LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1401 



BOTYS? LATIFERALIS. 



Mas. Lutea; palpi graciles, erecti, verticem pauilo superantes, 

 arliculo So lanceolate, 2i dimidio breviore ; antenna nigra, 

 setulosa ; abdomen alas posticas superans, apicem versus nigri- 

 cans ; ales margine iatissimo cupreo ; antica acuta, margine 

 exterior e subconvexo. 

 Male. Luteous. Body beneath and legs gilded. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, erect, rising a little higher than the vertex; third joint 

 lanceolate, less than^half the length of the second. Antenna? black, 

 setulose. Abdomen blackish towards the tips, extending rather 

 beyond the hind wings. Fore legs, except the tarsi, cupreous above ; 

 posterior femora towards the base and posterior tibiae at the tips 

 cupreous above. Wings with a very broad cupreous border. Fore 

 wings acute; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



BOTYS VENOSALIS. 



Mas et foem. Flavescente-cinerea, gracillima ; caput et thorax 



anticus ochracea ; oculi albo cincli ; palpi porrecti, breves, lati, 



rostriformes, subtus albidi, articulo So minimo ; abdomen alas 



posticas dimidio superans, fasciculo apicali minimo; pedes 



longissimi, gracillimi ; alee anticce longce, angusta, venis ochra- 



ceis, linea marginali nigricante, fimbria albida ; posticm 



albida, hyalince, ochraceo pallida marginata. 



Male and female. Yellowish cinereous, very slender. Head, 



palpi and fore part of the thorax ochraceous. Eyes white-bordered. 



Palpi porrect, broad, rostriform, whitish beneath, much shorter than 



the breadth of the head ; third joint very minute. Antennae long, 



minutely setulose in the male. Abdomen extending for hall its 



length beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft of the male very small. 



Legs very long and slender. Wings long, narrow. Fore wings 



acute; veins ochraceous ; marginal line blackish ; fringe whitish ; 



exterior border straight, very oblique. Hind wings whitish, hyaline, 



pale ochraceous along the exterior border. Length of the body 



4 J lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



b. North Hindostan. From Capt. Boys' collection. 



c. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



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