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a slender black marginal line ; fringe traversed by an orange 

 stripe; costal area silvery white: head white between the 

 antennee; abdomen with pale margins to the segments and 

 white dorsal spots ; subterminal segment orange, with large 

 black dorsal spot. Under surface of wings pale golden stra- 

 mineous, sericeous : primaries with a black spot at the end of 

 the cell, and a second on costa at apical fourth, with the com- 

 mencement of the sinuous discal line of the upper surface ; 

 internal area silvery ; margin of wings as above : body below 

 pearly white, anterior tibise with a large black spot above on 

 the distal half. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 

 Alu. 



Spilobotys, gen. nov. 



General aspect of an enormous Haritala, but differing 

 wholly in the structure of the body, which is far more robust 

 and, in the male, much longer, with erect palpi, somewhat as 

 in Hypotia^ but with much longer exposed terminal joint; 

 the anal claspers enormously developed, projecting consider- 

 ably beyond the end of the abdomen; widely opened below, 

 so as to exhibit the anal tuft and three powerful central, 

 curved hooks, two lying close together below and one above. 



15. Spilobotys arctioides, sp. n. 



Bright ochreous : primaries with two black spots, placed 

 obliquely at base of costal border ; an oblique, more or less 

 excised, greyish, chocolate-coloured band across basal fourth, 

 normally * connected by an internal stripe of the same 

 colour with an outer zigzag, Z-shaped, discal band across 

 external fourth : a spot in the cell, before the middle of the 

 wing, and an outlined dash across the end of the cell of 

 darker brown : palpi grey ; antenna, outer third of tegulse, 

 and a spot towards their base chocolate-brown ; abdomen with 

 four black transverse dashes on each side. Under surface 

 uniformly ochreous ; legs greyish. Expanse of wings 50 

 millim. 



Guadalcanar. 



16. Botys aluensis, sp. n. 



Ochreous : primaries with the basal half of costal border 

 greyish ; an indistinct, oblique, grey-flecked, orange stripe 

 across basal fourth ; a large, oval, dark leaden-grey spot 



* In the right-hand wing of the female (which is slightly distorted in 

 its development) the connecting stripe is wanting. 



