598 Pieter C. T. Snellen on a 



118. CrocidopJiora ? amcenalis, nov. spec. 



A male of 26 mm. expanse. 



Allied to limholalis, but the basal half of the wings dusky, mixed 

 with dark grey and ferruginous, the dark border of fore wings twice 

 as broad at the costa as at the inner margin, while in limholalis it 

 is of equal width throughout, the central area of the same wings is 

 yellow till the costa, which is brownish in the preceding species. 

 Palpi porrect, rostriform, twice as long as the head, bicolorous, 

 ochreous brown and white. Vertex brown, white-margined. An- 

 tennae long, fully two-thirds of fore wings, setaceous ; collar 

 ochreous brown, thorax fuscous. Dark base of wings limited by a 

 ferruginous line, which is very sinuous on fore wings, nearly 

 straight (with a feeble basal curve) on hind wings. On fore wings 

 this line basally cuts off a part of the lemon-yellow central area of 

 the wings, which in the form of a fascia extends fi-om the costa of 

 fore wings till the hind margin of the second pair, where it ends, 

 pointed in cell 1 a ; marginal part of the wings fuscous, with a 

 strong lilac mixture, as in limholalis ; it is advancing a little 

 basally on vein 2 of fore wings, and rapidly narrows on hind wings, 

 where the basal margin is denticulated, and it is ending at vein 2, 

 just before meeting the dark basal half of the wing. Fringes 

 grey, with a darker inwardly pale-margined basal line. Underside 

 of wings pale yellow, the basal half of fore wings towards the costa 

 and their hind margin dark grey. Abdomen dark grey, with white 

 margined segments above ; below pale yellow, as the legs. 



As in limholalis, this species has a tuft or crest at the 

 under side of fore wings near the base of cell 1 6, only it 

 is smaller, and a small depression (with a flat crest of 

 scales) at the end of discoidal cell. 



Hapalia fasciata, Moore, Desc. Indian Lep., p. 223, 

 pi. 7, f. 20, is evidently a similarly coloured and marked 

 species, but neither the figure nor the description do 

 perfectly agree with my specimen of amoenalis ; and 

 besides, I suppose that Mr. Moore would have remarked 

 and described the conspicuous tuft at the under side. 

 ^0 fasciata will be a Botys, Lederer. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



[Moore had a female only. — H. J. E.] 



Genus Ciecobotys, Butler, Illust., 3, p. 77 (1879). 



119. Circohotys limbata. 

 Circohotys limbata, Moore, Desc. Indian Lep., p. 220, 



pL 7, f. 24; S. & C, No. 4123. 

 Sikkim interior ; Moller. 



