1420 CATALOGUE OF 



wings acute; exterior border convex, very oblique. Length of the 

 body 6i lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS MINORALIS. 



Foam. JEneo-fusca, sat robusta ; palpi lati^ fimbriate, oblique 

 ascendentes, articulo So minimo ; tibice anticce apice fuscce ; 

 alee latiuscula?, lineis duabus nigricantibus ; anticce linea 2a 

 valde fiexa, striga inter lineas nigricante, fimbria prope angu" 

 lum interiorem alba; posticce fimbria alba. 



Female. iEneous-brown, rather stout. Body beneath and legs 

 silvery whitish. Palpi broad, fringed, silvery white beneath towards 

 the base, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint extremely small. Fore tibia? brown towards the tips. 

 Wings rather broad, with two blackish lines, one antemedial, the 

 other postmedial. Fore wings acute; second line very much bent 

 outward; a transverse blackish streak in the disk between the lines; 

 fringe white, except at the base near the interior angle; exterior 

 border slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with the fringe 

 white, except at the base. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS CUNEALIS. 



Fcem. Fusca, sat robusta ; palpi robusti, breves, oblique ascend- 

 entes, articulo 3o conic o ; abdomen alas posticas longissime 

 superans ; pedes longi, graciles ; alee elongatce, sat angustce, 

 purpurascente-ceneo suffusce, linea postmedia cinerea angulosa 

 undulata, fusco marginota, orbiculari puncliformi et reni- 

 formi annuliformi fuscis. 



Female. Brown, rather stout, silvery cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 squamous, stout, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the 

 vertex; third joint conical, about one-fourth of the length of the 

 second. Antenna? slender. Abdomen extending very much beyond 

 the hind wings. Legs long, slender. Wings elongate, rather narrow, 

 with a purplish aeneous tinge, and with a very deeply zigzag and 

 undulating cinereous postmedial line, which is bordered with brown 

 on the inner side ; orbicular and reniform marks represented by a 

 brown point and a brown ringlet. Fore wings acute ; exterior border 



