296 On some Madagascar Lepidoptera. 



apex) are externallj edged with black j a nearly marginal 

 series of elongated black dots : secondaries clear ochreous ; 

 upper half of discoidal cell pearly ; a quadrate blackish patch 

 at the centre of external border ; thorax ashy grey, clouded 

 with brown : abdomen ochreous, with dusky anal tuft ; tarsi 

 brown, banded with white. Under surface pale creamy ochra- 

 ceous : primaries with the external half dusky, crossed externally 

 by a broad whitish belt ; apex pale : secondaries with the 

 quadrate blackish patch on the border as above. ExpaiLse of 

 "wing 2 inches. 



Fianarantsoa. 



" The caterpillar of this is so like the bark of tlie tree as to 

 be almost indistinguishable." 



Ommatophoridae . 

 Patula, Guinea. 



52. Patula Walkeri. 



PaMa Walkeri, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. p. 406 

 (1875). 



" Not uncommon ; often found in houses and caves." 



Cyligkamma, Boisduval. 



53. Cyligramma duplex. 



Cyliqramma duplex, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 187. n. 1579, pi. 20. fig. 2 

 (1852). 



" Found in nearly all the caves j many may be found dead, 

 covered with white fungus." 



C raboudou of Lucas seems to be allied to this species. 



54. Cyligramma disturhans. 

 Nyctipao disturbans, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1307 (1857). 



" Common in shady woods. Fianarantsoa." 

 This is the second specimen that I have seen of C. dis- 

 turbans. 



Botydidae. 



BoTYS, Latreille. 



hh. Botys phyllophila^ n. sp. 



Bright clear straw-yellow, with an undulated disco-sub- 

 marginal reddish stripe spotted with pearly Avhitish ; cells 

 terminating in spots of the same colour : primaries with two 

 short reddish stripes across the basal area ; a reddish oblique 



