578 Pieter C. T. Snellen on a 



twice as long as the head, bicolorous, white and brown. Face 

 ochreous. Vertex and thorax greyish ochreous brown, as the fore 

 wings, the edge of costa towards the apex narrowly yellow. 

 Markings fuscous ; the first line very faint, the discal mark lunular ; 

 the second line not undulated, twice obtusely broken. Fringes 

 pale golden yellow, also on hind wings, which are not darker, but 

 more greyish, and have a faint, angular, darker discal line, more 

 distinct on the dark grey under side. Abdomen dark grey, paler 

 beneath. 



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

 [Seems a common species. — H. J. E.] 



59. Botys Ausonialis, no v. spec. 



Three specimens of 34 mm. expanse. 



This species is slender, and has ample wings ; the setaceous 

 antennae are fully as long as two-thirds of the costa of fore wings. 

 Palpi porrect, twice as long as the head, but not very acute, 

 bicolorous, greyish brown and white. Upper side of wings pure 

 grey, nearly as in Heterodes Ausonia Cram., and Botys laticalis, 

 Lederer, but unicolorous, dull, the costa of fore wings slightly 

 paler, a common indistinct discal line darker, hardly sinuous, not 

 dentated. Discal mark of fore wings alsodarker, small, indistinct. 

 Fringes grey, as the wings, more glossy. Under side of wings 

 with legs and body pure greyish white, the markings as on upper 

 side, but the discal line very faint on hind wings. Fringes dark 

 grey. 



Sikkim ; Moller. 



60. Botys ahlactalis. 



Botys ahlactalis, Walker, Cat., 18, p. 660 (var. a). 



B. miirinalis, Pagenstecher, Verhandl. d. Nassauisch. 



Vereins fiir Naturkunde, 38 (1885), p. 54. 

 Walker's variety i3 of ahlactalis seems to be specifically 

 distinct. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



61. Botys tropicalis. 



Botys tropicalis, Walker, Cat., 18, p. 670, 1. 



Protonocera tr^opicalis, Warren MSS. 



Coptohasis tropicalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iii., p. 293, 



t. 181, fig. 9; S. &C., No. 4276. 

 Sikkim: Moller. 



