PYHALID.T:. 335 



subcostal emitted at half before end of the cell ; second from angle close to end, 

 trifid, fifth from the end, curved upward from tlic base; discocellular slender, 

 concave, radials from close to ends ; middle median from angle close to end of 

 cell, lower at fully one-fourth ; submedian bent near the base, with a lower recurved 

 slender branch : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex ; cell one-third the 

 length, very broad ; two subcostals from beyond end of cell, upper partly joined to 

 costal ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end 

 of cell, lower at one-fifth ; a straight submedian antl two internal veins. Body 

 rather stout; anal tuft in male lax; labial palpi oblique, compressed, broad, 

 truncate, clothed with short compact scales, third joint short, thick, obtuse; 

 maxillary palpi very short; antennae slender, setaceous, base inflated and with a 

 short fascicle of hairs in front ; pectoral shield broad ; legs rather stout, fore and 

 middle femora, and the tibia?, clothed with short fine hairy scales; hind pair of 

 spurs short. 



Type, B. Asialis. 



BOTYODES ASIALIS (Plate 183, Fig. !,(?, la larva). 

 Boti/odes Asialis, Giienee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 321 (1854),?; Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xviii. 



p. 551; Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Eiit. Mouat. vii. p. 394, pi. 13, tig. S,^; Snellen, Tijd. voor. Ent. 



1883, p. 1.39. 

 Bot>is sellalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. P.. JI. xviii. p. 648 {ncc Gucnee). 



Deep yellow. Both wings with a purplish ochreous-red undulated bordered 

 broad marginal band, which does not completely extend to the apex on the forewing; 

 an irregular discal hne, and an oval pale-centred mark at end of each cell : forewmg 

 also with a punctiform orbicular spot, an outwardly-oblique antemedial interrupted 

 line, and some basal spots ; anal tuft in male greyish-black ; pectoral shield pure 

 white ; body and legs yellow. 



Expanse If to 2 inches. 



Larva rather short, thick; olive-green; with a reddish lateral band, minute 

 dorsal and sublateral black warty-spots and two lateral rows of larger spots; a 

 slender black hair rising from the former; head black, vertex yellow. Pupa green; 

 with a short anal point and pedal sheath. 



" Feeds on Ficus, &c." [Thioaites). 



Genus CADARENA. 



Forewing elongate, triangular, apex pointed, somewliat subfalcate ; cell more 



than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at nearly half before end of the cell, 



second and third from angle close to end, third bifid, fifth curved upward from end ; 



discocellular concave in middle, bent near the ends, radials from the angles ; middle 



