BOTYS. 233 



EPIDESMIA TRICOLOR. 

 (Plate CXLVIIL, Fig. 2.) 



Epidesmia tricolor, Westwood, Jardine's Nat. LiDr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 220 (1841). 

 Panagra tricolor, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiii. 



p. 992, no. 8 (1861). 



This species inhabits New South Wales. It expands two 

 inches and three-quarters. 



The wings are brown, the fore-wings with a cream-coloured 

 transverse band just beyond the middle, which inclines some- 

 what towards the hinder angle ; the inner border of this band 

 is slightly concave, but the outer border is angulated just 

 below the middle. The hind-wings have a large central orange 

 patch, which is almost round. The cilia at the hinder angles 

 of all the wings are white. The thorax is brown, and the 

 abdomen cream-coloured. 



GENUS BOTYS. 



Botys, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. iii. p. 414 (1802), xiv. 



p. 229 (1805); id. Consid. Gen. pp. 369, 441 (iSio); 



nee Treitschke, Giienee. 

 Lythria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 300 (1S22 ?) ; Guenee, 



Spec. Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 171 (1857). 



The antennae in the male are short and plumose, and the 

 legs are short and hairy ; the hind tibiae hardly longer than the 

 femora, with two pairs of spurs. The wings are short and 

 velvety. 



The larvae feed on low plants, and the pupte are sub- 

 terranean. 



