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Mrs. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Genus 25. Botys, Lat.r. 
Botys abstrusalis. 
Botys abstrusalis, Walk. Lep. Brit. Mus. xviii. 663 (1859); Melliss, 
Saint Hel. 189 (1875). 
There are few moths more universal and abundant at St. 
Helena than the present one. Around Jamestown it swarms, 
and is scarcely less common at Plantation. It seems to have 
acquired for itself a wide geographical range, being quoted 
from Ceylon and China. 
Botys creonolis. 
Botys creonalis, Walk. Lep. Brit. Mus. xviii. 579 (1859); Melliss, Saint 
Hel. 189 (1875). 
There are few moths more abundant at intermediate and 
lofty altitudes than this pretty little Botys. About Plantation 
it is extremely common, and becomes still more so as we ap¬ 
proach the central heights, where it absolutely swarms about 
Stitch’s Ridge, Diana’s Peak, Acteon, and especially along the 
Cabbage-tree walk and at West Lodge. I generally captured 
it by beating the dense masses of vegetation (particularly 
ferns) which hung about the rocks; but, as I did not obtain 
the larva, it is difficult to conjecture to what plants it is more 
particularly attached. At any rate it has all the appearance 
of being indigenous to the island, though it is stated by Mr. 
Melliss to occur also at St. Domingo in the West Indies. 
Botys rujicostalis , Led. 
Botys cedipodalis, Melliss, Saint Hel. 189 (1875), non Guen. 
This pale and rather large Botys appears to be decidedly a 
local moth in St. Helena, and one which is confined, so far as 
my own experience is concerned, to the lower and warmer 
parts of what may be termed generally the 11 intermediate ” 
districts. In fact the whole of my examples were obtained 
at Cleugh’s Plain, which can scarcely be more, I should ima¬ 
gine, than about 1200 feet above the sea; but in that parti¬ 
cular locality it is not at all uncommon; and being a slow 
flier and conspicuous, it is extremely easy to catch. Its larva 
seems to feed upon Asclepias , the leaves of which it spins 
loosely together, and changes into a chrysalis within ; but our 
visits to Cleugh’s Plain were, unfortunately, too late in the 
season to enable me to preserve more than the pupa and 
imago. Whether the species, however, is more than an intro¬ 
duced one into the island, is, I think, extremely doubtful, 
though, as it is recorded by Dr. Staudinger from Andalusia, 
