BOTIS, 



Gauze-Tiing. 



Generic Character. 

 AntenruT setacece. Alee trigonce, insecto sedente, cum corpore triangulum 

 subhorizontale efficie?ites, superiores margine externa recto. Palpi 

 quatuor exserti. Lingua conspicua. Latreille, Gen. Ins. 4. p. 229. 

 Typus Genericus Ph. Urticata Lin. &c. 

 AnteniiEe setaceous. Wings trigonal, forming a nearly horizontal angle 

 with the body when the insect is at rest. The outer margin of 

 the anterior wings straight. Palpi four, exserted. Tongue con- 

 spicuous. 



Generic Type Ph. Urticata Lin. &c. 

 Botys. Latreille. 



BOTIS marginata. 

 Pink-margined Gauze-wing. 



B. alls hyalinis, stramineis, apicibus marginequejlexuoso rubro-purpureis. 

 Wings hyaline ; pale fulvous ; the margins and tips with a waved 



reddish purple border. 

 P. Marginata. Cramer, pi. 400. L — P. Simiata. Fab. Eat. 



Si/s. 3. 208. 



Ihere appears no end to the immense number of species 

 referrible to this genus, which w^ill perhaps be found the most 

 extensive tropical group of all the Linnsean Phalanida;. Of 

 these, near eighty species I found in Brazil ; Dr. Horsfield 

 has brought a great many from Java ; near fifty are found in 

 North America, and I have little doubt that the whole number 

 existing in the cabinets which I have inspected may amount 

 to about three hundred and fifty. The thorough investigation 

 of these is a work of no ordinary labour ; and, until this is 

 done, it appears most advisable to let the generic distinction 

 remain, as given by Latreille, though there can be no doubt 

 that among them distinct groups will be detected. 



Cramer's figure will not indicate even the genus, and Fa- 

 bricius describes the body as white ; the tip ferruginous ; in 

 this it is yellow, tipped with red. 



Mr. Haworth obliged me with this insect, which Fabricius 

 notes as African. 



BOTIS bicolor, 

 Black and White Gauze-wing. 



B. alis anticisfuscis, punctis duabus angulatis transversis albis ; posticis 



ad basin albis. 

 Anterior wings, brown, with two transverse angulated white spots; 



posterior white at the base. 



I* ROM the same collection as the preceding; the margin of 

 the thorax and body are white. I apprehend it is an American 

 species, which is distinct from any figured by Cramer, the 

 principal author on the Exotic Lepidoptera. 



PI. 77. 



