1404 CATALOGUE OF 



represents the reniform mark ; marginal points fawn-colour; exterior 

 border straight, very oblique. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 11 lines. 



a. Delagoa Bay, West Africa. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS BASALTS. 



Mas. Subaurato-flava ; caput antice fuscescens ; palpi fusci, 

 porrecti, breves, subtus albi, articulo So conico ; thorax antice 

 fusco fasciatus ; alee lineis duabus punctularibus guttaque 

 intermedia fuscis ; anticce linea 2a valde jlexa ; posticce linea 

 la indeterminata. 



Male. Yellow, slender, slightly gilded. Body beneath and 

 legs silvery white. Head brownish in front. Palpi brown, porreel, 

 white beneath, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint conical, very small. Maxillary palpi very short. Antennae 

 pubescent. Thorax with a brown band along the fore border. Wings 

 with two lines of brown points; first line antemedial, very incomplete 

 in the hind wings ; second postmedial, very deeply bent outward in 

 the fore wings; a brown dot in the disk between the lines. Fore 

 wings acute; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. 

 Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From M. Nietner's collection. 



BOTYS SUBJUNCTALTS. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi robusti, arcuati, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 3o longi-conico ; alee anticce latiusculce, purpurascente-cenece, 

 puncto, maculis duabus costalibus guttaque costali intermedia 

 flavis, margine exteriore perobliquo ; posticce cenece. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Body beneath and legs silvery white. 

 Palpi stout, curved, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the 

 vertex; third joint elongate-conical, not one-fourth of the length of 

 the second. Antennse pubescent. Wings rather broad. Fore wings 

 purplish aeneous, acute; a yellow point in the disk, two yellow costal 

 spots, and an intermediate yellow costal dot; first spot broadest on 

 the costa ; second transversely elongated ; exterior border convex, 

 very oblique. Hind wings aeneous. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



