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the stems, buds or seed capsules, evincing a special fondness for the 

 latter. The specimens received by me were nearly full grown, pu- 

 pated in a very few days and the resulting moths were declared by 

 " authority' ' as a new species generally confused with Botis penitalis. 

 I published a short account of the species in " Garden and Poorest" 

 Feb. 19, 1890, under the name Botis nc/ianbia/is, of which I now 

 offer a description: 



Botis nelumbialis n. sp. — Ground color varying from a pale, clear luteous 

 to a ferruginous reddish luteous, powdery, all the intervening shades being 

 recognizable. Head, palpi and thorax concolorous. Primaries with t. a. 

 line single, upright, with three subequal outward angulations. T. p. line 



b-1 



rt, larva from above; /', single seg- 

 ment from side; c, mandible; d, maxilla 

 and palpi; e, clypeus ; /, aiiteiinie ; ^, 

 leg, enlarged. 



tolerably even, inwardly irregular. 



Both nelumbialis and varieties. 



single, dusky, widely bent 

 over the cell and there 

 dentate or serrate, then 

 with a long incurve on 

 vein 2, and an outward 

 angulation on the subme- 

 dian interspace. Beyond 

 the t. p. line is a broad 

 dusky shade outwardly 

 Fringes dusky. An indefinite dusky 

 blotch in the cell beyond the t. a. line indicates the orbicular, and a much 

 larger vague blotch beyond the end of the cell indicates the reniform. These 

 markings may be all completely and clearly present, or all save the transverse 

 hnes may be obsolete, or on the other hand the markings may be obscure and 

 vague, yet all traceable. .Secondaries paler, thinner, somewhat glistening. 

 A variably distinct outer band, dusky in color, and an extra discal, dentate, 

 transverse line not attaining either margin. A variably distinct discal spot. 

 Beneath the color is more whitish, primaries with an outer line more or less 

 indefinite, a vague dusky blotch beyond the cell, and apical region dusky. 

 Secondaries with the maculation of upper side more faintly reproduced. Pl\- 

 pands .87 — 1.12 inches ; 22 — 28 mm. 



This species has a little the appearance oi B. penitalis (irt., and 

 has been confused with that species. The variable characters are in 

 the ground color, in the size, and in the distinctness of maculation. 

 A small, fully marked specimen might easily be taken as distinct 

 from the larger forms in which the markings are either not defined. 

 or obscured by powdery atoms. 



