582 Pieter C. T. Snellen 07i a 



costa ochreous yellow, with 4 — 5 dark spots towards the apex. 

 Hind wings paler than on upper side, the discal line and spots 

 much more distinct. Legs dark grey spotted with yellow, the 

 middle tibiae thickened. 



Sikkim, 2—5000 ft., 6th July, 1886 ; H. J. Elwes. 



73. Botys illectalis. 



Botys illectalis, Walker, Cat., 18, p. 658. 

 Ehulea opheltesalis, Walker, Cat., 19, p. 1010. 

 Botys alhofimhrialis, Snellen, Tyds. v. Ent., 26, p. 128. 

 B. niveicilialis, ib.. Midden- Sumatra, Lepidoptera, 



p. 64. 

 Hedylepta illectalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iii., p. 277; 



S. & C, No. 4345. 



Sikkim interior; Moller. 



74. Botys cocnostolalis, nov. spec. 



A male of 22 mm. and a female of 16 mm. expanse. 



This species reminds the genus Canostala, Led., but the palpi 

 are as in Botys illectalis ; it has also the same pure white fringes, 

 with an undulated (stronger on hind wings) black basal line. The 

 hind margin of wings is, however, more sinuated, and the fringes 

 partly black. Palpi bicolorous, white and ochreous brown. An- 

 tennae distinctly ciliated. Head pale fuscous. Thorax (much 

 damaged in the male) bright ochreous yellow in the female. Apex 

 of fore wings rather acute, the upper half of hind margin nearly 

 perpendicular ; base of wings (rubbed in the male) bright ochreous 

 in the fresh female, fuscous along the costa ; central area mixed 

 with ochreous brown and fuscous ; the discal streak black, out- 

 wardly whitish, margined in the female ; the lines slender, black, 

 the first curved, the second feebly denticulated, its upper part very 

 oblique, as in illectalis ; marginal area with an obscure denticu- 

 lated Hne ; the upper part of this area is ochreous, the inferior 

 ferruginous, the hind margin itself still darker. Fringes black at 

 the apex, in cell 3 and at anal angle of fore wings, those of hind 

 wings unspotted. Abdomen pale fuscous, in the male with a white 

 spot on the penultimate segment ; the upper side of anal tuft also 

 white. Under side with body and legs sordid pale ochreous (J) 

 or greyish ( $ ), the wings with traces of a slender black discal line ; 

 fore tarsi white, spotted with black. 



Sikkim ; Moller ( <? ). Java ; Piepers ( ? ). 

 [According to Mr. Warren, this belongs to his genus 



