LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 907 



Female. Pale ochraceous fawn-colour, slender, white beneath. 

 Head white about the eyes; Palpi porrect, broad, acute, as long as 

 the breadth of the head, pure white beneath, as is also the tablet or 

 fore pectus. Maxillary palpi distinct, obliquely ascending. An- 

 tennae smooth, slender. Abdomen whitish cinereous, testaceous at 

 the tip, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth. 

 Wings rather broad, iridescent. Fore wings acute ; interior and 

 exterior lines, lunulate reniform mark and exterior border rather 

 darker; exterior line much bent. Hind wings whitish, more hya- 

 line ; exterior line and exterior border darker. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Belongs to the fourth Asiatic group. 



a. Shanghai. From Mr. Fortune's collection . 



Botys Ckotonalis. 



Fcem. Fusca, robusta ; palpi latiusculi, arcuati, ascendentes, 

 articulo 3o minirao ; palpi maxillares distincti ; abdomen 

 alas posticas vix superans ; alee purpureo-fuscce, lineis inte- 

 riore et exteriore nigricantibus denticulatis indistinctis ; an- 

 ticce acutce, linea exteriore Jlexa, orbiculari et reniformi 

 annularibus indistinctis. 



Female. Brown, robust, whitish beneath. Palpi curved, 

 rather broad, obliquely ascending, not rising above the head, white 

 beneath at the base ; third joint very minute, not longer than broad. 

 Maxillary palpi distinct. Antennae slender. Fore pectus pure 

 white. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 knees and tips of the fore tibiae brown. Wings broad, purple- 

 tinged ; interior and exterior lines blackish, denticulated, indistinct. 

 Fore wings acute; exterior line bent; orbicular and reniform marks 

 forming two blackish indistinct ringlets, the latter elongated and 

 about twice the size of the former. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 16 lines. 



Nearly allied to B. Sulcialis and to several other Borneo 

 species, from which it may be distinguished by its broader wings, 

 a, b. Ceylon. Presented by It. Templeton, Esq. 



