1402 CATALOGUE OF 



BOTYS INTACTALIS. 



Mas. Nivea ; caput postice cervinum ; palpi cervini 9 porrecti, 

 breves ; antennce glabrce ; thoracis latera antica cervina ; ab- 

 domen alas posticus sat superans, fasciculo apicali longo tenui ; 

 alee amplce, semihyalince ; anticce vitta costali brevi cervina. 



Male, Pure white, slender. Head fawn-colour on the hind 

 border. Palpi porrect, fawn-colour on the outer side, much shorter 

 than the breadth of the head. Antennae slender, smooth. Thorax 

 fawn-colour on each side between the fore border and the base of 

 the fore wing. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hind 

 wings ; apical tuft long, slender. Legs slender; fore tibiae with two 

 fawn-coloured bands. Wings ample, iridescent, semihyaline. Fore 

 wings with a fawn-coloured costal stripe, which extends along one- 

 third of the length from the base. Length of the body 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



a, b. South Africa. From Mr. Trimen's collection. 



BOTYS FLAVISSIMALIS. 



Fcem. Lcete aurato-flava ; palpi graciles, cervini, porrecti^ subtus 

 albi^ capitis latitudine breviores, articulo So brevi lanceolato ; 

 antennce gracillimce ; abdomen alas posticas non superans ; 

 alee linea postmedia punctulari punctisque marginalibus 

 fuscis ; anticce puncto guttaque mediis punctisque duobus 

 posticis fuscis ; posticce puncto basalifusco. 



Female. Bright gilded yellow, slender. Palpi fawn-colour, 

 porrect, slender, smooth, white beueath, shorter than the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, not more than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae very slender. Abdomen not ex- 

 tending beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender. Wings 

 with an incomplete postmedial line of brown points ; marginal points 

 brown, very minute. Fore wings acute ; costa brown along three- 

 fourths of the length from the base ; a brown point and a brown dot 

 representing the orbicular and reniform marks; two brown points on 

 the interior border; exterior border convex, moderately oblique. 

 Hind wings with a brown point in the disk near the base. Length 

 of the body 4 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Cape. From Mr. Trimen's collection. 



