catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim. 585 



79. Botys consimilalis. 



Botijs consiimlalisy Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., 

 p. 471, No. 65. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



[Described from two bad females in Felder's collection 

 from Ternate and Amboina. — H. J. E.] 



80. Botys angustalis, nov. spec. 



Three males of 30 — 31 mm. expanse. 



Evidently allied to Botys consimilalis, Led., also narrow-winged, 

 and with a long abdomen, the colour and pattern of design the 

 same, but a smaller insect (expanse of consimilalis, 40 mm.), the 

 costa of fore wings suffused with brownish grey, the central part of 

 the second line not confluent with the dark border, and, instead of a 

 straight dark stripe on hind wings, a slender, angular, discal line 

 with distinctly denticulated central part. Dark border of hind 

 wings also narrowing towards anal angle, hardly attaining it and 

 denticulated basally. Palpi recurved, narrower than the eyes, 

 their terminal joint short but visible ; they are distinctly bicolorous, 

 white and brownish grey. Antennae two-thirds of fore wings, as ui 

 consimilalis and sanguiflualis, Lederer, I. c, pi. 11, f. 1 ; they are 

 setaceous, nearly bare. Thorax ochreous, mixed with brownish 

 grey. Ground colour of wings ochreous, not so warm as that of 

 Lederer's figure of sanguiflualis, the markings brownish grey ; 

 discal spots small, the first a point, the second somewhat reniform, 

 as in the foregoing species ; lines slender, the second sinuate, 

 obtusely angular, thickened in cell 1 h ; costal suffusion covering 

 the discoidal cell, bxit not reaching beyond the second line ; dark 

 border of fore wing not narrowing towards the apex. Fringes 

 dark grey. On hind wings the upper and third parts of the discal 

 line are somewhat suffused, and the elongated discal spot not so 

 well separated from it as in the above-mentioned two species. 

 Abdomen ochreous. Under side paler, marked as above. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



81. Botys ioixisalis. 



Botys iojMsalis, Walker, Cat., 18, p. 652 ; Ila^jalia id., 

 Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, p. 837, pi. 182, f. 14; 

 S. & C, No. 4095. 



