576 Pieter C. T. Snellen on a 



53. Botys nuhilalis. 

 Pyralis nuhilalis^ Hiibn., Samml. Eur. Scbmett.,Pyral., 



f. 94 (<?)._ 

 P. silacealis, ibid., f. 116 ( ? ). 

 Botys silacealis, Treits., Schmett. Yon Europa, vii., 



p. 81 ; X., 3, p. 17. 

 A male, Sikkim ; Moller. Another, from the Naga 

 Hills, 5500 — 7000 ft., has the ochreous fascia behind 

 the second line of fore wings much narrowed. 



54. Botys ijlumhocilialis, nov. spec. 



A female of 19 mm. expanse. 



This species is a distant relative of patipcllalis, Led., witli which 

 it agrees in some respects, as in the ochreous colour, the slender 

 dark grey markings, and in the general appearance of the fringes ; 

 but it is much larger, paler, not reddish : of the fringes of hind 

 wings the exterior half is white, and the costal part of the second 

 line of fore wings is more rounded. Palpi porrected, rostriform, 

 pointed, the basal half white, the upper pure ochreous yellow as 

 the body and upper side of wings. Lines slender, distinct, the first 

 obtusely broken below the middle, hardly undulated ; the second 

 with a distinct sinus in the middle, evanescent along vein 3. 

 Discal markings very distinct, consisting in a dot, and in a nearly 

 straight lunule on the disco-cellular. Hind wings with a similar 

 discal line as the second of fore wings ; submarginal line shady 

 dark grey ; marginal line also dark grey, as the fringes; these 

 are glossy and have a still darker basal line ; those of hind wings 

 are white, with a thick, undulated, nearly black basal line. In 

 pawpellalis the fringes are white, with a black basal line, which is 

 also undulated on hind wings. Under side paler, suffused with 

 grey. 



Darjeeling ; 4th August, 1886 ; H. J. Elwes. 



55. Botys octoguttalis. 



Botys octoquttalis, Felder & Kogenh., Novara, ii., 2, 



pi. 135, f. 38. 

 Circohotys octoqnttalis, Moore, Lep. of Ceyl., p. 343, 



pi. 182, f.'ll; S. & C, 4122. 



Sikkim ; Moller. 



[Seems rare in Sikkim. The type from Natal and 

 Australia. — H. J. E.j 



