LEP1D0PTEEA HETEKOCEBA. 1391 



BOTYS RUPTALIS. 



Mas. Ochraceo-cinerea ; palpi breves, graciles, oblique asccndentes, 

 articulo So minimo ; aloe e long atce, lineis tribus fuscis obliquis, 

 la postice bene determinata, Sa subundulata, punctis margin- 

 alibus fuscis diffusis, fimbria albida ; anticce apud costam 

 fuscescentes, linea media fusca obliqua vix arcuata. 



Male. Ochraceous-cinereous, slender. Palpi slender, obliquely- 

 ascending, hardly longer than half the breadth of the head; third 

 joint very minute. Antennae stout, pubescent. Legs slender. 

 Wings elongate, with three oblique brown lines ; first line ante- 

 medial, incomplete in the fore wings, straight and strongly marked 

 in the hind wings ; second and third near the exterior border ; third 

 slightly undulating, less determinate than the second; marginal 

 points brown, diffuse ; fringe whitish. Fore wings acute, diffusedly 

 brownish along the costa, with a brown oblique middle line, which is 

 hardly curved outward ; exterior border very slightly convex, very 

 oblique. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



BOTYS CINCTIPEDALIS. 



Mas. Flavescente-alba ; caput et thorax antice ochracea ; capitis 

 latera antica fusca ; abdomen guttis ochraceis trivittatum ; 

 pedes antici fusco fasciati ; alee lata, lineis tribus ochraceis 

 angulosis ; anticce subacutce, linea basali lineaque submarginali 

 angulosis punctoque ochraceis. 



Male. Yellowish white, white beneath. Head and thorax 

 ochraceous in front, the former brown on each side in front. Palpi 

 brown, porrect, white beneath, much shorter than the breadth of the 

 head; third joint extremely short. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen 

 extending much beyond the hind wings, with three rows of ochra- 

 ceous dots ; apical tuft small, whitish. Legs white, fore femora 

 brown on the outer side ; fore tibiae brown for half the length from the 

 tips ; joints of the fore tarsi with brown tips. Wings broad, with 

 three ochraceous lines; second and third lines zigzag. Fore wings 

 slightly acute ; first line slightly zigzag ; two additional zigzag 

 ochraceous lines ; one between the first line and the base, the other 

 submarginal ; an ochraceous point in the disk between the first and 

 second lines ; exterior border convex, slightly oblique. Length of 

 the body 6 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday Esq. 



