NEW SPECIES OF DELTOIDS AND PYRALES. 69 



Ningpo, by my native collector in July, 1886. Dr. Staudinger 

 possesses an unnamed specimen of this species from Amurland. 



BoTYS LACRYMALis, n. sp., Plate III., fig. 12. 



Primaries brown with violet reflections ; dark angulated and slightly 

 oblique discal and elbowed central lines, the latter bordered externally by an 

 indistinct pale band ; discal spot black. Secondaries pale shining brown, 

 with a darker curved central line, outer margin broadly bordered with 

 violaceous brown. Fringes grey-brown. Under surface pale shining brown, 

 discal spot black, costal area and outer margin of primaries broadly viola- 

 ceous brown, a narrow streak of the same colour along the costal portion of 

 the outer margin of secondaries. Expanse, <^ 28 mm., J 32 mm. 



1 tooli specimens in Satsuma in May, and at Nagasaki 

 in June. 



BoTYS PACALis, n. sp., Plate IV., fig. 15. 



2 . Primaries dark reddish brown, with a black basal line and discal 

 spot ; a pale dentate submarginal line internally bordered with black, termi- 

 nates before reaching the inner angle. Secondaries fuscous-brown, with an 

 indistinct central band ; under surface fuscous-brown, with darker central 

 line, discal spots paler outlined with blackish. Expanse, 23 mm. 



1 took one female example in the Snowy Valley, near Ningpo, 

 in April, 1886. 



BoTYS GENiALis, u. sp., Plate III., fig. 10. 



$ ' Primaries dull orange, with a darker discal spot and curved central 

 band; fringes dusky. Under surface the same as upper but duller; legs, 

 pectus, and palpi, white. 



2 . The same as male, but secondaries suffused with fuscous and under 

 surface decidedly darker. Expanse, <? 22 mm., ? 21 mm. 



I took this species at Nagasaki and in Satsuma in May and 

 June, and also received it from Ningpo (Nat. Coll., June). 



BoTYODES AUREALis, n. sp., Plate III., fig. 7. 



Golden yellow without any trace of markings ; secondaries subhyaline. 

 Legs and pectus white. Expanse 32 mm. 



I took a specimen of each sex at Nagasaki in May, 1886. 

 BoTYODES PRINCIPALIS, n. sp., Plate III., fig. 9. 



Crocus-yellow. Primaries with two series of blackish spots, indicating 

 interrupted basal and central lines, stigmata blackish ; two brown confluent 

 patches, one situated at inner angle, and the other about the centre of outer 

 margin. Secondaries with a black interrupted central band, and discal spot; 

 a wavy brown submarginal band, and a brown patch at outer angle. Under- 

 surface paler yellow, the only markings being the brown marginal patches. 

 Legs white, except the anterior femora. An intensely black silky tuft at 

 base of abdomen. Expanse, 43 mm. 



A single specimen taken in Satsuma by myself. May, 1886, 

 and several examples collected for me at Ichang, Central China, 

 by Mr. Pratt, in August, 1888. 



