiorly along and beneath costal region of both pair 

 of wings, giving place inferiorly to a faint yellowish tinge. 



Expanse, 0.80 inch. Lejigth of hodij, 0.35 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Peun.I) 



Resembles Haematia phoenicealis, Hilbner^ Zutr. Ites Hund. No. 58, 

 p. 22, figs. 115 — 116, but is a slightly larger species, and readily dis- 

 tinguished by the discal spot on the upper surface of the primaries, 

 and the paler, purplish, and almost concolorous under surface of both 

 wings. 



Botys cinerosa, n. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 13, % .) 

 Rhodaria cinerosa, G. & R. MS. 



Head, palpi and thorax, olivaceous cinereous; tegulae and ''collar." 

 very slightly shaded with purplish. Two narrow white lines extend, 

 one on each side, from the palpi along their upper edge to the base of 

 the anteniife. Abdomen, olivaceous cinereous. Beneath, the under 

 corporal surface and legs are whitish cinereous, palpi narrowly edged 

 with whitish scales. 



Anterior wings, silky, light purple, with concolorous fringes. A 

 broad, rather square, olivaceous cinereous patch at base, resting on in- 

 ternal margin, but not attaining the costal region which is everywhere 

 purple ; a rather distinct, sub-spherical, cinereous discal spot; a broad, 

 cinereous, slightly oblique subtermiiuil band, running from internal 

 margin to costal region. Posterior wings, silky, pale olivaceous cine- 

 reous; the fringes and external margin are stained with light purple, 

 most evident centrally along the extreme edge of the external 

 margin. 



Under surface of both wings, obscure cinereous, washed with pale 

 purplish along costal and external margins; fringes, pale purple. 



Expanse, % 5 , 0.65 — 0.75 inch. Length of boih/, 0.30 — 0.40 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Penua.I) . 



This species resembles Botys laticlavia, G. tt; R., exactly in the or- 

 namentation of the upper surface of the primaries, but the markings 

 are here cinereous, not yellow ; the corporal coloration presents also 

 the same difference. 



