PYRALIDuE. 343 



costals from beyond end of cell, upper partly joined to costal ; discocellular very 

 oblique, concave at upper end, radial from extended lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end, lower at one-third ; a subracdian and two intei^nal veins. Body slender, 

 abdomen extending half beyond hindwings ; labial palpi porrect, very laxly squamous, 

 rostriform ; maxillary palpi oblique, stout, squamous ; autenuaj slender, setaceous ; 

 legs slender, middle tibife fringed, spui'S long, unequal. 

 Type, C. nycterina. 



CIRCOBOTYS OCTOGUTTALIS (Plate 182, Fig. 11). 

 Botys octogutlalis, Fekler et Rogeuhoffer, Nov. Voy. Lcp. iv. pi. 135, fig. 38 (187.5), S . 



Cinereous ochreous-brown : forewing partly ochreous along middle of the 

 costal and exterior border ; with four black-bordered pure white spots, the first 

 being small, the second lai'ge and quadrate, representing the orbicular and reniform, 

 the third oval and situated half-way between the cell and apex, the fourth below the 

 reniform ; these spots are all smaller in the female : hiudwiug with the exterior 

 border broadly ochreous-yellow; an obsolescent inner brown line ending in an ob- 

 solescent yellowish spot at end of the cell ; a marginal row of minute brown points. 

 Body cinereous ochreous-brown ; palpi above blackish ; palpi beneath and legs 

 white ; forelegs with black bands. 



Expanse c? 2 iV inch. 



Genus DEBA. 



Deba, Walker, Catal. Lep. Htt. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1495 (1865). 



Phycidicera, Snellen, MiJd. Sumatra, Exp. iv. 1; Lep. p. 71 (1880) ; Tijd. voor Eiit. 1880, p. 228; 

 id. 1884, p. 37. 



Male, Forewing elongate, triangular; cell half the length; first subcostal 

 emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second and third approximate, third 

 bifid, fifth from end of cell; discocellular concave, radials from close to the ends ; 

 middle median from angle close to end of cell, lower about one-third ; submedian 

 slightly curved upward from the base : hindwing short, triangular, exterior margin 

 very oblique, slightly convex ; cell very broad, one-third the length ; subcostaLs 

 from end ; upper partly joined to the costal ; discocellular concave, radial from 

 lower end, two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body stout; 

 thorax with long lax teguloe ; labial palpi stout, erect, squamous, second joint rising 

 to level of the eyes, third joint short, broad, slightly tufted ; maxillary palpi very 

 slender ; antenna stout, contorted, broadly and stoutly bipectinated from the base 

 to about one-fourth the length, the branches being curved, finely serrated thence to the 

 tip, basal joint thick, and with a short thick tuft at base of the shaft ; legs smooth, 

 slender, spurs long, slender. 



