1424 CATALOGUE OF 



marginal lunules brown ; fringe dark cinereous. Fore wings acute, 

 red along the costa ; a brown elongated oblique mark in the disk ; 

 the line very deeply bent; exterior border convex, moderately 

 oblique. Length of the body 5^ lines; of the wings 15 lines. 



Morty. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



BOTYS EXTENUATALIS. 



Foem. Aurato-flava, gracillima; palpi fusci, graciles y porrecti, 

 caput vix superantes ; aniennce gracillimcB ; abdomen alas 

 posticas climidio superans ; pedes gracillimi ; aim longce, an- 

 gustce, linea fusca postmedia obliqua, fimbria albida ; anticce 

 linea angulata, costce dimidio basali strigulaque fuscis. 



Female. Gilded yellow, very slender. Body beneath and legs 

 silvery whitish. Palpi brown, slender, porrect, silvery white beneath, 

 hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint extremely small. 

 Antennae very slender. Pectus silvery white in front. Abdomen 

 long, extending for half its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 very slender. Wings long, narrow, with a brown oblique postmedial 

 line, which forms a slight outward angle in the fore wings ; fringe 

 whitish, brown at the base. Fore wings acute ; costa brown along 

 half the length from the base; a little transverse brown streak in 

 the disk ; exterior border slightly convex, extremely oblique. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Sula. In Mr. Saunders collection. 



BOTYS ANNTJLIGEKALIS. 



Mas. Argenteo-albida ; palpi fusci, supra nigricantes, subascend- 

 ent'es, articulo So minimo ; thorax antice ochraceus nigroque 

 biguttatus ; abdomen pa Hide ochraceum, segmentis albo margin- 

 atis ; alee lineis quatuor annulisque duobus fuscis, linea \a 

 arcuata, 2a angulosa valde undulata, Sa submo.rginali, 4a 

 marginali, venis exterioribus fuscis ; anticce guttis duabus 

 basalibus nigris, linea fusca antemedia interrupta. 



Male. Silvery whitish. Palpi slightly ascending, blackish 

 above, brown on the outer side, very much shorter than the breadth 

 of the head f third joint very minute. Thorax pale ochraceous, and 

 with a black dot on each side in front. Abdomen pale ochraceous, 

 extending rather beyond the hind wings ; hind borders of the seg- ( 

 ments white. Fore knees black ; fore tibia? black towards the tips ; 



